Wampum may not have protested herself, but her husband did:
My husband and eldest daughter leave soon to join the peace march here in Portland. Its only 6 degrees outside, so Kezzie, the boys and I are staying bundled up inside and cheering you all on from a distance.
Natasha from The Watch went to the Seattle protests:
I got there just at the beginning of a speech by the author of ‘Smoke Signals’, Sherman Alexie, who’s Native American. He was pretty good, and related a story about something that happened right after 9- 11. Shortly after that, he was walking downtown, stepping into a crosswalk, when the driver of a truck leaned out his window and told him to ‘go back to his country.’ Alexie described this as a crime of irony, and wasn’t sure if he had composed himself in time for the driver to hear his retort of ‘You first.’ He’d said that it had been the prayer of all brown people in the US that the terrorists would turn out to be Norwegian.
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The fountain court of the Seattle Center was jam packed from one end to the other with people, with many more spilling around the sides, and streaming in throughout the program. (My partner in crime guessed that there were maybe 100,000 there, which I’m adding to this commentary only because he’s done a lot of public speaking for work and is alright at estimating crowd sizes.) I hope that next time one of these things gets thrown, that they vet the speakers a little more carefully, do a dress rehearsal or something. But I was pleased at the turnout on what was a pretty gray day, threatening to rain.
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Hesiod demonstrated today:
I PROTESTED TODAY: My wife and I participated in a Peace march today.
The number who marched, in about 10 degree temperature, were between 2,500 and 3000. Which, considering how damn cold it was, is not bad.
The number of “counterdemonstrators” that I counted numbered, at most, in the 10-25 range.
Seriously.
There were very, very few offensive signs or chants. And NO radical, anti-american or anti-Israel speeches.
The large majority of people were younger, college age kids, however.
Probably because we had to march about 2-3 miles in cold-ass weather.
Very few people had negative reactions to our group, as it was orderly and fun.
From Caveat Lectorzilla, not normally a political blog but still worthy of your visits:
It is never pleasant to have to march against war.It?s even less pleasant when it?s maybe fifteen degrees Fahrenheit out.
Still. Had to be done. I did it. Hope you did too? and hope you did it someplace warmer.
Pretty good turnout, given the weather. I would guess seven hundred fifty people. Those who did not agree with us were uniformly polite. Polite and even supportive police presence. Some heinously clever signage.
Meeting a fellow protester?gotta run.