October 2, 2010
AT LEAST OUR KOOKS OUTNUMBER THEIR KOOKS:
Liberal Groups Rally, Challenging Tea Party (STEVEN GREENHOUSE, 10/02/10, NY Times)
Tens of thousands of union members, environmentalists and peace activists rallied at the Lincoln Memorial on Saturday, seeking to carry on the message of jobs and justice that the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. trumpeted at a rally at the same site 47 years ago. [...]Posted by Orrin Judd at October 2, 2010 9:12 PMThe rally’s sponsors, including the N.A.A.C.P., the A.F.L.-C.I.O., the Sierra Club and the National Council of La Raza, said they also hoped to demonstrate that they, not the Tea Party, represented the nation’s majority. [...]
Significant areas of the National Mall that had been filled during Mr. Beck’s rally were empty.
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