So I went to the antiwar rally today...

[Happy Monkey]

It was in DC, on the lawn in front of the White House. The weather was perfect - Overcast with occasional drizzle heavy enough to cool you down, but light enough to leave you dry afterwards.

On the way to the rally, we saw this billboard truck.


At the rally, we settled in, waiting for the march to start. There were speeches over the intercom, but these started to get a bit offtopic.


(in full size, you can see a couple of White House Roof Snipers)

After a couple of speeches on Israel/Palestine, Haiti, and South Africa the crowd started getting restless to march. When a seemngly endless series or poets started speaking, the crowd up and left the stage, to go and do the march on its own.



The people with the speakers made a few plaintive attempts to keep the crowd in attendance, but the march was on.



As they have since Bush took office, the Park Service fenced off all the lawns, and made many of the sidewalks dead ends, to "protect the grass". Apparently they've been resodding for five years. Eventually we got through the maze, and joined the march.

This view is from a point somewhat near the beginning of the march, down a street to a point near the end of the circular march; people were already there.



Some revolutionary college students cheered the marchers on from the sidelines. Is a black and red flag, divided diagonally, a French Revolutionary flag, like in Le Miz?



The march curled around the other side of the White House, and I got a somewhat better shot of the snipers.



This was one of the more amusing little groups of activists.