[Seattle-editorial] Proposal: Weekend Roundup of Bush and Dean Visit

[Joseph Eisenschmidt]

Thumbs up. semi-editorial WG member says go!

Joseph

Quoting Gentry Lange <g at art13.com>:

> As usual, to read a clean version... it's online on my site
> currently:
> http://www.art13.com/gentry/rants/demos.htm. Images were
> submitted to our
> site, or linked by the photographers to our newswire.
> 
> Gentry
> _______________________________________________________________
> 
> Title: Protests in the Northwest
> Subtitle: The people take to the streets
> 
> 
> <p><a
> 
href="http://www.idixon.com/pages/recent16.html">http://www.idixon.c
om/pages
> /recent16.html</a>
>   [Suggested Image 1]</p>
> <p><a
> href="http://seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?
article_id=31982&amp;group=web
> cast">http://seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?
article_id=31982&group=webcast
> </a>
>   [Suggested Image 2]</p>
> <p>Over the weekend, protestors came out as expected to welcome
> President
> Bush
>   to the Northwest. In stark contrast to the impeachment of
> President
> Clinton
>   for lying about a blowjob, where only a handful of Republicans
> and <a
> 
href="http://www.perkel.com/politics/moonies/index.htm">Moonies</a>
>   really cared. The call for impeachment of President Bush for
> lying about
> the
>   reasons to go to War in the State of the Union has people
> literally
> marching
>   in the streets to demand President Bush's immediate <a
> href="http://www.votetoimpeach.org/">impeachment</a>.</p>
> <p>The McCain-Feingold act has <a
> href="http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20030818-035315-
1280r">helped
>   the President raise money</a> by raising the personal limit to
> $2000,
> thereby
>   increasing the <a
> href="http://www.iht.com/articles/106981.html">influence
> of
>   the wealthy</a> on political campaigns, and he wasted no time
> in
> Washington
>   State proving it. Trying hard not to be outfought for pulling
> in the
> dough,
>   <a href="http://www.deanforamerica.com">Howard Dean</a> swept
> through town
> this
>   weekend in an attempt to go head-to-head with Bush's
> fundraising machine
> by
>   travelling to 8 cities in 4 days. Aprroximately <a
> href="http://blog.deanforamerica.com/archives/001209.html">15,000
>   people packed Westlake</a> to hear him speak.</p>
> <p>While <a
> href="http://seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?
article_id=31897&amp;group=web
> cast">progressives
>   are worried</a> that Dean may only be <a
> href="http://seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?
article_id=31895&amp;group=web
> cast">American
>   Empire lite</a>, can any one really say that actually having
> the worse of
> the
>   two evils isn't a whole lot worse? With less than a year before
> the
> primaries
>   start, no 3rd party candidate has emerged to challenge the
> two-party
> duopoly.</p>
> <p><a
> href="http://seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?
article_id=31976&amp;group=web
> cast">Seattle
>   Protest Photos</a></p>
> <p><a
> href="http://seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?
article_id=31939&amp;group=web
> cast">On
>   Street Interviews</a> from weekend activities</p>
> <p>Hunts point <a
> href="http://seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?
article_id=31910&amp;group=web
> cast">audio</a>
> </p>
> 
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Joseph Eisenschmidt