Students Rally in Copley & Portland, Claim Bush Stole Election

In the wake of the presidential election, Harvard students joined more than 100 other political protesters yesterday in Copley Square for the Rally and Vigil for Democracy. The local rally, which began at 5 p.m., was part of a larger effort by the No Stolen Elections! campaign, for which people from over 30 cities nationwide have promised to protest the election results in upcoming weeks. Over 15,000 people have already signed a pledge expressing their concerns that the election was stolen by President Bush, said Michael A. Gould-Wartofsky '07, a founding member of the Harvard Social Forum. "I think Harvard students are more aware than others of how they can make democracy happen," said Gould-Wartofsky, who is also a Crimson editor. "Some people might be staying home depressed, but we should translate that to something visible by getting active." [more]

• Pictured above: (Left) Eileen M. Walker '03-'05 walks in a Copley Square rally yesterday to protest the results of the election. (Right) Eric Blickenstaff, whose brother Joe Blickenstaff was killed in Iraq  last December, waves an upside down American flag as a sign of distress as he joins others for a rally and march through the streets of Portland, Ore., Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2004. Several hundred people, protesting the re-election of President Bush and the war in Iraq gathered. [more]