Pictures from J18 antiwar march

I had a fabulous day in the streets yesterday. The Homeland Security Mobile Detention Facility was a highly, visible and interactive street theatre piece that points out how the Bush administration uses fear of terrorism to justify the curtailment of our basic civil liberties. Folks jumped in to the theatre piece and took on the role of "detainee" or "officer" and then stepped out again. In this manner of rotating participation, hundreds of people perpetuated the performance piece throughout the day. As an "Office of Homeland Security Agent", I was able to interract with fellow protesters in humorous one-to-one converstations as well as in larger performance moments.
Many thanks to everyone who helped create this lighthearted street theatre piece about a very serious matter.

Sorry, I wrote comments about this photo and they ended up printed below the photo entitled "Hurting Newsboxes". I'd rather create humourous street theatre than bust a newbox any day. Wouldn't you?

I'd rather smash the state than pretend to in a play.

As another homeland security agent in the street, I'd like to suggest that mocking the Gov't, turning over a nespaper box, taking out an ins window, marching up market street, running back down it a bit later, etc are all forms of communication and resistance.

When we start ranking them, we are like different creatures in a forest telling other critters or plants what is more meaningful or powerful. It is the diversity of different habits and diets that make for a healthy ecosystem of resistancegreater than the sum of it's parts.

let's resist the systems homogeneity with a world in which many worlds fit.

Agent I.C.U., Department of Homeland Security

Think about it: You smash the windows of INS and Starbucks becuase you disagree with them.

They disagree with you. Is it alright if they come to your house and smash your window?

Tim

Click here:

http://www.indybay.org/news/2003/01/1562069_comment.php#1562232

Do you think that Starbucks employees should come to your house and break your windows?

Tim

go to their bosses' houses and break their windows. So should you.

Ignorance is Bliss. The issue is not WHETHER we will have to fight these morons, only when and where. I'd rather it be now and there and conventional rather than later and here and biological or nuclear. Think down the road past your next dime bag.

I was there. The attendance was no where near 100,000. If we're going to ask for honesty and integrity from our Government employees we need to do the same. Inflating numbers to help our cause is wrong.

let's face it - this was just another opportunity for dwindling socialist activists to get out and strut their stuff. 'no blood for oil' and other anti-capitalist rhetoric. It's just like when they hijacked that community rally of environmentalists at the old power plant a year and half ago. Please.
Let's face it - the commi socialist are NOT lily white and inherently anti-war and purvayors of peace. Communist regimes have killed many more millions of innocents then even fascist regimes, much less market economy nations. And that doesn't even include the environmental disastors they have caused as well.
Yes, the Emporer has no clothes on - just a red commie star

Even the SFPD is now saying it was more like 150,000 - 200,000.
And it's well known that they underestimate crowd size for events like this.

Have you seen the aerial photos?:
http://www.indybay.org/news/2003/01/1562069.php
http://www.indybay.org/uploads/route.jpg

Were you really there?

Yes, you couldn't have been there. A football stadium holding 50,000 can empty out much faster and looks like a much smaller crowd than even a third of this march which took 3 solid hours, entirely filling the street plus side streets.

Look at other accounts on the front page. http://www.indybay.org

These pictures are sort of dark and shady - there are much better pictures where you can judge the size by yourself at:

http://www.indybay.org/news/2003/01/1561961.php
http://www.indybay.org/news/2003/01/1563458.php

bush does support no abortion and at the same time practices a haulicost on iraq and many other areas of the world. money should be spent for a health care system for our great american everyday people our dear neighbors,

I'm posting in the event that some of you folks that found this message from the MSNBC article might see it. The photos MSNBC chose to link to are not really all that great. If this is the first time you've come to Indymedia, visit this page:

http://www.indybay.org/news/2003/01/1562069.php

Also, welcome. Stick around for a while. You'll learn more from non-corporate media.

MSNBC article referencing this thread's orignial message can be seen here:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/743584.asp?0cv=CB20&cp1=1

Go back to school and learn how to write before you try to formulate an opion of your worthless tripe!

yeah those commies are such murders they have almost killed as many people as captalist regimes so since they are communists in the crowd protesting lets go kill some more people, yeah go america oh- by they way the exxon valdes must have really been from cuba huh and no blood for oil means we dont want to go kill people for profit margins you know there are other non "commie-socialists" who dont want war, a hell of a lot of them

Isn't that a Spanish name? Don't they speak Spanish in Cuba?

It must be a commie plot to impurify the bodily fluids of Alaska.

"Starbucks employees should go to their bosses' houses and break their windows. So should you."

What if the Starbucks employees like their boss?

What if the Starbucks BOSSES came to your house and broke your window?

Tim

Then they are running dog lackeys of the fascist insect that preys upon the life of the people.

Or something like that.

Man...you are so twisted up. Of course there are other non "commie-socialists" that don't want war - I'm one of them! But my point was - socialism is not the answer to the problem and it certainly doesn't have a peaceful track record. Here are some sources if you don't believe me-
http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/COM.ART.HTM
http://www.twf.org/News/Y1998/WorstCrimes.html

So why can't we have an anti-war rally without all the anti-American, anti-capitalist BS? Just because GWB was a business man doesn't mean he understands capitalism, freedom or anything. He's a statist power monger so don't wrap him up into some 'he is the embodiment of capitalism and cause of the Exxon Valdez/s disaster' rhetoric.

I am against a war agianst Iraq as of now (Jan 27th), but I think to over simplify the was as a "class war" or a "war for oil" misses the point. my reasoning is, I don't think that a justification for war has been established to this point. If Saddam Hussein, who is a tyrant and a Hitlerian figure, proves to move aggressively in the future, or is proven to have weapons of Mass Destruction and refuses to disarm, I would have no problem with stronger actions being taken. This is not another Vietnam .... which I vigorously opposed in my youthly days. I think everyone needs to look at their views carefully and not use overly simple slogans to justfy their views. But to those who protest now ....more power to you!!! , (but make your signs say real thoughts not just empty phrases).

Saddam is beast of Takrity tribe in Iraq, all others are worthless to him. He is an evil blood sucker, read what he did to his predecessor in a bloody coupdetat. The East and West politicians knew him but, helped him with inteligent information and germ warefare technology in his war against Iranian peopl, Kurdish in north and Shiite in south of Iraq. He seized the opportunity and invaded kwait. We all are united that Saddam and his circle must go but, Iraqi people are innocent just like American, Afghanis, Iranians, Kwaitis, and so on... We must get rid of Saddam and his circle with no harm to the Iraqi people. We must support a popular democracy in Iraq and put Iraqis interest at first.

the protesters should get the HELL out of america

To D. C Fowler...Stating that the protestors should "get the HELL out of America" is a personal opinion, I can respect that. However, I do not agree with your viewpoint. There would be no "America" if citizens of this country did not have the ability to voice their opinions. Democracy, as we know it, would cease to exist if citizens failed to vocalize what they believed in. I am an advocate of the patriot spirit and am an American to my core, but would not care to live in a country where vocalizing what I believed in would condone me. Patriotism is not defined by the unconditional support of our leaders views, but rather the voicing of our concerns and convictions in the hope of a more promising future four our country.