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Monday, December 02, 2002


N30 Redux

Well, I have to say the N30 Rally downtown on Saturday was a bit of a letdown. Only a few hundred (possibly as many as 1,000 but not much more from my estimate) showed up at around noon to listen to the usual panoply of speakers voicing opposition to everything from the impending War On Iraq to general rants against neoliberal corporate globalization, to cuts in local social services spendings. The crowd seemed decidedly on the youngish side, unlike other recent protests, and although very vocal, everyone was well-behaved in the extreme -- so much so that not a single arrest was made this year, so far as I could tell. The constabulary was of course out in full force, with the bike and equestrian units taking prominent positions amongst the crowd.

At around 1:00 p.m. everyone started off to the intersection of 4th & Pike, which was barely occupied by the full contingent, then down Pike to 2nd turning right and heading down to the Federal Building, where the Westlake group joined up with another decidedly smaller crowd that had assembled at a different location.

When I say it was a letdown, I really mean only in the sense that many of the issues expressed by the various signs and speakers were in-and-of-themselves quite worthy causes or sentiments, but given the fact that only the day before more than 30,000 citizens had occupied roughly the same space in what has now become the annual ritual paean to rampant consumerism (I stayed away from that one, although I actually could see the evening fireworks display from the boat).

Now, don't get me wrong, I certainly buy enough useless consumer-stuff to make some of the "Buy Nothing" crowd cringe in disgust, but it IS just a tad disconcerting that 30 times the number of people will come out to show their support for spending money on (mostly) useless trinkets than will show up to exercise what is supposed to be one of the fundamental rights of a citizen in a democratic society.


Posted byCOMTE on 2:58 PM


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