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* To the Rally * Saturday - 3/20/04
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I went to Union Square Park to join
the Lower East Side feeder march to the The World Still Says
No To War rally.
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| I was expecting for us to have to march
up to 42nd Street in order to approach the 23rd and Madison rallying
point. |
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| This lineup of horse-cops looked ominous.
They were used to intimidate
and herd the protesters in the Feb. 2003 rally. |
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| Even though I kept looking for the sucker-punch
the cops were apparently instructed to be nice and not to herd us
into the obnoxious block-long pens they used last year. We entered
Madison Avenue at 27th Street and were free to mingle up and down
the route. Here’s the best photo I was able to get showing the
size of the crowd. It’s looking down Madison Avenue to 23rd
Street from about 40th Street. |
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Maybe some press photographer on a roof or in a
helicopter has a shot that can show the size of the crowd. From
ground-level it’s just about impossible. Madison and 23rd.
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| This made me laugh. After Cheney, is
Satan is an appropriate running mate for W in ‘04? |
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One Nation under Godzilla.
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WXRK's DJ Julie
Slater's sign - "Save Howard
Stern - Save Free Speech - Save US! - Vote Bush Out"
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"Bush to Mars." - "US
out of Haiti."
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"Want to end terrorism? Stop
being terrorists!!"
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Skull
and Bones VsSkull
and Bones. Referring to the fact that both Bush and Kerry were
members of this secretive Yale organization.
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Insane World Criminal
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| What is the Mission Accomplished - The
death of innocent children? and Wage Peace. |
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Empty Warhead Found in Whitehouse.
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| This guy, I'm assuming it's the same
guy, is at all the demonstrations simpering around, with his bloody
hands molesting the globe. |
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| I didn't see it go, but this "US
Empire" statue got toppled later on. It was gone when I passed
by later. Toppling photo from Diane Lent Via notobush.com |
* Drummers and Dancers *
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| I brought one of my homemade percussion
instruments to the rally and joined-up with a couple of good djembe
drummers. We were then joined by three indefatigable high-school girls
who danced for a solid four hours. My instrument ( a hollow wooden
block with attached cymbal made from a can lid) was cracked , splintered
and destroyed by five o’clock when I left the rally. |
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Dancers
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Drummers
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Dancer.
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More Dancers. This is at the end
of the rally where many drummers and dancers gathered at 25th and
Madison. According to Indymedia
NYC “a group of 100 or so drummers marching downtown at
6pm innitially caused a tense standoff with police.
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Someone pointed out Yoko
Ono to me. Otherwise I would never have noticed her behind her
blue peace-balloon, though she was almost in the front of this group
marching behind behind a white peace banner. I later saw some blue
balloons with a sign attached floating down the street.
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* Organizations *
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"Speak Truth to Power."
The Quakers had a large contingent.
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Rockland NY Peace Coalition.
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* Counter Demonstrators *
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This small group of "Protest
Warriors" behind a phalanx of cops shouted "USA! USA!!"
at us. Yes this country is founded upon some fine principals. I
started shouting "USA! USA!!" back at them, and was soon
joined by the rest of the crowd. They were dumbfounded. It shut
them up completely. The Buddhists drummers ahead of us were highly
amused.
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| Mixed in with them was one guy who was
a Jack Kevorkian
supporter in opposition to circumcising infants. |
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Another Bush supporter.
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