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May. 3rd, 2004 07:55 amMore March Stuff
The Post had a fantastic article Sunday called "Why We Crave A Real Number" talking about why it's so important to people to know how many protesters sign up for marches, and why it's so hard to get a real number. I'd link to it, but I can't seem to find it on the site, darnit.
One of the best paragraphs was the section about how the National Mall functions as one of those "thermometers they fill in with red to show donations" and that the real function - and payoff - of a successful march is the day-after picture of the Mall seething with life; the fuller the Mall, the more successful the march.
It also had a bit on how this is probably the only country on earth where millions of people can gather in protest, much less take that protest on a walking loop around the Capitol buildings, without there being fears of insurgency.
Great article. Wish I could link it!
Malice Domestic
What a fantastic convention! I've already signed up for next year. (With a wistful sigh of regret regarding my favorite Greek festival in Bethesda, which I may never make it to again, now.)
( So many things to say, so little LJ space to put them... )
Current book: Murphy's Law, Rhys Bowen. The first of the 1901-set Molly Murphy series. We haven't got a lot of mystery yet by page 54, but the authorial voice is so strong I can hear the brogue, and the description of the steerage passage to America is even more evocative than the visuals in Titanic.
The Post had a fantastic article Sunday called "Why We Crave A Real Number" talking about why it's so important to people to know how many protesters sign up for marches, and why it's so hard to get a real number. I'd link to it, but I can't seem to find it on the site, darnit.
One of the best paragraphs was the section about how the National Mall functions as one of those "thermometers they fill in with red to show donations" and that the real function - and payoff - of a successful march is the day-after picture of the Mall seething with life; the fuller the Mall, the more successful the march.
It also had a bit on how this is probably the only country on earth where millions of people can gather in protest, much less take that protest on a walking loop around the Capitol buildings, without there being fears of insurgency.
Great article. Wish I could link it!
Malice Domestic
What a fantastic convention! I've already signed up for next year. (With a wistful sigh of regret regarding my favorite Greek festival in Bethesda, which I may never make it to again, now.)
( So many things to say, so little LJ space to put them... )
Current book: Murphy's Law, Rhys Bowen. The first of the 1901-set Molly Murphy series. We haven't got a lot of mystery yet by page 54, but the authorial voice is so strong I can hear the brogue, and the description of the steerage passage to America is even more evocative than the visuals in Titanic.
