finally we get on tv
The staff at Skippy cannot believe their eyes. CNN has actually been reporting on the world wide anti-war protests all day long, as a top, major story. Pictures of millions of demonstrators from cities all over the globe, and interviews with individual protesters.
Here's a CNN pop-up with coverage from several world-wide cities.
Here's another covering individual protesters, here in the US.
And of course, Larry King has Priscilla Presley.
Fox News is of course, harping on Tom Ridge's oranges, and Msnbc is talking about the Columbia disaster.
But CNN, we salute you. Actually reporting the news today. Thanks.
And there were (and still are) protests all over the world.
One million in London: More than one million people have staged an anti-war protest in London, making it the UK's largest ever peace demonstration, organisers claimed.
At least an estimated million also gathered in Rome to march.
400,000 in Paris.
They must have gotten the permit, because thousands of people are stretched 8 blocks long near the U.N. in New York.
80,000 people protested in Dublin.
More than a thousand marchers in Auckland, New Zealand.
An estimated 20,000 were expected to gather in Beirut.
Up to 40,000 in Bern, Switzerland.
othEr crowd estimations: in Syria, a nation on the front line if war comes, some 200,000 protesters marched through Damascus. In Bulgaria, Athens, South Korea, Australia, Malaysia and Thailand, demonstrations attracted thousands, while the crowds were in the hundreds or less in Bosnia, Hong Kong, Indian-controlled Kashmir and Moscow. Police estimated that 60,000 turned out in Oslo, Norway, 50,000 in bitter cold in Brussels, while about 35,000 gathered peacefully in frigid Stockholm. Crowds were estimated at 10,000 in Amsterdam and Copenhagen, 5,000 in Capetown and 4,000 in Johannesburg in South Africa, and 2,000 in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
And don't forget, Thousands in Thessaloniki!
At last, the media is beginning to realize that the U.S. anti-war movement is based in the mainstream.
for example: in Palm Beach, people took off their clothes for peace (or is that, "for a piece"?)
in Berkeley, law students raised $18,000 to take out an anti-war ad in the new york times: "There was a total disconnect between what we were learning in the classroom and what was coming out of Attorney General John Ashcroft's office and other Washington, D.C. agencies," says Abby Reyes, a second-year Boalt hall student. "We were quite alarmed, and we started thinking about how many other law students across the nation might be feeling this way."
Skippy is giving his staff the afternoon off to go participate in the Los Angeles march at Hollywood and vine at 1:00 real time. We expect to be back with a personal report later today.
All we are saying, is giving Blotopia (yes! we coined that phrase!) a chance.
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