the big protest

So we went to the big protest in the city. Support for the Iraq occupation and for this administration is at an all-time low, so I felt certain this would be the biggest since 2003. I was right. There were about 7,000 of us back in April of this year. This past weekend? 55,000.





This is just for the city of San Francisco, of course. There were dozens of protests around the world. And the main one, around the White House, drew 300,000. Could it be that people are starting to give a damn once again?


If you look closely in the picture below, you can see the sea of people stretching quite far. We couldn't see the beginning nor the end of the march.



















These people were the best. This guy on the left was a sinister representative of big politics and oil companies. He had Lady Liberty bound and gagged.


















Even Gandhi came out for the event...