[Chat] Fwd: [Discussion] An Anti-War Demonstration that Does Not Take To The Streets

jdy jberlin at bcpl.net
Tue Mar 4 23:02:16 EST 2003


the situation is getting closer and closer. what if everyone sent the white
house letters with tea bags in them.clogging their mail system. call your
senator and congressperson.  this will be viet nam all over again.  i'm
scared.

judy
  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Crystal
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  --- Crystal <cver1001 at yahoo.com> wrote:
  > From: Crystal <cver1001 at yahoo.com>
  > To: discussion at charlesvillage.info
  > Subject: [Discussion] An Anti-War Demonstration that
  > Does Not Take To The Streets
  > Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2003 06:36:16 -0800 (PST)
  >
  > Here are a few articles written about the Virtual
  > March.
  >
  > WASHINGTON POST:
  > ANTIWAR PROTESTERS FLOOD SENATE PHONE LINES
  > by Juliet Eilperin
  >
  http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6032-2003Feb26.html
  >
  > Thousands of antiwar protesters flooded Senate phone
  > lines today as part of a "Virtual March" on
  > Washington.
  >
  > The phone-in campaign was sponsored by the "Win
  > Without War" coalition, which told Web site readers
  > they could "join a massive march on Washington
  > without
  > leaving your living room."
  >
  > --------
  >
  > BBC:
  > US 'VIRTUAL MARCH' OVER IRAQ
  >
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/2802531.stm
  >
  > Thousands of anti-war activists have been bombarding
  > the White House and senators with phone calls and
  > e-mails in a virtual protest over the Iraq crisis.
  > Backed by a number  of celebrities, volunteers
  > jammed
  > switchboards in Washington DC in an effort to force
  > US
  > politicians to think again over the prospect of war
  > in
  > the Gulf.
  >
  > --------
  >
  > NEW YORK TIMES:
  > AN ANTIWAR DEMONSTRATION THAT DOES NOT TAKE TO THE
  > STREETS
  > by John Tierney
  >
  http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/26/national/26CND-MARCH.html
  >
  > WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 - The Mall was quiet, but the
  > switchboard on Capitol Hill was swamped today as
  > anti-war protesters conducted what they called the
  > first "virtual march" on Washington. The organizers,
  > a
  > coalition called Win Without War, said that hundreds
  > of thousands of people were sending
  > messages by email, fax and telephone to the Senate
  > and
  > the White House.
  >
  > --------
  >
  > ROLL CALL:
  > WAR PROTESTORS VIRTUALLY OVERWHELM SENATE OFFICES
  > by Nicole Duran
  >
  http://www.rollcall.com/issues/1_1/breakingnews/653-1.html
  > [Subscription needed to view full article.]
  >
  > . . . An informal survey of Senate offices found
  > nearly all available bodies busily answering
  > incessantly ringing phones as a group called Win
  > Without War carried out its "virtual
  > march on Washington."
  >
  > The group, led by former Rep. Tom Andrews (D-Maine),
  > arranged to have at least 140,000 constituents call
  > their Senators, as well as the White House, all day
  > with the same message: "Don't attack Iraq."
  >
  > "I'm sorry, sir, but we're just taking a tally
  > because
  > our phones are ringing off the hook," a patient but
  > clearly tiring staffer in Sen. John McCain's office
  > told a war protestor back in the Arizona
  > Republican's
  > home state.
  >
  > In most offices, front-desk aides had ticked off
  > hundreds of calls on scratch sheets by midday,
  > intending to just give the Senators a final number
  > when the protest ends at 6 p.m.
  >
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