Surveillance & the march

police office taking photos

Note the fellow standing up between two of the traffic lights and taking photos. That's a police officer using a high-powered camera. Partially, the idea is simply to make us nervous and discourage people from attending the protest, partially the photos may go into a file and be used for evidence that *gasp* "You're a dissident!".

right before the march

Assembly right before the march

peace march

We had a pretty good crowd for the march. CNN estimated 2500 participants, www.dc.indymedia.org estimated 3000. Pre-march estimates were of course much higher. Parade organizers were anticipating 20,000.

peace march continues

More-or-less solid line of people stretching as far as we can see.

at naval observatory

Final assembly outside the Naval Observatory. My camera did something weird, so it came out fuzzy. Sorry 'bout that. Organizers spoke for around a half an hour, after which we cheerfully and peacefully dispersed, knowing that we may not have stopped the proposed war, but we at least made it clear that some of us will be there to make life difficult for the administation.

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