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Actually hundreds of thousands and the NY Times coverage was a disgrace:
Dear Arthur Salzberger,
The NY Times coverage of the NYC war protest yesterday (and lack of
advanced notice of it that day) is a journalistic disgrace.
To start with your reporter must have picked up his information from a
local TV broadcast. At the least those participating in the event (as
well as CNN) reported HUNDREDS of thousands of participants (300,000
estimated by CNN).
Your email report here was not even one of your 30 or so headlined items
in that context and your paper report was buried on p. 35 of the Metro
section -- not even in the main section of the paper distributed
nation-wide. The report below is pathetic -- I am a social philosopher,
but was once a journalist and so am aware that journalist deadlines
would scarcely have precluded an accurate and serious report on a major
concern now of the vast majority of the American people -- a misbegotten
war which faulty NY Times reporting helped sponsor in the first instance.
Your reporter features -- as did NYl -- Al Sharpton -- in its comparably
sketchy coverage. Good that he was there and mugging as usual for the
cameras -- but there were some 299,000 thousand others who are deeply
distressed by the horrendous mess that the Bush crew has made and
continues to make in the Middle East -- an unjust and thereby criminal
war that has violated just about every international standard related to
wars and human rights -- torture, killing of innocents, destruction of
civilian property, extraordinary rendering (the newest phrase for what
would have appealed to a Nazi mentality).
I take it that your reporter cut out for an early lunch, given the
poverty of either background or forefront information -- or any report
on the main event at Foley Square -- cited in this pathetic article that
would have shamed a high school journalist.
Ed Kent
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Tens of Thousands in New York March Against Iraq War
By NICHOLAS CONFESSORE
Published: April 30, 2006
Thousands of people marched through Lower Manhattan yesterday to demand
America's withdrawal from Iraq, the latest in a series of antiwar
protests held in New York City and around the country during the past
several months.
The march came a day after the State Department reported that insurgent
attacks on civilians in Iraq surged last year, accounting for nearly
half of the people killed in terrorism attacks across the world. It also
came near the end of the deadliest month for American forces in Iraq
since last November.
"I don't think the message has really changed, but the magnitude of the
participation has grown," said Donald Morrill, 50, a college professor
who journeyed from Florida to take part in the demonstration.
Several local politicians participated, notably the Rev. Al Sharpton,
and some national figures, too, including Cindy Sheehan, whose son died
in Iraq and who has become a symbol of the antiwar movement.
Yesterday's protest drew added urgency from the administration's recent
saber rattling over Iran, and signs opposing possible United States
military action there were almost as common as those urging a withdrawal
from Iraq. But as at previous Iraq-related protests, yesterday's
demonstration encompassed an array of causes, from immigrants' rights to
low-cost housing.
Mark Hallinan, 47, a priest at St. Ignatius Loyola Church on the Upper
East Side, led a group of about a dozen people from his parish under the
auspices of Pax Christi, a lay Catholic peace organization.
"We've seen the impact in so many ways," Father Hallinan said. "It's
taking away money for education, for balancing the budget."
For others marching, the mere fact that the United States remained in
Iraq was reason enough to protest, said Laurie Goodstein, a physician
from Manhattan. Dr. Goodstein said she was meeting her parents — both in
their 80's — at the march's end. "They've been going to protests all
their lives," she joked, "but now they're too old to walk all the way."
Yesterday's demonstration began on Broadway, north of Union Square,
where thousands of protesters of all ages gathered between 17th and 23rd
Streets. About half past noon, they lurched into motion, heading south
toward Foley Square near City Hall.
One group carried a daisy chain of hundreds of pictures of United States
troops who died in Iraq, strung out over many blocks; others waved
signs, slapped drums or simply enjoyed the pleasant weather.
By 2 p.m., the protesters' vanguard had reached Foley Square, but the
rear of the column still stretched more than a mile back.
The participating groups — led by United for Peace and Justice, the
Rainbow/PUSH Coalition and the National Organization for Women — set up
more than a dozen tents in Foley Square, where T-shirts, pamphlets and
petitions were distributed.
"We're here to deliver a message to the rest of the world that there are
still Americans who strongly oppose these policies," said Daniel
Einbender, 56, a musician and environmental educator from Wurtsboro,
N.Y. "Someone asked me if I did it for love. I'm from the 60's, I'm one
of those guys. I'm doing it out of habit. But it's a good habit."
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> According to CNN 30.04: "Thousands in New York march against
> war"
> [http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/04/29/war.protest.ap/index.html]
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> "NEW YORK (AP) -- Tens of thousands of anti-war protesters
> marched Saturday through Manhattan to demand an immediate
> withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq just hours after an
> American soldier died in a roadside explosion in Baghdad
>
> -- the 70th U.S. fighter killed in that country this month.
>
> "End this war, bring the troops home," read one of the many
> signs lifted by marchers on a sunny afternoon three years
> after the war in Iraq began. The mother of a Marine killed
> two years ago in Iraq held a picture of her son, born in 1984
> and killed 20 years later.
>
> Cindy Sheehan, a vociferous critic of the war whose 24-year-
> old soldier son also died in Iraq, joined in the march, as
> did actress Susan Sarandon and the Rev. Jesse Jackson. One
> group marched under the banner "Veterans for Peace," while
> other marchers came from as far off as Maryland and Vermont.
> ...
> The demonstrators stretched for about 10 city blocks as they
> headed down Broadway. A police spokesman declined to give an
> estimate of the size of the crowd, although organizers
> claimed there were 300,000 people. ... "
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