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Ann Arbor March 20 Protest Pictures, Round 2

More promised photos (and more still to come) from the March 20th anti-war
protest in Ann Arbor sponsored by the U-M Anti-War Action, the Ann Arbor Area
Committee for Peace, and Veterans for Peace.

These first two photographs tried to draw odd fantasy/sci-fi links to the invasion
of Iraq:

Hey, you got Rodenberry on my Heinlein!

Lots of Spain-related signage.

Yeah, who do they think they are, anyway?

This was probably the most perverse sign that I saw.

Okay, my immediate reaction to this was, “Okay, if no sex for war, how about sex for money?” but since the wife had tagged along I kept those thoughts to myself.

Ann Arbor March 20 Protest Pictures

As promised on Monday, here’s the first group of pictures I took this weekend
at an anti-war protest in downtown Ann Arbor. The protest started in downtown
Ann Arbor and so many people gathered there that police had to shut down the
block for about 40 minutes or so until the march to the University of Michigan
campus began.

You know, if they would just have added “Expel Arafat” at the bottom,
this sign would have been complete.

Apathy is the #1 cause of death in the world? At least in Iraq, it was
Saddam Hussein.

“Start drafting SUV drivers now!!” Whatever.

You have to love capitalist America. You can make a fast buck selling t-shirts
mocking the political leader of the country. Replace that picture with Saddam
Hussein and try to sell this sucker in Baghdad in 1998 and I don’t think you’d
have been so successful — or free for very long.

Lots of Spain-related signs.

Reagan recruited Osama bin Laden? Please. Take one myth and exaggerate further.

Yeah, ever since troops rolled through Baghdad, the Americans have been siphoning
off that oil as fast as possible, right? I suppose that explains the continued
relatively shortages and attendant high price of crude oil in world markets.

Ann Arbor Anti-War Protests

I spent Saturday photographing and videotaping an anti-war protest in downtown Ann Arbor this weekend that marked the first anniversary of the U.S. invasion last year. I’ve got hundreds of pictures and quite a bit of video to go through, so I’ll be posting images and video from the protest all week (including the closest thing to a music video this site is ever going to host).

There were somewhere between 1,000-3,000 people who showed up. The protest was sponsored by Ann Arbor Area Committee for Peace, U-M Anti-War Action, and Veterans for Peace. Police had to shut down quite a bit of downtown Ann Arbor for about an hour until the protest wound its way to the campus of the University of Michigan. But pretty much the defining image of the protest occurred at the very beginning which I captured on video on my digital camera.

A gentleman with one of the three groups sponsoring the protest got hold of a bullhorn and gave a mini-speech about the horrors inflicted on the world by the United States. Specifically, he said that people in the crowd neeeded to work to stop the United States from continuing to oppressively threaten countries such as North Korea and Syria.

1.5 megabyte AVI can be seen here or 600K MP3 can be heard here.