[Seattle-editorial] FEATURE PROPOSAL: MLK March & Rally Coverage

[Susan]

hi friends,

here's a start anyway.  jonathan will have audio up within the day or so, 
probably, and i know that more photos will be going up.

isn't it kinda weird that king5 tv, kiro tv, and komo tv are all using the 
same coverage text on their websites?  (i guess they're taking it off of 
the AP wire, but really ... word for word, the same, as if they didn't have 
their own writer/reporters down there).  maybe it's just the easiest way to 
cover the story quickly (filler) until they've finished their own stories.

huge kudos to the indymedia reporters on the scene!!!  -- walt, brandon, 
brodie, lambert, mahdi, jonathan .... and others i'm sure!!  great work 
everybody ....

- Susan
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subtitle:  SUPPORT THE POOR, NO WAR!
title:  10,000-15,000 March Monday in Honor of MLK's "Call to Consciousness"

After <a 
href="http://www.seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=21492&group=webcast">morning 
workshops</a> on a number of local social justice issues, and a 
standing-room-only rally at Garfield High School, an energized crowd, 
numbering in the thousands, filled the streets for at least 15 full city 
blocks, winding its way through the Seattle's Central District and amassing 
downtown for a second lively rally at the Federal Building.

Mild winter temperatures added to what was already a high-spirited day. The 
marchers, diverse in age, ethnicity, and backgrounds (educators, activists, 
professionals, legislators, unionists, clergy, families), walked, chanted 
and sang with at least two shared sentiments in mind:  no war in Iraq and 
an end to poverty at home. In addition to the "Call to 
Consciousness:  Support the Poor, No War" signs, a <a 
href="http://www.seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=21578&group=webcast">variety 
of messages were displayed on signs & banners, some of them waved in front 
of drivers at the I-5 overpass, with regular honks of support in response.

Rally speakers included, among others, King County Councilman Larry 
Gossett, Dustin Washington, Youth Undoing Institutional Racism speakers, 
Senator Patty Murray, Governor Gary Locke, & Mayor Greg Nickels.

Eyewitness Reports: <a 
href="http://seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=21568&group=webcast">1</a> 
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Photos:  <a href=" 
http://www.seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=21571&group=webcast">1</a> 
| <a 
href="http://www.seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=21574&group=webcast">2</a> 
| <a 
href="http://seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=21584&group=webcast">3</a> 
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Audio: