PHOTOS: Portland OR says BRING OUR TROOPS HOME NOW

[diamond14]

Portland Oregon STANDS UP against bush* wars...March 19,2005

[Pool Hall Ace]

1. great photos !

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[DesEtoiles]

2. Wow - Fantastic, Portland!!!!

[diamond14]

3. PLEASE help..."kick" at least 10 peace threads up...if each person

kicks at least TEN thread up...people will realize what is happening in America..and they will come and JOIN US....


there are more than 40 Peace threads sunk down on the next 20 pages...help bring them back...thanks...

[earth mom]

4. AWESOME PHOTOS-Thanks! Wish I could have been there! eom

[gizmo1979]

5. It brings me great joy to see

that indeed some Americans see what's goig on and are taking action!!!!!!

[G_j]

6. kick

[Lydia Leftcoast]

7. Makes me nostalgic

I lived in Portland from June 1993 to August 2003, and I participated in several such protests. Portland really knows how to turn out the demonstrators!

[alfredo]

8. Great pictures.

We need to fill the streets at every chance.

[diamond14]

16. what a cartoon !

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[LeahD]

9. Excellent Pics! n/t

[grasswire]

10. thanks for the pics

Odd that I didn't see any of these in the Portland Oregonian!

[gratuitous]

12. Well, the Oregonian has much to atone for

I don't think they've ever apologized for their fatuous editorial back at the beginning of 2003, when they characterized the war protestors as "naive" and they were buying the Bush administration line of bullshit. They've been coming around v-e-r-y slowly in the last six months or so, but change doesn't come quickly at the west's oldest newspaper.

Their story Monday made it sound like there were just a handful of ragtag dead-enders, comparing Sunday's number unfavorably with the thousands and thousands they denigrated back in 2003. They neglected to mention that the day was cold and rainy, a far cry from the weather of the last two months that has been unseasonably dry and hot, which was probably a major factor in holding down the number of demonstrators. Pictures of people were, of course, totally absent; they had one shot of some of the 1,500 cardboard tombstones the protestors laid out in the Park Blocks.

Good on the protestors. I was doing the CROP walk over in Northeast Portland that day, but I hear there's going to be a "Mission Not Accomplished" march on the May anniversary of Chimpy's Flight Suit Strut. I'll be there for that.

[lastliberalintexas]

11. I loooove Billionaires for Bush

And completely hits the mark- "This is a class war, and we're winning"

[The Kicker]

13. We shall overcome!

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[katinmn]

14. I hadn't seen these before...thanks!

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[libpunkmom]

15. I Love my city!!!

Rain or shine, we WILL protest!!!!