Anti-War Photos: Faces In The Crowd

Nice shots. That last picture reminds me of the story of poor Vera Smith.

From the Chronicle:

At Smith's makeshift grave, McCarthy stuck his shovel into the ground. A mound of brown dirt now rose where Vera's body had been.

"OK, let's cover her up -- let's get it over with," he said.

McCarthy, McEleney and two other neighbors, Janet Clouden and Kima Smith, picked up a square white plastic tarp and placed it on top of the grave, tucking it in under the bricks. Clouden placed two red hibiscus blossoms on either side of the grave.

On the tarp, Vera's neighbors had written a dedication of sorts in thick black letters, large enough for rescue helicopters roaring overhead to see the words.

It read: "Here lies Vera. God help us."
Anna Badkhen at abadkhen [at] sfchronicle.com.
©2005 San Francisco Chronicle

great pictures, thanks for posting. But the captions were disappointing. Can we not fall into the same kind of boxing people in/labelling that the corporate media does to us?

All the red "Serve the People" t-shirt people, who were part of the Strength in unity people of color, immigrants and allies contingent do not all call themselves maoists. They are Filipino/as, or aligned with those movements, but are also invididuals with a range of political identifications.

Similarly, although you only identified some masked-up people marching with Anarchist Action as the anarchists, there were actually anarchists scattered throughout the whole march, including a bunch of us who were marching with the Strength in Unity....alongside the Bayan/Serve the People folks and others.

Let's remember what a wide and beautiful range of stripes we all come in. That's part of what makes movements strong.

for awhile, I walked with the Beautiful Princess' I thought they were Fairy Princess'. They were a whimsical moment in an otherwise dire strait!. How it should be, little ladies playing dress-up! like the little ones in Iraq, Palestine, Rowanda, Haiti, New Orleans. ... darling, beautiful BABIES. in love & peace

all the babies are beautiful. it's always been that way - that's why living is so great.