WhooHoo. Reuters is now reporting 400,000 protesters!

[Robbien]

Not as good as a million, but much better than that stupid "tens of thousands" we've been hearing all day.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators toting colorful banners and shouting "no more Bush" took to the streets of New York on Sunday, the day before the Republican convention was to open, to decry the U.S.-led war in Iraq and President Bush's policies.

Organizers for United for Peace and Justice coalition estimated 400,000 people marched for more than five hours in summer heat and humidity. Police declined to estimate the size of the crowd, but it stretched out more than a mile along two main avenues in central Manhattan.

"I am just burning with anger about what our country is doing," said protester Cornelius Boss, an ex-Marine from Columbus, Ohio, about Bush's foreign policy.

Police said there were more than 200 arrests during the day, most unrelated to the march, but there was at least one clash between self-styled anarchists and police along the route. Three police officers were injured.



http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=domesticNews&storyID=6097434

[ElsewheresDaughter]

1. Miracle on 34th St!!!.......i know there was over a MILLION

[ItsMyParty]

2. I hate to say this----did any of the news media cover this whole thing

..other than C-Span. I heard spots early this a.m. that people were gathering. Then I went out like a zillion other Americans enjoying their weekend. Saw nothing after that. Why do I have the feeling not a lot of people in the country even know it happened....years ago this would not only be banner headline news but it would be covered by breathless reporters on the street. We are going to be 'uninformed' to death in this nation---half because of the corporate media and the other half because we have no interest.

[keyzersoze13]

5. Nope

There was way more interviews and reports from inside the safety of Madison Square Garden. Pushing Freeper talking points while ignoring the people.

I watched it on C-Span, and man, what a sight! Truly an incredible day for DUers everywhere. I hope we can keep it up all week.

[Hornito]

3. That stinking fascist AP is saying "tens of thousands". They do

this every time, in an effort to minimize. I just e-mailed them ( [e-mail] ) and ripped them a new one. We MUST make sure, after the election, that those media outlets that have harmed our nation by supporting this regime, pay a very high price. They are traitors.

[montanacowboy]

4. Female MSGOP Whore

just said "100,000" - can they EVER tell the truth? I watched the entire thing from noon until the last marcher at 4:30 - 4 and 1/2 hours of solid packed people -
from being in other marches in DC it think it is closer to about 800,000 to a million.

The dam puking corporate facist whores - no wonder this people in this country are stupid as boxes of rocks.

[Kimber Scott]

6. "Organizers for United for Peace and Justice coalition estimated 400,000"

They're just saying what the organizers said.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

7. What about regular networks? Did this make the nightly news?

[scarletwoman]

9. Both CBS & NBC evening newscasts opened with protest march coverage.

I didn't catch ABC, so I don't know if/how they covered it. And I missed the first few minutes of the CBS coverage. The NBC coverage was surprisingly friendly toward the march, including several clips of various participants explaining why they were marching (nice, ordinary type people :-) ), and a clip of Michael Moore speaking as well.

In another thread, DUers who saw the whole CBS segment stated that its coverage was postive as well.

sw

[BurtWorm]

8. NY Times is saying Hundreds of Thousands

which is daring for them. :eyes:

Just got back from the protest, with a stop off at the Great Lawn, where it continued, quietly. I don't know how many there were at the march, but we got to below 14th Street and 7th Ave. at 12:30 and didn't make it to above 14th for something like an hour. It took almost another hour to get to the 15th Street! An organizer came through with a bullhorn explaining that people were feeding in closer to Madison Square Garden, and they were drawing many thousands more than they were expecting.

I wouldn't even want to guess how many people were there, but it felt like as many as if not more than the numbers who came to NYC for the Feb 15th demo before the war, and that was something like half a million.

By the way, it was fun, but a lot of hard work. The sun was brutal. I'm surprised there weren't any reports of heat stroke. We usually meet people we know at these marches, but a lot of New Yorkers left town, and I have a feeling most of the marchers were from other parts of the country. Lots of Texans! Lots of foreigners as well.

[arwalden]

10. FOX News: "Tens Of Thousands"