Demonstrations as Narrative
Images of demonstrations: January 18, 2003 Civic Center, San Francisco
Monster rally organized by
International ANSWER.
Huuuuuge rally. Even the cops said it was 100,000, meaning the truth is probably
closer to 250,000. We thought it was around the same size as the Gulf War monsters
of 1/19/91 and 1/26/91. You could barely move around the rally site.
As has become routine, now, in this movement, the crowd was predominantly families. We
saw many many old people, teenagers, children, toddlers. Since the right-wing can no
longer dismiss these crowds as aberrant, they've taken to red-baiting the organizers:
see Mark's blog of
January 23, 2003
for quotes and comments.
Again, we thought homemade signs predominated. What does this mean? Is it a good
thing? -- more people from more walks of life standing up to be counted? Is it a bad
thing? -- decay of organized constituencies such as unions and grassroots orgs? We dunno.
Tell everybody
what you think.
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More Information
- Ted's blog
- The Crowd in History: A Study of Popular Disturbances in France and England, 1730-1848, Rudé
- Out Now! A Participant's Account of the Movement in the U.S. Against the Vietnam War, Halstead
- The Spitting Image, Lembcke
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