Cleveland Ohio Vigil.............Dial-Up Warning

[OhioChick]

At St. Joe's..........

[deadparrot]

1. Cleveland rocks!

:D

Way to go, Ohio.

[Lorien]

2. Great pics-it looks like a beautiful evening

what part of town is that in? I lived in Cleveland for a while.

[OhioChick]

3. West side of Cleveland

near Rocky River Drive and Lorain.

[kittykitty]

5. Boo-hoo, makes me homesick. I grew up in Bay VIllage

The vigil area is part of my of my old stomping ground

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[Betty]

8. me too. I grew up in Lakewood

I am glad to see my old home state has some real patriots.

[MelissaB]

4. Thank you!

:hi:

[yorkiemommie1]

6. more sushi eating , NYTimes reading.. Volvo driving

>>> THINKING people!

beautiful!!!

[Justitia]

7. beautiful pics of lovely people - thanks! -eom

[AuntiBush]

9. And "Thank You," as well - OHIO!

Can't believe it. This is great. These photos might help some of us come out from under our rocks - 'cause this does just that.

Bless you all, Cleveland! Appreciate the upload of picts, too!

[WCGreen]

10. I went ot the Treemont one. No Pics

But here is my desciption....


I moseyed on down to one of them Candle light vigils...


We got great local news coverage....

A grieving father of one of the Brook Park 14 was at a vigil sponsored by Move on but not at the one I attended....

It was fun, but let me tell you folks, they shook the Hippie Tree and more than a few Dead Head came tumblin' out.....

I thought I was back in 1968...

Now I am no Mr. Conservative dresser or a stylin' suburban dude, I have rather long hair and a beard and wear jeans everywhere, but it seemed as if I had stepped into a time warp machine....

I saw a lot of people I had recognized from over the years, kind of like the professional leftist from Cleveland..... A veritable Who's Who of the Lenin Brigade, if you will...

O course I was there so what does that make me...

But I have always remained a little removed from most of our fair cities lefties simply because I abandoned the surreal Idealism of the Green Party and immersed myself in the more mainstream democratic party....

Even ran for office, which it seems, is an indication of selling out to some in this particular community....

But all and all, we had a good time, although they took it out a little too long, singing ten verses of "I ain't gonna ...... any more..." and the message was conveyed that there is a growing number of people out there concerned about the war....

I just wish, As Mrs. WCGreen use to poignantly say when we were at the Green Party meetings, they had done a little better job of appealing to the people on the front porch, the normal regular people...

Hell we all know that the lefties are with us, we need to reach out beyond that band of folks and reach into the heartland....

I was a little more encouraged when I got home to watch the news and saw there was indeed some suburbanites who weren't Unitarians, guilty, out protesting the war and what it is doing to us common folk....

Peace Out, and glad I went......

[johnnie]

11. Great pictures!

As you know Ohiochick I was there also, but I don't see me in any of the pictures.
I am going to try to put up a few pictures that I have later today.

[in_cog_ni_to]

12. Nice crowd! Great pics!

These vigils have given me HOPE that people are finally waking up.

Go Cleveland! Go Cindy!

[Algorem]

13. Vigils in NE Ohio, across U.S. bring together opponents of war

http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/cuyahoga/112435742571540.xml&coll=2

Thursday, August 18, 2005

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The peaceful protest was organized by Clevelanders Bobbi Reichtell and Lois Moss in conjunction with Move On Political Action, True Majority and Democracy for Americans...

Among the many speakers at Cleveland's event was the Rev. Barrett Cain, pastor of diversity and outreach for the Pilgrim Congregational Church.

He called the war in Iraq an unjust war and said it is not about freedom. He expressed concern about the psychological as well as physical damage that soldiers are suffering...

"If he's afraid to meet a woman in a ditch, how can he protect this country?" asked Ken Mader of Cleveland, speaking of protester Sheehan.