Protest Pics! Portland, OR March 18th (dial-up warning!)

[Viva_La_Revolution]

at least 15,000 attended


Liberals are clever








Anarchy kids trying to take Burnside Bridge




Followed them back downtown



Showdown at the Justice center



Local Celebrity sighting (Jim Hyde - local anchor)

[swag]

1. thanks, v

[Viva_La_Revolution]

2. ...

:*

[Parche]

14. Hey

Hey Viva,

Good pics!!! I couldnt make it this time, but let me know when the next one is!!!

Fellow Portlander!!!

[Viva_La_Revolution]

15. You should come to a DU Meet-up

First Saturday of every month. Good beer and great conversation. :)

[Parche]

18. Meetup

They have to have this there!!!!!!! :bounce:

OK when is the next one????

[Viva_La_Revolution]

19. April 7th

:)

[Parche]

23. april 7th

Ok PM me with the time and place!!!!!!!

[Blue_In_AK]

3. What a great crowd.

Oregon rocks!

[ellisonz]

4. That's Portland State University in downtown Portland for all yall in the not know.

Did the anarchy kids even get within 100 feet of the bridge this time?

I was downtown for the day after 2004, sorry I was in LA for this one, we have such "bright" police :evilgrin:

The Muslim ladies' sign is awesome (though the pic could use some photoshop)!

:headbang:

[Viva_La_Revolution]

5. right side up...

:evilgrin:

[ellisonz]

6. I'm serious...that's one good photo.

Kill the brightness of the sky and the sort of dullness the red gets from it is stunning.

I have a feeling the Reedies weren't out in force as it was spring break.O8)

[Viva_La_Revolution]

7. I guess I have to learn to use Photoshop

:)

You're right about the Reedies, but a few were there. :)

[grasswire]

8. my nephew....a high school sophomore...

...said he pulled out when people around him decided they would try to tip over a Tri-met bus filled with passengers.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

9. Wow. I saw nothing that intense by any streatch

Watched for over an hour around 5-6pm. Didn't even see people throwing anything. :shrug:

[grasswire]

10. It didn't happen

Apparently, just some big talk.

[lonestarnot]

16. Good thing I know how to read and write backwards!

:toast:

[Reader Rabbit]

11. Your pictures are way better than mine

But I'll still try to get them up by the weekend.

Am I the only one who gets annoyed by those damned anarchy kids? Gah. Their behavior is so attention-seeking and counter-productive. I honestly don't think they seriously care about the cause; they just want to make a spectacle of themselves. Reminds me of a lot of my eighth graders.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

12. I took over 50

these are the best of the bunch.

I love digital. :)

[Lydia Leftcoast]

13. Makes me nostalgic

Portland really knows how to put on demonstrations!

[Tom Joad]

17. It was a beautiful protest.

[EFerrari]

20. "Bones not Bombs"

:rofl:

I'm gonna use it!

Great pix, thanks!

[TNOE]

21. These are great

kick

[gratuitous]

22. Some dimbulb from Willamette Week was there

He put on a shirt and tie, and walked through the crowd beforehand with a sign that said on one side "Osama Loves PDX Liberals," and something equally inflammatory on the other side, but I don't quite remember what it was. I remarked to a friend of mine at the time I saw him, "Damn, the things you see when you don't have an enlistment form on you."

Well, Dimbulb wrote a short column about his experience in Willamette Week. You'll be horrified to know that many people in the crowd took exception to his little sign. Afterward, he left the sign laying around while he stepped into a porta-potty, and when he came out someone had put it in the trash!

We liberals are apparently a pretty vile bunch. And Willamette Week is no longer an "alternative" newspaper (and hasn't been for years).