The Power of Protest, fueled by Trail Mix

The last Anti-War protest G attended in Sept, 2005 was by far more widespread, but the timing was ripe and the weather was ripening for today's Demo on the Mall.

A pause to observe a fluffy chickadee in McPherson Sq. It flitted away just after the click.

This is the best shot the blog managed to get of Jesse, Jane, Susan and Tim enroute to the podium. Heh.

Our fearless leader came but seemed busy rehearsing for his stage version of Chaplin's "The Great Dictator" Note bloody hands and (obscured)platform shoes. (He's only 5'4!!!!)

First observation-Inventive use of the English language for sloganistic purposes.

Good old fashioned punnery.





And these young people...just crazy about the bongos.

Presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich, being the most vocal of the anti-war candidates, was the trendy pick of the day, and why not with such vixens handing out the literature?
After moving up as far as I could, settling in, the crowd settled down around the blog and the situation began to get a bit crowded.



Being in such close proximity to these folks, I got into the spirit, but was annoyed to have to endure the minutae of people's habit, particularly their cell phones.

Where are you? I'm....uh...hello...I'm over here by the...uh...
and in the spirit of macrobiotic bliss, the Love crowd shared a bit of Trail Mix with each other.


















Things were getting spirited, but hectic, with crowd surfing and bad acid cases









Soon, after the speeches and before the short March towards the Capitol, some in the crowd paused to rest,










Give their dog friends some water and let them play some drums. Baroo?








Eventually the blog departed, sadly observing the muddy detrius left behind:






and bore witness to the (symbolic) horror of the uncharged detainees of Gitmo:

Praying hopefully that they at least get one phone call






Then, a brief bit of satire outside the museum:







Past the Washington Monument, you would have never known there was a protest going on


and by the White House, there was no protest route extended there. It was business as usual.