Fwd: Press/Media

[Zack Hershman]

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From: Zack Hershman <avrak...@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 8:00 PM
Subject: Press/Media
To: Kosta Harlan <kos...@gmail.com>


Updates for the website!

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/jstreet?bid=917&pid=300525 (this is the best!)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/thenation/20080319/cm_thenation/917300525 (same as nation article, but on yahoonews)

http://www.dailytimesonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080319/NEWS01/80319083/1002 (great quote from Jon!)

http://news.medill.northwestern.edu/washington/news.aspx?id=84419

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/gallery/2008/03/19/GA2008031902734.html?sid=ST2008031901697
(especially picture #7)

http://voanews.com/english/2008-03-19-voa66.cfm

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-03-19-war-protests_N.htm?csp=34

http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/search/article/245040

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/03/19/anti.war.protests/

On 3/20/08, Nicholas Zinzer <nzi...@gmail.com> wrote:

WTF? This is ridiculous coverage. Someone fire the reporter.

Nick

On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 10:30 AM, Legba Carrefour <legba.c...@gmail.com> wrote:

muted? lol.

i don't recall ever seeing direct action on that kind of scale at any
previous anti-war demo ever. i think the press missed the clear point
that it wasn't an ANSWER march.

On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 9:22 AM,  <dylanpe...@riseup.net> wrote:
> http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-03-19-war-protests_N.htm?csp=34
>
>  USA Today
>
>  Protests across USA mark Iraq war's 5th anniversary
>
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>  By Alan Gomez, USA TODAY
>  WASHINGTON — Bands of scattered protestors marked the fifth anniversary of
>  the Iraq war Wednesday by trying to shut down government offices in
>  largely civil demonstrations that appeared far smaller than previous
>  marches.
>
>  Blaring music, throwing red paint and chanting, 300 members of Students
>  for a Democratic Society blocked traffic at intersections and gathered in
>  front of a building not far from the White House that they said held
>  offices for defense contractor Lockheed Martin.
>
>  Sandy Littlejohn, a retired Maryland artist who has attended several Iraq
>  war protests, said the demonstration was disappointing.
>
>  "This is puny," said Littlejohn, 68, who was with her 17-year-old
>  granddaughter.
>
>  PHOTOS: Anti-war action on fifth anniversary
>  VIDEO: Protesters disrupt traffic, block streets in D.C.
>  BUSH SPEECH: President marks 5 years in Iraq
>
>  Rallies from East to West
>
>  The protests in Washington coincided with anti-war demonstrations around
>  the USA that were also largely free of violence and relatively small
>  compared to the hundreds of thousands who turned out in previous
>  anniversaries. Among them:
>
>  •About 75 protesters gathered outside the Statehouse in Trenton, N.J.,
>  including one woman who held a sign with a picture of her son, an Army
>  lieutenant who died in Iraq in 2004. "My son was No. 527 or 526," said Sue
>  Niederer of Hopewell. "(The death toll) is now 4,000. For what? For who?"
>
>  •Dozens were arrested during a march in downtown San Francisco.
>
>  •In Miami, half a dozen protesters dressed in black placed flowers outside
>  the U.S. Southern Command during the morning rush-hour.
>
>  •In Burlington, Vt., about 30 University of Vermont students protested
>  outside the offices of General Dynamics' Weapons Development and Design
>  Facility. They held banners reading, "Peace Economy not War Profiteering"
>  and called on their state-funded school to divest in the defense
>  contractor.
>
>  •About a dozen people blocked the entrances to military recruiting offices
>  in Des Moines. Two were arrested. "I'm here to try and shut down the place
>  and try to talk to young people that might be coming in here and offer
>  options," said Edward Bloomer, 60, who was arrested before he could speak
>  to anyone.
>
>  Lower turnouts
>
>  Despite the number of protests around the country, many marchers wondered
>  aloud why attendance had fallen off. December marked the seventh straight
>  month that U.S. casualties in Iraq declined following the January 2007
>  start of a troop "surge" ordered by President Bush, but marchers did not
>  see that as a factor in the low attendance numbers.
>
>  Jaime Todaro of CodePink said the rain and the fact that the anniversary
>  fell in the middle of a workweek made it difficult for people to come out.
>  Some felt the diminished news coverage and a general apathy toward a war
>  entering its sixth year played a much bigger factor.
>
>  "It angers me," said Joshua Farris, who said he was an Iraq war veteran.
>  "It means a lot that these people have come out here today. But the media
>  is failing us. Our representatives are failing us."
>
>  For the first 10 weeks of 2008, the war accounted for 3% of television,
>  newspaper and Internet stories, according to a study conducted by the
>  Project for Excellence in Journalism. That compares to 23% over the same
>  time period in 2007.
>
>  Members of the War Resisters League and CodePink attempted to blockade the
>  Internal Revenue Service. Claiming that cutting off the war's funding
>  could end the war, about 100 people tried to block the entrance to the
>  building, leading to 32 arrests, according to the Federal Protective
>  Service.
>
>  Meanwhile, Students for a Democratic Society took their "Funk the War"
>  protest up and down K Street. "We want to put on the map all the people
>  who profited from the war," said Chloe Briede, 19, who attends George
>  Mason University.
>
>  Capt. Jeffrey Herold of the Metropolitan Police Department said no
>  officers were injured and one protester was arrested.
>
>  He said Wednesday's protests were muted compared to others he's seen
>  during his 20 years in the department.
>
>  "I'd give it about a 3 [out of 10]," Herold said
>
>
>  And the capt shit talked us
>
>
>

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