Richard Goldman wrote: > The newspapers are reporting 'Tens of thousands in SF'. > I would guestimate more like 100,000 or more, just based on being > here for SFPride which has been about 300,000-ish the past few years. > It was note quite as big as Pride, but almost and it was huge, much > bigger than 'tens of thousands'. > Joan Baez spoke and sang 4 songs, ending with Christmas in > Washington. Bonnie Raitt did one song accompanying herself on > guitar. Many many speakers, including Martin Sheen who roused the > crowd immensely. And of course Representative Barbara Lee. It was a > very high-energy, and COMMITTED feeling with as diverse a crowd as > I've ever seen. > Articles in today's SF Chronicle: > http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/01/19/MN196663.DTL
Thanks for the report, Richard. I wish I could have been there. Here's the start of the SF Chronicle front page headline "Nation rallies for peace" >From San Francisco to Washington, D.C., from Paris to Tokyo, hundreds of thousands of demonstrators took to the world's streets Saturday to protest potential military action against Iraq by the Bush administration and its allies. In Washington, where temperatures hovered in the mid-20s, as many as 500, 000 protesters rallied outside the Capitol, while in San Francisco tens of thousands of peace activists marched up Market Street from the Ferry Building to City Hall.
