{"id":1597,"date":"2003-08-12T04:20:18","date_gmt":"2003-08-12T18:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/12\/bush-in-seattle\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T08:30:45","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T16:30:45","slug":"bush-in-seattle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/12\/bush-in-seattle\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush in Seattle"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:13802,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.mvp-seattle.org\\\/pages\\\/pageactionalert30718.htm&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20050426225107\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.mvp-seattle.org:80\\\/pages\\\/pageActionAlert30718.htm&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 13:40:51&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 13:40:51&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:13803,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.stopbushseattle.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:13804,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.truthout.org&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:13805,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/blogs.onenw.org\\\/jon\\\/archives\\\/000689.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20050215205142\\\/http:\\\/\\\/blogs.onenw.org:80\\\/jon\\\/archives\\\/000689.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/hoax.com&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:13806,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.pacificviews.org\\\/archives\\\/000060.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20090106201027\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.pacificviews.org\\\/archives\\\/000060.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 13:41:14&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 13:41:14&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>The day before Dean&#8217;s appearance here, our esteemed leader (<strong>cough<\/strong>) will be here. Information on planned protest rallys can be found at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mvp-seattle.org\/pages\/pageactionalert30718.htm\" title=\"Action Alert\">Action Alert<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stopbushseattle.com\/\" title=\"Stop Bush Seattle!\">Stop Bush Seattle<\/a>, but here&#8217;s the pertinent information:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  <strong>Saturday, August 23rd\\<br \/>\n  Seattle waterfront, 12 noon<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>  100,000 of us will come together in Seattle for a peaceful and joyful celebration of our numbers and our power. We will gather for an afternoon to strengthen and steady each other in our determination to be rid of this blight. The bully has to go.<\/p>\n<p>  <strong>Where:<\/strong> Myrtle Edwards park. <strong>12 noon:<\/strong> Rally. <strong>1pm:<\/strong> Loop march southbound on Alaskan Way to Madison St.\u00a0and back to park. <strong>Speaking:<\/strong> William Rivers Pitt, of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.truthout.org\/\" title=\"News, Politics\">TruthOut.org<\/a>. <strong>Why:<\/strong> A swaggering bully shows up in our neighborhood. We know his rep, and we know his plans. So, do we duck our heads and hope he picks on someone else? Or do we rouse the neighborhood and back this bully down? George Bush says he is coming on August 22, 2003. There is not a more arrogant and dangerous bully on the face of the earth.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There&#8217;s a strong chance I&#8217;ll be at this one, too.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.onenw.org\/jon\/archives\/000689.html\" title=\"Jon Stahl's Journal: Protesting Bush's visit to Seattle\">Jon<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pacificviews.org\/archives\/000060.html\" title=\"Not That Washington\">natasha<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The day before Dean&#8217;s appearance here, our esteemed leader (*cough*) will be here. Information on planned protest rallys can be found at Action Alert and Stop Bush Seattle, but here&#8217;s the pertinent information&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-1597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}