Photos, Video and Analysis from Gaza Protest March in NYC (Part 2)

by Charles Lenchner · 2009-01-03 20:28:00 UTC
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Leading the chants

Some clips from today's protest, for your viewing pleasure....

New York's Rude Mechanical Orchestra:

One of the leaders leading a chant:

Coverage of the march by NY1, a local news station (follow the link).

This is a video I found on YouTube that got decent sound from a speech. I don't know who is speaking, but I could hear reference early on to fighting "by all means necessary." *shudder*. Some things just don't translate well from American culture to Middle East culture.

For the record, I could barely understand what the speakers on the sound truck were saying. That could be me; my hearing isn't great. It sounded angry though.

One of the nice things I heard today was a guy being interviewed who seemed to be part of the organizer team. He was telling a fellow blogger about how the Palestinians are willing to accept a historic compromise  (i.e., a two state solution) but that the Israelis won't accept it. I'm glad he was part of the group leading the protests. Most of the time, it felt like this crowd was not that interested in compromise. (Exceptions to follow.)

Charles Lenchner
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