[lit-ideas] Protesters in 'unemployment line' from Wall St. to MSG
- From: Eric Yost <NYCEric@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2004 03:04:18 -0400
AP has it wrong, I think. If 20 city blocks = 1 mile, the distance is at
least 4 miles, not 3 miles, as stated below. But the press seems to have
consistently underreported the crowd at Sunday's big march as well.
http://nyc.indymedia.org/newswire/display_any/111179 [has a few photos of:]
Protesters in 'unemployment line' from Wall St. to MSG
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Thousands of protesters, waving pink slips, formed a symbolic
unemployment line stretching three miles from Wall Street to the site of
the Republican National Convention on Wednesday, a day after police
arrested nearly 1,000 anti-GOP demonstrators.
The protesters stood peacefully in a single file on a chalk line for 15
minutes along Broadway, raising bright pink flyers that listed
unemployment statistics and read: “The Next Pink Slip Might be Yours!”
“They’ve done everything they can to enrich the fat cats,” said Bob
Keilbach, 62, an engineer.
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