Tonight I went to a Defend the Dream rally sponsored by MoveOn that took place in Steubenville, Ohio. For those of you who don't know, Steubenville is a small city in eastern Ohio. Like Weirton, West Virginia, right across the Ohio River, it's an old steel town. The Steubenville United Steel Workers building was the logical place to stage it.
Even though the local right-wing papers panned the Defend the Dream rallies in this past weekend's editorials, they should be eating a little bit of crow after around 200 people showed up. The total number of attendees could have been more than that. I doubt it was much less. I took some pictures to share with everyone, and they are posted below.
But this diary isn't just about one rally in one steel town in the Midwest. I've been seeing lots of diaries pop up tonight covering Defend the Dream rallies, and I thought I would collect links to them all in one spot. So I guess this is a kind of "meta" rally diary. I'll be going to bed soon, but I will try to keep the links section up to date so you can see that a couple hundred people in Steubenville were connected to thousands all around the country. We're not alone!