War March?

[dhbearguy]

I thought someone for sure would have posted this was going to be happening today.

I was sitting here and heard all this noise coming from Valencia St. It was a war rally.

I went down to Market and Valecia and walked along with them till Van Ness.

Here are some photos. I HATE BUSH by the way!!















I don't get this last one. Can someone educate me.

Comments

[ebcub79.livejournal.com]

I just hate protests in general, creates too much noise pollution and traffic.

[sfmini.livejournal.com]

That was a bit unfair. Protests are not the only way for our society to progress, in many ways sometimes it does quite the opposite. Such protests are not the answer to everything and those of us that don't like them are not necessarily holding our head in the sand.

[redbackfur.livejournal.com]

The last picture is a group of people dressed as Iraqi women, in burkas, holding their dead children from the war.

[fuzzygruf.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the pics and for participating.

[sfmini.livejournal.com]

I had no idea either. Ed and I were on our way to PAWS for our volunteer thingy and we got stuck on 14th for about an hour stopped in traffic trying to get thru.

[castrowoof.livejournal.com]

We got caught in the traffic from the protest and it was HUGE and wonderful. If I hadn't been on my way to a commitment, I would have joined in and picked up a sign.

I totally love being a treehugger and a San Franciscan! Civil protest to this "Pre-emptive Strike (read MURDER) on the Iraqi people is most needed.

Thanks for the post and pictures, Dave!

[bearhound.livejournal.com]

Good for you Dave. Thanks for the pictures and being there. If I had known about I would have been there too.
To protest is one of the ways we can communicate when the other side is not listening or not giving a damn.

[liftinmoose.livejournal.com]

I am not a big protestor. But yesterday was a great day. So many protests in so many cities at the same time. There were 3 rallies just in NYC. Think Bush will listen?

[dr-scott.livejournal.com]

This series of demonstrations has been organized by International A.N.S.W.E.R., a group who is using the issue to promote their agenda. Be aware that if you support them by participating in one of their demos rather than in the many alternatives, you are condoning brutal totalitarian regimes:

"International A.N.S.W.E.R. is a post-9/11 creation of the International Action Center, one of many front groups for the Workers World Party. The Workers World Party:
» supported the Chinese government's 1989 Tienanmen Square massacre
http://www.workers.org/ww/tienanmen.html
» supports the "socialist" North Korean dictatorship of Kim Jong Il
http://www.workers.org/ww/2002/korea0425.php
http://www.workers.org/ww/2002/korea0509.php
» and views Iraq's Saddam Hussein as a beacon of anti-imperialist resistance
http://www.workers.org/ww/2001/iraq0125.html
» defends the genocidal Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic
http://www.iacenter.org/yugo_milosdeligation.htm
http://www.workers.org/ww/2002/larry0228.php
http://www.workers.org/ww/2001/milosevic1108.php
http://shadow.autono.net/sin001/clark.htm"

See http://authoritarianopportunistswhocozyuptogenocidaldictators-forpeace.org/.

[dhbearguy.livejournal.com]

Interesting. There was no disclaimer on the protest, or anything that gave me any indication who organized it. I guess no one on LJ knew it was happening because none of my many friends knew.

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[arkanjil.livejournal.com]

an odious bunch of skankers, but they are part of and not the sum of the protest movement overall. It's a common enough tactic to write off the whole because of some of it's parts, such as the way gay pride celebrations get tarred with thier 'connections' to NAMBLA and bare assed leathermen touting it all about in front of the TV cameras.

That said, the counter is equally sad: it's hard to roust up a signifcant number of folks these days willing to protest anything, whihc is how we end up with Terry whatsername being the top item on Congress's agenda these days. You do what you can with what you have, bubba.

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[dr-scott.livejournal.com]

I agree that it's a really sad commentary when the only people who care enough and are organized enough to mount a series of protests about an issue of great importance are basically a cult. Holding your nose and going seems, well, in bad taste.

Welcome to Democracy

[arkanjil.livejournal.com]

If it comes nose holding so be it; such is better by far than doing nothing, or standing on the sidelines busily picking nits. Who claims to be sponsering these things is less than relevant if they don't get their ill deserved kudos, je? And in all of the mainstream coverage of the protests I attended before the war, and from what I've seen of these now, there's nary a blip about ANSWER or their egregious views making the cut- what goes out is 'many people protest the war.'

And that, sir, is good enough for my book.

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[dhbearguy.livejournal.com]

Let me again say. I had NO idea who organized the protest march. So please don't condem me for participating in it. All I saw was a lot of people protesting for reasons I agree with. That does not mean I support any cult!

[markosf.livejournal.com]

I hate Bush and the war too, but don't see much point to protesting at this point. The damage is already done and the war's nearly over.