Bloggin’ on some more … !
Anti-war protester Cindy Sheehan of Vacaville, California (L) gestures to supporters alongside Rev. Jesse Jackson as she attends a series of protests and marches to end the war in Iraq in Washington September 24, 2005. Tens of thousands of protesters gathered the nation’s capital to support of Sheehan, whose son Casey was killed in Iraq and who held a vigil outside President Bush’s Crawford Texas ranch in August. REUTERS/Jason Reed — From the IndyMedia photo collection . . . ANOTHER PHOTO BELOW:
Update [2005-9-24 19:29:51 by susanhu]:
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Update [2005-9-24 23:3:34 by susanhu]: New thread — #5! — at the top!
South Korean protesters shout slogans during an anti-war rally in Seoul September 24, 2005. The demonstrators were protesting were against the government’s plan to extend the deployment of South Korean troops to Iraq. About 3,200 numbers of South Korean troops has been stationed in the northern Iraqi town of Irbil to help the reconstruction of the war-devastated county, local media reported. REUTERS/You Sung-Ho — From the IndyMedia photo collection
Thanks for the new thread. I just finished reading the last one – great info there. (The loud, thundering voices of neighbourhood garage sales were making my ears bleed so I had to go out and spend that $5 I had in my purse – sorry!).
I need some more non-Teflon cooking stuff … hard to find!
I’ve had CNN on now for, oh, 1.5 hours at least. Not one word about the demonstration. Sigh 🙂
Jerry thinks, though, that with the huge number of young people there today that we have the MAKINGS of a whole new anti-war movement.
YOUTH!
(In my best Joan Crawford imitation …)
“Noooooo mooorrrre AGING HIPPIES!”
Cause this aging hippie doesn’t have the knees for marching anymore.
No kidding! My right knee won’t even let me drive for more than a half hour! 🙂
tell your right knee that catnip said it should smarten up soon or she might have to cross the border to give it a talking to…
Catnip, does that make you the “Knee Whisperer”? Do you do feet? I spent the better part of the day in the ER with a severely sprained foot. I have some sort of ligament thing going. I can’t remember the name of the condition, I just woke up to take some more Vicadin. So I totally missed everything today. CNN was on in my room and I saw a little blurb on the bottom crawl about the march. Big hairy deal.
Yesterday, on CNN they discussed it a little. Suzanne Malveaux said Bush wanted to be out of town during the peace march. I think I have detected a teensy bit of a change in her attitude since Katrina. She’s originally from New Orleans and had a touching piece about it. well, I’m off to check out the threads before this one wo I could get caught up. I hope that Vicadin kicks in soon. 😉
Well, I’m off to check out the earlier threads.
knee whisperer? lol
Is it something like plantar fasciitis? I have that occasionally and man is it painful!
Whatever it is, please take care of yourself.
Good on Malveaux if she let out some frustration. She’s not alone – that’s for sure.
traumatic plantar fasciitis… that’s it. Yup, it hurts. I had never heard of it before today.
Thanks for your concern… I have no choice but to take it easy. Lots of naps and a litle blogging. 🙂
for over a year now — mostly in the heel — is yours in your ankle ligaments?
It is a pain (literally) but it is much better than it was about 8 or 9 months ago, when it was in both my feet, and I was constantly hobbling around. I got some better shoes (I actually spent almost 300 on 3 pairs of shoes — i felt horrible!!) and that seems to have helped a lot. Also exercises (stretching and Tai Chi)…and I try to not go barefoot as much — but I just love being barefoot, so …..I’ve mostly grown used to it, but some mornings, it still hurts when I first get out of bed (for any number of reasons! lol)
Mine runs from my heels to the balls of my feet on the underside. When it hits (it’s not constant), it’s just a bitch to walk. I was told to wear snug fitting shoes and to do the stretching exercises too but I’m like you, I like going barefoot. I usually wear socks inside though beside my feet are so darn cold all the time (lupus thing).
I just look at my body some days and wonder what the hell else can go wrong. Oh well, I never know what kind of pain I’ll have anywhere in my body any given day, so that makes life interesting. 🙂
The onset of mine was right after we moved last April and I basically did the whole thing barefoot — what a maroon, right?
But it has been getting progressively better (albiet slowly) — I quit going to the foot doc — nice guy, but once took x-rays and saw no fractures (I thought I had broken my little toe in the move) and he taught me how to wrap it, I really didn’t have much more use for his $45 follow-ups!
Some days, I have blogging related soreness when I wake up and that takes a bit of the focus off of my foot!
Is that like sitting on your ass too long related soreness, cuz I get that. 🙂
ooooo when I read your description I could just feel it. Same here, only one foot and it hurts on the top of my arch as well. I’m not thrilled that it probably will be chronic. Oh well, could be a lot worse in a lot of ways. Gotta go get better shoes, I guess. I’ve already found the exercises and that link you gave me was very informative and I thank you. This is a damn good reason for me to get back into yoga.
Sorry I didn’t reply earlier… No, mine isn’t in the ankle or the heel. It’s in the arch, both top and bottom. It came on so fast I thought I had a broken bone. I couldn’t put any weight on it. Mine is no doubt from walking and working on uneven ground with sneakers. This is the first time it’s happened to me. I have to stay immobile for 3 more days, so I’m living with my laptop. The good part is that my hubbie is being so great about waiting on me, I kind of like this… Vicadin and a slave. 😉
I am not a doctor. I just play one on the internets. 🙂
Hopefully, yours won’t be a constant thing. Mine isn’t, so I’m grateful for that!
I need some more non-Teflon cooking stuff … hard to find!
Darn. I saw a couple of pots for 10 cents each today! I usually end up doing a lot of garage saleing for people I know for stuff they need. 🙂
I’ve had CNN on now for, oh, 1.5 hours at least. Not one word about the demonstration. Sigh 🙂
I’ve been checking it out all day. Damn disappointing. CBC is still on strike here, otherwise they would have had some live coverage, I’m sure.
Glad to hear so many young people showed up! Now, if they’d only show up to vote, we might get somewhere. Maybe there should be an “anti-war march and vote” rally on election day.
CNN Headline, cable has had their little blurb about it on every 1/2 hour or so with a few pics.
Hoping nobody minds the photos. I saw them at the DC.indymedia site and just couldn’t resist … fell in LOVE with those photos. I popped them Photoshop and saved them in a Web-friendly small file size — for our dial-up people!
You might want to check out the link to these pics over at Brad Blog…
They have a few good ones. You get a real good idea of how huge this really was!
Anyone want to start a pool about how many of these type of pics the MSM will publish? They just had about two minutes on the local San Diego news. When they showed us it looked huge(about 2000) but when they showed the counter protesters it was a riot because they zoomed in on one guy with a support the troops sign. That is because there was only five of them there. Talk about taking out of context.
We love the photos. And us dial-ups appreciate your consideration!
I only got DSL in the last six months, and, ah, I remember it well .. the dial-up speed. (I gave up two other things in my budget to make room for it! It’s wonderful and reliable.)
Found this over at Kos:
http://www.wusatv9.com/#
Top left of page
From Fox Newshounds:
Alohaleezy just called me. She’s at the demonstration in San Diego at Balboa Park. She estimates at least 2,500 people (and growing), with a large contingent from a town — trying to remember the name she told me — at a nearby military base.
She’s is really UP! She’s taking photos and will probably have them up tomorrow.
Mira Mesa, which is actually part of San Diego surrounding Miramar Marine Air Station or was it Oceanside, which is right next to Camp Pendelton (sp) and there is Vista which is also ajacent to Pendelton.
I was just wondering where you were last nite. Haven’t bumped into you for a while. How are you?
spending a lot more time with my children and wife. I will be back, but need this time to pull myself back together. I have been very fragmented and my family needs me way to much for me to allow myself to fall apart like I almost did after the Katrina murders of so many of my fellow citizens.
I am doing much better and my children are my life. I will be writing again soon.
Thank you for thinking about me.
Best wishes to you & the family. See you soon!
I too , was wondering about you ,re-grouping is good. We all need a break from outrage. Peace to you.
Thanks so much for letting me know where you’re at. It brought tears to my eyes. You just take care of yourself and your precious family. We’ll be here when you get back. If you need anything, you know how to reach me. huge hugs
Greetings, Ghostdancer. You have been in my thoughts. I just knew you were hurting from some of your posts and have been sending you good thoughts.
You have been missed, my friend. Namaste. 🙂
Love your signature, Ghostdancer.
I ditto all that has been said above. Just wanted to add my love for you here too. Take great care of yourself and your family. YOu and they are very precious cargo for us here. HUGSSSSS
or possibly–Coronado-San Diego Co. is chock full of military bases.
How do I know this? I lived there for 12 years.
I am betting it isn’t Oceanside though,that is Marines Central.
I think it was Oceanside! She said something about them having to add a 5th car to the train to accommodate everyone.
And then they all walked / marched from the train station to Balboa Park, and they’re going to march back.
That is damm radical for Oceanside!!!
I am back from the rally. WOW! What a great day. People were on message and there were only FIVE counter protesters. Lots of good speakers too. Vets for Peace and Code Pink were there too.
Alot of us stood out by the street which surrounds Balboa Park and held our signs and people would go by and honk and wave and flash the peace sig. One Pro young babe yelled out of her window “They are there saving your ass”. I yelled back, “The go enlist”. Everyone cheered.
I met a guy that just started posting here last week. I had my Booman tshirt on and he told me, Hey, I post there. Great kid, probably about 25-30 years old. Had a Cheney mask on. Pretty cool.
Then I ran into the guy that was the shuttle driver between Camp Casey, Peace House and Camp Casey II when I was in Crawford. He lives about 20 minutes north of me and we had exchanged email addies down there. He looked at me and says, “I Know you!”. We hugged and chatted for just a second because he was leaving.Several people asked me what Booman Tribune was so we may get a few more posters.
Have to tell you folks, it sure wasn’t DC but there was at least two thousand people there. Young, old, black, white, Unitarians, Muslims, Christains, Jews. It was so awesome.
The group that came from Oceanside came down on the Coaster train and marched from downtown up to the park quite a few miles. It was awesome when they showed up. Drums and chanting and the signs. That group was at least 700-1000 strong.
It was a very Peaceful rally and we are a diverse group. I am really glad I went. I am pooped so will catch up on all the DC threads and call it a day.
To all of you, you have so inspired me to get out there and do something, I thank you from the depths of my heart and soul. Stand Proud,,,Namiste.
estimates about 100,000 in SF (if I heard right), and lots of people are still showing up for the rally/concert. Will be going on into the evening.
Damn, I should have left the spouse on his own for the day…now I’m really pissed… 🙁
Just got back from the march in SF. I think 100,000 was a bit inflated, but it was huge. The march was very long and it completely overflowed the end park. The weather was perfect, so I’m sure that helped too.
I got to meet up with fellow Tribbers LibraryLil, Babaloo and her husband, Dan, and briefly met Kid Oakland. We had a lovely time marching together, but we were sorry that we did not get to meet you or SusanW.
I didn’t notice too many off-topic signs this time. Lots of diversity, lots of unions, lots of good signs and costumes. All in all a fine time and a great turnout.
Interesting article here from the Village Voice, here is a snippet:
Citizens don’t have to offer detailed, specific military strategy. That’s what they elected politicians, and set up a vast military command structure, to do.
They’re voicing a policy preference, which is their right, and frankly they’ve done so in more detail and more eloquently than the Commander-in-Chief has ever done anything.
I didn’t have access to CSpan today (Hubby was sleeping the day away where the tv is) so all I know is the reactions here and at dKos to the, ahem, diverse speakers wandering off message. Apparently there were a few too many I-hate-America POV’s. And it’s seriously too bad that’s all that got shown. It will be a broad brush that gets washed over everyone who marched.
I am also extremely disappointed that the media has chosen to ignore the size of the protest. It reduces all that effort to something like masturbation. It only made the participants — and the small percentage of the citizenry watching as we did via the internet — feel better without actually provoking any change. I look forward to all the reports from Boo, MSOC and others about how empowered they now feel from joining with others and yet failing to make a dent in the public psyche.
I’m depressed so no one should listen to me, I guess, but it all seems futile and wasted. Next time, screw the rally and the permits. Let’s just pick a time when Bush has to be in DC, surround the WH holding pitchforks and torches and chant, “Evil be gone!” until the little weenie implodes with fear.
I’ll listen to you any time…
remember…an ocean begins with one single drop…
hugs
sjct, honestly, you are not alone with the thoughts that the other non-cindy reasons have really disrupted the cause. this was discussed here earlier. we all think this is not the time nor the place to do that kind of talk..you are right…please do not stay depressed much longer,Darlin, you are toooo precious to ahve this occurr for very long. lots of hugs coming your way…….
who feels that a mass citizen demonstration is expected to be sloppy and untidy. It’s not a political party, it’s not a corporate staged drama, and it’s not obligated to serve a particular message or tactic of our choosing.
Seeing all the hairsplitting analysis and bemoaning on the blogs, I felt like Judith in Life of Brian listening to her comrades’ business meeting as she exclaims “something’s happening, something’s actually happening!“
Management has been splintering society for 35 years now. What you’re seeing in the streets is a collection of some who are still privileged but concerned, but many who feel themselves marginalized in many different ways.
There’s nothing wrong with the kind of crowds and speakers we saw today, except in the minds of people who have some dubious need for the very next public speaker they see to be our messiah and set everything magically forward to the America we should have built over these past 40 years.
Face it: this is what democracy looks like. And the nightly news that ignored the event: that’s what modern America looks like.
You have it exactly right – thank you!
I was able to be there. Whatever signs folks were carrying, there were chants about getting our troops home now and chants about democracy.
There was a very real essence of unity.
These people are trying to shake the will of the Iraqi citizens, and they want us to leave…I think the world would be better off if we did leave… if we didn’t… if we left, the world would be worse.
– George W. Bush (on Iraqi Insurgency)
Sept 20, 2004
ooops.
for my first laugh of the day. And for the supportive comment above…
From the CS Monito:
Report by US think tank says only ‘4 to 10’ percent of insurgents are foreigners.
By Tom Regan | csmonitor.com
The US and Iraqi governments have vastly overstated the number of foreign fighters in Iraq, and most of them don’t come from Saudi Arabia, according to a new report from the Washington-based Center for Strategic International Studies (CSIS). According to a piece in The Guardian, this means the US and Iraq “feed the myth” that foreign fighters are the backbone of the insurgency. While the foreign fighters may stoke the insurgency flames, they only comprise only about 4 to 10 percent of the estimated 30,000 insurgents.
The CSIS study also disputes media reports that Saudis comprise the largest group of foreign fighters. CSIS says “Algerians are the largest group (20 percent), followed by Syrians (18 percent), Yemenis (17 percent), Sudanese (15 percent), Egyptians (13 percent), Saudis (12 percent) and those from other states (5 percent).” CSIS gathered the information for its study from intelligence sources in the Gulf region.
The CSIS report says: “The vast majority of Saudi militants who have entered Iraq were not terrorist sympathizers before the war; and were radicalized almost exclusively by the coalition invasion.”
The average age of the Saudis was 17-25 and they were generally middle-class with jobs, though they usually had connections with the most prominent conservative tribes. “Most of the Saudi militants were motivated by revulsion at the idea of an Arab land being occupied by a non-Arab country. These feelings are intensified by the images of the occupation they see on television and the Internet … the catalyst most often cited [in interrogations] is Abu Ghraib, though images from Guantánamo Bay also feed into the pathology.”
There’s more…
30,000 insurgents…140,000+ coalition troops…more Iraqi troops being trained everyday…US military might & right…what’s wrong with this picture?
Brad Blog has videos of today’s speeches by Galloway, Sheehan, Jackson and McKinney. He also has pics.
on the Democracy Cell Project site.
http://www.aljazeera.com/me.asp?service_ID=9818
Go to this link to see shat Aljazeera has to say, ….be sure to scroll down and see what people are commenting on the site esp. this first one:
“”correction .10,000 in london .not 100,000. you also conveniently neglected to mention the thousands of pro-military action supporters. of course, i don’t expect you to post this!
Robert from USA “””
Lucky for us we can rate the bastard. 🙂
contact the MSM and let them know how much their coverage of today’s protests sucked…
(that list is amazing!)
I just emailed my letter of disgust and told those corporate propaganda whores that I am done watching them and done buying any products from any of their sponsors. How do they get away with this? How?
SuperSoling called me today from the march. He said he was in front of the White House and the Washington Monument. I asked him to give the White House the finger, and he did!
Nobody’s called me from DC today. Well, I didn’t actually give my phone number out…but still…okay, and it isn’t even listed, so…well…
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Want me to call you? Not quite the same having someone call you from her kitchen, for pete’s sake … 🙂
ummm…yeah…I’ll get back to you on that…
🙂
Back from the march — it was still going on when I left, but my feet were just not up for any more walking/standing on hard pavement, so I tottered on home. But it was great to meet so many other folks from DailyKOS, BooTrib and My Left Wing! We had quite a nice turnout from the blogosphere, and the big orange flag and the orange bandanas were a big help in finding each other! (I’m sure pictures will be forthcoming) Weather was overcast and comfortably cool — we did get lightly rained on once or twice, but never enough to dampen our spirits!
HUGE crowd. Very diverse — college students, senior citizens, families with children, couples (gay and straight), and groups from all over the country. There are times the march looked very huge, people packed very closely together (this was during the march itself) and times it was less compact, but it still kept coming. And coming. And coming. And coming.
It wasn’t as tightly organized as some marches I’ve seen; there was about an hour or more we milled about waiting for the marching to actually START, and because we were at the starting point, it was very, very crowded, which made it petty much impossible to keep the group together. I wish the march organizers had provided a bit more guidance on setting up the march itself — when you’re dealing with a parade of people that’s over a mile long, not everyone can start by trying to stand at the same point!
On the other hand, the LACK of organization — the thousands of people marching in family groups, as couples, or with small groups of friends, fellow church members, etc. made one thing very, very clear — that this was a movement of the people. Ordinary people — grandmothers, war veterans, students, soccer moms — not extremists, not fringe loonies. The people you’d see at the supermarket, at a football game, at church, at the office, or on college campuses. Activist groups may have organized it, but most people were there simply as American citizens, standing up and saying quite clearly that enough is enough, it’s time to end the killing.
Yes, there were other issue groups there. I saw anti-abortion signs, pro-Palestinian signs (those groups were also marching for peace), and of course there were the war-supporters (who weren’t). But the vast majority of the signage I saw (some of it very, very creative) was anti-Bush and anti-war — to end the killing and bring the troops home, to put our manpower and resources into rebuilding OUR Gulf, not trying occupy someone else’s. That was the big message, and I think it got through.
There was a heavy police presence, much greater than I recall there being for the Gay/Lesbian rights march back in ’93. They used steel pipe barriers (four feet high), parked cars, mounted and standing officers and traffic directing to keep the milling masses of the marchers on the assigned route. There were helicopters circling around (I hope they got pictures). The police presence was most noticeable in front of the White House itself (two levels of barricade kept marchers off the sidewalk immediately in front of the White House), and in front of the stretch of Pennsylvania Avenue where the anti-demonstrators in support of the war were standing. Not only the steel barrier fencing, but a solid line of police, standing five to six feet apart, kept the two sides from physical confrontations. (Considering the vehemence of the yelling back and forth, was probably a very, very good idea).
There might have been a hundred or so war-supporting anti-demonstrators. Maybe a few more than that, as they were spread out down the length of a block, in front of the FBI building. But we outnumbered them. Overwhelmingly.
The other point of interest (which I only discovered because I got off the Metro at the Smithsonian stop on the Mall), was that in addition to the anti-war protest, which took up the Washington Monument grounds and the Ellipse, there was a gigantic Book Fair going on, in big white tents on the Mall itself. Authors Neil Gaiman and George R.R. Martin (among others) were listed as upcoming speakers in one of the tents I walked by. Talk about a distraction…. (I did, of course, continue on to the peace march. Books are patient things. They can wait.)
Anyway. I’m looking forward to seeing some pictures from Hyde Park in London and the other protests in the US.
What a great report, Janet! I’m so glad you got to meet so many people in “real life”!
Here’s a link to the Yahoo slide show of photos.
And I’m sure we’ll get more from Jerry, MLK, and many others!
Did you see ANY mainstream media around there at all?? They have had nothing and I mean nothing on cable all day.
Just got done watching network news and more nothing….how will anyone ever even know it happened? It’s like the freaking Memory Hole already…
Thank you for your service in being out there!!
Please, Brinnaine. There’s looting in Orange, Texas.
Sorry but your comment left me saying, huh?
mention some kind of gathering happened in London.
Nothing on CBC or NBC nightly. We had football during the ABC time slot.
Re: big media presence…
I’m not sure. I did see trucks with satellite dishes up on very tall poles, on the Ellipse near the rally area. I saw a number of the large, shoulder-carried professional video cams being carried around. But I don’t know whose equipment that was.
I didn’t see anything I could point to as “that’s FOX, that’s MS-NBC,” etc. — but I didn’t go looking, either. (I was focused on finding the blogger contingent!).
More photos at afterdowningstreet.org
The Daou Report posted this as a blog buzz item:
Democratic Underground: Anti-war rally hijacked by A.N.S.W.E.R.’s agenda?
Yeah, they had a huge stage set up next to impeachbush.org, but I ignored them (as did many others).
They were playing music over the PA system from the main stage before the rally (which was delayed due to late arrivals and a rumored amtrack problem in delaying trains from Boston & NYC). The music was interrupted momentarily for some blathering in Arabic, but someone on stage pointedly said — ‘Let’s go back to Marley’, which they did, followed by Arrested Development.
I did not feel the rally was hijacked/dominated by the Palestinian issue. I saw more DU’ers than ppl in those black/white scarves. See my diary ‘Impressions from the DC Rally’.
About 200 counter-protesters — they were completely dwarfed by anti-war movment. Consisted largely of members of (don’t want to publicize) protest warriors dotty commie.
Hey… If you have a Yahoo ID rate up the stories when you see them! Just clicking on them raises their ranking in the “most viewed” category. At the bottom of the story you can rate them for the most popular category.
A couple of clicks keeps the stories alive…
Can you do that to help the marchers in Washington (and everywhere else) have more of an impact?
It is the least we can do!
Find all of the stories. Post them. Click on them. And rate them up! I know some of you are already doing it…
Easily over 100k. People were still filing in, long after the march started.
2 video clips, one of a reasonably large crowd gathered before a stage, one of Cindy w/ Jackson.
3 sentences: 2 to the protest, one to the counter-protest.
during the extended half hour that some locations recieve.
In retrospect, it was a great thing that the MSM did not cover the protest today in Washington DC. Those who watched C-Span saw the speeches given prior to the march and generally have come away very divided and upset about the “off-message” speeched given by many (though not all) of the speakers.
But in the end, the march was too big to be ignored. CNN and other media outlets tonight reported that the size of the march was easily 100,000 and they gave very little notice to the early speeches. So, in the end, the message that comes through really is the one people wanted to deliver: the majority of Americans have spoken — it is time to bring the troops home — and oh by the way, f-u Bush,
But there are lessons to be learned tonight. One, ANSWER is the wrong group to organize future events. Second, take a lesson from the events held in the Bay Area. The promise of a great free concert always brings in the extra bodies. (The is why ANSWER allows these other groups airtime: those other organizations can bring in some bodies. But, of course, at a price.)
Watching C-Span this morning I was very depressed about things. It looked like a small crowd of the “usual suspects” had gathered — but of course, this didn’t give us a true picture of what was going on. All the better, then, that CNN and FOX didn’t spend the time to cover the event. They, too, would have given viewers the wrong impression of today’s events. In the end, people will have a better understanding of the march when they read their morning papers:
NY Times:
Washington Post:
BBC:
You did a very courageous thing, and when your children one day ask you, “Why didn’t anybody DO anything?” you will be able to look them in the eye and tell them that some people did do something, some people did stand up, some people did go to Washington and make their existence known.
(Your child will not ask what kind of media coverage you got. 😉 )
My own personal pics – more tomorrow when I’m awake:
Kossacks, EPMers, MyLeftWingers, BooTribbers and Street Propheteers
Cindy Sheehan, Jesse Jackson and other dignitaries marched right with us
Man am I f-ing tired.
Great photos, Rena! Hope you get lots of rest! Thank you so much for representing us today.
Hey – your very own BOO MAN was there too!! Heh. I posted a diary about it with lots more photos… Link
Here is a link to Kspidel’s flickr photos of the march.
There are about 77 pics in there.
See if you can spot your friends!