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

[Jason Reep]

Me too for what it's worth


Jeremy Kahn wrote:

>Approve! thanks for the great writeup, Susan!
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>--jeremy
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>Veeble a rebel you shun!
>On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Susan wrote:
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>>hi friends,
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>>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 ....
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>>- 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"
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>>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.
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>>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.
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>>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.
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>>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>
>>| 4
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