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.

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[pyrzqxgl.livejournal.com]

That's how the one last month in San Francisco was -- much of the time things were either totally halted or I was having to take very tiny steps to slowly move along bit by bit. The next couple days afterward I found my wanting-to-be-stretched-out legs taking very large steps everywhere to make up for it.

[redbird]

We did some walking-in-place during the waiting around period, which helped a little.