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Warren Stupidity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-17-05 09:42 PM
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1500 vigils 100 people per vigil do the math
Just a guesstimate but 150,000 is my number. Not bad at all. Now it needs to be 1,500,000.
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sniffa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-17-05 09:43 PM
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1. i think some vigiLs topped 1000
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earthmama Donating Member (313 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-17-05 10:26 PM
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11. That is a great turn out for a week night!!
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jsamuel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-17-05 09:44 PM
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2. non-election time
that means something
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Warren Stupidity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-17-05 09:46 PM
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4. It means that the people are stirring
It means that Cindy Sheehan has started something big. It means that peace is breaking out all over this land.
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Dagaz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-17-05 09:46 PM
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3. So how many are flip votes?
If it's 150k who voted for Kerry this is another feel good protest. Did any vote for *? Somehow I think that this is the choir rehearsing not recruiting.
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Warren Stupidity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-17-05 09:51 PM
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5. About protest
Where we are now the point is to break through the propaganda. At my little vigil there were less than 100 people. But we were on Main Street on a summer night and perhaps 1000 cars drove by. 1000+ people had their reality narrative disturbed. 1000+ people were confronted with an unscripted event. This has nothing much to do with elections, it has to do with deconstructing their catapulted propaganda.
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LSK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-17-05 09:53 PM
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6. everyone i met seemed to be Kerry voters
However, it brings awareness. We were on a mainstreet and Im sure some people were wondering what was going on. Maybe peaks curiosity of apathetic people.
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hippywife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-17-05 10:01 PM
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7. Sometimes
Edited on Wed Aug-17-05 10:01 PM by hippywife
the choir needs to be sung to to keep the momentum going. Plus everyone around them, passersby, got to hear their song! ;)
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roguevalley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-17-05 10:05 PM
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8. this is the warm up for sept. 24. I can't wait for Cindy to take the mike
then. Awesome.
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hippywife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-17-05 10:10 PM
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9. We stand a corner here in Tulsa
on a monthly basis. It evokes more positive responses than negative. I think it is so important that peacemongers stand before their community. It gives people the courage to speak out and it gives them hope.
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HeeBGBz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-17-05 10:20 PM
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10. We had only about 15-20 but we got news coverage!
South Mississippi on WLOX. Came off as a support Cindy, support the families and honoring those who lost their lives.
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moc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-17-05 10:31 PM
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12. I think that's a conservative estimate....
That's what the conservatives would like to estimate. :headbang:

We had 250 at ours in a very red county in a very red state.
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Warren Stupidity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-18-05 05:49 AM
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13. Uh -hmmm....
OK I don't think I'll interpret that the wrong way. Of course it is a conservative estimate. The number *could* be far higher, it might be lower. Perhaps the various organizers ought to poll their local people and get a better number and get that out to us.
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charlie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-18-05 05:55 AM
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14. Was streaming KGO
In the last hour they said there were over 1600 vigils. Remarkable.
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moc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-18-05 09:58 AM
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15. Sorry you missed my (obviously too subtle) joke
I was trying to play on the word "conservative", i.e., that's what the right-wingers wish the estimate was.

You know, there's a reason I shouldn't try to make jokes. I'm not all too good at it. ;-)
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Warren Stupidity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-18-05 09:35 PM
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17. I took it the right way. eom.
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Fleshdancer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-18-05 10:01 AM
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16. Very conservative estimate. Does MoveOn add up the numbers?
I wonder if the people hosting the vigils are asked to contact MoveOn afterward and give them an estimate on how many people showed up. Does anyone know?
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