There are reports that Obama heard some of the protesters chants of “Obama Keep Your Promise” and that he addressed the protesters calls in his speech, asking them to work with him. However he did not give a direct response to the issue of US troops still waging war against the people of the Middle East.

Also protesting were members from the local Armenian community who want formal recognition of the Armenian Genocide. Among the various other groups participating were CodePink Women for Peace, the 911 Truth Organization, and the World Can’t Wait campaign against torture, which is a project of the Revolutionary Communist Party.

Later in the evening hundreds of Right to Marry demonstrators joined the scene. Things got more lively when the Obama contributors exited the event to the sight and sound of hundreds chanting “Marriage is a Civil Right”. LGBTQI activists, although mostly supportive of Obama, are concerned that he might betray them in much the same way that Clinton did and they are gearing up to put pressure on Obama to take action for marriage equality nationwide.

No arrests or police violence has been reported. However there was a dispute over the use amplified sound in the City of Beverly Hills. Police, (citing municipal code section 5-210-8) repeatedly warned Armenian Youth with a megaphone to stop and eventually threatened arrest. James Lafferty of the National Lawyers Guild challenged the police and asserted that the code did in fact allow for amplified sound with conditions and that the demonstrators were in compliance, but to no avail and the megaphone was silenced. Lafferty said after the incident that he believed that the free speech rights of the Armenian demonstrators had been unlawfully infringed.

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The RCP played a key role in initiating The World Can't Wait, as a movement to mobilize against the crimes of the government, and continues to participate in it. The levels of unity are not the same, and shouldn't be.

This reminds me of the distancing tactic that has been used by the political police and other reactionaries against people whom they deem unacceptable. The description could be construed as complicity in the battle to stop U.S. torture and other crimes against humanity. Many people should step forward to join this struggle with World Can't Wait and others who refuse to be silent.

Please remove the description of World Can't Wait as a project of the RCP in both locations in the article. Thanks.

As a founder of the Los Angeles Chapter of the World Can't Wait, I would like to correct an innaccuracy in the the identification of the World Can't Wait as a project of any other group. People can go to worldcantwait.org and read about the founding and mission of world can't wait. Our organization includes members from diverse political perpspectives and is guided by a mission to stop the crimes of this government.

I love this exposure and Indy Media is the PLACE for it.
Since I was unable to attend and do my art performance ...with all who did visit the outside of a fancy hotel with no one inside noticing them...oh well...
we who could not go are now pleased to be able to see and participate as 'spectators' momentarily.

Thanks photographer[s] for sharing and doing such a colorful job, selecting good signs and telling their visual stories.

Always, the many divisions seem make the protest less effective because each group is demanding and shouting for their own purposes...not that they should not...but the total result is a more fragmented result and the media loves to criticize how uncohesive and disparate those 'protestors' [aka unpatriotic unemployed loudmouths, et al ] are.

Again, these photos can be maybe copied and put on other personal blogs ?
or emails can be sent to friends and fellow-dissidents to PASS ON and be our own exposure via the back way, not on TV, but by the same old PERSONAL methods....as people who did "resistance" to warmongers did by passing little printed slips of paper in the dark of night or corners...

whatever

good job Indy. Good job people who got to go outside that day. good job photographer[s]. good job....
yes It Is A Job, full or part time, but a dedicated work to
inform and criticize and speak-up to those always in Power.

yeah !