I bet many joined the chorus.... Chicago is.
Right on for the countries second city. However, I am referring to my adopted home town, San Francisco. The democratic race for presidency is not enough to hold its attention, the town's Mayor aspirations for Governorship, the city's deficit that already affected schools, health care with across the board cuts -- it got into a quasi global fracas about Tibet, China, Burma, Darfur et al... Here is a town that needs no reason to protest, except some group believes a protest is what is called for, to shine a spot light for their particular issue du jour. The larger irony of the counter protest, as it is characterized by pro-China forces, how little critical thinking occurs within. Nationals in various media, feel national pride over rides increasing evidence of many abuses of a "non communist" regime.
I am not adverse to mass protest, with varying groups coming together to offer or object to a position/action/practice. To offer a reasonable, achievable alternative if wrongs are discover to be true.
more to follow.
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