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Posted by m4dd4wg at 6:34 on June 9, 2003
the bitter cold of washington

Anti-war activists held demonstrations around the country yesterday. While the big ones were in DC and San Fran, Loophole said he was participating in an action in Tulsa. Hopefully, he'll give us a recap. I did my homework, checking protest.net and the Austin IMC, but it doesn't appear there was an action here this weekend. I'm not sure what I think about protest.net; as an online application, I find it a useful source of information, but there are other, arguably more important, aspects to activism than just protesting. Anyway, here's an interesting story from the Washington Post about how activists are using the Internet as a means to organize - something I've experienced firsthand without much thought, but is apparently newsworthy to the mainstream media.
So, since I didn't see any actions planned in Austin, I decided to participate by scanning some pictures I took at a march I participated in back in October.

I don't have a lot of experience taking pictures in crowds, and these shots certainly reflect by lack of ability.
Here are marchers lining up at a park in downtown Austin.

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I don't know what these big puppet-sculpture-thingies are called, but I found this pretty amusing. Death sits on the president's back, leading him with a quart of oil.
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We marched up Congress Ave. You can see the Texas Capitol in the background. Some cars going in the opposite direction honked as a sign of support. We passed a hotel where corporate muckety-mucks jeered us from the bar's balcony as we went by.
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These RTF students dressed in black for the occasion.
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I'm not sure what message this guy is trying to communicate, but I don't think I agree with him.
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The march ended in front of the federal building where there were drummers and people shouting stuff in bullhorns. Afsheen is holding one of the signs organizers handed out.
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Posted by m4dd4wg at January 19, 2003 11:08 AM

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