{"id":319,"date":"2003-02-15T22:26:00","date_gmt":"2003-02-16T03:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/uncategorised\/feb15th_peace_march_report.html"},"modified":"2006-10-15T19:11:28","modified_gmt":"2006-10-16T00:11:28","slug":"feb15th_peace_march_report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/politics\/feb15th_peace_march_report.html","title":{"rendered":"Second rally against a war in Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the second time this year, I marched against a war in Iraq. As expected, today’s rally was much larger than last month’s rally<\/a>. I gauged the crowd at some 20,000. The Globe And Mail reports there were 10,000 in attendance<\/a>, a gross underestimate, while the CBC reports that 25,000 were present<\/a>. According to The Toronto Star, however, numbers were as high as 80,000<\/a>.<\/ins><\/p>\n

In addition to attracting more people, this month’s rally seemed better organised than January’s. I was happy to see the same diverse set of people and also pleasantly surprised at the level of relevant placards. Hundreds of signs dotted the crowd, all but a few of which denounced a war on Iraq.<\/p>\n

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Everybody seemed to have a camera at the ready, as if they were representing Transmetropolitan’s SPKF. Victor took some pictures<\/a>, and you can also view Frank’s pictures from the rally<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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For the second time this year, I marched against a war in Iraq. As expected, today’s rally was much larger than last month’s rally<\/a>. I gauged the crowd at some 20,000. The Globe And Mail reports there were 10,000 in attendance<\/a>, a gross … Read more<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}