Students walk out to protest war, recruiting (Minneapolis Star Tribune)

James Walsh, Star Tribune
Last update: November 2, 2005 at 3:09 PM

More than 1,000 students, many of them from 40 Twin Cities area high schools, protested today against the war in Iraq and military recruiters on campus.

The crowd rallied at Coffman Memorial Union on the University of Minnesota campus before marching through campus, stopping traffic along Washington Avenue and ending up in front of the Army and Navy recruiting offices on Washington Avenue and Oak Street.

University Police Greg Hestness estimated the crowd at about 1,000 people. Protest organizer Ty Moore put the crowd closer to 1,500. Hundreds of people stood to the side as the students marched past, taking photographs or making cell phone calls to friends. Some applauded. A group of 25 to 30 counter-protesters across the street blared "Stars and Stripes Forever" from a pickup truck.

http://www.startribune.com/stories/462/5704363.html

Why aren't they in Iraq?

she has a job at the armory when she is not in class. She said there were at least 1000, but it looked like more. Funny. The Army guys she works for were not upset by the protest that went right by their window. And they're doing the recruiting.

Would love to see some crowd photos.

I LOVE IT!

I walked-out in protest at my high school in 1973 - along with about half the school, maybe 1000 kids! There are even pictures of the protest in my yearbook!

:bounce:

I'd say 1,000-1,500 is a fair number to put it at. My original estimates were 500-1000, but after seeing it fromoverhead on the news this evening, I can go for 1,500.

If there were 25 counterprotestors, I didn't see them. I counted about 6. None of them looked colleged age. One of the members actually infiltrated Socialist Alternative, the other campus group organizing it, so he coudl get "info". Like we talked about anything we weren't handing out to thousands of people on campus or something. Oh well.