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

[Jeremy Kahn]

Approve! thanks for the great writeup, Susan!

--jeremy

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Veeble a rebel you shun!
On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Susan wrote:

> 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
> ---------------------------------------------------------
>
> 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>
> | 2
> 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>
> | 4
> Audio:
>
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