We Protested, Too (Photo Heavy ~ Dial Up Warning)

[Emit]

SF 1.18.03


SF 1.18.03


DC 1.18.03


NYC 2.15.03


SF 2.16.03


DC 3.8.03


DC 3.16.03


SF 10.25.03


NYC 3.20.04


NYC 8.29.04


DC 9.24-26.05


DC 9.24.05


Chicago 3.18.06


Chicago 3.18.06


DC 3.17.07

[onethatcares]

1. when I hear of right wingers

wanting to foist the wars off on President Obama, I ask if they are against the wars and if they'll stand in solidarity with the peace keepers of the world and protest them.

It leads to some very interesting face shades.

[happygoluckytoyou]

26. all we are saying is GIVE TEABAGGING A CHANCE... if not, try a rusty trumbone or a dirty sanchez!!!!

[geardaddy]

83. lol

:thumbsup:

[dixiegrrrrl]

2. Gee....saw nothing about it on the tv. Guess it didn't happen.

:mad:

[Catshrink]

4. Well there were only about 1000 people there.

:evilgrin:

[HowHasItComeToThis]

68. THE "CORPORATE MEDIA" ARE PROPAGANDISTS

AS ROD SERLING SAID
WE CONTOL THE HIRIZONTAL,
WE CONTROL THE VERTICLE,

...

[teknomanzer]

82. That was "Outer Limits" not Twilight Zone...

Sorry my geek is showing... now, back to your regularly scheduled program...

[Uncle Joe]

76. During the rare times when I did see coverage on television, it was always closeup shots, they

never did a panoramic view; showing the the size of the protest to the American People.

[Emit]

96. I remember in '05 watching the march in DC waiting for an aerial view

Nada.

And, on CSPAN, the cameras were fixed on the stage with all the speakers ~ mostly ANSWER folks ~ when in reality, the march had already begun and was huge! People were literally filling numerous blocks, I realized after getting some details and photos on line ~ I think we were following it right here at DU!!

The coverage, or lack thereof, was very misleading, imho.

[Arugula Latte]

3. ... and nary a peep from our corporate media shills about the astonishing numbers who turned out.

Yet, a few hundred teabaggers gather and they are the new face of America. :eyes:

[Emit]

6. I'm sick of these 'baggers saying

their voices aren't being heard.

[SocialistLez]

91. Voices of a minority being presented as the majority

[BrklynLiberal]

5. Yes! I remember going to DC for the Women's Rights March, and talking to a friend when I got back

home. She had been unable to find coverage of it ANYWHERE on TV!!

I wrote a letter to the editor of the NYTimes complaining about their lack of coverage.
Their biggest picture about the demonstration showed a few of the opposition people standing
around with a sign..while we were..



I took this pic of a guy carrying this sign in NYC on August 29, 2004...protesting during the repuke convention

[Emit]

19. Thanks for marching, BrklynLiberal!

and for the pics (love the 'big boobs' one) ~ the March for Women's Lives ('04, iirc) was HUGE! And yet, nary a word from M$M. :hi:

[BrklynLiberal]

21. Yes. We had a million people there..and as you said, not a peep!!!

At the time we were acutely aware of the lack of news helicopters or any other news people anywhere to be seen.

[LynneSin]

49. I was at that protest - what a great weekend. There was close to a million there

I wonder if Skinner and Earlg still have that George Bush cut-out that we took to the protest. He was so much fun and people kept slapping these stickers all over him.

[midnight]

64. Third sign is a doozy.....

[valerief]

85. I remember it was on CSPAN ***once*** and NOTHING ELSE!!!!! Like it never happened at all. nt

[CBR]

7. I was there -- 01.18.03. Amazing protest. Thanks for the pics. nt

[Autonomy]

31. I was there also

I went with a girl from Florida -- she drove non-stop and picked me up in Delaware -- and I was reunited with my Australian gf there. It was cold as hell, but I don't remember feeling it. We still thought we could prevent the war. How naive I was. There were probably 100 people at the after party at some friends' house in Adams Morgan, and we slept communally on the hard wood floor. She and I couldn't wait to get back to DE to be alone together. Funny how I can only remember the good times, and all in very personal memories. :)

[LynneSin]

50. I remember that protest - it was SO FRICKING COLD.....

My sign said "Another Philadelphia Eagles Fan against the war" We had a playoff game the next day.

[ChicagoSuz219]

8. You call THOSE protests?!?

I didn't even see one folding chair!!

LMAO

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[lame54]

9. DUzy

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Emit]

10. lol!

Funny!



:rofl:

[zbdent]

16. That's just the line for the port-a-potty ...

unlike the pro-war demonstrations, the port-a-potties did NOT outnumber the attendees ...

[ChicagoSuz219]

24. LOL...love it!

:applause:

[BrklynLiberal]

22. That was pretty funny. I second the DUzy nomination.

[zbdent]

56. are there still Duzy awards?

I know the original keeper of the Duzys sorta retired ...

[PatSeg]

25. And where are the funny hats

and Revolutionary War costumes? The misspelled words? Assault weapons? Some people just don't know how to hold a protest!

[Poll_Blind]

69. Sir or Madam, that was AWESOME!

LOL!

PB

[UpInArms]

11. the corporate media has no business being our "news" providers

they suck and they do a terrible job and I hate them with every fiber of my being.

[malaise]

12. Great post

YOu sure didn't get the coverage that is being afforded this small group of RW teabaggers.

[WillyT]

13. I Was At A Few Of Those...

Big K & R !!!

:kick:

[butterfly77]

14. Because...

The TEABAGGERS are REAL AMERICANS:sarcasm:

[zbdent]

15. but it wasn't on Faux, so it never happened ...

and the other "liberal media outlets" didn't know there was a story there, since they didn't get the memo from Faux ...

[patrice]

17. Thanks for posting these!!! They do my heart good!

I should dig mine out of wherever it was that I put them and upload them to photobucket or something, many nice individual portraits of the kinds of people who come to these events.

[NV Whino]

18. I was down there in those SF marches!

If you look really, really closely, you can see me.

[mike_c]

28. me too!

Solidarity!

[Webster Green]

42. Me three!

Spent 5 days down in SF from March 19 - March 23, 2003.

Got caught up in a police corral in front of the Bechtel Bldg. on the 21st, but managed to escape. I was real thankful, because it was only 7:30 AM.

* Edit to add pic: Market Street still shut down on March 21, 2003

[janet118]

20. Remember the protests at Bush's first inauguration in 2001 . . .

I saw a few short clips on C-Span and heard about some incidents via word of mouth, but it wasn't until Mike Moore's "Fahrenheit 911" came out that the demonstrations became common knowledge.

I marched in New York in 2003 against the Iraq War Resolution. There were, I swear, close to a million people there. Yet it barely received local coverage - even though people were being penned up in metal barricades far from the actual speakers and arrested by cops on horseback. The media publicized Rome and London, not New York. Amazing. I gave up on demonstrations after that.

If you demonstrate on the mall and no one covers it, did you really demonstrate?

Honest to god, if I were super rich, I would buy my own cable news network.

[AlbertCat]

32. but it wasn't until Mike Moore's "Fahrenheit 911" ...that the demonstrations became common knowledge

With eggs being thrown at the Prez's limo! Like that wasn't news!

[janet118]

98. Or this wasn't news?

Naked man and woman disrupt Bush's Swearing-in Ceremony

A while back, I heard a radio interview about this event which involved Joan Roney and a male co-protester. Both had written anti-Bush slogans on their bodies and were given tickets to gain entry to the swearing in ceremony (I guess they weren't in as much demand as Obama inaugural tickets). The thing that kept running through my mind is - why wasn't this covered by the national media? Can you imagine if this had been Obama? 24/360 . . . All over the news. Why does the media protect Republicans? Do they belong to a secret cult? Are there Oligarchs Anonymous chapters throughout the U.S.?

Why do they have rich guys that buy up radio and tv stations and we only have a few lousy newspapers and magazines? What's up?

[Enthusiast]

46. I'm with you janet118.

But if you bought your own cable news network it would probably be dropped by Time Warner, DishNetwork and DirecTV. If your station didn't carry the "official" message.

Still, rather than donate money to a bunch of other worthy causes, we would probably be better served to buy a cable news network so our point of view could be told.

[Emit]

97. Thanks for marching, janet118!

I, too, knew that there were protests at Bush's first inauguration in 2001 but had no idea the extent of them until "Fahrenheit 911" came out. I remember feeling so cheated ~ well, at that point, for many reasons, but specifically, for realizing that there were so many more of us that were against Bush & Co. than we were lead to believe at the time. I felt that way about every huge march they never covered thereafter, as well ~ relieved to know that I was far from alone, but cheated that M$M ignored the marches, or failed to portray how vast they truly were.

[pleah]

23. K AND R! Awesome pictures!

:patriot:

[Historic NY]

27. If Dems & Progressives came out there now the GOP & tp's would shit.

[Grassy Knoll]

29. No matter who and how many they drum up............

They will never get the protest numbers as high as a dubya rally , but because of those protests
they try oh so hard to make them hate Obama equally .
They don't like the fact that he is black and he is 100 times better a president.
Sucks to be a repug today.They will NEVER get their Dubya country back, EVER !

[JDPriestly]

30. Now those are real crowds.

[gtar100]

33. I want to cry; but I get mad

This reveals the extent of the distortions they are laying on us. Those in power and control are few but they are controlling the message. It's got to be taken from them from the grass roots.

[gtar100]

34. Oh yea; and fuck your little tea parties.

Assholes.

[W T F]

35. I was at the NYC 8/04man DC 9/05

The DC anti war protest was over 200,000 people but we never got the press attention that the tea baggers got with only 50,000

[Bryn]

36. It's so nice to know people like us actually outnumber the teabaggers!

Yet Fox, CNN, MSNBC... go on and on and on about those teabaggers making them bigger and bigger. Doh!

Thanks for posting beautiful pictures of beautiful protestors! I hadn't known. They are truly amazing pictures. Such huge crowds! I am impressed!

[Lorien]

37. We did indeed

Frequently and in far greater numbers. And I'm sure if threats of violence had been made there WOULD have been arrests!

[VPStoltz]

38. Where are we now?

If there is a time when The PrezO needs a couple 100K walking the streets, it's now.
But then, would anyone see it?

[live love laugh]

39. Chicago March '06 . . . I was there too. nt

[Faygo Kid]

40. Damned right, and I was there. The media found us boring.

We are still here, and we still outnumber the Fox News nutcases.

[FedUpWithIt All]

41. I was in DC 9-24-05. In our room that night even the local news was misrepresenting the numbers.

It was pretty incredible.

[pundaint]

43. That is one compelling post - nice job!

[Enthusiast]

44. More evidence that

the Media is completely biased.

I can't tell you how many times I've had DUers argue the point that the media is not a problem. I feel the media is the number one problem.

[barbtries]

45. great pictures

los angeles 2005

eta by the news coverage, yeah, you would have never even known it happened. i too hate the msm.

[annabanana]

47. We should kick & rec this thread until it shows up on a big screen

Surely Keith or Rachel might find a little 15 - 30 second slot for some of these pictures that live only on our hard drives....









and snatched from TRAFFIC WEBCAMS for God's sake!

[Phentex]

48. That was back when it was unAmerican to protest...

and the repubs were saying "We need to support our President!"

Do you think any of them realize how much money is being spent on these wars?

[kjones]

65. Realization requires thought...

[90-percent]

51. DC 1-18-03

That was the first war protest I participated in in my life, and I'm 55 and sweated out the draft during the Viet Nam era. Took a bus down from Connecticut. It was very very cold. I was amazed the speakers and singers could sing and speak!

MSM aggressively ignored all of this at the time. To those discouraged by the MSM censoring of this coverage, I say DO IT BIGGER AND LOUDER NEXT TIME! Do not be beaten by their tactics! Let it make us all stronger and more powerful!

-90% Jimmy

[Hubert Flottz]

52. We don't just out number the tea braggers...

We out rank them too...WE WON! WE'RE NUMBER ONE!

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

53. In 200 US cities.

Simultaneously.

[Emit]

63. Yes! And, millions of people protested in hundreds of cities around the world on February 15, 2003.

And I read at one of the links when gathering these photos that between January and April 2003, about 36 million people took part in nearly 3,000 protests around the world against the Iraq war, a figure we did not, and do not now, hear repeated on M$M.


Pakistan 1.18.03


Australia 2.14.03


Rome 2.15.03


London 2.15.03


Santiago, Chile 3.7.03


Rome 4.12.03


Seville, Spain 4.12.03


London 9.27.03

edit to add a word or two :hi:

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

71. We need to address our mistake in order to get requisite coverage.

We need a couple hundred people to gather in one city. Then Katie, bar the door!- here comes round-the clock coverage for months!

If only the media had told us about their Inverse Relationship policy!

[murdoch]

100. NYC marches

Absolutely.

I knew the February 15, 2003 march in New York was going to be huge, so I slept in that morning. Millions all over the US and the world protested that day.

I went to the March 20, 2004 one in New York that is pictured in the original -



This was just the crowd that was in front of me, more were behind and not pictured.

Protesting and marching have their place, but then the organizing has to get going - not just against the war but for all social justice issues.

[Odin2005]

54. This is how the MSM creates reality. If it's not on the "News" it doesn;t exist for most people.

[lunatica]

55. I was in SF and that was my third protest march

The other two were just as big. The first one was to protest the war in Afghanistan which I think was at least nationwide if not worldwide. It was amazing. And the media ignored it.

I recall the ANSWER Coalition organized it ( http://www.actionsf.org/ ). At a certain place on the march they would stand with big empty plastic garbage cans asking for money. People would march past them throwing in whatever change or money they had. ANSWER then organized the next march.

Those marches had everyone in them. Palestinians, Unions, people who wanted to impeach Bush and people who wanted to spread the word that Gore had won but the Supreme Court had selected Bush, and every faction with a cause went to them.

What we need is an organization to do that again.

[Echo In Light]

57. k/r

[SOS]

58. There's the proof in pictures

Last Sunday, 250 brownshirts gathered to spit on a black Congressman and hurl racist invective.
24/7 coverage on all broadcast and cable outlets.

The protests above?
No coverage.

This OP is the proof that the corporate media is an appendage of the RNC and Wall Street.

[deutsey]

60. Yeah, we were just "focus groups," remember?

:eyes:

It really pisses me off that the crowds that came out regularly across the country and around the world protesting Iraq were either dismissed/diminished by most major "news" media or were smeared as un-American, unbalanced, and even violent.

Don't even get me started on Bush's first coronation in 2001. IMO, enthusiastic anti-Bush protestors far outnumbered Bush supporters in the streets of DC on that cold, messy rainy/snowy day, but all I saw in the coverage later that evening was a short clip of some black bloc anarchist tussling with a DC cop.

[SOS]

62. Sure do

My wife and I went to the Iraq protest in NYC in 2003.
We got off the subway at Lexington Avenue and 50th Street. That station was so crowded, we had to wait in line to get out of the station.
And that station is a half a mile from the UN!
We couldn't believe our eyes. Hundreds of thousands of people jamming every street and avenue from First Avenue to Lexington, from 42nd Street to 70th.

When we got home we checked the news. We got a dismissive 30 seconds of "coverage".
The Times ran a short article, focused on the traffic congestion.
Then Bush dismissed the whole world-wide protest movement as a focus group.

But if 1/100th the number of the Iraq protest show up in the desert of Nevada to shake their teabags, we are subjected to 24 hour a day coverage of their "movement".
They have a "movement", we are a "focus group". Even though our numbers are 100 times theirs.
It's sickening.

[kenfrequed]

78. There were big protests in Minneapolis too

It was incredible and important and mostly ignored.

Some of the largest protests in history taking place all over the globe and the mainstream media largely ignored all of it.

Contrasting that you have a couple dozen whining paid off nutjobs sitting in on a few townhouse meetings about healthcare reform and a decent sized (but much, much smaller) protest on September 12th and the media falls all over itself to talk about these worthless teabaggers that were pumped up by Fox News and partially paid for with corporate money.

It is just pathetic.

[G_j]

67. absolutely

They are NOT news outlets. Their job is to disseminate propaganda.

[myrna minx]

59. K&R n/t

[OnyxCollie]

61. K&R. nt

[SOS]

66. Update on media coverage 11:30 AM 3/29/10

Just turned on MSNBC.

The topic?
Palin and the Tea Party "movement"

:puke:

[lonestarnot]

70. Yes we fucking did!

:applause:

[NoSheep]

72. I was at 2 of those. I never saw coverage on either of them.

[Hissyspit]

73. LARGEST ANTI-WAR PROTESTS IN HISTORY

minimum coverage

deliberate minimum coverage

[xxqqqzme]

74. Darn! I was just to the left in the

first San Francisco picture. Just missed the frame.

[Uncle Joe]

75. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, Emit.:thumbsup:

[RedCloud]

77. Our area republican media moguls NEVER show us this!

They are so addicted to all things military they would never want to hurt the "loved ones" as they call them. Do you call people "loved ones" who participate in the killing of over 1,000,000 Iraqis?

[Turbineguy]

79. I call BS!

All those people were waiting to buy Sarah Palin's book.

[JuniperLea]

80. And we had to pay our taxes anyway, right?

We didn't get to hold back because we didn't agree with how our money was being wasted, right?

[Taverner]

81. And we know how to spell too

[valerief]

84. But if it wasn't CORPORATEWORLD NEWZ, it didn't really happen.

:grr:

[obxhead]

86. Now that Obama is in we have forgotten all about the importance

of these marches. If we were still DOING this maybe Obama would actually find the balls to bring our troops home, instead of sending them to be injured and killed.

We got a little distracted by the importance of propping up the broken insurance industry I guess. :(

[jennied]

87. People still use dial up?

Great pics BTW.

[Judi Lynn]

88. Thanks for the thread, Emit. You've put it in perspective.

It's hard to believe ANY news outlets could be this shockingly biased, isn't it?

We need our country back, no doubt about it. Our only public airwaves have been seized by those who have destroyed the print media, and they are lying to us every single day, at our total expense.

Your pictures speak louder than words. You were thoughtful, and generous to have taken the time to gather them so well to make your point.

[Emit]

99. Thanks, Judi Lynn

for the kind words ~ it was my pleasure collecting these photos and putting them out there for all to see, and to serve as a reminder of the lack of proper attention they received from our media.

The anti-war marches were huge and meaningful, a powerful message that went ignored. And sadly, we had to seek coverage about them at the time because the M$M wasn't covering them, at least not in their entirety. You are right, these pictures do speak louder than words. :thumbsup:

[90-percent]

89. pre-war 2003

When you total up the total numbers all over the world who participated in the 2003, you have the largest organized anti war protests mankind has every seen in the entire history of our species.

Most of the rest of the world with free main stream media knew this. The American main stream media was only allowed to cover anything pro-war, so this info was for all intents and purposed, censored out of all news broadcasts of the time. Almost like they are wholly owned and operated by the Military Industrial Congressional Complex or something, huh?

It's kind of hard to run a really effective democracy if the news media only offers up distorted, biased beyond relief, misleading and downright false corporate propaganda.

THANK GOD FOR THE INTERNET. It's our only lifeline left that can help us make informed decisions as citizens. Corporate MSM makes you act against your own personal best interests!

-90% Jimmy

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

90. Millions of anti-war protesters all over the world = No/Little Media Attention...

..and when there is attention, it is often demonized as "looney liberal leftists" or "far left lunacy."

But a small, handfull of tea bagging demonstrators = 24/7, complete coverage.

Someone will still have to prove to me that there is some liberal media out there because I just don't get it.

[Better Believe It]

92. I remember. Actually we got a lot of attention in the mass media. We need to demonstrate again.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

93. I don't. I live and work in Washington, D.C. Though I do remember some attention. And in fact,

C-Span did a good job covering us. However, I also remember how biased the reporting was, with the M$M downgrading our numbers or reporting as if the numbers were far less than they really were.

So, yes, there was some coverage, but not nearly as much as the tea baggers are getting. Maybe it's only because I live in the city, but the tea baggers are enjoying wall-to-wall coverage on a near daily basis. And the M$M is allowing the tea partiers to get away with so much, not correcting misinformation; not reporting what's really going on; and downplaying the racial aspect of what the tea partiers are doing.

Surely the anti-war protests are not given nearly as much attention.

I was working during the weekend of the protests two weekends ago. (I work right across the street from the National Mall.) I saw more anti-war protesters and way more demonstrators who came to march in favor of amnesty. I only saw a few tea partiers scattered here and there on Saturday. There were a good number of them on Sunday, but again, no where near the numbers represented by the amnesty and anti-war crowds. In fact, I could drive downtown with no traffic and few closed off streets. That doesn't happen when there are large events or marches happening.

[Stellar]

94. What happened to all the red-faced screaming and hollering people

that the tea-baggers had? I guess they loved the job Bush was doing. Or maybe by that time Bush had had scared them to death and they were cowering under their beds.

[arcane1]

95. And yet THIS made it onto CSPAN:

[upi402]

101. I learned in the 90's that there's a media blackout of liberal marches

The local TV news gave many minutes of coverage to the quality of the cotton candy at the river fair. And not even a mention of our march. They had cameras, but likely just turned over the film to the FBI.

[amborin]

102. thanks for posting these photos!