"If too many people arrive this evening, we'll have to start turning them away,'' Christine Tellen, one of the organizers said on Canal Satellite's all-news channel. "There'll be signs put up explaining that the site is full.''
The site is running out of water and space for parking. The event has attracted more than 100,000 people, she said. Attendance is estimated at half that by local officials.
But isn't that always the case? Must be one of the oldest tricks in the book: "Uh, attendance at the anti-Bush rally reached a high of oh maybe twenty today . . . 20 dirty hippies . . . " when several city blocks are jammed full of people carrying signs and not gonna take it any more . . .
French farming militant Jose Bove, freed from jail last Saturday, called on the government to initiate a national debate on the Cancun round of World Trade Organization negotiations that take place next month. Larzac, an annual gathering that lasts all weekend and uses the slogan "The World Is Not For Sale,'' was the site of Bove's first protest 30 years ago. [more]I remember Bove standing on a stopped bus at an intersection here in Seattle back on November 29th, 1999, the day before the big protest. He was an instant folk hero from the get-go, and I still think his efforts are laudable, to say the least--his and Naomi Klein's and Kevin Danaher's and Medea Benjamin's and on and on . . . but I also know that George Soros is right when he says that "The fate of the world depends on the United States, and President Bush is leading us in the wrong direction," . . . therefore the number one aim of all human-rights, progressive and environmental activists the world over is to do what they can--whatever they can, to not get George Bush elected (not "Re-elected" ya filthy WaPo and others).
In America you can help by assuring a free and fair election and making sure that those electronic voting machines are not tampered with and at least are necessitated to leave a paper trail . . . you can spread the word about who actually owns the corporate media and what that does to the messages they spread, and promote healthy information-alternatives . . . and you can know Rove propaganda when you see it--Don't attack Bush, my ass!--How many times have you heard the sentiment that Democrats need to get a spine? How many times?! This country is craving for someone to fight back against that stupid greedy sonofabitch administration and not the aforementioned filthy WaPo nor early Dem nominee sore loser Lieberman and his DLC are gonna sell a rotten bill of goods to the people of this country that Bush doesn't deserve to be stood up against and uncovered for what he is: a lying, manipulative (and manipulated) fraud who would sooner loot the US Treasury, kill thousands, eliminate all social services in America and irrevocably destroy our land, air and water in order to make a buck in the name of his simpleton fundamentalist God than do one single thing that's good for all Americans--the poor and underprivileged included.
By helping to unseat Bush you are saving the world, the most important step at a time.
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