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...Sell-Off Or Sellout? The French government moved toward full privatization of France Télécom, selling 10.85% of the telecom operator and raising €5.1 billion to pay off public debt. Unions, which fear job cuts, threatened protest strikes...
Although emotions were running high throughout the day, the protest was largely peaceful. City officials were concerned that some demonstrators would attempt to continue past the Garden and into Central Park, which a federal judge ruled last week could not host a mass protest. Marchers instead turned east on 34th Street and returned downtown on Fifth Avenue, disassembling at Union Square as planned...
...Kreider, a student at Bowdoin College, said he was moved to protest by concerns over conscription...
Several celebrities, including filmmaker Michael Moore, Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., and actor Danny Glover, also joined the protest. In a small rally before the march, they called for the return of American troops from Iraq...
...police officer watching over the protest said that he would vote for the President. “I think he’s doing what’s best for the people. I think he has a good heart,” the officer said...