Loree stands with one of the signs I made outside our apartment. It says. "Tomorrow? Peace. Today? Make a Friend." |
At a pre-march gathering, Code Pink met on the Mall. We were heckled repeatedly. |
Jamila and Loree sit as we have an informal meeting of the Otherwise Shy Peaceful People |
"Regime Change in 2004: Bush & Co. Out the Door" |
"Sentence Bush in Texas for his War Crimes that Slaughters Babies Too" |
A crowd shot at Freedom Plaza where the rally took place. At first, it felt very small, but marchers seemed to come from nowhere later. |
Another crowd shot. Freedom Plaza can hold about 15,000 people. It was full, but somewhere there were several times the number of marchers. I have no personal crowd estimate. |
"Veterans for Peace" As always, one of many examples of this. |
"I Want my Country Back" |
An amusing poster of Bush reading Cheney's lines. There is a reference to Enron as well; who remembers? |
A woman stands solemnly with her sign urging us to bring the troops home. |
All over the place people sold classic buttons. There were a lot of neat rare buttons for sale going back over 60 years. |
"Fox News Goebbels Lives" An obvious play on "gobbles" and "Goebbels" who was the NAZI propaganda minister. |
Loree has a very unique piece of currency in front of her face. Look at it closely. |
This was an unusual little display. Bush rides on a missile with a Texaco logo on it. |
"Does democracy depend on mass murder?" |
"Missed Saddam Again! You call this Liberation?!" The picture was a common fixture on the day's signs. It is a fairly famous photo of a boy who lost his limbs. |
In some ways, this shot is an optical illusion. I am about a mile from the Capitol, but the zoom on the camera brings the dome in close and makes it seem like we are rallying by it. |
An anarchist climbed the pole and attracted a lot of press cameras. While this may be ego-serving silliness, read about a touching anarchist I met a few nights before. |
A favorite of mine reads, "Mourn the Dead: Organize the Living" |
A group of people, perhaps Hari Krishnas (not sure) dressed in yellow. The sign reads "Non Violence" |
Chilling sign: "Have you seen my sister? She was last seen in Basra, Iraq" |
"The Iraqi's in the Hospitals and Morgues aren't Cheering" |
Much to mourn for. The words cut off read "pre-emptive imperialistic strikes" |
On the right of this photo is Loree with our other sign. It reads, "Stop a FUTURE War: Hug a Stranger NOW." Loree was hugged about 30 times today. |
A generic crowd shot as we marched |
Here we stopped and protested against the Washington Post. A half dozen pro-war "freepers" guarded the doors. |
This shot is looking back from M Street back to H and I Streets and the White House. There are about 10 blocks of a snaking march behind this scene. So, somewhere the crowd grew a lot. |
A better shot. It isn't a continuous line to where we are because the march snaked down different blocks. Where it ends we never discovered. |
The police on motorcycles were rough with people, especially those on the sidewalk. I was amused that the bikes said "Rebel" and the bicycles the police had were "Smith and Wesson"s |
"This War is Wrong" and other sayings in 3 different languages. I like "Kein blut fur ol" (No blood for oil). |
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