tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10261187.post112762141655829156..comments2024-03-28T14:13:23.835-04:00Comments on By Neddie Jingo!: Washington, DC, September 24, 2005Neddiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17079885040758748553noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10261187.post-1127838106186017862005-09-27T12:21:00.000-04:002005-09-27T12:21:00.000-04:00I was with the DC quakers - met some quakers from ...I was with the DC quakers - met some quakers from your neck of the woods, Neddie - there are still a bunch a them out there.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10261187.post-1127784542687313802005-09-26T21:29:00.000-04:002005-09-26T21:29:00.000-04:00Great photos and reporting. You got the photo of ...Great photos and reporting. You got the photo of the day for sure with Cindy Sheehan. My <A HREF="http://casadelogo.typepad.com/factesque/2005/09/post.html" REL="nofollow">write up and some pix are here</A>.eRobinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05189252064595168859noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10261187.post-1127709717342358912005-09-26T00:41:00.000-04:002005-09-26T00:41:00.000-04:00wow thanks for the great post. i'm just sorry tha...wow thanks for the great post. i'm just sorry that i missed seeing fellow flying spaghetti monster devotees.somegirlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06281847774627157247noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10261187.post-1127702101613139792005-09-25T22:35:00.000-04:002005-09-25T22:35:00.000-04:00Amazing post, Neddie. You are a veritable Zelig!S...Amazing post, Neddie. You are a veritable Zelig!<BR/><BR/>Some of my thoughts on the day, with pictures, are <A HREF="http://www.tatteredcoat.com/archives/2005/09/25/anti-war-rally-in-washington-dc/" REL="nofollow">here</A>.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10261187.post-1127699816126942802005-09-25T21:56:00.000-04:002005-09-25T21:56:00.000-04:00Today Fox News reported the approx. # of people wh...Today Fox News reported the approx. # of people who attended: 100,000 as they ONLY showed footage of people being dragged through the streets by cops as they were being arrested while they read their report of the #s....<BR/><BR/>..haven't seen any other coverage...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10261187.post-1127681286519498422005-09-25T16:48:00.000-04:002005-09-25T16:48:00.000-04:00N&X,You guys rule.The ViscountN&X,<BR/><BR/>You guys rule.<BR/><BR/>The ViscountThe Viscount LaCartehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12206171681005442662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10261187.post-1127670756552491272005-09-25T13:52:00.000-04:002005-09-25T13:52:00.000-04:00Great report from both Neddie and xtcfan, and grea...Great report from both Neddie and xtcfan, and great pix. Coverage here in Boston has ranged from none to ho-hum - did the people writing these reports actually go to the event?Kevin Wolfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17490345765638949916noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10261187.post-1127660541777393612005-09-25T11:02:00.000-04:002005-09-25T11:02:00.000-04:00Basically, what he said. It was a fun day, very in...Basically, what he said. It was a fun day, very inspiring, and quite frankly I'm a bit pissed about the media coverage that I've seen of it so far. Many of the articles (even in the <A HREF="http://www.canada.com/saskatoon/starphoenix/news/story.html?id=a0cb5bb3-fa95-47f1-86b1-1f27a6515094" REL="nofollow">Canadian press</A>! ... check out their choice of picture -- that young lady sure looks threatened by that scary shouting radical, doesn't she?) and <A HREF="http://www.canada.com/saskatoon/starphoenix/news/story.html?id=a0cb5bb3-fa95-47f1-86b1-1f27a6515094&page=2" REL="nofollow">end with a pronounced spin</A>, mentioning the counter-demonstrators and finishing up with a quote from one of them. Well, Ned and I looked for them, and their numbers were negligable, to say the least. We only encountered one religious-kook group, who were (during our time there) pretty effectively countered by a crowd chant of "Who would Jesus bomb?"<BR/><BR/>I will add that, because of my aggressiveness in crowds, I was in front of Ned while we were in the Sheehan/Jackson coterie, and remember snapping those pix; I regret that I missed the opportunity to take a photo of Cindy S. sniffing her underarm, in comic demonstration of how close and sweaty we all were, and that I missed the shot of the cop -- who, I swear to FSM, looked just like Dick Cheney -- telling CS and JJ they needed to move so the crowd could proceed.<BR/><BR/>The other thing that got to me was the vast diversity of the crowd. Yes, there was the usual assortment of patchouli-smelling hippies and (as Ned called them) "trustafarians," and if you look in the papers or online no doubt most of the pictures will focus on these "radicals," but the majority of the crowd was made up of Regular Folk, including lots of older people who had obviously done this before. I would have loved to have been able to sit down with them and ask for a compare-and-contrast.<BR/><BR/>Wally Shawn was indeed most gracious about my bit of <A HREF="http://www.allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll?p=avg&sql=B64973" REL="nofollow">entirely merited</A> fawning ... the funny thing about the encounter was that he was just walking along with the rest of us, blending in just fine until Ned pointed him out to me. I tried to gush quietly, so as not to attact attention.XTCfanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12361374492348913096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10261187.post-1127659415794247372005-09-25T10:43:00.000-04:002005-09-25T10:43:00.000-04:00Great report, Neddie! Best I've seen. Wayta go! ...Great report, Neddie! Best I've seen. Wayta go! Thanks much.Neil Shakespearehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06228133426669625273noreply@blogger.com