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HUDREDS OF THOUSANDS SHOW UP IN NYC AGAINST BUSH/NEOCONS
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The first wave of demonstrators makes its way toward Madison Square Garden during the anti-Bush march organized by United for Peace and Justice in New York Sunday, Aug. 29, 2004, on the eve of the Republican National Convention.
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Thousands of Demonstrators Hit NYC Streets
By TOM RAUM, Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK - Thousands of demonstrators took to the fortified streets of Manhattan on Sunday to protest President Bush's foreign and domestic policies as Republican delegates gathered to nominate the president for a second term.
A day ahead of the start of the Republican National Convention, protesters gathered 20 blocks south of the convention site. "The majority of this country wants the Bush administration out of office," filmmaker and Bush critic Michael Moore told the crowd.
Meanwhile, Bush suggested in an interview with Time magazine that he still would have gone into Iraq but with different tactics if he had known "that an enemy that should have surrendered or been done in escaped and lived to fight another day."
He called the swift military offensive that led to the fall of Baghdad in April 2003 "a catastrophic success" in light of the fact that fighting continues to this day despite the overthrow of Saddam Hussein's government.
Pre-convention polls showed the presidential race evenly split between Bush and Democrat John Kerry, although the challenger has lost ground since his convention in Boston a month ago. The four-day Republican convention opens Monday.
Up to 250,000 demonstrators were expected to march up Seventh Avenue past the Madison Square Garden convention site.
"Today we send our message," said Leslie Cagan, leader of United for Peace and Justice, the march's organizer. As marchers began their protest, one handmade sign read, "Iraq and Vietnam. So many deliberate lies. So many wasted lives."
A large banner said, "Save America. Defeat Bush." People poked their heads out of apartment windows to watch the marchers in the sweltering heat.
Moore, the director of "Fahrenheit 9-11," told fellow protesters that "the majority never voted for the Bush administration, and the majority are here to say, `It's time to have our country back in our hands.'"
New York police said more than 300 people had been arrested through Saturday night for disorderly conduct and convention-related incidents.
On the eve of the convention, politicians of both parties made the rounds of television talk shows.
Sen. Zell Miller, a Georgia Democrat who will deliver the keynote address Wednesday night, said he'd never voted for a Republican for president "but I'm going to this time."
Kerry "is not in the mainstream of this country. He's way to the left of this country," Miller said on Fox News Sunday.
Bush went to church Sunday morning, rode his mountain bike and was flying later to Wheeling, W.Va., for a rally. He was campaigning in battleground states as he makes his way to this overwhelmingly Democratic convention city.
Kerry was spending the day at his beachfront home in Nantucket, Mass., where he planned to plot strategy for the final two months of the presidential campaign.
"We've got 66 days to go, and I'm in a fighting mood," he said on Saturday during a campaign visit to Washington state.
Meanwhile, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., said that Bush's re-election "would be a disaster." Interviewed on NBC's "Meet the Press," Clinton accused the president of "four years of unaccountable use of power" and of a failed economic policy.
Asked if she agreed with Kerry's call for Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld to resign, Clinton said, "I'm hoping the entire administration is fired on Nov. 2."
On Saturday, thousands of abortion rights protesters marched across the Brooklyn Bridge.
Besides the protest march past the convention site, several other events were planned, including a gay rights demonstration and a vigil in Central Park by a group of Sept. 11 families opposed to the Iraq war.
The New York Daily News made a front-page pitch for calm on Sunday, publishing a front-page editorial with the headline, "Play Nice."
The convention site is several miles north of Ground Zero, where two hijacked planes destroyed both towers of the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. Nearly 3,000 people died there, at the Pentagon and at a crash site in Pennsylvania.
Thousands of police guarded New York roadways, bridges, tunnels and ports, while vehicle restrictions in an 18-square-block area around the Garden snarled traffic in a city already congested.
Inside the hall, the transformation from sports and entertainment center to convention site was complete, with a custom-made podium filling one side of the hall and thousands of balloons above.
A small group of delegates have been here since the middle of last week for platform hearings, but scores were arriving on Sunday.
Bush arrives Wednesday. He'll spend one night in New York before bolting for the battlegrounds of Pennsylvania, Ohio and beyond shortly after accepting the GOP nomination.
The delegates were arriving under unprecedented security.
Convention attendees were greeted with a list of prohibited items that included guns, explosives, fireworks and knives — "regardless of size" — as well as some less obvious items such as umbrellas.
"Umbrellas — especially the big golf-type ones — they could be used in an improper way as a weapon," said Ann Roman, a spokeswoman for the Secret Service. |
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Sun Aug 29, 2004 3:57 pm
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HMMM I dont recall seeing 1/100th of the protestors at the DNC,All i can say is if bush wins we all better revolt.That sick little bastard played us for fools once before, we cant let him do it again, and he will try. |
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Sun Aug 29, 2004 4:06 pm
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I'd say the only good thing that may come out of GEE-ORGE DUBYA being re-SE-lected is in the next 4 years we will be that much closer to REVOLUTION and people being SO PISSED oFF the GOV WILL HAVE REASON TO WORRY.
Damn straight.
Remember folks...according to THE GOV...umbrellas are terroristic now.
"Umbrellas — especially the big golf-type ones — they could be used in an improper way as a weapon," said Ann Roman, a spokeswoman for the Secret Service. |
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Sun Aug 29, 2004 4:15 pm
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New York Marchers Condemn Bush, Iraq War
By Grant McCool
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Demonstrators carrying colorful banners and signs marched up one of New York's main avenues on Sunday to protest President Bush's policies over the Iraq war and the economy the day before the Republican convention opens.
The marchers, estimated by the United for Peace and Justice coalition to reach more than 200,000, were to pass the Madison Square Garden convention site on Eighth Avenue as Republicans and visitors converge on New York for the gathering that will end with Bush's renomination for president.
The start of the march took on a carnival atmosphere with people carrying large banners, shouting "No More Bush" and beating drums. The heat and humidity pushed the temperature to almost 85 degrees Fahrenheit (29 Celsius).
Many held banners and signs such as "Say No to the War Economy," "Bush Must Go" and "Bush lied, thousands died" in opposition to the war. The Bush administration said it invaded Iraq to rid Saddam Hussein of weapons of mass destruction that threatened America's security but no stockpiles were found.
The circular route takes the marchers through central Manhattan and activists have vowed to defy a ban on rallying in Central Park, the city's largest open space, later in the day.
Protesters were denied a permit to gather in Central Park after the march on the grounds city officials feared damage to the grass. But organizers of some groups have urged people to make their way to the park for a "people's picnic" after dispersing peacefully at the end of the march.
Organizers and a series of prominent speakers including civil rights activist Jesse Jackson, film maker Michael Moore and some New York elected officials boosted the protesters with speeches before the start of the event.
CALL TO WITHDRAW TROOPS
"Today, we send our message," longtime activist Leslie Cagan said. "We come from all walks of life ... from cities and towns across this nation and together we will march and in a resounding, clear voice we will say no to the Bush agenda."
Cagan and other speakers called for the United States to immediately withdraw troops from Iraq.
Kelly Doherty, a military police sergeant who served in Iraq for a year and helped establish "Iraq Veterans Against the War," said Iraqis and Americans had been "dehumanized" by the conflict.
"This is also dehumanizing United States troops who are also having their sense of patriotism and loyalty perverted and used by an administration that would send our women and men to fight, die and kill for lies," Doherty said.
Security around the arena has been called the tightest in the history of U.S. political events with thousands of police officers and Secret Service agents on guard.
Since Thursday, police have arrested more than 300 people in an array of demonstrations in which activists have stood naked in front of Madison Square Garden, swarmed central Manhattan in bicycles and solemnly rang bells at the World Trade Center site destroyed in the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks by "Islamic militants".
Streets were closed and concrete barriers put in place to deter car or truck bombs amid warnings from the government that al Qaeda or other groups might attack the United States during the election season.
Sunday's march takes place as the 50,000 visitors come to New York for the four-day convention to nominate the president for a second term in the White House. He will face Democratic candidate Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts in the November election. |
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Sun Aug 29, 2004 5:43 pm
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If you watch the preview for Alex Jones new video where Bush is interviewed by the infamous media whore at Meet the Press,Bush says there is no way in hell he will lose this election,no way.Watching his face when he makes that statement is down right spooky.Hell if he can't steal the election with the electronic voting machines or the Burrito Supreme Court,he always has the Martial Law back-up plan.We all need to say a prayer. Wish I was in New York.Unreal turn out.If this moron wins ,don't shoot till you see the white in their eyes. "This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing Government, they can exercise their 'constitutional' right of amending it or their 'revolutionary' right to dismember or overthrow it."
Abraham Lincoln, First inaugural address, March 4, 1861. (sometimes incorrectly cited as an April 4th speech)
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Sun Aug 29, 2004 6:13 pm
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If you get C-SPAN they've been showing the entire massive demonstration for hours now and still going strong. What an unbelieveable turnout! Some sort of green dragon on wheels that was being pulled down the street caught fire somehow. Not sure what it was supposed to represent or who or what may have ignited it. "f*** Fox News", "Fox News Sucks" among other things are being chanted in front of the Fox News headquarters. It seems that the march has been halted because of the fire. The anti-Fox yelling hasn't stopped though. I couldn't love this more, "NO RNC IN NYC!". |
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Sun Aug 29, 2004 7:14 pm
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Thousands Hit NYC Streets; Cheney Arrives
10 minutes ago
By TOM RAUM, Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK - Tens of thousands of demonstrators marched past a heavily fortified Republican convention hall on Sunday, chanting denunciations of the Bush administration and the war in Iraq as delegates flocked to the city to nominate President Bush for four more years in the White House.
Vice President Dick Cheney campaigned his way into the convention city three days ahead of the president, praising him as "calm in a crisis, comfortable with responsibility and determined to do everything needed to protect our people." He spoke on Ellis Island, framed by a Manhattan skyline altered irrevocably by terrorism.
Bush was in West Virginia, a state he won four years ago and is laboring to carry again. Locked in a tight race with Democratic Sen. John Kerry, the Republican is scheduled to arrive in New York on Wednesday and deliver his formal acceptance speech the following night.
In an interview with Time Magazine, the president suggested he had underestimated the struggle of the postwar period in Iraq. "Had we to do it over again, we would look at the consequences of catastrophic success, being so successful so fast that an enemy that should have surrendered or been done in escaped and lived to fight another day," Bush said.
Vice presidential candidate John Edwards responded for Kerry and the Democrats. "President Bush now says his Iraq policy is a catastrophic success. He's half right. It was catastrophic to rush to war without a plan to win the peace," he said.
Polls show the war in Iraq has become increasingly unpopular in recent months, and the throng of protesters filling 20 city blocks on a steamy Manhattan afternoon underscored that. "No More Bush," and "No More Years," were two of the more popular chants. "Bush Lies, Who Dies?," read some of the signs.
At mid-afternoon, a small fire erupted along the protest route a half block from Madison Square Garden. Police quickly doused the flames, then handcuffed two people and led them away.
Thousands of police, some dressed in riot gear, others bearing automatic weapons, watched as the protesters passed. Extensive as it was, the force represented only a portion of an unprecedented security deployment designed to protect the city, New Yorkers and Republicans during the convention week.
Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge said last week the efforts would include air surveillance over the city, monitoring activity in the harbor and stationing security personnel at every hotel housing any of the 2,508 delegates or 2,344 alternates.
After months of appealing to his conservative supporters, Bush and his convention planners scripted a program pitched toward the political middle, independents and wavering Democrats. Sen. John McCain was on the program for the convention's opening night Monday. The Arizona Republican has widespread appeal among independents that stems in part from his own presidential campaign four years ago and his drive for campaign finance reform.
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who espouses a more moderate brand of Republicanism than the president, speaks Tuesday night. Democratic Sen. Zell Miller of Georgia delivers the keynote address on Wednesday.
Several of the speakers, McCain and former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani among them, oppose the constitutional amendment to ban gay marriages that Bush has made a centerpiece of his campaign and is prominent in the Republican platform.
Cheney speaks Wednesday and Bush addresses the delegates and a nationwide television audience on Thursday. Aides have said he will use the speech to lay out an agenda for a second term.
Republican officials also say they intend to use the four-day convention to build support for Bush's handling of the war on terror and the war in Iraq as well as to undermine Kerry's claim as a suitable replacement.
In Wheeling, W.Va., Bush combined his standard defense of the Iraq war with a reminder to West Virginia voters that he has taken steps to protect an industry vital to the state. "I thought I needed to stand up for steel, and I did stand up for steel," he said.
The president imposed tariffs on imported steel for 20 months, but lifted them to avoid a threatened trade war with the European Union. While some critics said the tariffs were unjustified, others argue he should have left them in place longer.
Cheney did not mention Kerry in his remarks. He touted Bush's credentials as a decisive, determined commander in chief for the war on terrorism in brief remarks delivered across New York Harbor from the site where the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center once stood. |
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Sun Aug 29, 2004 7:29 pm
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NOT WELCOME!!!! |
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Sun Aug 29, 2004 7:33 pm
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http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/ap20040829_1304.html
Moore, Jackson Among NYC Protesters
Michael Moore, Jesse Jackson Among Swarms of Demonstrator Peacefully Protesting on Eve of RNC
The Associated Press
NEW YORK Aug. 29, 2004 — Filmmaker Michael Moore and Jesse Jackson carried the banner Sunday for tens of thousands of protesters who peacefully swarmed Manhattan's streets on the eve of the Republican National Convention to demand that President Bush be turned out of office.
Flanked by police in riot gear, the protesters moved through the fortified city, loudly and exuberantly chanting slogans such as "No more years." They accused the Bush White House of prosecuting an unjust war in Iraq, making the country poorer and undermining abortion rights.
There were no immediate reports of violence and only scattered arrests: in the largest incident, some 50 protesters on bicycles who stopped near the parade route were carted away in an off-duty city bus.
Police did not give a crowd estimate for the demonstration, which snaked in a circular route around midtown Manhattan, shutting down dozens of blocks and bringing out hordes of police in a city already girded against terrorist attacks. Organizers had claimed up to 250,000 people would participate in what was expected to be the largest protest of the week. At its height, the march filled much of the route, forming an enormous horseshoe of dissent in the heart of an overwhelmingly Democratic city.
"They chose New York, where they're universally hated," said writer Laurie Russo, 41, of the New York borough of Queens. "They should have gone somewhere they're more welcome. They exploited 9-11 by having it in New York at this time."
Residents leaned from windows along the demonstration route to shout their support. Scattered opposition was visible only around Madison Square Garden, where the GOP convention opens Monday. Some early convention arrivals looked across police lines as demonstrators jeered them, shouting: "Go home!"
"I hope this shows the world that they're not alone in their hatred of George Bush," said Alan Zelenki of Eugene, Ore., who planned for three months to attend this week's protests. He said Americans need to defeat Bush and "send him back to Texas so we can stop the war."
The causes varied as much as the people shouting support: immigrants' rights, gay rights, universal health care, the Palestinian cause, an end to the killing in Sudan. Tracy Blevins, a biomedical researcher who recently left New York for Houston, dyed her Maltese pink and carried the little dog in a baby pouch to advocate peace.
Some demonstrators carried fly-swatters bearing Bush's face. Others batted around a 6-foot-wide inflatable globe. One sign echoed Democratic nominee John Kerry's Vietnam-era remark: "How do you ask a soldier to be the last person to die for a lie?"
"It's to show the rest of the country that we're against the Republicans, and the rest of the world that George Bush doesn't represent everybody," said Mike Markel, 54, of the New York City suburb of Westchester.
The protest organizers, United for Peace and Justice, sued to force the city to allow a rally in Central Park, but a judge rejected the lawsuit. City officials said such a rally would damage lawns. As of midafternoon, no major protests appeared to be unfolding in the park.
Earlier, "Fahrenheit 9-11" director Moore addressed demonstrators and what he called the country's "majority."
"The majority of this country opposes the war," Moore said. "The majority never voted for the Bush administration, and the majority are here to say, `It's time to have our country back in our hands.'"
The protest followed several days of demonstrations throughout the city, staged by an array of activist groups.
The most rancorous was Friday, when 264 people were arrested for disorderly conduct in a protest bicycle ride that snaked through the city and passed by Madison Square Garden.
Besides the United for Peace and Justice march, a number of other events were planned Sunday, including a gay rights demonstration and a vigil in Central Park by a group of Sept. 11 families opposed to the Iraq war.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg, in a radio address Sunday, acknowledged the intense feelings on both sides but said the convention was an important event for New York. He promised all-out efforts to ensure safety.
"We've put in place a security plan that is thorough, measured, and that protects the rights of convention-goers and protesters without unnecessarily getting in the way of New Yorkers as we go about our daily lives," Bloomberg said.
Associated Press reporters Tom Hays, Richard Pyle and Michael Weissenstein contributed to this report. |
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Sun Aug 29, 2004 8:32 pm
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Still think the BUSH/NEO-CON agenda is unopposed?
THINK AGAIN!
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Sun Aug 29, 2004 8:43 pm
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" He (Bush) is ruining the country that I knew as a child growing up," said Joan Azulay, a retiree from Austin, Texas, who complained of the president's policies on health care, the environment, taxes and foreign affairs."
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Sun Aug 29, 2004 8:59 pm
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1000 COFFIN MARCH
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Sun Aug 29, 2004 9:03 pm
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The REAL Hijackers |
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Sun Aug 29, 2004 9:06 pm
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I love that one sign "Bush, send your daughters, not our sons". That's kind of the message Michael Moore gave Bill O'reilly when he was interviewed at the DNC. I've even heard that NYC cab drivers are offering Fox News employees a free ride to go and sign-up to fight this war that they've been so adamantly promoting. If a draft is indeed re-instated, pro-war Republicans should be the first ones to be scooped up and sent out to dodge bullets. We'll see just how much they advocate these invasions then? They'd be kicking and screaming all the way. |
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