--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Would anybody in Fairfield like to inform us, who are not there, how the > Anti-war rally went? How many thousands and who the guest speakers were etc.? >
Well, here in Tucson, there was a group of perhaps a hundred or more lining one side of the street across from the Army Recruiter while at most half that lined the other side jeering at them. The police were out in force, primarily pareventing the pro-war protesters from crossing the street to attack the anti-war protesters or such was my impression of why there were literally 3x as many police on the war side, as well as large numbers of police mostly facing the war side on the center island of the street. There were a few vicious people on both sides of the street, but I think the pro-war rally participants were ALL angry while most of the pro-peace participants were much quieter and more sad than angry. A long-white-haired indian led a group of younger indians in a dance through the crowd on the peace side while the other side seemed to be mostly rednecks. My impression was that there were more veterans on the peace side than on the war side. Certainly there were far more older people of all degrees of clean-cutness on the peace side and virtually no-one over 40 on the war side. The peace side signs were mostly pointing out the number of dead iraqis (they used the more conservative figures in their signs) and GIs, while the war-side signs were more logical like "take a bath" or "America: love it or leave it" and so on. There was even a sign warning of Communism with the traditional Soviet flat symbol with the international highway "don't" symbol crossing it out. There were a few "impeach bush" signs on the anti-war side, which I guess is the intellectual equivalent. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
