Some slogans observed

[redbird]

In lieu of a lengthy write-up of the peace march, here are some of the slogans I saw, mostly on signs but also on clothing:

• Save pessimism for better times.


• Coalition of the willing killing


• Morituri te malediceremus



• What would Bill do? Make love not war.


• "YEE-HA!" is not a foreign policy.


• Peace is bootylicious (this was one of several brightly-decorated signs carried by the "Glamericans for peace").


• Make-up not war


• War is tacky, darling.


• Power to the peaceful


• The constitution is not optional


• Lula for President 2004 (the woman carrying this was near the man carrying a large Brazilian flag, with a smaller US flag attached to the top of the pole)


• The only bush I trust is my own.


• Stop mad cowboy disease.


• Rome Fell.


• I want my democracy back.


• On a hat: Veteran against war in Vietnam


• From Wounded Knee to Iraq


• No war in Iran/No war in Korea (opposite sides of a placard)


• Tonga 4 Ofa


• Defend liberty. Repeal the Patriot Act.


• No justice no peace (someone suffered a loss of context here, I think)


• democrats: Wake the FUCK Up


• Peace is victory.


• Make tea not war.


• Good regime change begins at home.


• No one should be asked to die for draft-dodging stock-swindling cowards.


• Saddam's crimes do not justify Bush's crimes.


• Not against the Marines
  Against the Bush regime.


• Pre-emptive impeachment.


• Scared cats for peace.


• WTC survivors against more killing.


• Stay out of Mesopotamia.


• Go solar! not ballistic.


• I blame Katherine Harris.


• Keep deep space for peace.


• Shrub you are not the messiah.


• No Iraqi children in my gas tank.


• Weapons of mass distractions.


• Bush has brought the world together--against us.


• Germany, France, Russia, China--thank you. (That's a "what time-line am I in?" moment all by itself.)
  
  

There was also the usual bunch of people selling left-wing newspapers (yes, The Militant still thinks the word America is spelled with a K).

I saw pre-printed "The World Says No to War" in four languages (English, Arabic, Hebrew, and Spanish), and there were likely more. Flags included a NY city flag with a peace sign pinned to it; a US flag flying upside down; the large Brazilian flag, situated such that I walked a block or two under the banner "Ordem e Progresso", which is perhaps more optimistic than "Peace, order, and good government"; rainbow flags with the peace sign quartered; more American flags, including some with the stars arranged to form a peace sign; the anarchist red-and-black; and French flags.

At one point, as someone was trying to get a call-and-response chant going, and failing because nobody was in synch, I thought "These people aren't very good at this--they'll learn" and then hoped, vainly, that they wouldn't need to. The march was an odd mix of people who've been doing this for more years than we want to think about, like the woman who told me about being in Washington in 1965 to protest the Vietnam War--she also told me that the veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade would be joining the march at 23rd Street, since they're not up to covering the whole distance--and people who'd never felt the need before.

Comments

[holyoutlaw.livejournal.com]

No one should be asked to die for draft-dodging stock-swindling cowards.

This one made me laugh out loud. Don't really know way.

[feorag.livejournal.com]

In Edinburgh we saw "Bikini waxers against Bush", which I liked. Also "Somewhere in Texas, a village is missing its idiot". One of the Manchester Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence suggested "Make frocks, not war", which is tempting.