My favorite DC photo, Send the Twins and a second one that I liked

[nedbal]

after the 160 pic yahoo slide show, this struck me as the best at DC

Reuters - Sat Jan 27, 5:03 PM ET Sheila McJade of Philadelphia holds up a sign calling on U.S. President George W. Bush to send his twin daughters to serve in Iraq as thousands of anti-war protesters rally on the National Mall in Washington, January 27, 2007.





and a second one that I liked



AFP/File - Fri Jan 19, 3:19 PM ET Molly Klopot is put into a paddy wagon by a New York City Police officer after being arrested in 2005 for blocking the Times Square military recruiting station. Klopot and Betty Brassell came from New York to protest against the Iraq war before the US Congress. Veteran activists, the two women were proud of their untiring plea for peace.(AFP/File/Timothy A Clary)




http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070119/pl_afp/usiraqprotest_070119201923WASHINGTON (AFP) - Grandmothers Molly Klopot and Betty Brassell came from New York to protest against the Iraq war before the US Congress.

"We are going to monitor our elected representatives to see if they do what we voted for them to do," said Klopot, 87, who says she has been a militant for more than 60 years.

She and Klopt were arrested on October 17, 2005, with 16 other women, aged 59 to 91, when the group tried to enlist in the US military in New York's Time Square to replace grandchildren who had been deployed in Iraq.

The arrests gave birth to The Granny Peace Brigade. Now, more than a year later, the pair were still clamoring for recognition from the government



looking for decent aerial or elevated crowd pics

[rhino47]

1. here is one

[OneBlueSky]

3. are you saying that photo is from Saturday's demonstration? . . .

given the descriptions I've read, I find that hard to believe . . . this looks more like one of the Vietnam era demonstrations that I attended, when the crowds completely filled the Mall and overflowed onto the side streets . . .

[sarge43]

4. Jan 27 and the trees have leaves?! n/t

[cmd]

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[valerief]

6. I'll bet if NBC reported the march, they'd say this was 100 people. nt

[Nay]

7. This is NOT a photo from yesterday. The trees were bare yesterday--

it's winter, folks! Plus there were no where near this many people--less than half, I'd say. Mr. Nay and I walked from the Capitol toward the Monument (from where this picture was taken) and turned off to the right at the Smithsonian (those red buildings with the turrets on the right) and there were no crowds there on the Mall as we turned off.

This looks more like the 2005 demonstration, where the whole Mall and all side streets were totally stuffed with people. I was at that one, too.

[nedbal]

8. was the Washington monument open Saturday? then there are pics out there, somewhere

[Nay]

10. I wish I knew. In fact, if I'd thought about it, I would have tried to go

up in it and take a picture myself. But I didn't think about it.

[Mick Knox]

11. Beautiful n/t wow

[burrowowl]

2. K&R!

Especially for the Grannies!

[Lord Byron]

9. I strongly disagree with those "Send the Twins" signs

The twins are not responsible for the war and they're also sovereign adults. I think we should leave them out of it.

[Mick Knox]

12. Wrong - very wrong

They are children of the man who sends other peoples kids to war.

They should not be "left out of it".

If it is good enough for others kids, its good enough for his kids.

[Nicole]

13. Wrong

They are children of the man who sends other peoples' kids to war after they voluntarily enlisted. Big difference there.

If the Bush twins enlist then yes by all means send their butts over there. Until then the Bush twins have no more obligation to go to war than my kids do.

[poiuytsister]

14. I do NOT want those to BIMBOS watching my

son's back. Those two brainless idiots aren't good enough to wipe the boots of our real service men and women.