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J.18 DC Peace Rally Photos

These are a few of my pics from the massive Peace Rally and March in DC... (article 4)
Well, I haven't shot an action as large as this in quite a while, so I knew I wouldn't be able to see everything. There were so many people out with such awesome posters and puppets as well as their own great spirits. I shot about thirteen rolls of film and have had a tough time editing down because of the immense variety of people present. Here are just eight pictures that help to give an overview of the day. I hope to get more up in the next few days.
I think it's also awesome that we know we are having an effect when the Bush Administration and the media feel the need to lie. While ANSWER claims upwards of 500,000 present, between 250 and 350,000 seems to be a good consensus of the numbers. Apparently the news media is now claiming that it is politically incorrect to give out crowd numbers. So much for reporting the facts. We can all be sure though that if someone does know how many people were out, it will be George Bush. We can be sure at least one of the helicopters flying overhead (or satellites?) belongs to the CIA and that with cameras and computers they counted most everybody there.
I have an optimism though that the Bush/Media lies will help to awaken Americans. The Bush/Media would like America to believe that nothing happened this weekend, but there is a rapidly expanding number of people who know otherways.
I am also hopeful that more Americans will also connect the dots, and realize that Big Business will only really lose their power over us when we stop giving power to them. Meaning, when we are able to stop giving them our money.
This is where bicycles become the real revolutionary threat, or even carpooling. Buying local organics direct from a farmer's market, or food coop. Community urban gardens. Community supported resale shops.
The creative possibilities become infinite.
It also entails a shift in our social values. I used to let myself feel wrong because of criticism of my desire to save the planet. The acceptance in our culture that the earth will one day be used up, and therefore we might as well bask in greedy materialism has to go. The belief that our planet is not worth saving has become very obviously suicidally insane to me. I feel a sense of fresh air of optimism to engage in the creativity of saving our planet.
America is in so many ways the belly of the beast that recklessly consumes our life giving planet. To see so many Americans come out this weekend is solid proof that there are enough of us with the desire for Life over Destruction that we can make a difference. I think that is truly the greatest threat to the desires of the confused handmaidens of war presently in the White House.
may we find peace
 
 

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