Portland Oregon peace rally - a personal view.

R rhisiart at earthlink.net
Sat Mar 15 21:16:02 PST 2003


At 07:43 PM 3/15/2003 -0800, you wrote:
>I attended, and volunteered at the Portland anti-war rally today (March
>15,2003).
>

snip


>"Laura, control your monkey."

a marvelous sign.


>Proof that the protesters are not anti-monkey bigots: "Queer monkeys for
>peace."
>
>Man in a Winnie the Pooh costume with a sign saying: "Poohs for peace".

a charming sign


>Lastly something I kept running into - middle aged people (some of them
>late middle aged) who said "I've never been to a protest rally before in
>my life. But I felt I had to come to this one." I ran into this on the MAX
>train into Portland, and with people I got into conversations with during
>the march.

give this person a sign that says: "Yuppies for Peace."


>OK - no deep thoughts. just some subjective observations.
>
>Gar

thanks, Gar. and interesting, informative tale.

R



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