Above -- Jesse Jackson and 499,999 +/- others head for Madison Square Gardens

The convergence’s centerpiece was Sunday’s march where half a million people took seven hours passing Madison Square Garden, site of the RNC. Acting as book ends to Sunday’s historic action satellite events scattered throughout Manhattan created another kind of convention as large as the Big Apple itself representing labor, pro choice, and the peace movement. In the end what will be remembered is the huge display of people power and a government more concerned with media appearance than civil rights.

Photos from the Disruption of Bush's Speech - including protest banner A MUST SEE!!





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Crossing the Brooklyn Bridge into Manhattan five to eight thousand march for Reproductive Choice.

Four more years of Bush would lead to the roll back of Roe v. Wade.

Read the following from Women’s e-News - http://www.womensenews.org/article.cfm/dyn/aid/1346

Still sounds scary

Billionaires for Brush roped in by the Green Dragon Patriots.

As usual the state was protecting the corp. elite while tolerating the people - soon after the photo was taken NYPD decided to arrest the rally leaders.

Starbucks workers press for the right to join a Union. NYPD is working without a contract.

With something like 36,000 cops dedicated to “ RNC Security” the NYC tactics for containment dished up less red meat police attacks than those used in Miami while still managing to trample the right of free assembly.

Union Square was site to many rallies.

The day of defiance was marred by preemptive mass arrests of peaceful protesters and tourists

Marchers were directed by police to proceed than arrested in a sick game of gotcha.

Falsely arrested

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