Anti-War Protest at 1:00 Today
I heard that people are gathering at 1:00 at Hennepin and Lagoon, leaving at 1:30 to march to Loring Park. Marking the 4th anniversary of the Iraq War. Go get your march on, if you’re so inclined.
From the Minnesota Anti-War Committee:
Sunday 3/18 @ 1:00PM: Gather Hennepin & Lagoon Aves. 1:30PM: March
A concluding rally will be held near Loring Park in downtown Minneapolis. Stop the War! OUT OF IRAQ Bring the Troops Home Now! No Escalation! Stop U.S. threats against Iran! Click here for flyer. Sponsored by IPAC.AWC VOLUNTEERS NEEDED: If you can volunteer at the protest to help the AWC with distributing flyers, selling tshirts, signing people up on our list, or carrying our signs and banners, please come early. Gather at 12:15 @ William’s Uptown Pub & Peanut Bar (right across from the Library, where the rally will start).
At TC Indymedia:
Organizer: Iraq Peace Action/Deescalate.us/Yo the movement/Youth Against War and Racism
Sunday, March 18
12:00 pm: Books Not Bombs Youth Bloc at Lake & Lyndale Military Recruitment Office. Sponsored by Youth Against War and Racism1:00 pm: Rally Against the Iraq War. Sponsored by Iraq Peace Action Coalition. Gather at Hennepin & Lagoon in Minneapolis. March with the Deescalate.us group.
1:30 pm: March to concluding rally near Loring Park in downtown Minneapolis
8:00 pm: Music and Spoken Word Show
Dinkytowner, 412 ½ 14th Ave S.E.
Sponsored by Yo The MovementMarch 19
12:00 - 4:30 pm: Eyes Wide Open Minnesota
State Capitol
Memorial to the Dead
UPDATE: According to MPR, the organizers estimated about 4000 attendees. Flickr photos seem kinda sparse.
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The turn out for the different war demonstrations across the planet were phenomenal. I found a site that has several articles and pictures about the different marches. You can see them here:
http://www.signs-of-the-times.org/
4000 seems a bit high to me.
The woman who took the tally had a count of just over 3,000 as the march was going on, so i doubt the count is accurate.
As for the crowd seeming a bit sparse… I was at the front of the march, and their was a serious problem with pacing. We had to slow down — and sometimes come to a complete halt — on a number of occasions because the people in the middle and the back were having a hard time keeping up.
In short, the crowd seemed deceivingly thin because the people carrying the banner (who were given the task of “leaving” the march) we going walking much too fast.