- i just woke up
- i am cold
- my friend drove me fucking... crazy.
preppy asks about the crazy anarchist protests. i am both obliging her with an answer, but also hoping to serve as some sort of enabler for jake deadair, whom i know has a sort of anarchistic awakening somewhere in that midwestern body.
i have heard estimates anywhere from "1000s" to 40,000 (this is what the DC cops said) to a zany 500,000. i'm gonna guesstimate at 75,000 - 100,000.
it was all kind of impressive, especially since an hour and a half and 2.5 miles or so into the march, an announcement was made that the tail end of the group had just left the mall area.
there were 2 groups of like 20 pro-war/fry mumia protesters on the sidelines, 5 and 15 in number resepctively. it was pretty stupid that anyone paid any attention to them. the smaller squadron were chubby young republicans that had a giant hand-scrawled banner that said HIPPIES GO HOME. people actually got mad at this. they were standing on a balcony, and somehow, above them, amnesty international members had gotten to the floor above them and hung some banners down over their heads. but not covering them.
the other group were bloodthirsty vietnam vets and they were pretty mean.
cops looked nervous toward the end and had their clubs out, and i have to admit they looked SUPER cool in their black face masks. but nothing happened.
i guess i was dismayed at the clownish-ness the whole thing tended to descend into. guys on stilts, lots of brightly colored tent pants, etc. george bush masked people giving birth to bloody baby dolls OUT OF THEIR ASSES, etc.
al sharpton sounded pretty good. i'm upset to say that many of the speakers, from what i could hear, quickly turned into "YO YO YO, BUSH MUST GO" posturing. no one seemed very focused on the immediate agenda.
on a brighter note, the International A.N.S.W.E.R. organizer(s), at least, on my bus, seemed really bright and our woman was wicked confident and completely took charge of getting 30 people together that were lost in the cold and to a very late bus.
i almost lost my right foot last night. that shit was a block of ice.
- i am cold
- my friend drove me fucking... crazy.
preppy asks about the crazy anarchist protests. i am both obliging her with an answer, but also hoping to serve as some sort of enabler for jake deadair, whom i know has a sort of anarchistic awakening somewhere in that midwestern body.
i have heard estimates anywhere from "1000s" to 40,000 (this is what the DC cops said) to a zany 500,000. i'm gonna guesstimate at 75,000 - 100,000.
it was all kind of impressive, especially since an hour and a half and 2.5 miles or so into the march, an announcement was made that the tail end of the group had just left the mall area.
there were 2 groups of like 20 pro-war/fry mumia protesters on the sidelines, 5 and 15 in number resepctively. it was pretty stupid that anyone paid any attention to them. the smaller squadron were chubby young republicans that had a giant hand-scrawled banner that said HIPPIES GO HOME. people actually got mad at this. they were standing on a balcony, and somehow, above them, amnesty international members had gotten to the floor above them and hung some banners down over their heads. but not covering them.
the other group were bloodthirsty vietnam vets and they were pretty mean.
cops looked nervous toward the end and had their clubs out, and i have to admit they looked SUPER cool in their black face masks. but nothing happened.
i guess i was dismayed at the clownish-ness the whole thing tended to descend into. guys on stilts, lots of brightly colored tent pants, etc. george bush masked people giving birth to bloody baby dolls OUT OF THEIR ASSES, etc.
al sharpton sounded pretty good. i'm upset to say that many of the speakers, from what i could hear, quickly turned into "YO YO YO, BUSH MUST GO" posturing. no one seemed very focused on the immediate agenda.
on a brighter note, the International A.N.S.W.E.R. organizer(s), at least, on my bus, seemed really bright and our woman was wicked confident and completely took charge of getting 30 people together that were lost in the cold and to a very late bus.
i almost lost my right foot last night. that shit was a block of ice.
