Antiwar March Makes Its Way Through Downtown

By Eric Richardson
Published: Saturday, September 24, 2005, at 02:26PM

Eric Richardson

DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES — If you're Downtown this afternoon, you way well have already realized that the antiwar protest march just made its way through. I was sitting in my apartment and heard them making their way down Broadway, so I figured I might as well go out and grab a few pictures.

The march seemed decently attended. I caught the front making the turn onto 4th and came to the end around 7th. So I'd say maybe four blocks worth of people, not all to dense at times.

One thing I always love is the random side-protests that get attached to marches like this. For instance, the nurses' association was chanting "Stop Arnold. Stop the War." I saw several random "Free Palestine" signs. And as always the Bus Riders Union showed up.

I didn't notice until I was uploading the pictures, but I'm pretty sure the guy in the pictured photo for this post is giving me a Fight On! in response to my USC t-shirt. Less than two hours until game time...

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David Kennedy writes:

This might be more political than you'd like, but here's some background information on the march organizers. I suspect most people in attendance don't know.

International ANSWER (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism) is a front group for the Communist Workers World Party. The Workers World Party is, literally, a Stalinist organization. It rose out of a split within the old Socialist Workers Party over the Soviet Union's 1956 invasion of Hungary — the breakaway Workers World Party was all for the invasion. International ANSWER today unquestioningly supports any despotic regime that lays any claim to socialism, or simply to anti-Americanism. It supported the butchers of Beijing after the slaughter of Tiananmen Square. It supports Saddam Hussein and his Baathist torture-state. It supports the last official Stalinist state, North Korea, in the mass starvation of its citizens. It supported Slobodan Milosevic after the massacre at Srebrenica. It supports the mullahs of Iran, and the narco-gangsters of Colombia and the bus-bombers of Hamas.

# on Sep.29.2005 AT 01:54 PM

Eric Richardson writes:

I can't remember where, but the other day I was reading where someone had observed that ANSWER's leading of the marches was likely what kept there from being any high level Democrats involved. I thought that was interesting. -e;

# on Sep.29.2005 AT 02:01 PM

Antiwar March Makes Its Way Through Downtown

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