Pix From Today's Protest In S.F. !!! - (Dial-Up Warning)

From: http://www.indybay.org/

Sigh... couldn't make this one.

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I'll admit that I did linger over the last one.

I was in DC! Not all Americans will remain silent as Nazi's take over our government ....

A good day. :)

I posted this earlier as a reply in another thread, as I was realizing I wasn't into making the drive from Sonoma County:

I'm so fatigued....I don't think I'm going to San Francisco today.

I've never missed a major protest in my area, and I had made plans to go to San Francisco today, but I think I've finally lost the motivation.

I could go down to The City, and march from the Embarcadero to the Civic Center with my comrades, but what would it accomplish? The traitorous fascist media will downplay the event if they cover it at all. It's unlikely that anybody's opinion of the war will be changed by my participation in the march.

I watched the D.C. demonstration on C-Span, and tried to get fired up, but it wasn't working. As a young Vietnam Veteran, I took part in the 1967 "Confront The War-makers" demonstration at the Pentagon, was tear-gassed, attacked by pre-freepers, and eventually arrested for sitting down and blocking the steps of the Pentagon after the demonstration permit had expired.

I wish I could muster up some of the energy I had going on that weekend, but...man I'm tired! I can't believe we're still doing this 40 years later.

I may miss the big one in SF today, but no doubt I'll probably go to a smaller, closer event tomorrow, on the actual date of "shock and awe" four years ago. I will feel pretty guilty if I don't attend some sort of protest to mark that horrible day in history.

you can only do so much. I find that for weeks at a time EVERY DAY after work I am going to meetings, protests, union activies ect ect and I get so burned out that I will just sleep an entire weekend away. So many outrages and so little time. Also, it is infuriating how har dit is to get others involved. Sadly, American Idol and I-pods are all that matter to most..