Young and Impassioned March for Justice

[Dancing_Dave]

The Village Voice keeps covering the counter-convention of New Yorkers and Visitors with a different culture from the RNC:


"15 STREET AND EIGHTH AVENUE--The Still We Rise coalition of kaleidoscopically diverse community groups marched and rallied today for (deep breath) housing, health care, AIDS and education funding, restoration of civil liberties, immigrants' rights, and an end to the Rockefeller drug laws. The coalition was overwhelmingly local, with strong contingents coming from the Bay Area. With so much on their minds, the young marchers still managed to rock, and the gathering took on a martial air with numerous drummers, bands,
deafening chants in English and Spanish, handclaps, and at least one pink-clad anarchist flag-dance team..."
http://www.villagevoice.com/blogs/kamenetz/

If this goes on, the RNC may begin to feel they would have been a lot more comfortable holding their convention in Saudi Arabia. Democracy can be such a bother. :)