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What I saw at the revolution | page 1, 2, 3, 4
Within minutes enough riot-gear-clad cops had appeared to form a blockade. ... as well as several reinforcement blockades. Conflict was avoided, however, thanks largely to the members of labor
unions involved in the rally, who had appointed dozens of marshals, or
"Peace Keepers," to make sure that the scruffier and scrappier members of
their alliance didn't provoke the police. Here several of them -- in telltale neon-orange vests -- join hands to get their
brothers and sisters in protest to take a right on C Street instead of
marching into the cops. It worked. "Just trying to keep the peace," said Anthony Thigpenn, 47,
from Los Angeles. Another peace keeper, Howard Croft -- a University of the
District of Columbia professor of urban affairs and a member of the
National Education Association -- later assessed that "union people are
trying to keep tensions low." Participation in the rally is "part of
labor's rebirth," he added. "The union movement is no longer just focused
on workers' rights and workers' wages in a narrow sense" but on a more
global scale, he said.
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