[imc-seattle-media] Re: to countermedia persons

[Praxis Artists]

Hello Mac - No offense towards your estimating
prowess, but I believe your estimate of 16,000
marchers is VERY low... The 10/6/02 march was 10,000
(8,500 by police records which means 10 is a safe,
even conservative bet...) It stretched from Broadway
to Westlake. If you take a look at 2/15 aerial shots
you will see that there were still marchers at Seattle
Center at the same time there were marchers at the
INS. I think that 20,000 is quite low, especially
since even the most conservative organizers are saying
35,000 and the COPS are saying 20,000! (in 
yesterday's PI)


 --- "MacR. Crary" <jukusu@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Rebirth,
> 
>    Contrary to Matt's assessment, my opinion is the
> march may have 
> approached 20,000, but I say that with awareness
> that I would like it to be 
> that many.  If I was really forced to guess, I would
> put the number at 
> 16,000 with many more openly sympathetic.  20,000
> seems a nice way to be 
> optimistic.
>    About our first meeting.  I am trying to secure
> the book about Tonkin 
> Gulf which contains illustrations, published around
> 1970.  It shows the 
> bullet hole that was supposedly a torpedo, and
> ballistics tracing it to an 
> American weapon.  I recognized one of the men in the
> photos from that book 
> in the historic footage we were shown last week. 
> Seattle Public Library 
> does have an exceptionally good book reporting on
> Tonkin Gulf in its 
> collection, which describes the circumstances in
> which excited naval 
> personnel started that war as though they were
> children.
> 
> For those interested in poetry, the text of "Dirge
> for Colin Powell" 
> Secretary of State who was the desk officer who
> covered for the My Lai 
> Massacre, below.
> 
> Dirge for Colin Powell
> 
> Vanish dreams in tears of war
> in this world we laugh no more.
> In the purse of sleep we lay
> no mortal coin but only clay.
> 
> By the Spring of Life my noble one
> lay your head upon your gun.
> Circle'd by the flower'd spring
> like the coffins thouest brings.
> 
> My Lai Powell
> he no lie
> kiss and tell
> spells kiss and die.
> 
> Raven's head, but Lion's mane
> scorch the earth as one insane.
> Blot the ears, blot the sun,
> blot the children on the run.
> 
> Build the sorrow
> build the wall
> herald of the final call.
> 
> Feed the fire
> combed with thorns
> word of peace
> betrayed in scorn.
> 
> Courage grief
> by which you fly
> all excuse
> to make sands cry.
> 
> My Lai Powell
> My Lai Powell
> he no lie
> kiss and tell
> spells kiss
> and die.
> 
> Here at last the horses turn.
> Follow ye, lest all men burn.
> 
> 
> Mac Crary is the deaf son of Ryland Crary who
> authored "Humanizing the 
> School".  He lives in Seattle, Washington.
> 
> 
> 
> 
>
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Praxis - Gr. "action" Any meaningful or purposeful human activity, any act which is not mere random, undirected motion.

"Art is not a mirror held up to reflect reality but a hammer with which to shape it."   -Bertoldt Brecht

"Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable. "
-George Bernard Shaw

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