Hundreds of thousands rally for immigrant rights

Hundreds of thousands rally for immigrant rights: "The police say more than 400,000 people turned out, but the organizers insist it’s many more.

Nearly 700,000 people showed up, with buses from Joliet and Elgin arriving late and kids showing up after school, said Marissa Graciosa, spokeswoman for the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights.

“We’re always going to say more than the police,” she said with a laugh.

Omar Lopez, one of the organizers of this rally and the earlier March 10 demonstration, said he hadn’t seen their final figures, but he said “I know for sure it went over a half a million” when compared to the earlier rally."

Giving the President a Pink Slip in New York City

TomDispatch - Tomgram: Giving the President a Pink Slip in New York City:

Interesting article on huge antiwar demonstration in NYC last weekend -- and the mainstream media (MSM) "slighting" of coverage of protest marches these days.

"Who would have guessed that several hours later I would be standing on Broadway and Leonard Street looking back at perhaps 20 packed blocks of demonstrators -- bands, puppets, signs by the thousands, vets by the hundreds (if not the thousands), huge contingents of military families, congeries of the young, labor, women, the clergy, university and high school students, raging grannies, radical cheerleaders, and who knows who else -- an enormous mass of humanity as far as the eye can see and probably another 10 to 15 blocks beyond that. It was enough to make the heart leap. I had no way of counting, no way of knowing whether what I saw was the 300,000 the organizers claimed or merely the vague 'tens of thousands' mentioned in most media reports. It was, to say the least though, a lot of people, mobilized on limited notice"