PGHIMC - Pittsburgh Independent Media Center

Corp Media Mentioned DC S24 - But There Was Much More
by D. Burbeck Tuesday, Sep. 27, 2005 at 5:26 PM

Yes, the corporate media actually mentioned the demonstration in DC which drew more than 100,000 protesters.......it's true. Their reports were generally about 15 seconds in length, and mentioned nothing about the impassioned call for impeachment by former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark or any of the other speakers at the Rally.

They also neglected to mention that there were large demonstrations in San Francisco,
La, London, Cambridge, Rome, Milan, Madrid, Ottawa, Toronto, Seoul, Paris, Ireland,
Copenhagen, Helsinki, Damascus, Baghdad, Portland, Seattle, San Diego, Syracuse and
more. In all, well over 200,000 stood up in cities around the globe to say "NO" to the War
in Iraq.

That it was mentioned at all is a good sign, I guess, when you consider that there have been
more than 2,000 demonstrations around the world since the Nov. 2 Election that have brought
out millions of protesters that have never been given one second of coverage by our illustrious
corp. media giants (ass-kissing, complicit fascists) .

For a more complete coverage of the weekends events around the world, see "Protest News":

http://www.angelfire.com/nb2/www.dissentam.org/Sept.html

PRO-WAR
by Stalin Tuesday, Sep. 27, 2005 at 5:44 PM

"I suppose that it is possible that [New York Times reporter Michael Janofsky] has never before come across 'International ANSWER,' the group run by the 'Worker's World' party and fronted by Ramsey Clark, which openly supports Kim Jong-il, Fidel Castro, Slobodan Milosevic, and the 'resistance' in Afghanistan and Iraq, with Clark himself finding extra time to volunteer as attorney for the genocidaires in Rwanda... It is really a disgrace that the liberal press refers to such enemies of liberalism as 'antiwar' when in reality they are straight-out pro-war, but on the other side" -- Slate's Christopher Hitchens, writing about the organizers of Saturday's protests in Washington.

ANSWER Didn't run the protests
by Commenter Wednesday, Sep. 28, 2005 at 11:59 PM

UFPJ and ANSWER jointly organized the protests. While the WWP sucks big time, I wouldn't give it much credit for actually influencing the people who turned out.