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Just Got Back from the March Here in Seattle!
Posted by FoM on May 08, 1999 at 08:00:15 PT
Source: Seattle Hempfest 99
Just got back from the march here in Seattle. We were about 20,000 strong by the end of it. Hope all of you in the other major cities had strong marches too.Seattlehempfest staff did an excellent job!
The sun came out and blessed us and a grand time was had by all, even the cops! We had a perfectly Organized march! Absolutely zero arrests!The Times They are a Changing!We should have videos and photos galore in a few days!Smokincat Jerrybear! 
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Comment #1 posted by Darral on May 10, 1999 at 22:07:11 PT:
DARRAL' s vision of the Seattle MMM
Here is the "Washington Hemp Education Network"'s take on the MMM event.SeattleHempfest staff did an excellent job!The sun came out and blessed us and a grand time washad by all, even the cops! We had a perfectlyorganized march! Absolutely ZERO arrests!The times they are a changing!(we should have videos and photos galore in a few days!)>> Subject: Re: seattle's million marijuana march>> Date: Sun, 2 May 1999 09:07:42 -0500>> > -----Original Message->> Date: Sunday, May 02, 1999 6:10 AM Subject: MAP: seattle's million marijuana march>> >> Our march was supposed to begin at noon.I had spent the last few days faxing all the radiostations and the newspapers and TV stations andcalling in on talk radio shows to promote the event.many other great volunteers with the Seattle>> Hempfeststaff have been knoking them selves out s[reading>> theword about JAY DAY for FREEDOM. I showed up at atVolunteer park at around 10:50 am the core staff wasall there and ready to go, we were so organized! theremust have been 40 people there. in the next hour thesun came out and smiled on us! We looked around and we were over 400 strong, we practiced our chants andslogans, went over the route and the techs, made sureeveryone was mellow enough to march the miles, andproceeded to march our hemp smoking, freedom lovingselves right down Broadway on Capitol hill. We had apolice escort and they told us that since we had>> such a large crowd we should take on BOTH lanes of>> trafficand have us a regular old fashioned parade through>> town! Wait till ya see the videos! We looked around and the crowd was over a block>> long!I guess about 1000 people! But by the time we made itto Pike street to turn the corner to go down westlake, we had at least 4000 people, maybe more chanting at the top of their lungs! we had it going ON! the sound was incredible! The power of our voices calling for>> peace in unison was awesome! We were getting great support from the onlookers too, the cars stopped on the side streets whilke we went by were homking and waving at us in solidarity!. We had banners from many groups and organizations in prominent places along the>> march and made the most of the media cameras. The Seattle Police are to be commended too because they were instrumental in helping us keep the event safe. There were 0 arrrests! I think the city of Seattle got a kick out of it! At the rally at westlake center >> many of the groups expanded their memberships because>> there were many eager people who were saying "WOW how can>> we get involved in this movement" We had activism and action and more fun! I'd love to>> do this every day! I gave out flyers from W.H.E.N and the November Coalition, the October 22-Stolen Lives Project, F.E.A.R. Seattle Hempfest, Hemp.net and many>> magazine articles that I had printed up at the library. I>> took a very careful head count at about half way through the rally and I figure we had at least 4000 people standing there listening! and our location was great because we had lots of cars going by that saw our banners and our web addy's for over three hours in>> the streets. Westlake center mall has lots of balcony space and the people up there were snapping photos like crazy, they never saw anthying like this in Seattle! We should be on the news.Marijuana should be legal, and I should be sleeping.Thanks to all you marchers world wide! SEATTLE LOVES YOU!______________________________________________________
The Washington Hemp Education Network
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