A few random shots from yesterday's peace march:
This was, perhaps, my favorite sign.
It's really hard to take meaningful crowd shots from street level, so most of these represent what I could see around me. Alas, I'm not acrobatic enough to climb up on roofs and suchlike, as some more intrepid types were doing.
It doesn't actually say "No Bloop for Oil" although that would be a far more entertaining slogan.
The march was in West Rogers Park on Devon Avenue, in a largely Indian/Pakistani neighborhood. Although this location is no doubt laden with symbolism, most of the neighborhood denizens looked on without reacting, or hurried on with their daily activities. Not that I blame them; it can't be easy to have your neighborhood flooded with well-meaning lefties, especially when they all need places to park.
I was trying to shoot the sign that says "Duct Tape for Peace" unsuccessfully, evidently. Ironically, a lot of people think Eric and I live in Logan Square, so consider this disinformation.
Newspaper reports are placing the turnout in the thousands, although it's hard to say how many people exactly were there.
This guy had the right idea.
Temperature yesterday was in the 20s, and my, it was cold.
Sadly, today's Chicago Tribune led with accounts of the New York and London protests and relegated ours to the Metro section. *tsk*
Posted at February 16, 2003 04:49 PM