"The war is not only unnecessary, it is immoral," "We need to indicate to our leaders, alleged and actual, that the majority of people in this country is still opposed to this war." "President Bush, on November 2nd, 2004, there will be the biggest regime change you have ever seen. And that's what we're preparing for - unless it happens before then. Presidents have been impeached before." [Rep Conyers]
Attempted to get some food for the kids who began to complain of hunger pangs around 1pm. Denied access into the food court of the Renaissance Center (39 story, nearly 6 million square foot structure), which is owned by General Motors Corporation and is GM's global headquarters, because we were carrying peace signs for goodness sake. Denied access to and frogmarched quickly out the door of the Millender Center -- not sure which corporation owns that one -- by an incredulous type of men in black rat patrol...again the peace signs were the culprit.
Back at the street level we continued our food search. At that point the kids were chasing each other with the signs and doing back-walkovers and handsprings on the grassy patches as passing cars and pedestrians showed their support for peace...and the signs. We finally made our way to Detroit's Greektown for gyros, souvlaki, and avgolemono where the small businesses happily greeted us and our peace signs. In the end a shopper in her 60s asked if she could have one of our peace signs...sure we said also giving her a peace pin for her coat.
And thereby hangs a tale,
Diane