Greens in Maine participated in a protest during Bush’s visit to Kennebunkport. Bush was there to attend a relative’s wedding on Saturday.
About 1,000 people (the media has documented 700, but colleagues of mine said at least 1,000) were able to get within a half mile of the front doorstep of the residence where Bush was attending the wedding.
What local police estimated were about 700 anti-war demonstrators marched Saturday to within half a mile of the Bush compound before being turned back at a security checkpoint. Called Walker’s Point after the family of former President Bush’s mother, the stone-and-shingle retreat covering a craggy promontory is owned by the current president’s parents.
The protesters sang, chanted, beat drums, waved signs and even played fiddles to call on Bush to bring troops home.
Jacqui Deveneau, my green colleague from Maine and who participated has written:
It was a wondeful day and although the press really played up our intruding on the wedding. It didn’t even effect the wedding. Nor anything he did while here[as usual] But it did take the attention and focus it on the Protest and why we were there and was picked up[if you Google Protest against Bush in Maine] by papers and news reports all over the US! The estimated number was 700, but it was more like 1000, as you all know how they love to choose a lower number. Plus the whole thing was planned in lass then a week! I marched with the Maine Greens Banner and we were listed on the web site as one of the supporters. Pat had to be in Northern Maine at an event and Eder had another engadgement too, but Jonathan Carter who had run for Governor before helped lead the Green folks.
The end of the article mentions Bush’s upcoming travels, including to Salt Lake City on Wednesday.
Deanna Dee-Dee Taylor 