Perhaps you should look at that button you have again!!!
I was on the Steering Committees of both the October 14, 1979 March on
Washington and the Oct. 11, 1987 March on Washington. I was also among the
four people at the War Conference held in Virginia in 1988, that called for and
led to
http://www.insidehighered.com/views/mclemee/mclemee262
Intellectual Affairs
New Civil Rights Movement
October 14, 2009
By Scott McLemee
In the weeks leading up to the National Equality March -- held in
Washington this past Sunday -- I found myself in the awkward position,
for a straight person,
1- Organizing is easier on one level (for those with computers) - but this
last weekend event, only had one tenth the number of the last national march.
2 - The partial answer to your point two is - the Oct. 11, 2009 event took that
date because of the successes that the Oct. 11, 1987
This post is so full of outright misinformation and vapid polemic that it is
hardly even worthy of a response. But to point out one egregious fallacy,
that the march was 'poorly attended': there were easily over 150,000 people
there.
Park police estimated the turnout at 150,000. March organizers
aaron amaral wrote:
This post is so full of outright misinformation and vapid polemic that it is
hardly even worthy of a response.
say what you want, but clip the quoted text.
Les
YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message.
Fact: The last National March in 1993 had almost one million people
Thus comparing - it failed to even come close to something that was
built without
the benefit of the internet - and look at the depth of endorsers, to
show how small
this so called national march
