The rally started at 3 p.m. (the size of the crowd is especially impressive considering that it was during the workday; a lot of people who wanted to attend may not have been able to get off work).

The rally featured a variety of speakers and singers. The speakers included the head of ILWU Local 23 (which just recently endorsed Dennis), a representative of the Natural Law Party of Washington, a representative of Solidarity in America (a movement started by ILWU Local 23), Angela Gilliam (an African-American feminist scholar who is a professor at a local college), and the head of the UW chapter of Kucinich for President (the student group were the official sponsors of the event and did much of the work organizing it).

The College Republicans or some other conservative student group decided to hold a protest. There were about half a dozen of them. They carried signs such as "Bush-Cheney 2004", "Get the Kooch off our campus", "Vote for Kucinich - Why are you laughing", and a rather odd one alleging that Dennis would allow serial killers to go free [ continue reading ]

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