There were bigger doings elsewhere. In New York City, for instance tens of thousands—numbers not available as I write this—gathered and marched for the National March Against Police Brutality about the same time on Saturday. Scores of demonstrations were expected around the country and many would include take-it-to-the-streets guerrilla tactics to disrupt traffic and going-about-business-as-usual including die-ins and other civil disobedience. Somewhere someone may have gotten rowdy. Somewhere militarized police may have moved in. Today another big march called by some of the old Civil Rights leadership like the Rev. Al Sharpton who may have been feeling bypassed by an assertive new generation on the streets, will be held in Washington, DC. But in the largely White, heavily Republican wilds of McHenry County, Illinois, fifteen mostly elder White folks gathered on a traffic island at an intersection on the fringes of the city of McHenry, just down the road from the Tree of Life Unitarian Universalist Congregation whose members called for a mid-day vigil.
Posted on: Sun, 14 Dec 2014 12:48:46 +0000