this is corroborated by another report here:

encampmenttostopthewar.blogspot.com/

This was an amazing spontaneous action of civil disobedience that was joined by hundreds of marchers. Based on the report on their blog Troops Out Now considers this a great part of the success of the day. This action was a concrete manifestation of the slogan for the march "moving from protest to resistance!"

Thank you to all who ignored the blatant lies being told by a few of the TONC volunteers who were actively discouraging people from joining the sit-in. COINTELPRO? or just egomaniacs who can't see an opportunity for solidarity in stopping the war machine when it hits them in the face? You decide. Based on the way some of the volunteers were trying to POLICE the march participants, I'm still wondering...

In the end, I say the march was a success and the civil disobedience showed that this Troops Out Now March was as meaningful as the ANSWER and IVAW march and die-in on the 15th.

Thanks for reporting on this!

Just like Vietnam in the 60's....it's the STUDENTS that are going to stop the madness. God Bless them and their activism. And Bless the brave Monks and people of Burma who are an inspiration.

the vietnamese stopped the vietnam war, not a bunch of white college students

Not much of a student of history are you?

Students stopped the Vietnam War?
Damn, I thought I got good weed.
I could have sworn it was the Vietnamese, the GI resistance, and hawks in the Nixon administration.
These students are just stopping for a photo op, as they continue their studies and resume their life of privilege, the same as their 60's counterparts did.

It's a lmost midnight. What's happening there now?

Wow!! Almost 100 students!! Whoo-Hoo! That will show them.

Bunch of fools.

Tell me why they are fools. Rosa Parks was only 1 person and nobody is calling her a fool

Rosa Parks was one of "thos"e people! We didn't need to change anything just give rid of you moonbat commie tratiors.

You like Beefeater Gin, (drinky drinky) sounds like someone hit the bottle just a little hard!

4 boxes of roofing nails could have done the same thing, without the stench and racket.

RRRAAAAWWWWW!!!!!1111

You kids rock FireDogLake everyone at is pulling for you

Congrats to the students and their support teams. Look forward to reading about your ongoing blockade - kee up the good work.
Hope you awaken in a few hours to learn you've inspired blockaddes throughout DC.

If the Burmese people can take the streets against their tyranny, we can do no less to defeat Bush's war and the Republicans' creeping Gulag for the Republic.

Great, inspiring, non-violent work.

Sadly -- although the majority of Americans want a quick exit from Iraq -- our U.S. news media only notice that point if there are bodies in an intersection.

So people lie in an intersection in Washington DC, so that the rest of us can hear that they oppose our continued occupation of Iraq.

Wow!! Almost 100 students!! Whoo-Hoo! That will show them.

Bunch of fools.

Beefeater, you posted the same comment upthread, and you did not even try to defend yourself. Try something new, like why you think those people are fools.

When you post the same thing twice, you look like a fool.

All I can say is.....RIGHT ON!!! Keep it up.

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Thank you brave students and thank you indy reporters. I'm proud of you all.

More pix here:

encampmenttostopthewar.blogspot.com/

how are they doing tonite and is anyone going to cover them tomorrow?

i appreciate the protest along with quite a few of my fellow bloggers at samsedershow.com

drop in and keep us informed.

2 videos from yesterdays march in DC

Submitted by my friend dada on Sun, 09/30/2007 - 9:02pm.

March on Washington September 29, Troops Out Now

www.youtube.com/watch

www.youtube.com/watch

"I found something - they appear to be fine. There's video of it here, too...

ageofhooper.blogspot.com/2007/09/troops-out-now-march-and-action....

Wow, my first scoop. I feel so good right now. :-)"

Why is the photograph of the student "protesters" so lilly white? That photograph doesn't represent America.

Where are the African Americans? Where are the Hispanic Americans?

Just lilly whites.

If you have been involved in the antiwar movement for any length of time you would know that the vast majority of antiwar activists are "lilly white." It is a sad fact of the movement that many are trying to address and change. There are many factors for this. In my opinion, class is the largest factor that keeps minorities from taking time off work to attend protests. Most of the people in the photos are middle class whites, because they can afford to be activists.

While it is always good to see any peace action, we all know that 100 people sitting on the ground is not ending any war. As one who can easily remember the war against Vietnam, most of the protests ended in 1973 when the draft ended. Those protests were nationwide on most college campuses. However, the protests did not start that way. Our peace movement from the war against Korea was small, although the issues were the same, and after the phony 1964 Gulf of Tonkin incident that was the excuse to invade Vietnam and slaughter 3 million Vietnamese, it took another 4 years until the Tet Offensive of 1968, and the destruction of the American economy, for the peace movement to turn out large demonstrations in Washington, D.C. and San Francisco. By 1971, the US was off the gold standard and the American economy was declining to a point that the US signed the Paris Peace Accords. By 1973, the post-WW2 boom ended, and the US ecnoomy has been declining ever since. It was the armed might of the socialist world that made possible for those "little men in black pajamas" (and lots of women too) to defeat the mightiest military machine had seen since Nazi Germany on April 30, 1975, when they liberated Ho Chin Minh City. Now, the American economy is much worse and therefore the protests are greater before a draft. Should there be a draft, we could see a state of civil war here, and it will certainly involve the workingclass, who are a majority non-white. The combination of a draft and the destruction of the US economy will cause the workingclass to strike nationally to end the private profit system that is the cause of war. It will take that kind of labor action to finally have peace.

oh, how i wish it'd lasted that long! i heard they made a collective decision to leave at ten... i had to leave at eight or so, but next time hopefully something like that will occur...