my photos are pretty boring, since nothing much exciting happened in the Boston protests. Of course, excitement is usually defined as police beating up on protestors, so that I didn't see any of that is a good thing. The local news played up some shenanigans later in the night, but I didn't see any of that. http://ywwg.com

I've got some photos of the SF protests from around 5 pm, March 20th: http://www.ucblockhead.org/journal/archives/000086.html

They're pretty dull, though.

A very small handful from Fremont street around sundown, as the police blocked protesters from access to the I-80 on/offramps. http://www.studio-nibble.com/

http://www.JulianCash.com/war

shots from a Supersnail, be sure to check out the studio portraits.

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Couldn't they have protested by working in soup kitchens, VA Hosipitals or something more productive?

I guess after seeing how well civil disobedience worked in Vietnam they decided to duplicate the effort here.

Then again, 90% likely just wanted time off work to go out and cause trouble. Stopping the war by blocking traffic? If I was undecided about the war, these protests sure would have helped me make up my mind...but not in the direction the protesters wanted.

Protest is great, it's as American as apple pie and all, I just wish these folks would figure out what WORKS and do that, so at least they would be constructive!

It's tough for the vocal MINORITY to be heard, so I guess they think civil disobedience breeds sympathy for their cause, but they are incorrect. Then again, I doubt they care since it's all about self importance anyway.

Standing in the street takes 0 effort. Working hard to change the system isn't easy, and if they aren't willing to put forth the effort then I guess standing in the street is all that's left.

Anyway, thanks protestors for solidifying my opinions.

Oh, and here's my link:

http://enquirer.com/editions/2003/03/21/loc_warrallies21.html
Blocked traffic = NO WAR! w00t!

Held my cellphone out my window at work and audblogged a few moments of the demonstration on congress in Austin.

http://www.audblog.com/media/1217/12653.mp3

Here's mine: http://www.advogato.org/person/raph/diary.html?start=328

http://www.whatdoesnotchange.org/archives/00000219.shtml
My account (and photo) of being pepper sprayed while freelancing for the weekly newspaper here in Portland.

I took a shit on the sidewalk to protest the Fascist Bush Oil War Machine! My steaming loaf will bring the Nazi Amerikkkan Death Machine to Screeching Halt!

Random black kid beating, drops soda, innocent. Who cares about crop circles...lets talk about cop circles.

Market street empty, army of riot police, San Francisco stange and nervous. What is happening?

Is this what democracy looks like?

http://www.listenlab.com/~nglass/

here's a firsthand account of the kuwaiti experience from an 18 year old perspective:

twobecomeone.blogspot.com

here's a firsthand account of the kuwaiti experience from an 18 year old perspective:

http://twobecomeone.blogspot.com/

Seems like the riot police all come from the same gene pool. Here is a link to a "brave" policeman in Madrid ensuring the public safety in the aftermath of one of the numerous protests in Madrid Saturday night by smacking a defenseless woman in the head with his baton.

The good news is that the Madrileņos keep protesting: over 1 million, AGAIN and another 750.000 in Barcelona.


Paz.

A bunch of great shots from peace events all over the world by Fotologgers at Fotolog.net.

The site is here:
http://www.fotolog.net/

The list of protest shots is here:
http://www.fotolog.net/news.html

The fact remains that Ameica's war against Islamic terror is the whole world's war against Islamo_Fascism and Islamic terrorism.

The fact is that Islam is pure evil dressed up as "peaceful" by some muslims.


Deal with the facts. Muhammad child raped a 9 year old little girl when in her own words was still playing with her dolls.

Then there is Muhammad slaughter of the entire male population of a tribe in Medina. Not to mention his muslims terrorist being told to kill his political enemies including an old man and a women with children. because those bad folks made fun of his pagan moon god cult.

Then there is Muhammad's muslim terrorist killing and stealing from Mecca caravans during the pagan Ramadan. They were told to bring back 20% of the stolen goods to Muhamhead to please allah of course.

And how do you like the koran telling men to beat their wives? It even tells the kind of stick to use.

Then there is the koran's promises of virgins, endless drunkeness (rivers of wine) and homosexual peophilia (young boys as fine as pearls).

Islamic terrorism is based on Islam as revealed through the Qu’ran.There is no difference between Islam and Islamic fundamentalism, which is a totalitarian construct.
In Islam All infidels are to be converted, enslaved or killed.As long as the Koran exists, Islam will continue to oppress, murder, enslave, threaten, lie and terrorize innocent people.

When I think of what type of people order their followers to commit murder, I only can think of organized crime bosses or corrupt political figures. Ayatollah Khomenni comes to mind. How would an Iranian be treated if he spoke out about Khomenni ? Amnesty International just reported that many political prisoners have been executed in Iran.
His fundamentalist Islamic regime had other dissident Iranians murdered all over the world. These murderous Muslims represent exactly what Muhammad was all about. They follow Muhammad's methodology: kill those who are a threat to your credibility and power over others.

Hizbollah and other Islamic terrorist groups for example knows exactly what they are doing. They know it is cold-blooded murder that they are committing upon Muhammad's request.

With the Islamic terrorists , "enemy personnel" can be anyone from an English Hi humanitarian worker in Iraq, an Indian Kafir(Infidel who doesn't believe in Allah), a Russian,A communist, An Algerian muslim kid, a Dutch filmmaker(van Gough) or Jewish toddler. In short, the enemy is anyone not a Muslim(or sometimes a muslim) who does not believe the world is destined to be ruled by Islam.