Holy shit that's a lot of people!!!

[one_voice]

http://twitpic.com/7a2d7m

[AsahinaKimi]

Funny how the SFGATE article said "hundreds"

You know like it was 300..or 400 people only...

[Ed Suspicious]

3. We had a day or two with over 100,000 people at the capital in Wi.

and they did the same shit. Passively dismissive. It disgusts me.

[Scuba]

25. You mean this crowd of "several hundred"?

<a href="http://imgur.com/zAPcB"><img src="" title="Hosted by imgur.com" /></a>

[Ed Suspicious]

26. That's looks like it.

That's a lot of lazy, low-life hippies... There must be DOZENS of them there!

[Scuba]

27. And just did that handful of People do $75 Million damage to the Capitol? ....

.... Oh, that's right, that number was just made up to make the protesters look bad.

[WillyT]

5. Ok... Can I Say Something About This ???

In 2004, me and two of my sisters took my mom to Washington, D.C. to attend the March For Women's Lives, which was held on the National Mall.





All around the perimeter of that mall, they had volunteers handing out tickets... tickets like you get when you are having a raffle. You tear off one half and keep it, and the organization keeps the other half. The volunteers would only ask, "Are you hear for the march?"

The reason they did this, because they bought the numbered tickets in one giant lot, was to gage the numbers of people there for the march... and it worked. The MSM didn't try to minimize the numbers, because they couldn't. The organizers already knew how big it was, and could prove it.

:shrug:

[one_voice]

6. That wasn't a lot of people..

that was fucking epic.

I didn't mean to demean previous marches or protests. :hi:

[WillyT]

10. Another Time... During One Of The Anti Iraq War Protests In S.F....

The organizers hired THEIR OWN helicopter to take picture to post on the net.







:shrug:

:hi:

[one_voice]

11. Unbelievable...

Hopefully the tide is turning and we'll see these sized protests/marches again.

Look at the size of those two marches...how did we let the baggers get the upper hand on that.

We need to turn it back around!

Thanks for the pictures.

[WillyT]

14. Anytime...

:bounce:

:hi:

[DeeDeeNY]

34. Here's one huge DC protest the press never even mentioned

From 2001
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXffDJn9aoY

[robdogbucky]

12. WillyT, I was there in 2003 when Bush invaded

and I think your last few pics were from that day, I think it was MLK Day and they had so many people coming on BART from outlying areas that the system got overloaded and they just opened the turnstiles at the outlying stations and let people in and ride for free to get to SF.

I have lots of it on video from that day. It took the crowd 4 hours to completely go from the Ferry Plaza at the foot of Market to Civic Center Plaza and if you were there that day you know how dense that march was. And how colorful. The police were just overwhelmed, you could see it on their faces as they sat massed together in little groups on the side streets. The 99% is quite a spectacle when mobilized. At one point I sat at one of those side streets and just taped people walking by me for about an hour, at least a half million there that day.

Later when watching it one day I suddenly noticed a buddy and his girlfriend, who had come down to the City from Santa Rosa to join in and I had lost track of them in the throng earlier that day and only spoke by cell phone. They marched right by me, too many people to notice them and for them to notice me. I sprung it on him at Christmas some years later and we had a good laugh. They eye of the subconscious or something just made him stick out upon one viewing and I marked it and damn, it was him and his girlfriend.

As they say in downtown Oakland, "That was hella demonstration."

[WillyT]

18. :)

:grouphug:

:bounce:

:hi:

[tavalon]

29. I was at that march and they did minimize it

It was the first time I had been disappeared by the media. Not, alas, the last time but it's my first I remember. Isn't it always like that?

[nadinbrzezinski]

9. SOP from the press

Usually add one zero to get close

300, that means 3000

In this case add two.

[tavalon]

30. Yep,

in 2004, DC press said hundreds of us were there. There were at least 60 hundred of us. Probably 100 hundred of us. In other words, a million. Willfully ignored.

[Pacifist Patriot]

28. Oh give them a break. They just forgot to say tens of hundreds.

;-)

[Electric Monk]

1. Oakland

more like that here http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x2232471

[one_voice]

2. Thanks! n/t

[femrap]

4. Good for

Oakland! Thank you for standing strong.

[tularetom]

7. Piffle!

According to the liberal media 6 teabaggers with misspelled signs and 10 portable crappers are more influential than all those dirty hippies.

[nadinbrzezinski]

8. Well from tweet

RT @LiveTPO: Latest on the #generalstrike live blog: Oakland PD asking for reinforcements w/riot gear, crowd estimated at 20-40k j.mp/vlq6y8 #oo

It is a lot of people.

[Zorra]

13. You ain't seen nothin' yet. This is just

a casual spur of the moment general strike/protest.

Now it is time to consider what, say, the 5 most important concerns are that we need to be addressed, arrive at consensus, and begin petitioning the federal government for redress of our concerns.

Because the federal government has the legal power and authority to redress our political concerns.

Here are two general, brief suggestions for ideas to discuss in General Assembly with which we can begin the process of petitioning the government to address critical concerns that require immediate redress:

1) Immediate drafting, passage, and implementation of one comprehensive Constitutional Amendment, or several Constitutional Amendments, that effectively render(s) moot the Citizen's United SCOTUS Decision, outlaws corporate personhood, outlaws all donations in any form, direct or indirect, to political candidates and legislators, and abolishes all lobbying of political candidates and elected legislators.

2) Immediate drafting, passage, and implementation of a Constitutional Amendment abolishing electronic voting and establishing a uniform nationwide foolproof transparent federal voting process.

Oakland is a warning flag, an example of what we can do on a moment's notice. Magnify Occupy Oakland's direct action today times twenty, on steroids, and imagine this taking place in every major and not so major city and port in the US in June of 2012.

Millions upon millions of Americans taking non-violent direct action on behalf of achieving democracy and economic justice at the same time.

We have the power. We have the numbers to surround them The federal government can choose to cooperate with us, or not. If not, we simply shut the country down until they do, bankrupting the 1% in the process.

They can make it easy, or they can make it hard. It's very simple. All they really need to do is agree to give us back our government, and put it in writing...

in our Constitution.

[MedleyMisty]

15. There are talks about a nationwide strike next year

Saw it on the official Twitter account from the camp in NYC. People are talking about it and planning for it. :)

[Leopolds Ghost]

22. Hard for me to participate beyond attending the march, since I'm already unemployed :-(

Occupy DC has been relatively weak so far. But this is in part because DC has become really weak on activism since the new Administration brought in hordes of wealthy 1%ers who call themselves Democrats. And in part because the MPD and Park Police are sympathetic to Occupiers (as well they should be, given what the GOP wants to do to the Park Service)

[Leopolds Ghost]

23. Then again, the march to the MLK memorial was huge

And that was organized by unions in solidarity with Occupy DC.

[midnight]

21. This sounds good to me.

[louslobbs]

31. Beautiful Zorra +1 n/t

Lou

[woo me with science]

16. Beautiful.

Brings a tear to my eye.

I am so proud of Americans right now.

[fishwax]

17. wow! k/r

:kick:

[redqueen]

19. Beautiful. (nt)

[burrowowl]

20. The Movement

is GROWING!

[malaise]

24. Freaking YES!

Rec

[Graveyard]

32. The Captian Planet said

The Power is Yours

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