Who here protested Selection 2000?

[BurtWorm]

I did. I went to the anti-inauguration. I went to the Voter March. I attended the first anniversary of the day that will live in infamy, Dec. 12, 2000. I'm on a Fringe Folk page. I wear my "Illegitimate" button to demonstrations. I have never referred to that piece of slime in the WH as "president" without putting it in quotes, even when speaking.

How about you?

[Dookus]

1. I did

I went to a few demonstrations during the recount period.

[Laughing Mirror]

2. We came down from New York on that freezing rainy day

There were six busloads from our contingent. We got to DC and a pre-rally was held in Stanton Park with various speakers, and then Al Sharpton, who organized our group, led our march around the Supreme Court building. There were busloads of people from all over the country, thousands who were there to march with us.

"It's cold/It's rainy/But nothing's worse than Bush and Cheney" was my favorite chant of the day, and also "Ain't no power llike the power of the people and the power of the people is WE." We were instructed not to get into any Bush bashing while demonstrating. We were there to protest the Supreme Court decision. Sharpton had planned on staging a mock swearing-in ceremony on the Supreme Court steps, but the permit to assembled there was denied, of course.

We were kept on the sidewalk behind a wall of police, put there to keep demonstrators from the other parts of the city from joining with us. Many found ways of getting through the police chains however. We marched around and around the Supreme Court building in the cold and the rain. We marched until it was dark and we were exhausted.

The bad weather that day was like a portent for the four years to follow. The mood was solemn. That's all we could talk about on the bus home. How Bush had stolen the election and how he'd come in, literally, on a dark cloud. We knew that we would have our work cut out for us for the next four years. About that, we were not mistaken.

[Gadave]

3. I refuse to think about that time anymore

It was such an up and down rollercoaster of emotions and too painful to remember. The last second turnarounds almost drove me to ulcers.

[BurtWorm]

4. But look at your avatar!

Maybe you're thinking about it subconsciously.

[Gadave]

17. LOL, recent events have been giving me flashbacks

"its time to end the primary and back the winner" TWITCH

[adadem]

5. I went

to DC from West Michigan with a group. I, too, have never referred to shrub as "President"...my children are not allowed to either.

[On the Road]

6. I Went to One of Marches in DC

The permit was designed to keep the protesters as invisible as possible. It was a circuitous route from DuPoint Circle through West End, eventuly ending up in an early "first-amendment zone" behind the Old Executive Office building.

At this point, most of us began trickling out to the parade route. At least half the people that I saw along Pennsylvania Ave were protesters. I thought it was just the particular block until I heard a caller to a radio show the next day say the same thing. He was ten blocks down the street.

[BurtWorm]

10. I was at that same march.

And I had a very similar reaction. I'll never forget (or forgive) the NY Times complete neglect of that demonstration in the next day's Sunday Times.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

7. Me!

I went to the big SF inauguration march and Voter Rights march. And I have been to just about every march since then.

We're having a March 20th event to commemorate the Iraqi invasion.

Guess where I'll be? :)

[BurtWorm]

9. I'll be at the one in NYC!

[Hell Hath No Fury]

19. Cool!

:hi:

[Hekate]

39. We're planning one here!

Central Coast, California. We'll be together in spirit again.

Hekate :hi: :hi: :hi:

"But why should we hear about body bags and deaths and how many,
what day it's going to happen, and how many this or what do you
suppose? Oh, I mean, it's not relevant. So why should I waste my
beautiful mind on something like that?" ~Barbara Bush

"I guess the 'nation's grandma' isn't the grandma of those her son sends into harm's way." ~Hekate

ARLINGTON WEST, SANTA BARBARA CALIF.
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[slappypan]

8. I was there

I will never forget witnessing the pandemonium with my own eyes, then returning home to Chicago and seeing not a whisper of the events mentioned in the newspapers or on TV. It changed me forever, and I regard "journalists" in much the same light that I regard child abusers and rapists.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

21. I caught the CSPAN coverage...

of the DC inauguration parade, and I still treasure those memories. :)

My favorite parts were watching him hit a big intersection with at least a thousand people in -- all of them flipping him off.

And I also loved seeing his car stop before running the "gauntlet", and then the Secret Service running as fast as they could as the car gunned it past the protestors.

He should have gotten the clue that day.

[nannygoat]

11. I was there. A friend and I drove up from NC

We had been following the selection really closely and were heartbroken at what happened. I carried a poster with "Re-elect Gore in 2004" on it and my friend carried a poster with a trash can labeled "Ballot Box" on it. What a miserable cold, drizzly day (a harbinger, I think, of what * and his evil cabal would bring to our country). I will never forget the absolute rage and loathing directed at those thieves. One bright spot was that some folks with a banner advertising DU eventually wound up standing next to me. It took awhile but I eventually wound up here. Long live DU!

[rocktivity]

12. Thanks for reminding that I didn't buy into Bush from the very beginning

Didn't go to any marches, but I most certainly made my displeasure known at both the outcome and how eagerly the media embraced it. That very day, I vowed never to refer to Bush as a president, nor to his minions as an administration. And while I've been saddened by what's gone on since then (including 9/11), I have been far from shocked.

But happier times lay ahead. Now that Bush has offended the CIA and the AWOL story is sticking, I get to enjoy the fruits of my labor: no one can call me a bandwagon jumper. I can brag that nobody had to fly a hijacked plane into ME to make me realize that Bush Regime is a national and international disgrace!


rocknation

P.S. I did make it to this march and this march, though, and I'll be in NYC on March 20th.

[proud patriot]

13. I didn't go to any organized marches

I was totally Apolitical at that point , and didn't know where
to go or when marches were taking place . Or I would of gone
to one . I did have a sign in my yard though .

[BurtWorm]

14. What politicized you?

Out of curiosity. :hi:

[proud patriot]

20. Bush The stinky selection and an inner voice telling me to know more

I was a Zinn and Chomsky reader I just didn't
do anything with the info except get pissed off .

I was born in 1969 to 2 hippie parents , I quickly
became a stereotypical apathetic Gen x ...

I literally thought a nuclear bomb was going to come
before I turned 30 .

Now I'm a mom , I am willing to fight for my sons future .

I believe one person can make a difference and that is what
I'm here to do .

[Hell Hath No Fury]

23. "I was totally Apolitical"

I can attest to the fact that she has left "apolotical" behind -- with a VENGENCE!"

:hi:

Hell

[proud patriot]

31. LOL ....Thanks Hell

:loveya: Yeah I get a bit loud at protests now *blushing*

so much so perfect strangers take my picture

:hi: hello mr. ashcroft :hi:

[abcdan]

15. I did

My wife and I spontaneously drove to DC (from Philly) to the V.P. mansion to support Gore. There were about 10 to 15 other people. We held signs and chanted catchy sayings. Unfortunately, there were about 50 Bush/Cheney supporters on the other side of the street. I think there was a huge organized Gore/Lieberman support rally a day or two earlier.

[tkmorris]

16. I did.

Palm Beach County courthouse, November 2000. I still have the signs.

I keep em in my workshed out back. When my Freeper Father-in-law visited last year he was looking in there for some tools and when he came out he didn't speak to me for 3 days. Ahhh, blessed silence.

[Generic Other]

18. I was marching in Seattle

Never forget!

[texasmom]

22. I protested at our local federal courthouse

on Inauguration Day. I so wanted to go to Washington, but with two toddlers it wasn't really a possibility. I joined Fringefolk and am on that site. I also went to the VoterMarch in Washington in May 2001 with my almost-two year old. I will NEVER get over that stolen election.

.

[Southsideirish]

24. Looking back, how did we ever let it happen?

I'll never forget coming out of a restaurant that fateful day and anxiously turning on the news to hear the "re-count had been stopped."
After that it was a total nightmare - the pounding on the walls by the republican toadies, the nightly chanting outside the VP mansion by the loathsome crowd of miscreants "Get out of Cheney's house!" and Tipper Gore playing the whale sounds to drowned out the noise. And I stood by and did nothing.

[ikojo]

25. I went to the big march in DC the day the

imposter to the throne was inaugurated. It was cold and rainy and yes I would do it again. I was part of the group that encircled the Supreme court building.

Excellent.

Ate at a Chinese restaurant located in the same office building as Public Citizen. Got bumped on my plane and had a chance to go to the Holocaust museum.

[Jax]

26. The owners of this board were out there

with all you TRUE PATRIOTS on that shitty rotten horror of a day.

That is how I found DU. I was sitting on my rear watching it happen on tv, still in complete disbelief.

I will never, ever 'get over it' or shut up or sit on my rear in disbelief again. I abhor this appointed deserter and his murderous lying ilk.

:thumbsup: and huge Thank yous to all of you who put yourselves out there.

Jax

[Ripley]

27. They allow this crap....of course we were there...

I don't get it.

[Jacobin]

28. I walked around the state capitol in austin with my kids

yelling and holding signs....along with thousands of other pissed off people. Drove from Louisiana to do it.

Of course, Smirky was hiding up in Crawford, but it felt good to publicly share our outrage at the theft of the WH

[Lorien]

29. I did. I marched on Tallahassee

I had a front row seat to the voter fraud here in Florida. My testimony was even used by the NAACP in their lawsuit against the state (Greg Palast passed it on to them). I saw police intimidation of voters, voting cut off an hour early in a primarily black district, and voters told that they had come to the wrong district to vote-when the "right" district was miles away (yet when we brought in church buses to bring them to the "proper" polling place, the cops pulled the buses over and made them unload-saying they couldn't move people without a taxi license)!

I've spoken to the press, so have many other witnesses. Other than Palast, no one was interested in what we had to say. I'm not getting over it, and I will not forgive Kerry for telling me that I should. If voter fraud and BBV are not addressed and resolved prior to November, all efforts will be in vain.

[Hogarth]

30. Mari and I were there ...

... and we stayed at the State Plaza Hotel. We sat in the lobby drinking wine as red dresses and cowboy hats checked in. It made for great people-watching, and we must have been the only protestors in the hotel.

Once the hotel staff learned that we had come to protest, we had a great time discussing the rudeness of the GOP crowd. (Man, those people really abused the desk clerk and other staff, expecting special treatment.)

We watched the governor of Tennessee check in, accompanied by his wife and daughters (dressed in red, of course) and guarded by men in suits with earpieces.

That's an experience I'd love to relive.

Wait! What am I saying?

[tom_paine]

32. Voter March & July 4th Philly protest

I didn't go to the anti-inauguration but only because I didn't know about it.

And I can count the times on one hand that I have referred to Bunnypants* as pResident (and EVERY time I recanted as soon as I realized what I'd mistakenly said).

[efhmc]

34. I always say the "pretend president" when I am in polite company. I

have other names for him in private, like coward and freak and idiot and on and on and on.

[efhmc]

33. I was there.

That was one long bus ride from Houston, but I am proud that I went. Please, goddess, I don't want to have to do it again. Let's continue to work hard so we can all go to DC next year to celebrate.

[bvar22]

35. I didn't make it to DC, but I did this!

[Terwilliger]

36. *waves*

[Lori Price CLG]

37. I did. But, if Bush steals it again, we need a full-blown revolution.

We will NOT accept four more years of Bush's illegal dictatorship.

Lori R. Price
Citizens For Legitimate Government

[Hekate]

38. I was active on-line; it about killed me to not be able to do more

I went downtown to the courthouse to join a bunch of other citizens dressed in black -- this was to urge that ALL the votes be counted. What could be more American than that, right? So much else has happened since then that I'd almost forgotten, but now in my mind's eye I can see that I met many friends-to-be on that occasion, good people all.

I was involved with Censure and Move On (MoveOn.org) from its inception and maintained a list of my own trying to galvanize friends, but was also trying to finish a dissertation and already on overtime... I finally had to admit that if I never finished my book it would not matter to the world but it would matter a great deal to me, so I stopped *everything* else to write.

When it was done and at the printers in 2002 my husband and I went to visit a cousin of mine who settled in Canada almost 40 years ago. I remember telling his wife that what we'd had here in 2000 was a "bloodless coup," and that a lot of us knew it.

When I got back home I almost immediately joined the anti-war/anti-Bush movement, and I've looked on that as my job ever since.

Hekate
EDITED TO CLARIFY

"But why should we hear about body bags and deaths and how many,
what day it's going to happen, and how many this or what do you
suppose? Oh, I mean, it's not relevant. So why should I waste my
beautiful mind on something like that?" ~Barbara Bush

"I guess the 'nation's grandma' isn't the grandma of those her son sends into harm's way." ~Hekate

ARLINGTON WEST, SANTA BARBARA CALIF.
http://www.veteransforpeace.org/Default.htm
click on the large photo of AW to go here:
http://www.veteransforpeace.org/Arlington_west_121003.htm
Scroll down the page for all the photos...