Parent Article: Photo Documentary of the Anti-War Protests in Washington DC which Drew Hundreds of Thousands from Around the US |
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Current rating: 0 25 Sep 2005
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Bread and Puppet
I tried to access the World Bank and International Monetary Fund offices where protests were to occur outside their meetings. The streets were barricaded off several blocks from these offices and police allowed people with badges past the barracade. I assume these were delegates.
Friday night, I went to the Code Pink (http:www.codepinkalert.org) vigil to support wounded soldiers outside the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in D.C. On one side of the street were about 100 women and men mostly dressed in pink singing songs like "Amazing Grace" and "Give Peace a Chance." On the other side were equal numbers of pro-war demonstrators holding signs saying things like "God Bless our Soldiers Liberating the World One Tyrant at a Time" and "We support our troops AND the war." |