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The "Virtual March" -- reports |
| Hundreds of thousands join
"virtual march" against war [3-1-03]
MoveOn, one of the groups participating
in the "Win Without War" coalition, has sent out this report on the
massive call-in held on Feb. 26th.
Our Virtual March has been an enormous
success -- by some estimates, the Senate and White House received over a
million phone calls, faxes, and emails today. Offices on Capitol Hill were
busy with the sounds of ringing phones and conversations about the war. And
media outlets from the Washington Post to the BBC covered this
broad and unprecedented action.
A comment we received from a MoveOn member
in Connecticut is representative:
I called Lieberman's office, and made my
statement, and then I said to the man who answered the phone, 'this must
be nuts for you today' and he said, 'My day will be hell, but it is so
much better than apathy. This is what democracy is all about. I think it
is terrific.'
I asked him if he thought it might change
the Senator's position, and he said he wasn't authorized to speak on that,
but that they were overwhelmed with the number of people speaking out from
Connecticut.
Members of the House of Representatives
(who were not targeted) took notice: Representative Anna Eshoo from
California even took the time sent us all
a letter thanking us for
marching.
For everyone in the 32 organizations that
make up the Win Without War coalition, thanks for joining in something huge.
Next step: Local ads
MoveOn plans as the next step in their
campaign, placing local ads in smaller communities around the country. You
may want to see more about
this interesting effort, aimed partly at correcting the impression held
by 42% of Americans (according to the New York Times poll) the Saddam
Hussein was behind the attacks of September 11th.
Press reports
The MoveOn report also lists some of the
articles written about the Virtual March.
WASHINGTON POST:
ANTIWAR PROTESTERS FLOOD SENATE PHONE LINES
by Juliet Eilperin
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."
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BBC:
US 'VIRTUAL
MARCH' OVER IRAQ
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.
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NEW YORK TIMES:
AN
ANTIWAR DEMONSTRATION THAT DOES NOT TAKE TO THE STREETS by John Tierney
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. |
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