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September 21, 2014

Tens of Thousands March Against the Common Cold

FROM today’s New York Times: Under leaden skies, throngs of demonstrators stretching as far as the eye could see moved through Midtown Manhattan late Sunday morning, chanting their demands for action on the common cold.
With drums and tubas, banners and floats, the People’s Common Cold March represented a broad coalition of ages, races, geographic locales and interests, with union members, religious leaders, scientists, politicians, manufacturers of tissues and students joining the procession. “I’m here because I really feel that every major social movement in this country has come when people get together. And besides I had nothing better to do with my life than protest something,” said John Tipton, the president of a teachers’ union. “It begins in the streets.”
The Thinking Housewife

Posted by gerardvanderleun at September 21, 2014 4:30 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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