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Election
2004 Photos
Photos and articles
from my efforts this past fall to bring W back home to Texas
-- where he belongs!
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New
York protests during the Republican National Convention
Note:
Due to security concerns, I used 'disposable cameras' -- rather than
my regular 35 mm camera -- to take the street protest photos. So the
picture quality isn't all that great....
Click
on the thumbnail images to see enlargements
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big march, held in Manhattan August 29, 2004, in which
approximately 500,000 people participated the day before the convention
started. I carried a Texas flag in the march to show that not
everyone in Texas supports W! |
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Protesters, solemnly carrying
simulated coffins, assemble before the march begins
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Protester carrying a sign about
the atrocities at Abu Ghraib
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Quakers, holding a sign promoting
peace, prepare for the march
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The march begins
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Sign with a Pee Wee Herman theme
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The police, flying in a blimp
and a helicopter, keep a watchful eye from above
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A gay rights
banner carried in the march |
A pink, inflatable
elephant satirizing the GOP |
Some more signs
carried in the march: Somebody's got something against Texas! |
The protest
route passes a sign advertising Fox News |
Marching past
Madison Square Garden |
Approaching
the Flatiron Building, on the way to Union Square |
| Fox
News Shut-Up-A-Thon (August 31, 2004) Why
call it a "Shut-Up-A-Thon?" Click here
to read about Bill O'Reilly's proclivity for saying "shut
up." And click here
to read about a famous incident where O'Reilly told Al Franken
to shut up. |
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With the NYPD looking on, protesters
gather outside Fox News HQ.
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Some of the 1,000+ protesters
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Someone's who's watched way too
much TV!
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Another creative costume with
a TV theme
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A Code Pink member leads the
crowd in shouts of "shut up!" and other chants
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Bill O'Reilly.
Oh Really?
Well, no.
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More protesters
outside Fox News HQ |
Eat your veggies!
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An interesting
sign |
Even more protesters!
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Sean Hannity
and Brit Hume cheering on the Republicans |
Meanwhile,
the authorities videotape those of us exercising our First Amendment
rights (while we still have them!) |
| Candlelight
vigil at Union Square (Manhattan), September 2, 2004
-- the night W accepted the GOP nomination |
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New York children mourning dead
Iraqi children
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List of American war dead in
Iraq
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A chicken hawk!
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Musical dissent
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Our genius-in-chief
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W does some ciphering!
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| Another
sign |
A daylight
rally at Union Square |
Stuff for sale
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few photos from Green Bay, WI where I did volunteer work
for the Kerry campaign |
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I pick up a cow
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John Kerry speaking before supporters,
Oct. 25.
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Yours truly standing on stage
behind Sen. Kerry.
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