Anti-Bush protestors march downtown (Houston)

[struggle4progress]

By ERIC BERGER
Copyright 2005 Houston Chronicle

<snip> "We've got some joker who stole the White House two times who is now trying to tell us how to live our lives."

Social change was the order of the day: ending the war in Iraq, stopping racial intolerance, repealing the Patriot Act, supporting abortion rights and ending environmental harm were all among the calls.

The march, organized by a coalition of groups including the Harris County Green Party, Progressive Workers Organizing Committee and Latinos Por La Paz, went from Market Square to City Hall. <snip>

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/politics/3004804

[BrklynLiberal]

1. Thanks for posting. Maybe you should also post in the Texas forum

[kuozzman]

2. KICK

:kick:

[Maat]

3. Those guys have guts ....

and if you were there, YOU have guts.

[Judi Lynn]

4. What a great event! It happened in HOUSTON, too!

They were challenged by "Protest Warrior," moved straight at them, drove them into the street and oncoming traffic. Cool!

I guess we should have anticipated the Republicans would start organizing groups to show up to try to dilute the effect the people who HAVE something to protest are having. They have recruited their own little brown shirts to try to "censor" and thwart legitimate expression by Democrats and other protestors.

Last line of the article: "We are not going to bend our heads to power," said Cristobal Hinojosa, of the group Mexicanos en Acción. "We are going to continue to fight for what is right."

Excellent.

[RussBLib]

5. Hey! I was there!

It was a hoot! We met up at a park downtown, did some drumming, dancing and chanting (the cops said if we used amplification, we'd be stopped, so we didn't). The "Radical Cheerleaders" were pretty cool...

"George Bush, you MOTHERFUCKER!"

Then we meandered downtown, up and down Main Street, accompanied by about six cops on horseback and at least 10 cop cars.

It's always good to mingle with like minds. Go to a rally. Go to a Meet-up. Get out there. Don't get shot.

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