protests

I've had time to think about the purpose and audience for the protests held every day in the nation's capital. A few of us went tot he White House and oiutside were various people, not really groups who wnated their voices heard. Some more frivolous than others. It made me think of two kinds of protests in Washington-those large, massive marches of King, the singing of Marion Anderson as supported by Eleanor Roosevelt, and of ocurse the Vietnam protests( two of which I attended). Then I saw this past wkeek the smaller protests in front of the Whiter House and Supreme Court-on some ways more intimate and less likely to be seen or heard by those in power. The White House protesters seemed to want the President to take notice while the larger, more well known protests, seem more for the nation as a whole. The smaller groups seemed more of education for those who would stop and question or read their posters (convincing us one by one).Sharon