The uncertainty over what permitted marches will materialize has caused some confusion and delays in planning.
"What are we going to, if there have been no permits issued?" one woman asked at a meeting in Richmond the other night to plan the July 3 march, which Straub and his companions see as a way to fire people up for a descent on New York.
"You don't need a permit to go to New York and express free speech," said Emily Harry, an anti-convention organizer.
This Richmond group began organizing eight months ago, after regular Sunday gatherings in a city park of the local chapter of an anti-poverty group, Food not Bombs. Not all are agitated 20-somethings; Connie Moss, 45, who has a son in the Air Force stationed in Europe, said she wanted to show that not all military families support the war.
"The reason I am going to New York is I want the numbers there," she said.
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