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Thread #72808   Message #1259330
Posted By: katlaughing
29-Aug-04 - 02:44 AM
Thread Name: BS: Who's Going to NYC this Weekend?
Subject: RE: BS: Who's Going to NYC this Weekend?
Protesters ahve alreayd started...bless their hearts and efforts:

The stage was set on Thursday when activists protesting the Bush administration's AIDS policy stood naked in the street in front of Madison Square Garden. On Friday night, about 5,000 cyclists roamed central Manhattan, some chanting "No More Bush," bringing traffic to a virtual standstill.

On Saturday, nearly 20,000 women marched across the Brooklyn Bridge to support a woman's constitutional right to have an abortion. The Republican Party platform supports a constitutional amendment banning abortions.

Then 2,000 people circled the site of the World Trade Center destroyed in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and solemnly rang bells to protest the Bush administration's military and diplomatic responses to the attacks on America by Islamic militants.

"We felt September 11 was being appropriated by (Republican) spin doctors and they were turning it into a grotesque endorsement of world domination and domestic repression," said demonstration organizer Christian Herold.