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Holding Jenny's awesome sign/painting at the anti-war protest 

Attended the anti-war rally this afternoon. When I spoke to my brother earlier and told him about the protest all he said was, "They still do that kind of thing in San Francisco?" Yes, yes they do. There was also a much bigger protest in the belly of the beast, Washington, D.C.

I've just been so pissed off lately (more so than my usual disgruntleness about Bush's policies, e.g. the war, among other things) about how our government reacted to the Hurricane Katrina disaster, that I felt it was my duty as a citizen to stand up for what I thought (I know this sounds a bit lofty, but it's true). I was supposed to hang out with Ann (see partner list) and it would have been so easy to just chill and take care of all the errands I've been meaning to do...But I believe you should stand up for what you believe.

And if you think George Bush and his advisors are all a bunch of ignorant, privileged, irresponsible, hypocritical idiots and total assholes who, as Kanye West so eloquently puts it, do not care about black people, and if you disagree with a war that's, let's be honest, is about securing oil reserves, and if you feel it's wrong to send out young men to be killed for such a useless less than honorable cause, then you should go out there and show it (peacefully).

We need the billions of dollars going into the war effort to help the people of Louisiana, Mississippi and, I guess now, Texas too. If most of the army wasn't in Iraq getting blown into little bits by bitter, angry kids their own age, then we'd have had help when it was needed. I could go on and on...

This is how I feel and so I thought it was important for me to march today. And so I did.


The view down Market street. Not sure how many people attended, but it seemed like a lot...  


A really cool sign this woman was holding. You can't really see it, but the blood dripping down are the names of all the countries we've tried to "bring democracy & peace" to. 


The end of the protest, a rally at Jackson Square park.