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Mon Mar-21-05 05:23 PM
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23. Protest Stories (Media buries stories aboukt global protests)

Protest Stories
By WilliamPitt,

Mon Mar 21st, 2005 at 09:46:06 AM EST :: Activism :: (35 comments, 253 words in story)

I went down to Boston Common yesterday to join the protest marking the second anniversary of the Iraq invasion. There were thousands of people there, a great many of them young people. The speakers were excellent, the music inspirational.

(Walter Ducharmarme, of Cambridge, Mass., stands beside a row of symbolic coffins as demonstrators gather on Boston Commmon, Sunday, March 20, 2005, to mark the second anniversary of the war in Iraq. - AP Photo/Josh Reynolds)

A fact to consider: The mainstream news media all but buried stories about the global protests this weekend. CNN.com even ran an online poll at one point asking if it was time to have the Iraq protests stopped. Yet consider that last year, to mark the first anniversary, there were 319 protests all across the country. This year, there were 765 protests all across the country.

There's something happening here.

More: http://forum.truthout.org/blog/

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