anti-war march

[redbird]

It took us four hours to walk about two miles--but that includes over an hour to cover the first 3/4 of a block, while people fed in from the side streets ahead of us.

My feet are sore, from so much standing; I have two fine small buttons, saying "Surveillance undermines liberty" and "Stop the war", and two pages of notes on slogans and such. There appear to have been around 200,000 of us, and maybe 100 counter-demonstrators; a warm sunny day, news helicopters high enough overhead not to be unnerving. I'll write up more later.

Comments

Re:

[dabroots.livejournal.com]

Yep, I could see that people were still moving into the park, but my experience of getting smushed up against a cold steel barricade at the February rally dampened my desire to work my way into another crowd. At least I was wearing my bright red Eugene V. Debs tee shirt while hovering on the periphery, just north of Washington Square.

Tube. I was just thinking about how that at least one subway station sign in lower Manhattan uses the term "tube" to describe the train going under the Hudson into New Jersey.