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katinmn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-10-05 08:05 PM
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Today's protest over the Mississippi River
The Lake Street Bridge (dubbed The Peace Bridge) is great on a warm day. Nice breeze from the river, lots of after work traffic. Many peace signs and waves and many people just laid on their horns all the way across the bridge!

About four of us had signs specific to Cindy Sheehan's stand-off at Cookoobanana's ranch. Plans were made to have more solidarity protests for Cindy both Thursday and Friday. I'll post the details when I get them.

Hey Bush! Meet with Cindy! (Mine said, Dubya-Meet With Cindy!) This woman spotted my sign and made her way across the bridge.

Georgie is a afraid of a middle-aged woman!

Ban War! (Wish I would have lightened this one up)

Ban War (reverse of sign)

Lydia Leftcoast waving at a passerby - Sorry it's so blurry!
Enlist? The fellow with the flag is going to Crawford and the Sept. DC protest, too.

No Bushit :P

Support the Troops - Bring them Home

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Lydia Leftcoast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-10-05 08:27 PM
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1. I was wondering how that picture would turn out...
:-)

The rest of them were great, though.

This was my first time on the Bridge, and it was fun, with lots of positive responses, including honks, peace signs, and flashing headlights.

Afterwards, I went for dinner with some of the other protestors, and I asked them whether the response had always been this positive. They said no, that in the beginning, they got a lot of middle fingers and catcalls.

Today, I saw only one middle finger out of the whole rush hour crowd, as opposed to maybe 50% positive indications.
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bvar22 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-10-05 08:50 PM
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2. Sorry I missed it today.
bad toothache.
I HATE dentists.
I'm an "anti-dentite".

Thanks for the pics.
I'll be there next Weds.
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Lydia Leftcoast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-10-05 08:52 PM
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3. Well, I'd say there were about 25 or 30 people on the bridge,
Edited on Wed Aug-10-05 08:54 PM by Lydia Leftcoast
more on the south side than the north side.

Some people honked their horns all the way across the bridge!

There was a visitor from a peace group in Germany who was running around taking pictures. I think his camera must have had a 60-second video function, because he interviewed me about why I was there, peering through the camera the whole time.
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bvar22 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-10-05 08:55 PM
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4. This group of steady regular activists...
...makes me proud of the Twin Cities.
They are there EVERY week.
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DemonFighterLives Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-11-05 07:12 AM
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5. Great Pictures!
Thanks for sharing!
I didn't make it there - Sorry.

:woohoo: :applause: :woohoo: :applause:
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katinmn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-11-05 09:24 AM
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6. Join us in front of Coleman's office between 5-7 tonight!
Listen to AAR 950 for details or see related post.

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