Tuesday, April 27, 2004
Yay! I've finally had a chance to sort through all my pics from the March for Women's Lives. Enjoy!
Woo, flying! My mom hates it when I drive to DC from here by myself, so she bought me a plane ticket. The weather wasn't exactly beautiful when I left.
Here I am at Chip's all ready to go on Sunday morning.
This was the crowd from the Vienna Metro Station when we got on the train around 9:45. For those who don't know the Metro system, Vienna's the first stop on the Orange line. So in other words, this is one station's worth of people. Three more stations along and there wasn't room to take another picture. I'd have just been staring at someone's armpit.
This was the situation on the Mall around 10:30: Everybody gearing up and signing in and giving out stickers. Woo, stickers!
More pre-march pics:
And then:
Yay! We're moving! Some pics from the march route:
This guy was great, talking on his megaphone about his wife who stayed in the kitchen where she belonged. That sort of thing doesn't seem like it's gonna bring anybody over to your side...
Horses!
Okay, so we had some anarchists left over from the World Bank demonstrations the day before...
I liked that people stood in front trying to spare marchers the graphic imagry. Apparently the counter-protesters had reassured the park police there wouldn't be any of that. But at least one of the marchers had a copy of the old picture of a woman lying dead from a botched abortion, so they weren't the only ones with graphic imagry. That woman's daughter spoke at the rally later.
Kerry had a contingent there, too, though probably unofficially. The march organizers wanted to keep things nonpartisian, but there was a pretty strong general Bush-hate going on.
Fortunately I snapped a couple pics of these kids decorating the Boy Scout statue before the park police came running.
A bunch of counter-protestors had streched themselves out along the sides of the road ahead, but they were surprisingly few and sadly not very photogenic. Fie on them, I say. They should be more interesting.
Whew! Back at the Mall! Time for lunch, then some speakers.
No, I don't KNOW why the Air and Space Museum has Donato's. Just...don't ask. I'm still dealing with it myself.
I couldn't even begin to decipher this sign near the food court.
Hee hee. Rocket envy.
The best actress-speakers were from law shows. Go figure.
Oh, and ANI DIFRANCO, who almost made up for me totally missing Hillary.
This is me on stickers. Any questions?
Okay, so this is just a cool shot of the Metro escalator on the way out.
The weather was even worse for the flight out on Monday, but at least the clouds held for the march.
The whole event was really exciting for me. I always felt kind of bad that I didn't do more things like this while I lived in DC, and it's just so important right now. I'm definitely looking to keep up the momentum now that I'm home. Just you watch, I'm gonna be crazy mad volunteer girl soon. Hey, volunteering's free.
Woo, flying! My mom hates it when I drive to DC from here by myself, so she bought me a plane ticket. The weather wasn't exactly beautiful when I left.
Here I am at Chip's all ready to go on Sunday morning.
This was the crowd from the Vienna Metro Station when we got on the train around 9:45. For those who don't know the Metro system, Vienna's the first stop on the Orange line. So in other words, this is one station's worth of people. Three more stations along and there wasn't room to take another picture. I'd have just been staring at someone's armpit.
This was the situation on the Mall around 10:30: Everybody gearing up and signing in and giving out stickers. Woo, stickers!
More pre-march pics:
And then:
Yay! We're moving! Some pics from the march route:
This guy was great, talking on his megaphone about his wife who stayed in the kitchen where she belonged. That sort of thing doesn't seem like it's gonna bring anybody over to your side...
Horses!
Okay, so we had some anarchists left over from the World Bank demonstrations the day before...
I liked that people stood in front trying to spare marchers the graphic imagry. Apparently the counter-protesters had reassured the park police there wouldn't be any of that. But at least one of the marchers had a copy of the old picture of a woman lying dead from a botched abortion, so they weren't the only ones with graphic imagry. That woman's daughter spoke at the rally later.
Kerry had a contingent there, too, though probably unofficially. The march organizers wanted to keep things nonpartisian, but there was a pretty strong general Bush-hate going on.
Fortunately I snapped a couple pics of these kids decorating the Boy Scout statue before the park police came running.
A bunch of counter-protestors had streched themselves out along the sides of the road ahead, but they were surprisingly few and sadly not very photogenic. Fie on them, I say. They should be more interesting.
Whew! Back at the Mall! Time for lunch, then some speakers.
No, I don't KNOW why the Air and Space Museum has Donato's. Just...don't ask. I'm still dealing with it myself.
I couldn't even begin to decipher this sign near the food court.
Hee hee. Rocket envy.
The best actress-speakers were from law shows. Go figure.
Oh, and ANI DIFRANCO, who almost made up for me totally missing Hillary.
This is me on stickers. Any questions?
Okay, so this is just a cool shot of the Metro escalator on the way out.
The weather was even worse for the flight out on Monday, but at least the clouds held for the march.
The whole event was really exciting for me. I always felt kind of bad that I didn't do more things like this while I lived in DC, and it's just so important right now. I'm definitely looking to keep up the momentum now that I'm home. Just you watch, I'm gonna be crazy mad volunteer girl soon. Hey, volunteering's free.
Sunday, April 04, 2004
Not as good tonight as my usual fare, but I wanted to snap a few off of my new Kicker figure and it's too late at night for me to bother with being especially good.
Sorry, Kicker, but you're no Cloud.
That's a little more like it...
Some more swordplay...
Ironhide's trying hard not to step on him.
Not quite to scale, but close enough.
Kicker's gonna get him some fly honeys.
Alternately: This is what happens when you raise a kid around robots.
Sorry, Kicker, but you're no Cloud.
That's a little more like it...
Some more swordplay...
Ironhide's trying hard not to step on him.
Not quite to scale, but close enough.
Kicker's gonna get him some fly honeys.
Alternately: This is what happens when you raise a kid around robots.
