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Account of PAPV march/rally
by johnrpgh Saturday, Sep. 06, 2003 at 4:08 PM

for pgh indymedia

At around 2:30 people came out of the church and we started marching on the sidewalk towards the road with the municipal building on it. The permit was for that street only, so after crossing the police barricade we continued on to the municipal building where there was a short rally. Some people spoke, and we were told to march on the sidewalk back to the church.

My account is short because this was very...very short. I was expecting a higher turnout, and a lot more excitement about the march. It seemed after we went half a block and we all stopped, people were standing around confused saying to each other "...That was the march? Are we going somewhere else?" The permit was only good until 3 o'clock, and the rally/march should have started long before 2-2:30. We had no time to get anything done, and the march should have been much longer touching more areas.

Despite being yelled at by some guy for marching in the street when we still had a permit and the cops weren't anywhere around, and making a banner for no real reason...the rally had good speakers.

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