Protest crowds gather for Bush visit (10,000 expected)

[joefree1]

By John Battersby

July 08 2003 at 01:08PM

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Several organisations intend staging demonstrations against the Bush visit. They include the African National Congress, the South African Communist Party, and the Congress of South African Trade Unions. Police spokesperson Senior Superintendent Selby Bokaba said this group had been granted permission for a march on the US Embassy in Pretoria from 11am to 3pm on Wednesday.

Bokaba said the organisers expected 10 000 people to take part. The Anti-War Coalition has been given permission to gather at the embassy from noon on Wendesday.
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http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=13&art_id=vn20030708130837717C734359&set_id=1
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Will this huge protest make Faux News?

Joefree1
Steal my art: http://darrias.com/small_art/smallart.html

For pics of the LA protest against bush go here
http://www.darrias.com/politics/Protest6-27.html

[prolesunited]

1. Wow!

That's quite a focus group there, huh, Georgie?

[deutsey]

2. From South Africa Indymedia

http://southafrica.indymedia.org



Planned protests around Bush visit to South Africa
3 July - The South African Anti-War Coalition, made up of over 300 Social Movements and other peoples' organisations, has arranged the following protest action against the visit of George Bush. The Anti-War Coalition previously organised marches of over 40 000 people on February 15th, which was the international day of action against the war in Iraq.

The events are:

PRETORIA:
* A mass rally on Wednesday July 9th at 11am at the Union Buildings during Thabo Mbeki's meeting with George Bush, where a memorandum will be handed over. There will then be a mass march to the American embassy.

JOHANNESBURG:
* A mass march on Saturday July 5th from Library Gardens at 12 noon, proceeding to the ANC Headquarters.

DURBAN:
* A Mass Rally on Saturday July 5th starting at 10am at the City Hall calling on the Mayor to declare Durban a Bush-free zone.

CAPE TOWN:
* A Cultural Day on Sunday July 6th, from 10am to 3pm at Community House, Salt River with films and speakers about Iraq and Palestine.

* A mass march on Wednesday July 9th from Kaisergracht (District Six) on Parliament, starting at 10am.

The Anti-War Coalition demands:
1. Cancellation of the Bush visit
2. Scrap the US-backed 'anti-terror' legislation
3. Bush and other warmongers should be tried by working class tribunal!

[AnnabelLee]

3. Faux News will show the protesters

& report only that they're communists.

[StopTheMorans]

4. don't worry, * will ignore them...

they are just focus groups after all:mad:

[joefree1]

5. And in case you haven't seen it - "Mandela won't meet Bush"

Mandela won't meet Bush
29/06/2003 18:07 - (SA)

Pretoria - A meeting between former president Nelson Mandela and US President George W Bush had never been on the cards, South Africa's foreign ministry said on Sunday ahead of Bush's trip to Africa.

Mandela has called Bush a president who "cannot think properly" and this week expressed renewed anti-American sentiments.

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Mandela this week praised France for opposing the war on Iraq during a visit by French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin.

"(French President Jacques) Chirac took the correct attitude not to support the war. He is in favour of peace," Mandela said on Friday.
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http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_1380087,00.html
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For pics of the LA protest against bush go here
http://www.darrias.com/politics/Protest6-27.html

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

6. Sez Bush:

"But, but.... where's the South African 1st Amendment Zone???"

[underpants]

7. He can run and hide but he can't get away

His whole life is planned around not getting near enough to NON hand-picked crowds. The G8 summit situation was ridiculous, embarassing, and well undemocratic.

A "Man of the people" my ass.

[Maudlin]

8. Remember Clinton?

That footage of him on a visit to Africa where he had to push the cheering crowds back because they all wanted to touch him?

*sigh*

[CBHagman]

9. Yes, I do

I remember in particular the sight of Clinton holding an African infant in his arms and saying, "He's beautiful."

Then again, we often saw Clinton with small groups and with crowds, in all possible settings: on the streets of Bosnia, in flood-stricken areas of the U.S., with crowds at speeches. I stood on a chair in the crowd following the dedication of the site for the World War II memorial, and Clinton reached up to shake my hand, which I'd thought was out of reach. Not for Bill.

[Paschall]

10. You mean like this

President Clinton and the First Lady, followed by Ugandan President Museveni, walk with an eager group of students through a cordon of singing and dancing children while departing the Kisowera School. Photo by Bob McNeely.

Clinton Archives: For the first time ever, White House photographers are covering a Presidential foreign trip on the Internet through digitial photography.

[crissy71]

11. I was thinking the exact same thing

It was like Beatlemania - truly remarkable

Of course you won't hear any of the Pundistocracy make the juxtaposition - instead it will be "how BRAVE little boots was to CONDEMN SLAVERY"

[zekeson]

12. Thats a * for you

Always willing to go out on a limb to attack evil - 150 years too late.
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