CODEPINK Blogs from Washington D.C. Delivering one million reasons to end the war in Iraq: Chanting "money for levees, not for wars", Thirty-Six CODEPINK women wearing their reasons to end the war were arrested in front of the White House.

Chernobyl - Ghost Town Many Photos. Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster On April 25th -26th, 1986 the World’s worst nuclear power accident occurred at Chernobyl in the former USSR (now Ukraine). The Chernobyl nuclear power plant located 80 miles north of Kiev had 4 reactors and whilst testing reactor number 4 numerous safety procedures were disregarded. At 1:23am the chain reaction in the reactor became out of control creating explosions and a fireball which blew off the reactor’s heavy steel and concrete lid. The Chernobyl accident killed more than 30 people immediately, and as a result of the high radiation levels in the surrounding 20-mile radius, 135,00 people had to be evacuated.

Brown serving as consultant to FEMA

Brown told congressional investigators Monday that he is being paid as a consultant to help FEMA assess what went wrong in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, according to a senior official familiar with the meeting.

As always at large demonstrations it is impossible to get a photo that shows how many people are there. This is a shot of the crowd in front of the speakers stage. More people were already marching on the street heading for the Whitehouse and other people were scattered beneath the Washington Monument and around the mall in general. There was a music stage that I didn’t see at all.

A field of crosses (and a few Jewish Stars) at Camp Casey.

Faces of the first 1000 troops killed in Action

Chalked in: “1910 killed and 14700 wounded”

Noisy helicopters flew fairly low over the crowd.

“George Bush does not speak for me!”

Even though we knew Bush was not at home (he was hiding in Colorado), we had a good time shouting “get out of our house” and “shame on you” at the Whitehouse.

“Buddha not Bush” “Bring the Troops OM” and the perennial “Mad Cowboy Disease.”

Practice Abstinence, Pull Out Now! - No Bush, No Dick.

Panorama from the Washington Monument, click the image to see full size. That fuzzy line in the distance is a portion of the crowd on the march route.
Many more GammaBlaBlog photos from the September 24th, 2005 Anti-War demonstration in Washington DC.

NYPD Unplugs Cindy Sheehan
City’s Finest pulls move even Bush wouldn’t have tried

Cindy Sheehan may be the Rosa Parks of the anti-war movement. But that didn’t stop members of the New York Police Department from marching into the crowd of about 150 people gathered in Union Square Monday to hear her speak and yanking away the microphone.

The NYPD pulled the plug just as Sheehan was calling on the audience not to lose heart in the fight to end the war in Iraq.

“We get up every morning, and every morning we see this enormous mountain in front of us,” said Sheehan, speaking on behalf of the other parents and family members of fallen soldiers who have taken up the crusade to bring the troops home.

“We can’t go through it, we can’t go under it, so we have to go over it,” she continued, just as the cops rushed the makeshift podium.

As bodies recovered, reporters are told ‘no photos, no stories’
Outside one house on Kentucky Street, a member of the Army 82nd Airborne Division summoned a reporter and photographer standing nearby and told them that if they took pictures or wrote a story about the body recovery process, he would take away their press credentials and kick them out of the state.