LOTS of Great Pictures at REUTERS web site, 3 page article too

(They are scattered though out the first 11-12 pages of the Gallery, link below) <http://photos.reuters.com/Pictures/NewsGallery.aspx?type=News¤tPage=1>


REUTERS/Jim Bourg
A large rally of anti-war demonstrators gathers on the Ellipse near the White House (top) as seen from the top of the Washington Monument in Washington D.C. September 24, 2005. Tens of thousands of protesters gathered in the nation's capital in support of anti-war protestor Cindy Sheehan, who lost a son serving in the U.S. armed forces in Iraq, and demonstrated for the withdrawal of U.S. troops and an end to the war in Iraq.

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Thousands protest Iraq war, globalization
Sat Sep 24, 2005 5:19 PM ET

By Lisa Lambert

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More than 100,000 protesters flooded Washington on Saturday to stage dual demonstrations against the U.S.-led war in Iraq and economic globalization, before coming together to demand that President George W. Bush bring troops home. Thousands marched in London as well, and protests were planned in San Francisco and Los Angeles that called for an end to military action in Iraq nearly 30 months after an invasion ousted Saddam Hussein.

"We need a people's movement to end this war," said Cindy Sheehan, an anti-war protester whose son was killed in fighting in Iraq. Camping out in Crawford, Texas, during much of August while Bush was vacationing there, Sheehan's rallies drew crowds that sometimes numbered in the hundreds as she demanded a meeting with Bush.

Bush, who met with Sheehan in 2004 after her son was killed, refused to meet with her again. "We'll be the checks and balances on this out-of-control criminal government," Sheehan, who has become the anti-war movement's best-known face, told the group gathered at the Ellipse, a park behind the White House.

The crowds swelled throughout the day, and by late afternoon organizers of the anti-war demonstration said 300,000 people had assembled -- exceeding an anticipated 100,000. Washington police declined to comment on the size of the rally.

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(more at links above)

that report was concerning an early-morning pre-rally warmup. The story has been edited since then -- it quotes the DC police chief as saying it was probably around 100,000.

Please save a local copy of a few of these, because they might "disappear" from the web otherwise. Also, if you past any of these picture, you probably should post the "by line" and a link back to the Reuters website, so that we don't get DU into any legal trouble.

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REUTERS/Jim Bourg
Anti-war protestors march past the White House (Rear) during large demonstration in Washington D.C., September 24, 2005. Thousands of protesters flooded Washington on Saturday to stage dual demonstrations against the U.S.-led war in Iraq and economic globalization, and to demand that President George W. Bush bring troops home.


REUTERS/Jason Reed
Anti-war protester Cindy Sheehan (2nd L) of Vacaville, California, smiles at supporters as she takes part in an anti-war protest march with the Rev. Jesse Jackson (L), her sister Dede Myers (3rd L) and U.S. folk singer Joan Baez (4th L, blue shirt) through the streets of Washington, September 24, 2005. Thousands of protesters flooded Washington on Saturday to stage dual demonstrations against the U.S.-led war in Iraq and economic globalization, and to demand that President George W. Bush bring troops home.


REUTERS/Jim Bourg
A large rally of anti-war demonstrators gathers on the Ellipse near the White House (Rear) in Washington D.C., September 24, 2005. Thousands of protesters flooded Washington on Saturday to stage dual demonstrations against the U.S.-led war in Iraq and economic globalization, and to demand that President George W. Bush bring troops home.

(more photos at the Gallery on multiple pages)
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:sarcasm:

doesn't mean that it could have been more later

I heard a story on NPR, some of the attendees left areas ravaged by Hurricane Katrina for this rally.

One of the women read off her sign, and that is what it said.

Very touching and encouraging.

<http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4862867>

Politics & Society

Anti-War Demonstrators Flood Capital

Listen to this story...(at link above)

by Nancy Marshall Genzer

All Things Considered, September 24, 2005 · On the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Saturday, protesters of the Iraq war gathered by the tens of thousands. Among them was a group of military families headed by Cindy Sheehan that called on the Bush administration to bring U.S. forces home from Iraq.

when I marched in 1970 (I think), the overhead shots showed the entire Mall completely filled, and every street intersecting the Mall completely filled as well . . . well over a million people easily, and verified by the National Park Service (which used to do crowd estimates but don't anymore) . . . today's demonstration was large, but can't compare to those at the height of the Vietnam War resistance . . . why this is, I do not know . . . since our current situation is in many ways vastly worse that what we faced in the early 70s . . .

my interesting story from that action involves a group of us deciding that we'd position ourselves as close to the front of the march as possible . . . as we made our way to the stepping off point, up ahead in the crowd I saw this banjo neck sticking up in the air . . . at the time, I was working with Pete Seeger on the Clearwater project, and I was sure that we'd located him . . . sure enough it was Pete, and we marched the entire route with him, singing as we went . . . as we passed rather stern looking DC cops along the route, we made it a point to start chanting "More pay for police!" . . . some of them even smiled and waved . . . :)

In 1970, Vietnam had been going on for 6 to 11 years (depends on who you ask) and you we were in year 2 or 3 of the Draft.

If this "war on terror" is still going in 4 or 5 years, I bet protests will be just as big.

than they did in 1966 . . . inifintely faster, actually . . .