October 27 march against the wars spirited, small
Fewer than 10,000 people from several cities in the Midwest marched from Chicago's Union Park to the federal plaza in downtown Chicago on October 27 to express their demand that the War in Iraq end now.
The October 27 march, which had been organized primarily by a coalition of groups that included many in Chicago's Democratic Party leadership, followed the same route that had been taken by two earlier marches that drew hundreds of thousands of people. The two earlier marches, both in 2006, were the March 10, 2006, "Megamarcha" for immigrant rights that sparked the massive marches of Spring 2006, and the 2006 Chicago May Day march, which drew an estimated half million people in the largest May Day march in the history of the city that began May Day more than 120 years earlier.
Although spirited, the October 27 anti war march was small enough to fit comfortable in the federal plaza between Adams and Jackson boulevards along Dearborn St., in stark contrast to its huge predecessors.
Those on the October 27, 2007, anti-war march included families from across the Midwest, several labor unions, peace groups, and community organizations from Chicago.
The October 27 march was led by a group from The Woodlawn Organization (TWO) on Chicago's south side.
At the end of the two-mile march, in Chicago's federal plaza, marchers heard from speakers, most of whom were elected officials and Democrats.
Because many of the marchers had mobilized one year earlier, on November 6, 2006, to elect Democrats who were in favor of immediately withdrawal from Iraq, there was some disappointment among the March on October 27, 2007.
