I was lucky enough to be living in DC during the run-up to the war and attended all of the marches that were held. Like most of those in attendance, and those watching in awe on CSPAN (because they couldn't see it anywhere else), I was honestly hurt that there was minimal press coverage of them. The feeling turned to maddening frustration after the last march. You know, the one that was the BIGGEST march in DC history? The press said "thousands" were in attendance. All there knew "hundreds of thousands" would have been a much more accurate, if still too general a description.
So, like Kos and Jerome so directly and appropriately declare in CTG as well as their sites, the protest march is a moribund tactic made for old times. The effectiveness of these marches lie only in their ability to make their attendees feel great about themselves and feel like they are all doing something. However, it truly is all for naught if the world really isn't watching (no matter what our signs say).

But do this week's massive and incredibly impressive marches organized around Sensenbrenner's draconian anti-immigration bill belie these assumptions?

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