Photos of today's Bush protest in Salt Lake City (warning LOTS of photos!)

You were warned...there are a lot of photos!

My mom and I went down to the protest and there was an amazingly large crowd (500-1,000). It was great. Mayor (Salt Lake City) Rocky Anderson spoke, as did the mother of a kid who died over in Iraq.

I haven't seen many stories on the protest...so I'll just let you know...ONE DID HAPPEN! Here are my photos.

So here they are...











































Mayor Anderson!

















































That's all!

Signed, a proud Salt Laker!

YOU ROCK!
Amazing, amazing day for SLC!

xoxox

One of the protest signs.

rocky hero bush zero was good

In fact, a bunch of us (all women) standing under that sign are in a picture in the college yearbook.

Never looked better than it did today.

Very proud of everyone who rallied!

http://kutv.com/topstories/local_story_234140008.html

illuminating..I'm so glad I clicked on cause I thought the mayor was the guy with the beard in Sean's pics.

Rocky's quite a guy..almost too good to be true when you've followed this thing from 2000 on!

http://news.globalfreepress.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?...



peace

Salt Lake City rocks!

Peace.

Great protest!!!!

http://downingstreetmemo.com/

I'm glad * wasn't in the Delta Center. I couldn't stand it if he walked in that building. He'd defile the place and it would have to be cleansed.

on edit: OH SHIT! Is that Freedom Park? Are you on 300 West, which will now be known forever as JOHN STOCKTON DRIVE? I just got even more choked up than I was before.

I too would not want Bush to step foot in the Delta Center. It's bad enough he's only a hop-skip away!

Great job. Looks like it was a wonderful turnout.

Loved the cross section of America (though I didn't see many minorities.) But lots of old/young people.

I especially loved the poster that said "Fighting for Peace is like screwing for Virginity"

and the little boy's tshirt that said "War starts with Dubya!"

Great pics...Way to go Salt Lake. You guys rock!

Nice cross section of folks by the looks of things...

signs. I bet there were 1,000 or so people there. All ages too.

Only regret: I wish people with other agendas didn't bring their signs to an event like this. This is an anti-war event, not an abortions rights, etc protest. I think a protest looks disorganized if there are all of these messages there. And some people there might be anti-choice and not want to be affiliated with pro-choice people, so they are less likely to go.

PS: Can I have some of these pics? I want to show some to another message board I visit.

Glad you liked 'em.

thanks! looks like more than 500 people to me - and hey - that Rocky person is not too hard on the eyes either.

I really enjoyed the little boy with the t-shirt that said "war begins with dubya"

Today's news they didn't want us to see! Nominate for greatest

My heart is in my throat when I see those pics. The hero worship days are OVER!

Good looking protest. Salt Lake

Thanks for sharing.

posting the pictures! We didn't get to see much footage of the protest on CNN!!

This is the one I REALLY like. This is what we need to say when framing that debate for the '06 elections, and beyond. I'm going to make this one for the protest Wednesday night.

That was effin funny!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Or should that be two words?

For our friends lurking here from other sites, I suggest you study the pictures in the original post carefully. That's what patriotic citizens look like. They love their country, and hate what your president has done to it.

the ratio...

excellent pics. Thanks!!!!

thanks for the pics.....the protest movement is starting to go strong.............thanks to the true American Patriots.

My ass !!!..That term should go the way of Nascar Dads and Security Moms......Thanks to all participants and thanks for the photos. Wish he would come back to Florida

that that despicable term must go the way of the dodo bird.

Right on Sean!

Please take my comments for the they intended.

But seriously, if you listened to the "looney right" the only people that protest are "dope-smoking, long-haired, communists, socialist terrorist sympathizing Sodomites".

These people look pretty damn normal to me! Nothing but average Americans that have had enough.

Sorry for letting the dope-smoking, long-haired, communist, socialist, sodomite contingency down.

genuinely nice, welcoming people.

It is time comsuming to post so many and they are all great!!

The 'Little Cowboy" is just perfect!

good on ya Sean! Good job Salt Lakers. Wonderful cross section of people there.

Make us all proud.

Someone has to stand up to this mis-administration.

The tide is turning!

The election was completely non-transparent and unverifiable, with two rightwing Bushite electronic voting machine companies, owned by two brothers, tabulating all the votes with SECRET, PROPRIETARY programming code.

That's why I don't buy any of the "red state"/"blue state" B.S. I DON'T KNOW how Utah voted--or any other state--and will not make judgments of any state until we have honest vote counts again.

Those were my thoughts, exactly. I'd love to know the REAL figures on the election.

http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2004/pages/results/states/U...

LOTS of older folks. that is AWESOME. i love seeing this in a red state!!

All we need is for YOU to lead (thank you Rocky!) and WE will follow (thank you SLC)!!!

We ARE the ones we've been waiting for. I get the sense that public sentiment on the war is about to freaking EXPLODE in BFEE's lying faces (and the blowback ain't gonna be pretty). God bless America.

Oooohhhh, priceless.

Salt Lake City rocks! Thanks for sharing the photos. Looks like a classic all-American protest. Wonderful.

As for your mayor *ahem* all I can say is hubba-hubba!

Watch this guy, he's got potential.

Kudos to the folks who turned out to "greet" Bush!

She was just talking about the pics and how big the protest was.

Sweetie!

Congrats to SLC on such a successful demonstration.

...keep on telling the truth!

I'm posting a link here:
8/22 ALL DU Cindy threads DAY 16
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...

They probably took another rout to the airport for he wouldn't have to see them.

What a douche.

so I came over to take a look, Great job!

...what a beautiful day

People are waking up and we aren't going to effin' take it anymore!

Salt Lake City rocks.

Thanks for the photos. It is good to see that most of the signs were hand made. I like the Heil Bush with the GOP elephant. Real brave of the mayor to make a speech at the protest. I'm sure the right wingers will be attacking him. Just came across an AP article. Mentions his speech, Cindy's camp, references to 9/11 - here we go again- , and the protesters. http://apnews1.iwon.com//article/20050822/D8C54O580.htm...

Utah gets a lot of flack for being so red, so thanks for showing that is not all a Republican wonderland.

It's on her front page! http://therandirhodesshow.com/live /

Go Salt Lake City!!!!!!

Those pictures rocked! I'm proud of you SLC!

Sonia

I'm in awe!

I loved the photos and the turnout!! I also love that our anti-war movement is breathing new life thanks to Cindy Sheehan. We protested this thing well before the first troop shipped off to Iraq, but finally.. .we're being heard.

I even like the chanting stuff back and forth across the street with all of the BushBots, read that War Profiteers.

THAT is what democracy looks like!

THANK YOU UTAH!!! How wonderful to see all the wonderful folks from Salt Lake City out to protest bush* and his illegal war.

You can also post at http://www.indymedia.org .

PEACE!

visit, but not the protestors, much less showing pix of them.

was at the Protest and bush is an interloper.

I can understand how proud you must be of your city. Many really great signs. Lots of good folks, standing tall! Way to go, Salt Lake! Thanks for letting us 'experience' it vicariously.

I'll never steriotype you guys again.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...

You made to Randi Rhodes homepage!!! Picture's all wonderful!
It looks like to me, their were over 1,000 people there!!!

10 porta-potties and 3 freepers.

Sean, please extend my appreciation to your mom for the photos. I also just wanted to stop by and tell you that you have consistently been one of the best posters here at the DU and I always look forward to reading what you write here.

I'm thrilled that such a rally happened there in Salt Lake proving what you've been saying for a long, long time. That dissent against this administration is universal and that we all need to take a new and more relevant picture of Utah.

And, slightly off topic, I didn't know SLC was so beautiful and green. I lived in the West, and by August usually everything was dried up and on fire. This year, even the East is all dried and brown...

It's in a huge valley surrounded year round by snow capped peaks.

If you ever need to relax in an urban setting, SLC is the place to go. Make sure you breathe very deeply, too, the air is amazingly sweet and clean.

Awesome pics!

n/t

Fringe Grandma

the GOP are burning their supporters at both ends.....These pics lend truth to my gut feelings that the elections have been rigged. It frosts my muffins that this doesn't make the news....more proof that we don't have our civil rights since Bush took office. The press can't be free if it has been bought and paid for.

for those great pics and signs!
Rocky Anderson, you ROCK!

My favorite sign, above, is "Why?" I want to see that everywhere. I want to hear 2 million people crying out and chanting, "Why?" in Washington DC, and "Why?" echoing around OUR capitol, and around OUR country.

Why? Why? Why? Why? Why?.....over and over and over.

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And what's all this dissing of "aging hippies"? Hippies are good. They led the revolution against the Vietnam war, and brought a NEW THOUGHT into American life: "Love, love, love!" Can't have that and predatory capitalism and hogfeasting miltary contractors, so they got reviled and stereotyped and dissed all over the place by the war profiteering, corporate news monopolies.

Be generous. Be peaceful. Be natural. Enjoy life. Make good music. There is plenty for everybody. Stop being so uptight and selfish and greedy. Make love not war!

Good ideas! Wonderful new ideas of what human life could be like!

Are we going to let the fascists define what democracy looks like? They'll dis whatever we do. They did it then, they're doing it now. Don't pander to them. Don't even think about them. They lie, lie, lie and lie some more. Be yourself, whoever you are. I'm all for all kinds of folks creating a peace movement. I love all different kinds of people, in every walk of life! Even freepers and dittoheads (the poor, pathetic, empty-souled fools)! I LOVE IT that this demo was so "middle-American" looking. Don't get me wrong. I understand P.R. as well as the next person (and also the broad-based desire for peace). But I go way back, and remember the thousands and thousands of straight people (me among them), back in 1967, marching against the war, and now...how does all that get characterized? As "hippies" and "weathermen" (bomb-makers) and "leftists"! It was an across-the-board REVOLUTION, in which Hippies were just the most colorful element--and the scary philosophers of "love thy neighbor as thyself" (scary to the war mongers). But somehow "hippies" and drugs and "weathermen" and "leftists" get to be the story, and the 99% of OTHER KINDS OF PEOPLE who marched against the war got blackholed then, and get blackholed now. Same old crap.

What is it? You want to assure the fascists and the warmongers that you DON'T REALLY MEAN PEACE, that you DON'T MEAN TO SHAKE THEM UP, that you DON'T REALLY BELIEVE THERE IS SOMETHING *FUNDAMENTALLY* WRONG when 58% of Americans opposed this war way back BEFORE the invasion, in Feb. '03, and we HAD WAR ANYWAY?

Is that what "aging hippies" means to them--and to those here who applaud "no tie-dyes," "straight crowd"? We're not going to threaten them in any way, not going to take their war toys away, not going to demand justice and equity?

Well, maybe they NEED some "aging Hippies" in their face! Love, love, love, assholes!

(LOL!)

I almost felt I was there. And, what a beautiful crowd it was. I was happy to see they were honoring Rocky Anderson with Kudos about him being a HERO and bush, of course, a BIG FAT ZERO!

I especially like this one..



Thank you, to our Salt Lake City Connection!

I might catch some heat for this but I believe that is so counterproductive to what is trying to be accomplised here. That DOES NOT help to bring the anti war crowd together from people of all beliefs.

who had a problem with the crazy policies of GW should be at his anti-Bush rally. He named several groups that should be there, his intention (if I'm remembering the article correctly) was that it would be a protest of all Bush has done wrong. The article was maybe 2 days ago. (I would almost put it as a call for impeachment rally).

And on a weekday! You go SLC.

Gyre

on the air

Those are awesome pics, and we're EXTREMELY proud of you guys. !!
Keep up the good work.

Who's next ???

Again! First Randi now Mike!

Sean - as a former resident of the great city of Salt Lake, I am proud of you guys. Utah may be a "red" state (purple like the rest really), but it has a strong blue streak. I always sensed a strong counter culture to the dominant culture there.

You should be able to download your fame tomorrow on the Air America archives:

http://www.airamericaplace.com/archive.php?mode=show&id...

of the peace movement coming to SLC. You should very proud of your fellow SLC'ers who showed up along with your mayor. I never bought too much in to the red state/blue state thing. It seemed like it was somehow designed to discourage people in the so-called red states and make the blue staters complacent. I salute your commitment, courage and
enthusiasm. We are all in this fight together.

Mr Molloy I believe

middle America... methinks the stenography corp. Rove and their minions now truly have reason to be nervous

Thanks Sean, great work

Thanks so much for taking the time to do this.

It's good to know there are people of substance in SLC -- who are putting themselves out on a weekday to attend this kind of a rally. It's so important to the cause!

Many, many thanks. Did the SLC papers give the protest any coverage?

Making peace a priority,

Radio Lady

The papers don't update until tomorrow.

to send them a reminder if this gets into the newspaper.

Making peace a priority,

Radio_Lady

BUSH, SPREAD DEMOCRACY AROUND THE WORLD WITH YOUR OWN FAMILY!!

thanks for posting them.

ellen fl

We had 150-200 people at the vigil in Donnelly, Idaho tonight! The population of Donnelly is only 138 and only 7300 for all of Valley County.




I saw the President fly by my house this afternoon. I could just feel the presence of evil.

Now THAT is really saying something.
Oh- and Buffalo_Guy! Welcome to DU!

Looks like mainstream America to me. How can they say it's only extreme fringe groups that are against the war?




I hope people turn out like this everywhere that little chimpanzee goes trying to sell his war.

the "eye of the tiger".

Unemployment rages in North Central Idaho, and we have Walking Tall type Tennessee sheriffs here. When the '04 election happened, I didn't meet a single person who was voting for Bush, yet he won by a gigantic margin here.

Salt Lake has good reason to be proud. Too bad Mormon dominated Southern Idaho won't be the same. Please don't forget not to buy gasoline on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays to stop buying the product that supports this administration and this war.

God Bless you D.H. Magus

Saw this on the ABC evening news, Charlie Gibson said to expect more protests against the war They also had the Mayor or of Salt Lake give an interview. I'm proud of those folks that meet W w/ protests!

Loved THAT.

Thanks so much for posting these and sharing your experience. I just wonder how we ever get coverage of these events? They want peaceful protests but you're not allowed near the object of protest and you can't get coverage without starting trouble.

Hey. At least they didn't put you in a fenced in pen! So I guess we're supposed to be grateful?

COME ON 'NEWS' DEPARTMENTS (and I use the term in it's original sense, not for what you're doing today...) HOW ABOUT COVERING BOTH SIDES OF THE EVENT?!

website (about 8-9 on them) got rave reviews their first day! These were mostly people who were previously indifferent to W's shenanigans, or not able to follow all of the details of the excuses for war. They are very appreciative of the protest effort and Salt Lake City and wish they could have gone. They loved the signs, especially "fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity."