Great Hera! Our national march thwarted by poor planning?
The organizers of the proposed march on Washington should have checked with the National Parks Service before they began announcing the October dates for that event.
"It's unavailable," a parks service staffer said when Gay City News asked if the National Mall was booked on October 10, 11, and 12, the dates that some organizers have announced for the march.
Three different organizations have permits to hold events on those days on the National Mall, the setting for the gay community's four prior national marches.
Collectively, the three groups are expecting in excess of 135,000 people, which would mean that even if the organizers of the proposed march could get a permit -- and it is doubtful that they could as most groups file for a permit a year in advance -- the gay marchers would be joining a three-day walk-a-thon against breast cancer, a Treasury Department event, and the Million Man March for God.
This is not cute. Somebody should have been on it. Hell, my student leaders are better planners than this.
Again...Are we ready for a civil rights movement?
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Nice! I guess we may need to rearrange things a bit. Like I said before, getting the lot of us together and focused on the same thing is sooo difficult. Sometimes you have to laugh or you may cry I guess. So I'm trying to laugh about this.
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