Check in if you protested the Iraq War

[elehhhhna]

Bush Ranch, Camp Casey, 2005

[DisgustipatedinCA]

1. San Francisco, Sacramento, during the lead-up to the war n/t

.

[busterbrown]

249. L.A. Have no freaking idea of the exact dates.

But the first one had Slash up on stage...It was great!!!

[brush]

253. Checking in

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Both in New York and DC in '03. "No Blood for Oil" was the rallying cry. WE KNEW WHAT THE BUSH CABAL WAS UP TO.

[FarPoint]

2. Sure did.

Attended the big DC Protest in 2005 after Katrina.

[redwitch]

3. Washington D.C.

twice. And here in my village every Saturday for weeks until the war started.

[earthside]

4. Both times.

Both Bushs.

[lunasun]

136. me too - X2

[Tikki]

5. Westwood 2002, LA and So Cal 2003, '04, '05, SF 2003...

along with some mighty fine, dedicated and truly American people.

The Tikkis

[Aristus]

6. Seattle 2004, 2005, 2006.

This is 2005:



I'm the "pallbearer" on the right in the sunglasses.

[freshwest]

17. Was in tiny ones in my neighborhood. They were *every* weekend in several places.

Just street corners and on the side of roads, but I couldn't do the marching.

[rhett o rick]

21. I remember. There were some small ones in Tacoma and Bremerton. nm

[regnaD kciN]

183. Same here...

Fairwood section of Renton.

[rhett o rick]

18. I was there. nm

[The Blue Flower]

119. Me, too

nt

[WilliamPitt]

7. Check

[Still Blue in PDX]

20. If I remember right, someone at the protest I was at in Salem talked to you on the phone.

I think you were in DC and you told us what was going on there.

I never made it to any big protests, but I was there in spirit.

[stlsaxman]

51. I beleive i met you, Kephra and... LynneSynn (sp?) at the DU tent...

certainly you wouldn't remember but, it meant a great deal to me.

[stevenleser]

8. Marched with St. Pete for Peace in St. Petersburg, FL. nt

[NutmegYankee]

9. 10 years and 3 days ago.

We were laughed at, but I don't have a last laugh. I'm too tempted to cry instead...

[DCBob]

10. Three times..

once pre-war and twice post war in DC.

[arely staircase]

11. austin, tx - 2003 eom

[Eleanors38]

128. I was there, too.

[malaise]

12. Oxford Road, Kingston, Jamaica

opposite the then US Embassy

[Auntie Bush]

13. My husband and I just attended candle vigils and chanted kumbyah

Not much but we tried. (Too old and husband to ill to get very involved)

[johnp3907]

14. DC twice, Pittsburgh once.

[babydollhead]

187. same

[HangOnKids]

15. Checking in n/t

[Skidmore]

16. Protested with

phone calls to reps/senators and letter writing. Talked about my objections to anyone who would listen. I what I could.

[Still Blue in PDX]

19. Protested various places around Portland.

I don't remember exactly when it was; it was sort of an ongoing thing.

Quite a few times at the Army Recruiting Station.

Once on the Hawthorne Bridge, a candlelight vigil.

Once at the State Capitol building.

Once at Esther Short Park.

[rollin74]

22. Yes. Several cross-country trips to D.C.

and 2 or 3 much shorter trips to SF Bay Area for protests

[rhett o rick]

23. In Seattle. I would post pictures but dont know how. nm

[UnrepentantLiberal]

65. If your pics are on a photo sharing site

just left click on the image and select "view image" and then copy the web address of the image. Then put that in your post. That's all you have to do.

[rhett o rick]

147. Thanks. Do I have to set up an account with like photobucket? nm

[UnrepentantLiberal]

151. Yeah.

But it's easy to do and easy to upload your pictures.

[rhett o rick]

153. I know but I am lazy. But for you I will do it. Thanks for the

encouragement.

[UnrepentantLiberal]

157. Cool.

Looking forward to seeing the pics.

[rhett o rick]

159. 2005 Seattle

[UnrepentantLiberal]

160. Great pic.

If only our politicians had listened.

[rhett o rick]

161. Another 2005 Seattle

[UnrepentantLiberal]

163. I know right where that is.

I lived in Seattle for a while.

[rhett o rick]

162. 2006 Seattle

[rhett o rick]

164. 2007 Seattle

[rhett o rick]

165. 2007 Seattle one more

[Coyotl]

193. No, just go to tinypic and post

albeit, it is easier to have an account and keep all of them in one spot for your own convenience.

[Bonobo]

24. Yup, protested the first one too in 1990 or 1991 DC, I think it was. nt

[Martin Eden]

25. Chicago Feb 2003 & Washington DC March 15 2003

As we (100,000 strong) were marching in the streets of our nation's capitol, a small group of counter-protesters were chanting SUPPORT OUR TROOPS, SUPPORT OUR TROOPS. Immediately I picked up the cadence of the chant and changed it to SUPPORT OUR TROOPS, BRING THEM HOME!!! Within seconds, all those around me joined in, and soon it was picked up by more marchers who completely drowned out the morans who thought supporting the troops consisted of sending them to DIE for a LIE.

[babylonsister]

26. Me.

Camp Casey, right before Katrina. I lived in Houston at the time; went with some great people.

DC, the following January?

And I'm really glad I did both; met some fantastic DUers, too!

[Warren Stupidity]

27. Yup.

[Lars39]

28. Yes

Eleanor Roosevelt: "When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?"

[pinboy3niner]

29. San Fernando Valley, L.A.

Studio City peace vigils, and holiday parade protest (with Ed Asner). Did some of the protests with DUer kerrygoddess.

[Beaverhausen]

125. We met Martin Sheen at one of the LA marches

Hi neighbor

[olddots]

177. hi neighbors

D.C. and dozens more in southern Cal and San Fran we were usually with the lawyers guild , Office of the Americas and the usual suspects .

[choie]

30. Times Square, NYC!

[DollarBillHines]

31. San Francisco

[Fire Walk With Me]

32. Check.

[etherealtruth]

33. Yep, multiple times, multiple protest groups

[stlsaxman]

34. D.C. a couple, three times....

Here's a video I did that has a few more pic's i took from DC...

Music by XTC, Concept by me...

http://s23.photobucket.com/user/stlsaxman/media/ComplicatedGame.mp4.html

[Lionel Mandrake]

131. W was the second best president.

The others are tied for first.

[name not needed]

35. Hofstra University, 2008

[Siwsan]

36. We held a protest every Sunday, in Flint Township

Also went to Washington DC and Chicago for big rallies.

I used to carry a supply of DD-4 enlistment forms and offered them to any young men or women who harassed us, telling them if they supported the war, the least they could do is enlist and join the fight. Oddly enough, I never had any takers.

[reteachinwi]

37. Minneapolis, Winona, Madison,

my classroom, my heart. We should have done better.

[AnotherDreamWeaver]

38. Marched in San Francisco

Did so before Afghanistan war too....

[Bigmack]

39. Borrego Springs, CA.. and Kingston, WA...

Like pissing into the tide, but we protested.

I have taken to asking people if they supported the war at first. If they did, I remind them that the whole thing is on them.. not me. The deaths, the money, the whole works.

Mean, I know, but somebody needs to remind them they were the tools that Bush used to push his war. When they say they were lied to, I ask them if they remember the Vietnam War, Panama, Grenada, etc... and ask why they would continue to trust the warmongers.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

40. 7 trips to DC from 2002-2003

and countless actions back home in WV

[Jamaal510]

41. I wasn't old enough to be politically involved at the time,

but I was no fan of the war. Every day, I feared that there would be a major attack here in the Bay Area and around San Francisco, like in NYC. Bush ll had me almost praying for my life as a teenager, with his dumb wars.

[rustydog]

42. In Yakima, WA 16th and Summitview

Deep Republican Central Washington town.

[CrispyQ]

43. I was on the right side of the debate, not the popular side.

I lost friends & had tenseness with co-workers.

[bettyellen]

44. DC twice, NYC once.... met some great DUers at both

[enough]

45. DC twice, Philadelphia once. (nt)

[Recursion]

46. DC, two days before I deployed

Those were the days...

[DinahMoeHum]

47. DC January 2003, NYC February 2003

DC September 2005 - same weekend as Green America (then Co-op America) Green Festival. Met a bunch of you DUers at the Hawk and Dove pub.

[Jim Lane]

178. I was in the NYC march, too.

Saw some great signs and t-shirts. My favorite: "The New York Post and Fox News are weapons of mass distraction."

[patrice]

48. 6 national rallies, split between D.C. & NYC + appx. 3 years of Sundays in a centrally located

park at a major urban intersection near a very popular entertainment and shopping district, the Country Club Plaza. A few hundred of us marched with coffins and combat boots through the Plaza on a few occasions; the rest of the time it was a basic crew of a couple of dozen regulars, including drummers, all of us with original signs. After early bouts with obnoxious and rude counter-demonstrators and about a year's worth of the occasional shouted obscene abuse from passing traffic, this scene settled into mostly supporting honks and our smiles and waving at supporters.

The only reason I quit that street-corner when we did was that some itinerant homophobe minister decided to co-opt us by bringing his family and loudly declaiming about The Bible, so it looked as though we were with him. I just couldn't take it without going over to him and trying to verbally kick his ass, so I had to stop going. Not long after that, that gathering ceased. I believe there is one other smaller one that still holds on on Tuesday evenings on a different very busy street.

[ProSense]

49. Me.

I met some of you.

[jdadd]

50. Check....

Local protest group...Never attracted more than 10 or 12 people...Got flipped off, a lot!! I live in "Red Hell"......

[PuraVidaDreamin]

52. DC x 3

Boston

Waco outside the pig farm

[RainDog]

53. Washington, D.C.

and my hometown.

[JanMichael]

123. Did we meet??

Sent you a PM- We were at the Hawk and Dove DU meetups?

[JanMichael]

124. DC...twice

Met DUers at the Hawk and Dove

[RainDog]

134. Maybe?

I rode over with a bunch of people from United for Peace and Justice and we stayed the night at some guy's house in Maryland. He let us put our sleeping bags on the floor, etc. so I met up with DUers at the march but not afterward.

I was at Keph's funeral - don't know if you were there.

And was at the gathering when Will Pitt spoke, locally, after the release of his books.

[Curmudgeoness]

54. DC and Pittsburgh twice

prior to Shock and Awe.

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/curmudgeoness/6991225323/|" width="640" height="480" alt="DC_March"></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/curmudgeoness/6991225559/|" width="640" height="427" alt="Rally"></a>

[Squinch]

55. The NYC march. Huge, underreported crowd, but I couldn't believe EVERYONE was not there.

[countmyvote4real]

208. I was there, too and many more.

[Apophis]

56. I did.

[Luminous Animal]

57. San Francisco during the lead up to the war and after

the carnage started my family were three of thousands that shut down the financial district of the city for 3 or 4 days.

[RoccoR5955]

58. Long and hard.

NYC, Washington, DC
EVERY DAY, on the 'net,
and I'm already against the next war!

As a matter of fact, the Dalai Lama stated that war is obsolete.

[GeorgeGist]

59. check

[LiberalEsto]

60. yes

[deutsey]

61. I participated in most DC demonstrations (UFPJ, Code Pink, ANSWER, etc.)

and a few major ones in NYC.

I also helped to organize a local one where I live and participated in weekly peace vigils.

[BainsBane]

62. Several times

throughout Palm Beach County, Florida.

[Augiedog]

63. Madison Wisconsin

I'm a Nam vet whose nerves crawled when we went in for Desert Storm too!

[rurallib]

64. On campus at Iowa - near my home

[Le Taz Hot]

66. I was here in red California

(we're actually kinda purple now), getting yelled at and spat on. Yep.

Edited to add a quick story: We were at a MAJOR intersection at one of the rallies. It was on a Sunday morning and right up the street is a megachurch. As the church let out, the faithful had to drive right by us. I watched as one of the cars pulled out of the church parking lot and as they passed us screamed, "Fuck you! Fuck you! Fuck you. . ." There were kids in the car at the time. Now that's some Christian family values.

[jmondine]

67. Marched on the Texas Capitol

[arcane1]

68. Numerous times in San Francisco before and after the war started, and with DUers, too!

The only verifiable date I have at hand is March 22, 2003, and it was my 2nd protest.

I once, sometime in 2003/04, attended a candlelight vigil in Walnut Creek, CA. It was beautiful, a crowd of about 200, sitting on a lawn holding candles. One lone proto-teabagger angrily circled around the group, yelling the usual "traitor/dumbass/whatever" nonsense, trying to disturb the vigil, and being a tremendous mood-killer.

Once person started softly, as soft as a lullaby, singing "All we are saying is give peach a chance" over and over. A few others joined in, and soon it was the entire crowd, and the combined sound of all those voices, though singing so gently and quietly, was enough to drown out the idiot's noise, and the huffed and walked away.

It was quite a moment

[KoKo]

69. NC State Capitol...there were THOUSAND OF US...REALLY!

And...all over NC there were Protests! I know you might not want to believe it but I was there.. We had speakers from Labor Rights Groups who donated to set up outside the State Capitol and there were incredible, inspiring Speakers and we stood out on a Major Highway in the State Capitol for the months before Invasion and After ...with Signs Protesting coming Iraq Invasion and when Bush Invaded and we got CAR HONKS and in Durham, NC (Home of Duke University) we showed up for a year on Street Corner Protesting with our Signs and we did Saturday Duty over and over.

There were the Candlelight Vigils when the first casualties from Iraq of our Soldiers started coming in...and Activist Groups put Candles out for Every Soldier reported who died and there were Vigils (still going on by Church Groups in NC) downtown Capitol all this time...and STILL THE WARS GO ON! IT's MOVED PAST IRAQ/AFGHANISTAN...into AFRICA and BEYOND!

WHEN DO....."THE PEOPLES VOICES GET HEARD?"

[hay rick]

70. Pictures- NYC, 2004 (Republican National Convention).

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2882661

Plus I yelled at my TV every day for a year.

[WorseBeforeBetter]

71. DC and my little corner of Alexandria, VA. (n/t)

[L0oniX]

72. U betchA ...and Vietnam n/t

[Spitfire of ATJ]

80. Same here....

I was a kid back then though,

[locks]

73. We tried

I marched in Denver, Boulder, Louisville CO, many times against this immoral war 2001,2002, 2003 with so many good people. Go to costofwar.com to see the report on what this tragedy has cost our nation and the world. And the criminals who lied to us are still telling us that we should appreciate what they did!

[myrna minx]

74. Minneapolis in 2002 and 2003 against the madness.

[CANDO]

75. I marched in DC

eom

[spartan61]

76. Kennebunkport, Maine with

6,000 of my closest friends when shrub was visiting with barb and poppy.

[BREMPRO]

180. i was there too! great march

[Jack Rabbit]

77. Checking in

!!

[riderinthestorm]

78. Yes, both in Chicago and the western Chicago suburbs. Many times....

to no avail.

[Lisa0825]

79. Houston-Galveston area, and Camp Casey - where I met elehhhhna! nt

[Zero Division]

81. Protested the build up to the war in D.C.

This was with a group from Iowa City.

[jrthin]

82. Checking in

New York City

[PDittie]

83. Camp Casey

Also marched in Crawford in '03.

[llmart]

84. Washington DC

But I honestly can't remember when. Attended with my son and when we got back to his place that day (he lived near Washington at the time) we were watching coverage on CNN and they downplayed how large the crowd was. Made us furious to see how CNN would just out and out lie about the size of the crowd.

[Bennyboy]

85. SF, sacramento...

We pounded the pavement for moths protesting.

[Arctic Dave]

86. Yep, Anchorage, Alaska.

My wife and did a personal one where I dress up as the guy with the hood and electrodes as she passed out flyers.

We had three cops cars called on us.

[Blue_In_AK]

171. Dave, were you guys at this one?

Fifth anniversary of the invasion

http://northernvisions.smugmug.com/Politics/On-the-Fifth-Anniversary-of/4566353_j34dJV#!i=269118618&k=wphwjxd

[Arctic Dave]

172. I was not. I was working but Jodie was there.

I was at the one next to the university. I made the banner that was on the overhead crosswalk. I still have it in my garage.

[Arctic Dave]

173. And by the way, how was Nome?

Did you get good pictures.

When I heard about the plane accidents I was worried about you.

[Blue_In_AK]

175. Nome has been great.

We're flying back home tomorrow night. We're flying Alaska Airlines, no small planes for me.

I got some really good pictures, I think.. I took probably 5,000, so there should be a few good ones in there. . I got pics of every single finisher. Not much sleep the first couple of days.

It's going to take a few weeks to sort them all out, but I'll send you a link when I get them posted.

[Arctic Dave]

176. Right on.

Take care.

[easttexaslefty]

87. From the beginning

Camp Cassey, protests in Dallas, Houston and Austin. A protest or march weekly until September 11, 2007, the date of
son's suicide. That was the end of protstiong for me.

[zentrum]

88. SF, Oakland and

.....NYC.

[Egalitarian Thug]

89. Hollywood Blvd. There were 10s of thousands of us, the biggest thing I've ever seen in LA and it got

a 5 second mention on one channel (KTLA IIRC).

[quaker bill]

90. Organized and rallied here (FL)

[Botany]

91. Sure did

We had many people @ many times and many different places and yet
I saw almost no coverage of the protests in the press.

[GainesT1958]

92. Wilmington, N.C....

Opposed our "leaders" lying us into a war...and a local reporter asked us if it bothered us that "many" thought us "unpatriotic". Not for a second, we said; we WERE being "patriotic" merely by speaking our minds...

[GainesT1958]

98. Dub lied...

And lied...and lied...and LOTS of people died.

[nadinbrzezinski]

93. More than that

I did my bit to educate lawmakers that voted against the war resolution, and got to see some of my handy work on the Span.

[ReRe]

94. Checking in

Sewed up a giant Peace Flag that took at least 30 people to hold onto as we marched it 4 ft above the ground and flat down the biggest street in the biggest city of my state; numerous protests all over my state; every Thursday night candlelight Peace Vigil in my home town; DC on a frigid cold Saturday in mid January 2003.

[liberal_at_heart]

95. yep, Seattle right before the war

Also went to a few weekly protests in a Seattle neighborhood after the war started.

[denverbill]

96. Denver. Me and the wife. Before the war.

Not that anyone gave a shit.

[jsand883]

97. Ben Lomond, ca

My wife,too.

[maveric56]

99. Outside Hotel Del Coronado, 2005

Right after Katrina.

[OneAngryDemocrat]

100. DC 2005, 2007 and 2008, and NYC in 2006...

[duhneece]

101. Alamogordo, New Mexico...weeks before the war, weeks then months after the war started nt

[denese]

102. many times

It never helped.

[Rhiannon12866]

103. MoveOn anti-war peace march/vigil March 2003

Candlelight vigil for Cindy Sheehan 2005.

[Marrah_G]

104. Washington, DC

I think it was Sept 05.

[green for victory]

105. the first one, and the second one and the one between and the one after

it wasn't cool to protest PNAC WAR I (the 78 day bombing and invasion of Serbia) at the time, and still many people think that we were helping people by bombing other people. And look at how fast everyone has forgotten Libya. (Veni, Vidi, Ipse Est Mortuus!)

Soon, we'll have to protest another one, it's just a matter of time. Because Washington DC has become what we were told the USSR was. Right in front of everyone's eyes.

[liberalmuse]

106. I was at every one in my city.

Lotta good it did.

[bettyellen]

174. *hug* you did the right thing. that's part of the "lotta good"

thank you!

[mulsh]

107. Both Iraq wars in marches inSan Francisco

Also the big Viet Nam Moratorium Day marches in the 60's. Lots of smaller events too. I expect I'll be at the next ones also, as long as I'm ambulatory.

[dog_lovin_dem]

108. Champaign-Urbana

Illinois in march of 2005. Freezing cold and snowy and well worth it! One of my proudest moments as I live in a very rural, red county and don't have the opportunity to physically participate too often. Through letter, phone calls, and e-mails, I have been protesting since 9/11.

[WinkyDink]

109. NYC-1, NYC-2. 2003.

[neverforget]

110. Portland, Oregon multiple times

[modestybl]

111. San Francisco Oct 2002, Chicago 2002, 2003...

... And my parents marched in Detroit in February 2003 against the war... anti-war protesters, my parents!

[bigtree]

112. .

[Iris]

113. L5P - Atlanta, GA

And I'll never forget the night the bombing started. Standing in front of my apartment building, streets silent but for one homeless man walking along yelling, "Fuck this country. Fuck the USA"

[cally]

114. yep

SF, Oakland, and elsewhere. Huge demonstrations which the MSM chose to ignore. It still infuriates me when the apologists try to say that no one knew how bad it would be nor that there were no "weapons of mass destruction" Millions around the world knew and protested but the powerful chose to ignore us and pretend we didn't exist.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

115. I was one of 30,000 people in Portland, Oregon, who protested on the first day

Portland really knows how to put together a demonstration, unlike Minneapolis, where, I have come to believe, the leftist movements are either severely co-opted or run by idiots.

There's been a call to protest the end of Saturday mail delivery. Where and when? On SUNDAY at the downtown post office when almost no one is there.

[5X]

116. Many, many times, Tulsa, Ok.

edit to add:
Was not a popular thing to do around here, but there were lots of us at times.

[KT2000]

117. Yes -

in Port Angeles, WA

[relayerbob]

118. San Diego area events, several times

Candlelight vigil on the beach right before the invasion

[frylock]

120. checking in from san diego

[cascadiance]

197. Marched on the Naval station in San Diego...

... and saw the cops videotaping us too back before we knew they were spying on us everywhere...

A number of other events there as well...

Remember all of the efforts we had trying to replace that corrupt congressman Randy Duke Cunningham who was right in the middle of helping this military industrial complex serving effort. Good to see you finally replaced Bilbray after I left for Portland.

[Stargleamer]

121. Chico, California

it was a supportive crowd

[icarusxat]

122. Salt Lake City, Utah when Hatch showed up to call us all "nutcakes"

What ever that was supposed to mean.

He and Dubbya showed up to silence the 911 Scholars for truth by telling the BYU professor's Mormon boss (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints President) to ask him to knock it off or face church sanctions.

At least that is sure how it looked at the time. Local news stations called a crowd of about 2000 people a couple of hundred protesters. The BYU Professor stopped writing and talking about the Physical Science evidence.

[defacto7]

148. I remember all too well when George the Stupid came to town.

W's motorcade drove by my house while I was on the porch. Rooftops of apartment complexes around our house were covered by armed secret service, one each, for about 5 minutes, then gone. Lots of things went through my mind... most of which was concern for the human race and the future of my kids. I never felt more like chucking a rock in my life.

[niyad]

126. checking in-- weekly protests, letters, calls--and just missed getting gassed at the feb 15 protest

vietnam, gulf 1, afghanistan, iraq, and whatever the hell else they are dreaming up for us.

[Arugula Latte]

127. Yes. Portland, Ore. in 2003

I got "interviewed" by a local news person. Turns out it was a local Fox affiliate. Turns out they selectively edited my remarks to make it seem like I supported Bush and the war. To say my blood was boiling is a huge, huge understatement.

[Emit]

129. Every chance I could with kids in tow

My two younger kids grew up chanting anti-war sentiments because of all the protests I dragged them to. "Bush lied, soldiers died and you don't care..." was one I recall.

[hrmjustin]

130. I protested In washington DC in 2007 and at the RNC in NYC 2004.

[johnnyreb]

132. Burned and distributed thousands of free antiwar music cds and dvds

So many antiwar and info-music videos and mp3s were urgently pouring out on the net, alerting Americans that the media was lying. The musical effort was a tidal wave of sanity, love and beauty hurled headlong against the madness. It just wasn't on the radio.

Jimi Hendrix: "If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music."

[WillyT]

133. San Francisco, Sacramento... 3 Or 5 Of Them I Believe...

& Rec !!!

[fadedrose]

135. Very small group in a park near Lake Huron, speeches & singing..

And the ever popular honk if you protest the war...

[rosesaylavee]

137. February and March 2003

Protested in the town just north of us here and stood alongside a good friend who died this past weekend. Very proud to spend those moments with him. Even tho in the long run, in the greater scheme of things, our protest meant nothing, compelled no one and our media didn't report it tho we had 300 to 500 people on a bridge in a small town. Didn't matter to those in authority.

[FiggyJay]

138. Minneapolis, St. Paul

and my hometown of Mankato. Attended protests, vigils, marches, etc. Wrote many letters, sent a gazillion emails. Made phone call after phone call. Whew....wish it hadn't been all in vain.

[AndyTiedye]

139. Many Times in San Francisco

[charin]

140. Downtown Dayton, Ohio nt

[FreeState]

141. +1 San Diego n/t

[peace13]

142. Twice a week for a long long time.

Granville, Ohio peace vigils. We also went to DC for the anti surge demonstration!

[Webster Green]

143. San Francisco for the first four days of the war.

We totally shut down Market St. on the first day. Newspaper machine barricades in intersections etc. Lots of arrests.

I went to about a half dozen other fairly large ones in SF after that. Always lots of media, but really shitty coverage.


Reality to media attendance conversion:

Hundreds = Dozens
Thousands = Hundreds
Hundreds of thousands = thousands
and so on

[RedCappedBandit]

144. Yup. Was in High School.

Walked out of class with a group of my peers and went to the local reps office to protest. Then met up with a larger group of college kids on campus for the rest of the evening.

Funny that a bunch of children had more sense than the leaders of the supposedly greatest nation on earth.

[annm4peace]

145. protest in Fresno, Ca then Minneapolis

part of Peace Fresno... when I left fresno, CA the sheriff's dept was spying on Peace Fresno.. a small group that formed after the war on Afghanistan started. at that time we didn't know if the next war was to be Iraq, Iran, or Syria or even North Korea.. one of the guys made a big stand up wheel of fortune and had the names of countries we might attack.. then it became more and more clear we were heading to war in Iraq. I went from protesting with a small group on a busy street corner being harassed by the Mayor, City Council members, police, rightwing radio hosts, and the Free Republic idiots and many angry white men who would some times park they cars to come yell in our faces.

moved to Minneapolis in the summer of 2002... where there where huge crowds of anti war protesters.. where churches would be out in force at the marches.

but we couldn't stop it. I'm broken hearted, and very depressed. I don't even think I can go to the vigil tomorrow to remember the anniversary, instead I will be going to a yoga class at a meditation center, to try and heal my soul.

there is still suffering in Iraq, and death, and a destroyed infrastucture, and children starving as our US Embassy has clean water, electricty, etc.
Heart breaking

[Zorra]

146. Mexico City, US Embassy Feb 2003.

I had left the US in early 2001 in protest of the Bush selection, and took a bus from Oaxaca to Mexico DF for the protest. There were maybe 15,000 - 20,000 people there.

[nevergiveup]

149. Western Chicago Suburbs

[Yavin4]

150. NYC Feb 2003 in the snow

[alsame]

209. I was there too. nt

[onestepforward]

152. Checking in.

[SciFiRK]

154. 1st and 2nd anniversary in Little Rock

[catbyte]

155. Grand Rapids MI

[LWolf]

156. Yes.

Had vegetables thrown at me, got screamed at by guys in pickups telling me "WE NEED WAR."

I also got a lot of surreptitious thumbs ups from other people afraid to speak out in our aerospace and military dominated region.

[Smarmie Doofus]

158. NYC. Not the first (at the UN... where Bloomberg stuffed demonstrators in pens....

... then sent cops in on horseback to trample them).

I attended the SECOND. It was a march originating somewhere in midtown and the route was... if memory serves... down 5th ave toward an "illegal" rally at Union Square ( illegal 'cause Bloomberg wouldn't issue a "permit". I left the march before we got there 'cause I had my son ( age 7) in tow and was afraid of getting arrested or trampled.

The second rally took place after the killing ( thanks to Bush and the DEMs in congress who voted for it ) was actually underway.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

166. Oh yes!

[dkf]

167. I did...my one and only protest.

This isn't my normal type of thing but that's how mad I was.

[backscatter712]

168. Check.

In one protest I attended, the FBI had set up a camera on the roof of a Costco across the street.

[Blue_In_AK]

169. Twice in DC

Many times in Anchorage.

Ed. And once in San Francisco.


Photos from DC. Jan. 27-28, 2007

http://northernvisions.smugmug.com/Politics/A-Weekend-for-Peace-DC-January/2419156_gpdmgF#!i=126870647&k=VwkJnMg

Photos from San Francisco Oct. 27, 2007

http://northernvisions.smugmug.com/Politics/United-for-Peace-Justice/3794356_hwnvnt#!i=218902413&k=tT4sn4h

[Denzil_DC]

170. Glasgow, numerous times in the run-up and after it began

The demo there at the Labour Party Conference in Spriing 2003 was massive - about 150,000 people, on the same day 2 million or so demonstrated in London.

Also got to shout at Blair across a parking lot in Stirling some time before that.

[BREMPRO]

179. actively

bus from Cambridge MA to NYC to march with 400,000 other protesters.. barely made a ripple in the MSM..
kennebunkport march to bush family house... wouldn't let us close. only pol that showed was kucinich

[olddots]

181. went to dozens of marchs

I hate to march ,hate to sing and chant , hate to carry signs but what I hate most is these ignorant greedy wars .

[GCP]

182. Boston n/t

[TM99]

184. Yes, I protested the Iraq War and

I was a registered Republican at the time.

I lost quite a few 'friends' in my MBA during the campaign of lies Bush & company peddled. I had military buddies call me a coward because I wouldn't re-up to fight.

I literally got in a fist fight when a server who worked with my ex-wife physically shoved me across the room when I questioned the invasion in public.

I knew I was right about all of the lies at the time no matter how alienating it was for me. It was how I originally found DU. I lurked here as a non-member for many years sustained by an opposition party that at least a significant number had not fallen for the lies.

[onethatcares]

185. st petersburg Florida

at the baywalk.

[Swamp Lover]

186. Washington DC and Columbia SC. 2003+

[lunatica]

188. I marched in protests before and during both wars.

[darkangel218]

189. Checking in here.

Miami, FL.

[alittlelark]

190. San Francisco

[roody]

191. Many many times

[Coyotl]

192. The LIES were so obvious, it hurt.

But, my voice of reason did little good.

[G_j]

194. Protested from the day we invaded Afghanistan

didn't have to wait for Iraq.

[raccoon]

195. Washington, DC. 01/18/03 (or thereabouts). nt

[davsand]

196. More than once.

Don't understand why we are STILL at it.


I even took my daughter to a couple of the local protests. That is atypical because I have always avoided taking her along if I thought the protests or pickets might get heated at all. She's been on her share of union lines and in a number or parades over the years, but anything that I thought might stand a remote chance of getting escalated I left her out of it. For sure, she got left home for actual strike lines because I have seen some hard stuff go on at those. Both times she went out with me for the anti-war protests she'd asked to be allowed to go. I allowed it because this is her world too--she deserved to have her voice heard.

During one protest she actually looked at me and asked if what we were doing was legal. She was afraid we could be arrested for being out there. Almost broke my heart to see my daughter holding a school photo of an Iraqi child her own age who'd been killed by our bombs. She "got" how awful it was, and she chose that photo herself--this was not anything I put her up to doing, and she was worried that in her own country she could be arrested for it. I explained to her that we have the right and, in fact, obligation to stand for something we feel strongly about. We had a long talk about our constitution and our laws and how they work. To this day, my kid (now a teen) is one to speak her mind and stand up for what she thinks, and I honestly feel it is because her dad and I both have been out front on the difficult stuff over the years.

You gotta stand up sometimes if you want to stand for anything at all.



Laura

[Hell Hath No Fury]

198. SF -- too many times to count.

We should have done more -- had mass arrests daily, shut DC down, occupied Congress.

[Blue_Tires]

199. October '03 march on Washington...

Met quite a few DUers at the time, too

[Johonny]

200. I generally don't protest anything but I protested the fucking Iraq War

I was disgusted then,
I am disgusted now

It was so clearly wrong.

[katmondoo]

205. Protested before and during War, Tampa FL, Inverness Fl, Macdill Airforce base, DC

I only stopped after a few years when I got sick. I made signs that I posted near home that were constantly being torn down. First sign was about when 400 of our young men lost their lives. Every week after I posted the latest loss. We were up to 3,000 when I got sick. I hated Bush/Cheney for destroying our country. I protested alone at the Civic Center in Orlando when Bush was giving a speech a few months after 911. Needless to say I was horribly taunted but I stuck it out until it was over. Shocking that so many people showed so much hatred.

[samplegirl]

201. Yes from Ohio

I became a member in 2003

[HughBeaumont]

202. Five times, all in D.C. . . . even once in 2009 (10?).

Unfortunately, the last one I went to had all of the trappings of a TeaHad rally with Pres. Obama as it's main target.

Yes, I know our president is no progressive, but blaming solely him and taking the "both parties are the same" cop out is a shortcut to thinking - this problem is far greater than just a president. It's a forced addiction to militarism that isn't going away any decade soon. It's an entrenched-for-decades MIC. It's dirty corporations that have gleaming-eyed stakes on the markets of the Middle East.

[clyrc]

203. Gainesville, Florida

twice in 2003, with my ex- husband and one daughter for each protest. I think I posted here about almost getting run over on the way back when I was holding my youngest daughter.

[Autumn Colors]

204. Jan. 18, 2003 - New York City (nt)

[whatchamacallit]

206. Los Angeles

With my 9 yr old for several marches/demonstrations.

[1-Old-Man]

207. Washington, DC - several times

[broiles]

210. Camp Casey,2005 & 2006, D.C, Fort Worth, Austin, Galveston.

[Melissa G]

211. Both wars. Many times in Austin and

Several times at Camp Casey as well. I was there for opening day at the Peace House in Crawford.

One time so many of us were protesting on the Congress Avenue Bridge that it was shut down and trembling from our stomping and drumming.

The images are haunting when you google 'Iraq war Camp Casey images'.

[bvar22]

212. Early & Often.

Protested the Military Attack on Country of Afghanistan
for the actions of a handful of Saudi criminals hiding in their desert
as immoral, ineffective, counter productive.

Protested Pre-Invasion of Iraq, and throughout the occupation.
Too many candle light vigils in Minneapolis to remember.


Currently protesting the the blind eye that our administration is turning toward the War criminals responsible for the madness,
the continued hostile occupation of Afghanistan,
and the expanding War on Terror through Drone attacks and other methods.

[noiretextatique]

213. San Francisco...it was great meeting other DUers

we need a meet-up soon

[felix_numinous]

214. check

DC right before the Iraq war--one of the millions dismissed as a 'focus group'. The bastards--we knew everything that is being released now, the lies, Cheney and Halliburton, oil as the true motive, and that it had been PLANNED, along with the Patriot Act--BEFORE 911.

We knew everything then, but could not change the course of events. But at least the rest of the world could see that this many Americans were not for the killing that was about to commence.

Then watching the bombing of Iraq on TV like some kind of sports event was truly horrifying and sickening. What a fucked up time that was.

[jimlup]

215. Was arrested protesting the war in Febuary of 2003

Well before it had even started. We were right then, we are right now. Republicans are absolutely out of control barking mad.

[SamReynolds]

216. Check.

I knew it would be a disaster when I saw Rumsfeld talk down to his top general about how many troops it would take.

[Amaya]

217. NYC march 2003, 2004

DC 2004

[Rex]

218. Here.

nt.

[UrbScotty]

219. Twice in college - Central Michigan University, 2005 and 2007.

[Chiquitita]

220. Stood with Women in Black

in Athens, GA

[mountain grammy]

221. May 18, 2006 Washington DC with Code Pink and Cindy Sheehan

and several times in Denver.

[mnhtnbb]

223. DC. My first time ever to go to DC to protest anything.

Wish I could remember what year.

All my travel records and calendars were destroyed in our house fire in 2007.

[kimbutgar]

224. Twice my husband, son and myself took to the streets of San Francisco

protesting this illegal and immoral war. The day the war started I remember getting off Muni and coming upon a bunch of protestors being corralled by the police. But there were more protestors than police. It was like that all day. I remember being late for work because I watched the protestors and was in full support. When I got to work I was in tears knowing what this war was all about. My boss and fellow co-worker asked me what was wrong and I told them we going into another damn war and innocent people are going to be killed. They (both men born in the 1940's shrugged their shoulders and told me it will be over soon). I was so angry at them I barely talked the rest of the day and did my work. I remember as a young girl the large protest march in 1969 that went on for miles in San Francisco. My Dad took movies of which I saw against recently on a movie projector I found at the flea market. As a young child I remember that day so vividly and seeing the protestors that day in 2003 brought it all back to me.

My son is autistic but he marched with us for the two miles and never complained. He saw the signs and in his own way got it.

[derby378]

225. Checking in for myself and ChickMagic, both Camp Casey attendees

[padruig]

226. Seattle

Seattle as often as I could ...

It was because of the lead up and invasion that one of my home pages on my browser is DU

[Downtown Hound]

227. I was one of 2200 people arrested in San Francisco on the day the war broke out

Less than a week earlier I attended my first breakaway march in which 500 of us broke off from the designated protest route and marched through the city. We played a rather fun and intense game of cat and mouse with the police as they kept trying to kettle us and we kept breaking free. Good times.

I've protested the atrocity that was the Iraq War many times, both before and after it began.

[murray hill farm]

228. Belonged to a group called "GlynnPeace" in Brunswick, GA.

We were small, but we were everywhere for peace in SE Georgia!

[Stand and Fight]

229. Oklahoma City, OK

[BlueToTheBone]

230. San Francisco, Washington DC

and on the phone. I marched with tears streaming down my face, remembering when we did that almost 40 years before.

[otohara]

231. Twice in Denver and

another time when the evil spawn of Barbara Bush came to town.

[PatrynXX]

232. Thought it was moronic. We hadn't captured the 9/11 folks yet

It was going to distract us. Would be like oh the Japanese nailed us... lets all ignore them and fight Germany instead. X_X

[haele]

233. San Diego - in the marches.

The kidlet held signs on streetcorners during the day when she wasn't a school several times.

Haele

[Tab]

234. I did. Still do. n/t

[mamayo]

235. I hated this war from the start

and I hate it even more now when I see the broken men and women who returned.

[Heathen57]

236. Colorado Springs

Where the police brought out tear gas, because they couldn't just let peaceful protesters do their thing.

[Faygo Kid]

237. Multiple times in DC. Little news coverage.

100,000+ regularly couldn't hold a candle to two dozen Tea Party nuts as far as The Washington Post was concerned.

[somethingshiny]

238. I marched in Cincinnati

I also remember a loud, tearful argument about the war on my front porch, with my (now ex) boyfriend.

[FreedomRain]

239. LA october 2007

with youngest daughter. (son took the pic)

[Cali_Democrat]

240. 3 times

LA twice and New York once.

[graywarrior]

241. Yep, while lots around me were for it.

[arikara]

242. Victoria BC

multiple times.

[mikeargo]

243. Concord, NH 2006

[Rozlee]

244. Feb. 2003, San Antonio.

Marched around downtown San Antonio. Some guy sang "War, what's it good for?" by Edwinn Starr and we'd chorus, "Absolutely nothin'!" People had signs with Bush, Rumy and Cheney with "Asses of Evil" and there was a pretty good cross section of people there, although the majority of them tended young.

[Hissyspit]

245. Multiple Protests in D.C. and Fort Bragg. Here's one of the PHOTO threads I did:

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Hissyspit/527

[alfredo]

246. Lexington, Ky took part in vigils too.

[Agschmid]

247. Burlington, VT and yep I did that.

None are me, but they/we were there for a long time.

[silverweb]

248. San Diego.

[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]2003 and subsequently.

[Johnny Noshoes]

250. NYC February 15,2003

[Kolesar]

251. Twice in Washington and three in the Cle...eom

[Kahuna]

252. I did! NYC on Feb 10.. (I think that was the date) in 10 degrees cold.

Rev. Al, Jesse Jackson, Susan Sarandon and Jessica Lange all spoke.

[Spartacus Maximus XL]

254. hell, I protested the 91kuwait invasion

I saw all this a-comin' ...

[chervilant]

255. DC,

Camp Casey, and Houston.

Even to this day, all our efforts were for naught ...

[KansDem]

256. Kansas City

This fountain was the location for many protests. I held a sign at one that read, "They Impeach Lying Presidents, Don't They?"

[SarasotaDem]

257. Yup

Sarasota Florida