Photos: Bush Protest in Rome

[stephinrome]

Hi all, sharing a message to our group about the Bush protest in Rome on Wednesday, as well as some photos. Steph

The march in Rome yesterday was a success, with thousands participating and a great turnout from our group, U.S. Citizens for Peace & Justice. James Gilligan of Iraq Veterans Against the War spoke and musicians/activists Mat Callahan and Yvonne Moore came down from Switzerland to play at the end of the march.

Our three criminals Bush (Greg), Cheney (Becky) and Rice (Little Maria), were constantly surrounded by photographers, especially after painting their hands red, as were Rose's interminable list of Bush Admin war crimes, our brand new banner courtesy of Gen and the seven IMPEACH t-shirts. Joan of CodePink, on holiday in Italy, kept us chanting the entire way and stunned the Carabinieri when she tried to turn over our criminals for arrest.

Good luck to our French "cousins" of Americans Against War as they protest Bush today in Paris!


War Criminals!


The long list of Bush Admin Crimes


Our IMPEACH t-shirts.

More coverage of the march:
Article on Agence France Presse picked up by many newspapers which
mentions our group:
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?id=11653

MSNBC article
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25112374/

Photo Gallery on La Repubblica (click Avanti to move through photos)
http://roma.repubblica.it/multimedia/home/2360965
Video on La Repubblica
http://roma.repubblica.it/multimedia/home/2361987
Photos from Eidon Press
http://www.eidonpress.com/index.php?url=storia.php&id=21760
Reuters photo:
http://tinyurl.com/4mx6d7
AP Photos
http://tinyurl.com/53ahxh
http://tinyurl.com/3rsqxw
http://tinyurl.com/4moja5

And the press conference at the Regina Coeli prison was on Democracy Now!
last Tuesday: http://www.democracynow.org/2008/6/10/headlines

[fight4my3sons]

1. I love all of the photos at the links!

Thank you for posting these. It looks like it was a great time and a success. :)

[NJCher]

2. email from friend

My husband received an email from a friend in Italy and he read it to me--I would say 3/4 of it was a rant against bush and cheney. He was going to the protests, so I'll be looking for his picture!



Cher

[stephinrome]

3. Great! There is also a lot of anger...

...at the Italian government continuing to support the failed policies of the Bush Admin, and follow the path of ever more militarization.

[stephinrome]

4. and the march was covered on Democracy Now

yesterday. Our Bush Criminal made the cut.

[stephinrome]

5. forgot Democracy Now link

here it is: http://www.democracynow.org/2008/6/12/headlines (around minute 4:20)

[FightingIrish]

6. Here ar esome great ones from the Italian press

I thought the graphic on this kid's shirt really said what the world thinks of us



More at this link:


http://roma.repubblica.it/multimedia/home/2360965

Click on "Avanti" to scroll through the slide show

[ColbertWatcher]

13. That has got to be the sickest, yet most accurate image...

...of the GOP I have ever seen.

Wow.

[Nostradammit]

18. That graphic. Wow.

That's stunning.

[Blue_Tires]

7. ttt

[stephinrome]

8. what does ttt mean? n/t

[LSK]

9. to the top

[ColbertWatcher]

10. It is sad that Italian protesters can spell better than Merkin protesters. n/t

[stephinrome]

11. it's a phonetic language :) n/t

[ColbertWatcher]

12. Italian may be, but Merkin is not necessarily.

Most of the time it is, but I guess it may depend on one's accent.

[stephinrome]

15. and those are all US citizens in the photos...

...ok, there are a couple of Italian supporters, but they all know how to spell impeach now, and chant in English :)

(meant the photos I posted)

[ThatsMyBarack]

14. Unh!

:kick:

[stephinrome]

16. ok, now I have to ask, what does Unh mean? n/t

[ThatsMyBarack]

20. Just the way I spell out...

The sound effect of a kick-up! ;)

[GreenPartyVoter]

17. Kickin

[eowyn_of_rohan]

19. GRAZIE ITALIA!!

Maybe you can get some action. We can't seem to.

[babylonsister]

21. Steph, you and your cohorts make me proud!

:yourock::yourock:

[pork medley]

22. pretty uninspiring

good on them for needing to feel useful though :)

[Habibi]

25. By all means,

post a few pics of your own inspiring protests.

[Senator]

23. Well Done "Romans!"

Hound the war criminals to the 4 corners.

===

[Judi Lynn]

24. So cool to see they are showing Bush they're aware of the 5 Cubans he's keeping

in prison on trumped up charges, 5 men who are national heroes for trying to learn what the Miami terrorists were planning against Cuba and Cubans in order to protect themselves from the next wave of bombing. They took their information they had gathered to the FBI, and the FBI ARRESTED THEM. Simply unforgiveable! Truly evil.

Romans are telling _Bush they know what he did to the "Cuban 5."



Your links are wonderful, stephinrome. You've done us all an enormous favor. Thank you.