It was an amazing day.
The weather was perfect, the speakers were inspiring, the music was awesome, rally-goers were creative, and the anarchist kids, with their drums, voices and high energy, were instrumental in creating a vibrant presence in our event and confronting the police (more on that in my next post and how the police were less than helpful yesterday), resulting in some arrests outside the rally plaza.
My voice is raspy this morning from radical cheerleading yesterday (during the local farmers market in the park where the pre-march gathering was held, during the march itself where our squad positioned ourselves in three spots along the route and entertained marchers with cheers, and then later at a local bar where rally-goers gathered and Raphael and I did more cheers…..).
Here is one photo from yesterday, taken by Jenni’s daughter, Autumn, who served as the official radical cheerleader photographer yesterday:
(Can you guess which one I am in this photo? How about Jenni, of Jen’s Journal?)
Today I am going through the few hundred photos I have downloaded on my computer and will be posting them.
In the meantime, below are links to the online local coverage of yesterday’s event. It is interesting to note how the newspapers accurately reported the numbers attending and the tv outlets did not:
SLC protesters join global call for pullout of troops from Iraq – Salt Lake Tribune front page top headline(online version)
3 are arrested at Salt Lake protest – 2,000 gather to express views, hear Rocky – Deseret News ront page, a headline, but further down (online version)
Hundreds Gather to Protest War– Channel 5 NBC
Hundreds Meet At Pioneer Park For War Protest – Channel 2 CBS
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