rally_for_peace_030216 jane i wasn't going to go but i was in san francisco and my friends said they would meet me there so they did the rally was amazing. there were tons of people there and we saw bonnie raitt and joan baez sing, not to mention a member from the coup if you like hip hop. we were trying to join the actual march when we realized that we were blocked in from all sides by cops lined up along the streets and blocking us from going any farther down the street. people started chanting and whatnot as soon as someone discovered an opening where they were letting people through we all went through and then we were all in the intersection and the cops made us move back to the sidewalk and we were there on all corners of the sidewalk for hours; they weren't letting people through. they arrested a couple folks, someone threw a rock, and a couple cop cars got a little beat up but otherwise nothing too bad we stayed on one corner for a while and finally the cops moved away and everybody poured into the intersection, yelling "whose streets?" "our streets!" the cops didn't really do anything about it until a bunch of us sat down in the middle of the intersection; i guess they warned us three times but i only heard two...and they closed a circle around the twenty to thirty people in the middle and started arresting them one by one. we had tried to leave but they told us we couldn't...so i called my dad and told him i was going to be arrested. we waited for the cops to pull a group of linked people apart and then when the cops found out we were minors they let us go. we were the only three that got out. i almost went to county jail nine tonight...i would have been there until tuesday i almost got arrested for peace 030216 ... ever dumbening my sign: NICE PEOPLE AGAINST ICKY STUFF (in crayon on the back: developmentally arrested artists for peace (with stick figures and the classic house)) *** kate's sign: SMART-ASSES FOR PEACE (on the back: cockroaches for armageddon (with a little roach saying: 'yeah, yeah, do it' ... and 'we heart nukes')) --- we got much love 030216 ... x i'm exmausted 030216 ... minnesota_chris it's all about the protesters now. Let's go protest G.W.Bush's mom. Or his best friend. 030217 ... silentbob his best friend is saddam hussein they have tea parties and buy each other ceramic elephants 030217 ... jane i can't believe you guys were there cool man 030217 what's it to you? who go blather from