I ran into this pro-Burma rally in Manhattan yesterday. Photo taken on 77th Street between 5th and Madison:
Funnily enough, I later ran into an anti-Scientology rally in front of the Scientology Center on 82nd Street. Yesterday was a good day for rallying, I suppose. (The weather was nice, anyway.) Both were small, very tightly controlled, mostly polite rallies behind those blue police barriers.
And thanks for playing nice this weekend. I didn’t have to work too hard after all.
A group called Anonymous was behind that anti-Scientology rally. Visit Enturbulation.org someday; it’s… interesting.
I went to Crafts on Columbus (Columbus Avenue and 81st Street) yesterday and there was a parade by a group of organizations (I only remember Code Pink, but there were a few other names on signs and buttons) protesting the Iraq war and calling attention to Mother’s Day having been started in protest to the Civil War.
fshk.. The statue in the Grand Army Plaza of the mounted Union officer in your Flickr photostream is General Henry Warner Slocum.
It’s a disgrace that Bush said we won’t drop food because the Myanmar junta doesn’t want us to.
That never stops us from dropping bombs.
“pro-Burma”
Really? They are out publicly demonstrating their support FOR the Myanmari Government? That can’t be right…
How about that guy McCain personally chose to head the RNC who works for a PR firm that has the Myanmar government as a client. Just more proof that the GOP leadership hates all forms of democracy and republicanism. And that they love brutal military dictators that intentionally refuse aid specifically so that millions of their fellow country-men will die horrible, needless deaths. The GOP so want to do that here.
Comrade Rutherford,
They are out publicly demonstrating their support FOR the Myanmari Government? That can’t be right…
Do try not to be an idiot. “Burma” and “the Myanmar government” are not the same thing, any more than “America” and “the Bush Administration” are the same thing.