200,000 march in S.F.; demand withdrawal of U.S. troops now!
1991Joseph Ryan 1991-02Read it in the scan (PDF at ETOL), page 7 →
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SOCIALIST ACTION FEBRUARY 1991 7 of one, six other people from her group had made the "shorter" trip to San Francisco (2000 miles as opposed to 4000) to carry a similar sign.
The demonstration began with a rally and ended with a rally. Near the Capitol, the group, Sweet Honey in the Rock, performed SAN FRANCISCO-Over 200,000 antiwar demonstrators marched and rallied here on Saturday, Jan. 26 against the U.S. war in the Persian Gulf.
Only a week earlier, on Jan. 19, nearly 100,000 others voiced their protest against the war.
Combined, both marches and rallies represented a mobilization of over 300,000 people in the Bay Area against U.S. policies in the Middle East—an outpouring of dissent not seen here since April 24, 1971, when 250,000 demonstrated against the Vietnam The demonstrations in both San Francisco and Washington, D.C., and other cities across the country on both Jan. 19 and Jan. 26, brought out over one million people to protest the war in the Persian Gulf-an astounding figure after only two weeks of hostilities.
The Jan. 26 demonstration in San Francisco was organized by the Jan. 26 Mobilization to Bring the Troops Home Now, a united front coalition endorsed by hundreds of Bay Area organizations and individuals including, significantly, four Bay (continued on page 10)
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