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Jan. 24 - Jan. 30, 2003
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A Call for Peace
Jan. 18 anti-war rally draws hundreds of thousandsBy Jennifer May Yuen | Special to AsianWeekOn the eve of last Saturday’s anti-war protest in San Francisco, Gopal Dayaneni, 34, expressed hopes that the protest would “model for others that voting and shopping isn’t the only form of public participation … direct democracy is the only way to get things we want and need.” His feelings were in sync with those of others at the march. On Saturday, thousands of people shared the same pro-active stance, expressed their anger at President Bush’s intentions of invading Iraq and created widespread awareness. While police estimate that the crowds were 50,000 to 60,000, event organizers put the number at 200,000. |
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AsianWeek correspondent Shirley Lin finds solace at D.C. march By Shirley Lin | Special to AsianWeek The sun shone so vigorously, the speakers’ words rumbled so forcefully, that at long last I felt my skepticism begin to thaw. Not often since Sept. 11, 2001 — or was it Dec. 12, 2000? — had I reason to rejoice in the current shape of our democracy. But in the strength of hundreds of thousands of veteran, raucous, pensive, novice, comfortable, afflicted, but thoroughly patriotic Americans I saw the seeds of unified protest. Until the national march on Washington last Saturday I had never been to our nation’s capital. Never before marched shoulder-to-shoulder in a procession packed farther than the eye can reach. Never clamored for peace with anti-abortion Episcopalians and “international” socialists on the same street. Yet the Rev. Al Sharpton, ever-spirited in his own way, had called all of us “children of Martin Luther King.” Writers Stand Up for Civil Rights with New Jersey Conference
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