5,000 huh? And this is the largest crowd shot they could come up with? Looks like the average sized crowd a street performer gets at Park St Station!
Posted on 03/25/2007 3:24:53 AM PDT by Darkwolf377
Mills was just one face in a large crowd that had gathered to oppose the war. Speakers at the rally, which also included a march through downtown streets, included historian Howard Zinn and Cindy Sheehan , the outspoken mother of a soldier killed in combat. Organizers estimated the turnout at 4,000 to 5,000.
Zinn said the troops need to be pulled out of Iraq.
"There is only one timetable for withdrawal, and that is to get troops out as fast as ships and planes can carry them," Zinn said.
Yesterday also marked the end of the nine-day-long Interfaith Walk for Climate Rescue , which organizers said was attended by about 1,400 people at its peak. Margaret Bullitt-Jonas , an organizer of the walk and priest associate at Grace Episcopal Church in Amherst, said she was thrilled with the turnout.
Activists walked across the state to gain attention, completing the final leg of the walk in downtown Boston yesterday .
"I'm exhausted and I'm exhilarated," Bullitt-Jonas said. "We just walked in the streets all the way into Boston. . . . We created the biggest demonstration against global warming in US history.
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What's the matter? Can't the bow-tie bum kissers from Morrissey Blvd count or ask the police for an estimate? What makes them think some burnout commies from Brookline, JP, the South End can count?
5,000 huh? And this is the largest crowd shot they could come up with? Looks like the average sized crowd a street performer gets at Park St Station!
LOL When I was heading home from work yesterday I had to push my way through these stinky welfare types. And of all the "peacenicks" using the Greenline WHO helped the woman with the babystroller? Why lil' ol' white male ME, while the ganja-tokers WATCHED.
And I see only ONE minority in that photo.
On another note, This is from the Herald:
“It has been considerably making a difference since the war started,” said 31-year-old Nick Giannone of the Greater Boston Stop the War Coalition
So, who is this guy you ask?
Well from the Phoenix:
The 29-year-old Quincy resident was arrested for assault and battery on a public official amid a shutter-snapping pack of deadline-driven photographers on Canal Street. Since then, Giannone’s face has been used to illustrate an inaccurate Boston Herald article about an ominous "anarchist cell," and he has been found not guilty on that assault-and-battery charge. Despite all the hullabaloo, Giannone is a pretty straightforward guy. At the end of the day, he’s really just a person against assholes.
Two, look closely.
I guess he doesn't own a mirror.
Oh this guy's a real peach
It was around this time last year that Nick Giannone ended up as the face of the Democratic National Convention protests.
The 29-year-old Quincy resident was arrested for assault and battery on a public official amid a shutter-snapping pack of deadline-driven photographers on Canal Street. Since then, Giannone’s face has been used to illustrate an inaccurate Boston Herald article about an ominous "anarchist cell," and he has been found not guilty on that assault-and-battery charge. Despite all the hullabaloo, Giannone is a pretty straightforward guy. At the end of the day, he’s really just a person against assholes.
"I was always a troublemaker in school, and my problems with authority followed me into adult life," he says on a recent Saturday at Au Bon Pain in Harvard Square, wearing a black T-shirt with the warning danger police in area below a policeman shooting a person. "I just became more methodical about them."
A Weymouth native who works as a union boilermaker, Giannone says that one of his proudest accomplishments came in 2000, when he helped organize Weymouth High School walkouts in support of Mumia Abu-Jamal. Before the event even happened, he made headlines when Weymouth police arrested him for violating the city’s "tagging" laws by fliering telephone poles with protest announcements.
"You’re getting this mostly white suburban school taking a stand for a former Black Panther accused of killing a cop," Giannone says of his Weymouth coup. "It’s one of those it-can’t-happen-here things."
When John Ashcroft descended on Faneuil Hall to defend the Patriot Act in 2002, Giannone printed up fliers with Ashcroft’s head transposed over Jack Nicholson’s infamous "Here’s Johnny" shot from The Shining and credited them to the fictional organization People Against Assholes. Two years later, during the presidential election, Giannone designed white T-shirts with the proclamation they both suck beneath Bush’s and Kerry’s faces. He likes that sort of blunt tone. "It makes people laugh and it shows profound disrespect to [people] who deserve it."
Then the DNC came to town. During a Canal Street protest march on the convention’s last day, Boston Police superintendent Robert Dunford’s navy-blue hat went flying off his head. All hell broke loose, and suddenly cops had Giannone pinned to the ground. Since this confrontation happened in the midst of a national news story that really wasn’t generating much news, images of Giannone’s arrest — grimacing painfully as a beefy police officer pulled a thick strap around his neck — became the news.
"It looked worse than it felt," says Giannone, who does see a benefit to having a picture of a cop strangling him all over the media. "Sometimes you have to see some confrontation on the streets so that people who aren’t around to see it know that there’s opposition."
A few weeks ago, after nearly a year of court dates, a jury found Giannone not guilty of assault and battery. But the drawn-out process wasn’t without its ongoing repercussions. Last February, the Herald ran an inaccurate story about an "anarchist cell" that had been operating in the Hub and used a file photo of Giannone at the DNC — connecting the two because supportive anarchists had called him a "comrade" online.
Giannone didn’t testify at his own trial. Recalling the day he was arrested, he confesses, "I won’t say my behavior was entirely lawful, but I didn’t assault anyone. And that’s what I was charged with." But did he toss Superintendent Dunford’s hat?
"Someone definitely threw a hat," he says matter-of-factly. "I saw it land."
Another boy-man. Another of these children who never grow up, whose sole goal as an "adult" is to piss off daddy and mommy.
This guy is a real piece of work. His parents have to be impressed.
What a hero. This idiot has made a name for himself by standing for... absolutely nothing. Goes to show you how intelligent his self-styled "intellectual" supporters are.
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