| D.C. PROTESTERS 2 MILLION STRONG ... PUBLIC ADVOCATE >>> http://www.publicadvocateusa.org/ YOU DID IT: OVER TWO MILLION MARCH ON WASHINGTON September 13, 2009 Public Advocate was there and has video. There's 100s of other videos online already. STATEMENT FROM PUBLIC ADVOCATE PRESIDENT EUGENE DELGAUDIO "This was a crowd of over 2 million based on direct on the ground observation at both the Obama Inauguration and at the September 12 event. Public Advocate volunteers walked around the U.S. Capitol at both events. There were groups of hundreds of thousands of marchers in the entire area for five blocks in every direction with the highest concentration for 4 hours along Pennslyvania Avenue and at the Capitol. From 10 a.m. to 2 p.m, there was an unbroken stream of people covering both sides of Pennsylvania Avenue from the U.S. Capitol to Freedom Plaza in addition to the area around the U.S. Capitol extending several blocks. The arrival of large crowds numbering in the hundreds of thousands did not stop for 4 hours," says Public Advocate president Eugene Delgaudio Michele Maulkin gets into the technical methods estimating the crowd at the Obama Inauguration and uses the same methods for the Anti-Tax March September 12 National Park Service computation for past inaugurations posted at USA Today http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2009-01-19-crowd_N.htm Photos, videos and other reports posted at this url http://thespeechatimeforchoosing.blogspot.com/2009/09/as-many-two-million-912 -project-and-tea.html |
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