[Seattle-editorial] Update #2: Seattle Protest Story and Photos (Gentry Lange)

[Susan]

Hi Gentry,

Thanks for the great work and the updates.  I've been updating the feature 
all night .... I'd love to add your photos to the links ...will you be 
posting them to the newswire?  Or even posting just one, and then a link to 
your page?

-- Susan


At 09:20 PM 2/15/03, Gentry Lange wrote:
>I grabbed the most up-to-date frontpage and added some more html, and a few
>more photo links.
>I also edited all of my good photos from today and placed them online at
>http://www.art13.com/gentry/rants/politics/Feb15.htm
>
>--Gentry 9:18pm
>
>Title: Record Crowds Turn Out Around the World to Protest War
>Subtitle: Seattle March Tops 50,000
>
>
><p>Feb. 15, 2003, <a href="http://www.indymedia.org/">millions around the
>world
>   </a>joined in international public outcry against the war. In an
>unprecedented
>   day of global action, the people of the world expressed a <a
>href="http://www.art13.com/gentry/rants/politics/Feb15_002.jpg"
>target="_blank">clear
>   disdain for the Bush Regime</a> and the potential escalation of the war in
>Iraq.
></p>
><p>In Seattle, roughly 55,000+ people marched through downtown, following a
>noon
>   rally at the Seattle Center. After speeches by Sherman Alexie, Rep. Jim
>McDermott,
>   and Pramila Jayapal, among other speakers and performers, the record crowd
>moved
>   slowly down 5th Ave, through Westlake Plaza and down 2nd Avenue, passing
>the
>   Federal Building before culminating at the INS headquarters. The march
>brought
>   traffic to a standstill throughout downtown for about two hours, with some
>frustrated
>   drivers yelling the occasional insults. However, most drivers waited
>patiently
>   for the crowd to pass, and many had their own pre-made or hand-written
>signs
>   displayed in support of the protest. </p>
><p>The Seattle Police were out in force, and well stocked with pepper spray
>and
>   other <a
>href="http://www.ci.seattle.wa.us/police/Publications/forg/community.htm"
>target="_blank">"less
>   lethal" weapons of mass repression</a>. The day passed without many
>reported
>   incidents of protestors being arrested, harrassed, or attacked by police.
>However,
>   <a
>href="http://seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=22414&amp;group=web
>cast">one
>   possible arrest</a> was witnessed at 5th and Stewart. While the corporate
>news
>   media seems to be concentrating on the "No Blood for Oil" message, there
>was
>   a large contigency of "Impeach Bush" sloganeering clearly visible
>throughout
>   the day. </p>
><p>Many Washington State officials also participated, including Jim
>McDermott
>   (<a
>href="http://seattle.indymedia.org/local/webcast/uploads/metafiles/saint_jim
>.jpg"  target="_blank">photo</a>),
>   and a contingent calling themselves the <a
>href="http://www.art13.com/gentry/rants/politics/Feb15_005.jpg"
>target="_blank">Washington
>   State Elected Official for Peace</a>. </p>
>
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