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Reconvergence: rally photos
by Quinten
Saturday, Apr. 26, 2003 at 7:54 PM
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Photos from the rally immediately before and after the permitted march through Downtown, part of the regional peace re-convergence organized by the Thomas Merton Center Anti-War Committee.
About 500-700 participated in the rally for peace and march today. Both events were organized by the Thomas Merton Center Anti-War Committee, with feeder marches sponsored by the Pittsburgh Organizing Group, Blacks United Against the War, and a group calling itself the North Side Concerened Residents.
Notable events during the rally included singing by the Radical Cheerleaders and the Raging Grannies and the Carnival of Greed, put together by the Pittsburgh Organizing Group.
Relief Kit
by Quinten
Saturday, Apr. 26, 2003 at 7:54 PM
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This group was collecting goods to send to Iraqi families devastated by the US-led war.
Where are the Weapons of Mass Destruction?
by Quinten
Saturday, Apr. 26, 2003 at 7:54 PM
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Truly, the question of the day.
Support Our Troops
by Quinten
Saturday, Apr. 26, 2003 at 7:54 PM
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Whose President?
by Quinten
Saturday, Apr. 26, 2003 at 7:54 PM
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Wheel of Ill Fortune
by Quinten
Saturday, Apr. 26, 2003 at 7:54 PM
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This and the next few photos were part of the very creative Carnival of Greed.
Pin the Missile on the Middle East
by Quinten
Saturday, Apr. 26, 2003 at 7:54 PM
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Where will the US bomb next?
Pied!
by Quinten
Saturday, Apr. 26, 2003 at 7:54 PM
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Juggling
by Quinten
Saturday, Apr. 26, 2003 at 7:54 PM
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Stilts
by Quinten
Saturday, Apr. 26, 2003 at 7:54 PM
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Horsies!
by Quinten
Saturday, Apr. 26, 2003 at 7:54 PM
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Motor Cops
by Quinten
Saturday, Apr. 26, 2003 at 7:54 PM
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The only other significant police presence. Police were definitely not out in huge numbers.
Food Not Bombs
by Quinten
Saturday, Apr. 26, 2003 at 7:54 PM
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Radical Cheerleaders
by Quinten
Saturday, Apr. 26, 2003 at 7:54 PM
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A quiet end
by Quinten
Saturday, Apr. 26, 2003 at 7:54 PM
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This is at the end of the march, when we'd returned to Market Square.
cute carny
by teacozy
Sunday, Apr. 27, 2003 at 1:39 AM
that girl in that skirt is really cute!
awesome
by me
Sunday, Apr. 27, 2003 at 10:02 AM
Tom Vining for prez!
which one
by Evan N
Sunday, Apr. 27, 2003 at 10:19 AM
what girl in a skirt
i also want to shout out to the TMC AWC for organizing yet another totally sweet event
the cute girl
by teacozy
Sunday, Apr. 27, 2003 at 12:37 PM
i didn't realize that the post wouldn't go directly under the picture....but the cute girl is in the pic where that kid is getting pied. she is super duper cute!
you call this a protest?
by anotherapatheticamerican
Monday, Apr. 28, 2003 at 10:09 PM
I can't understand how anyone calls this a "sweet" rally. As far as my understanding of what the ultimate goal of the anti-war movement is (stop war) This in no way brought it any closer. If the goal of the anti-war movement is to have an excuse to boost your ego and feel good about the fact that while you may drive an SUV you do wear birkenstocks and voted for Gore, (but you really wantd to vote for Nader) then it was a success.It was "sweet" in that no one who attended the event had to be inconvenienced to do it, no one had to display any real passion, and this is sweet because I think there were few there who could have.
These are some of the reasons I feel this way. There was no real variety of tactics. Did what happened to the Pitt 122 scare the rest of you that much? I thought the carnival of greed was a good idea, but lacked the organization to make it happen well.
For something that took months of organizing, I found the websites to be very inadequate, lacking info on the routes of the feeder marches, legal contact info, and street medics for the march. I was, however, impressed with the large ACLU bloc at the march. if you took away the socialist agenda-pushers, cops, and the ACLU, there wouldn't be anyone left.
The speakers definitely were bland, most seemed to be pushing their own agenda. Is this a failure on the organizers part for not inviting better speakers or the community's part for not producing them? why was there not better media coverage? I saw many cameras there, butthose that run the papers will only print what they want to or what demands their attention. I'd say that that's an argument for more direct action.
As far as chants go, I couldn't keep myself from screaming "this is what hipocrisy looks like!" , "I wish I knew what democracy looked like!" and, "this is what beaureacracy looks like!" just to keep from having to hear that pathetic slogan one more time.
No, I don't think the march or rally was a success, but I do think that I am as much to blame as anyone else who did or didn't attend. If I wanted more of the things that I believe should be happening within the anti-war movement to happen, I should have made them happen.
P.S. Did anyone at least meet new people/network with other groups? The only thing that I felt good about my entire trip to Pitt was meeting the Food Not Bombs kids and dumpster scoring some veggies. Oh, yeah, and staring at that cute girl in the skirt. whatthefuck? Are anti-war protests the new meat market for the hip left?
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THIS WAS QUITE POSSIBLY THE GREATEST WASTE OF TIME
by Tim Voning
Tuesday, Apr. 29, 2003 at 11:08 AM
I think the GDP of the entire country was drawn down by the negative productivity of this rally. Why the hell did anyone bother. There was no mesage. There wsa no purpse. Other thna to spend the day adn a lot of energy talking to ourselves. So we played hackysack. We made sophmoric jokes about the President. We saw some homely chicks in bad make up trying to lead cheers. What a total waste of time. Clearly everyone had nothing better to do. ANd you expect the world to take fopreign policy advice from this group.
dating rituals in the movement
by Marvin Gaye
Tuesday, Apr. 29, 2003 at 5:21 PM
Lets just all admit it: organizers are sexy. The organizer wearing the skirt? DAMN sexy. I encourage everyone to be a sexy organizer and start organizing against US Imperialism, then maybe YOU will get some love from teacozy as well. Radical Cheerleaders = "homely chicks"? Don't believe it for a second, baby. By the way, it aint cool to use someone elses name as your screen name, you can be sued for libel. Tim Vining does have a law degree. :-)
april 26
by me
Tuesday, Apr. 29, 2003 at 6:13 PM
I don't think it was a major waste of time, but I agree that more needs to be done. And what would you propose us to do?
fucku
by liz
Saturday, May. 10, 2003 at 2:26 PM
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first off fucker my girlfriend is one of the hott girls up there dancing.Second off you are just feeling left out because of the real L-e-s-b-i-a-n-s in pgh real beautiful lucious babes. Personally i hope you get run over by a truck . You are a waste of space,and jealous because this is something you white boy will never be a part of. Kiss the back of my butt!!!!!! To all my sisters on stage you are all so damn hott.
To you be careful cuz radical grrls are always on the prowl
fucku
by liz
Saturday, May. 10, 2003 at 2:26 PM
lesbianavengerspgh.liz@incamail.com
first off fucker my girlfriend is one of the hott girls up there dancing.Second off you are just feeling left out because of the real L-e-s-b-i-a-n-s in pgh real beautiful lucious babes. Personally i hope you get run over by a truck . You are a waste of space,and jealous because this is something you white boy will never be a part of. Kiss the back of my butt!!!!!! To all my sisters on stage you are all so damn hott.
To you be careful cuz radical grrls are always on the prowl
fucku
by liz
Saturday, May. 10, 2003 at 2:26 PM
lesbianavengerspgh.liz@incamail.com
first off fucker my girlfriend is one of the hott girls up there dancing.Second off you are just feeling left out because of the real L-e-s-b-i-a-n-s in pgh real beautiful lucious babes. Personally i hope you get run over by a truck . You are a waste of space,and jealous because this is something you white boy will never be a part of. Kiss the back of my butt!!!!!! To all my sisters on stage you are all so damn hott.
To you be careful cuz radical grrls are always on the prowl
Tim VIning Has A Law Degree????
by Tom Voining
Tuesday, May. 13, 2003 at 6:56 AM
So why the hell isn;t he lawyering for all of you losers everytime you get arrested for being stupid? I guess he got his law degree teh same place I got my secret police decoder ring ... out of a cereal box.
Will the Fucker accept the challenge?
by Uneducated Activist
Tuesday, May. 13, 2003 at 7:36 PM
Hey Fucker, I've got a contest a big man such as yourself will surely take on. Lets test your theory of all of us activists being so uneducated. I mean, you and your supporters seem pretty sure that we're all so uneducated that any sort of competition would simply be a push over for you. I can tell that English is not your forte by your posts, so how about some math? Warm up with some simple algebra and geometry... You know, work our way up through the system until we hit applied differential equations or something. Or until one of us can't hang. No? Not a math/science person either? We can surely find some test of education to square off over. Maybe a best of three contest or something... That way we can each test something within our own realm of expertise and then have a bit of a tie-breaker if neccessary. Which it won't be. Because you are far smarter and more educated than I.
Bring it on, Fucker.
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