Protest pics from Minneapolis anti-war march 3.18.06

[katinmn]

3,500 to 4,500 turned out on a sunny 30+ degree day.

[babylonsister]

1. Excellent turnout! Thank you, katinmn!

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[katinmn]

3. Thank you! To Solidarity!

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[Keseys Ghost]

2. ONWARD!

[Catchawave]

4. Beautiful photos ! Thanks !

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[Mnemosyne]

5. Thank you!! If we can keep it! n/t

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[katinmn]

6. To live in defiance of the bad around us is a marvelous victory!

To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based
on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also
of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness.

What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our
lives. if we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do
something.

If we remember those times and places - and there are so many - where
people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at
least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different
direction.

And if we do act, in however small a way, we don't have to wait for
some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents,
and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all
that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.

~ Howard Zinn

[Mnemosyne]

10. I love Zinn's mind. And great quotations!

This is why we march and refuse to be silenced.


There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people for a purpose which is unattainable." : U.S. historian Howard Zinn, 1993

Each of the Iraqi children killed by the United States was our child. Each of the prisoners tortured in Abu Ghraib was our comrade. Each of their screams was ours. When they were humiliated, we were humiliated. The U.S. soldiers fighting in Iraq - mostly volunteers in a poverty draft from small towns and poor urban neighborhoods - are victims just as much as the Iraqis of the same horrendous process, which asks them to die for a victory that will never be theirs: Arundhati Roy, "Tide? Or Ivory Snow? Public Power in the Age of Empire,"

"Americans cannot escape a certain responsibility for what is done in our name around the world. In a democracy, even one as corrupted as ours, ultimate authority rests with the people. We empower the government with our votes, finance it with our taxes, bolster it with our silent acquiescence. If we are passive in the face of America's official actions overseas, we in effect endorse them." - Mark Hertzgaard

Those who have the privilege to know, have the duty to act." Albert Einstein

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"I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do. What I can do, I should do. And what I should do, by the grace of God, I will do." - Edward Everett Hale

"The most effective means of preventing tyranny is to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of the people at large, and more especially to give them knowledge of those facts.": Thomas Jefferson

And last, but by no means least:

"If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed, if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a small chance of survival. There may even be a worse case: you may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves." ? Winston Churchill


I couldn't attend a march this weekend, :( but my heart is at each and every one!

[katinmn]

11. Thanks for posting these. Much appreciated!

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[Mnemosyne]

12. Very welcome! n/t

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[pstans]

7. Thanks

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[IsIt1984Yet]

8. Thank you for sharing!!

Moving!

[chieftain]

9. Hurrah for Minneapolis!