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From AFSC-NERO volunteer Mark Lipman:
What a day - 300,000 people* jumping and screaming all over the capital - people are all fired up - this is one of the biggest successes I've seen in America in a long time - the entire country turned out - national / international press everywhere - everyone is really energized - no greater place in America - or the world - today than DC. The momentum is full behind us - we are empowered and ready to change the world - all the government can do cower in the shadows from the wake left behind the power of the people.
Peace and solidarity
Mark
* Crowd estimates from major demonstrations are always difficult to make. One trusted photographer who works at AFSC guesstimated there were about 100,000 people protesting in DC Saturday. Rep. Conyers mentioned hundreds of thousands. We at Peacework will seek to analyze different crowd estimates and present other estimates as we hear them reported.
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