The Day After

Here are a few pics of my afternoon in San Francisco.



The counter-inaugural demonstration was organized by A.N.S.W.E.R. and the organizers' main messages were directly against Bush's inauguration as President and to get the troops out of Iraq.



Both struck me as somewhat limited messages. The first because it might be more effective to keep the media focused on voter (dis)enfranchisement - this is something we can change. The second because I think that we need a message that moves beyond getting the troops out of Iraq and focuses equally on the people within the country that our nation is currently occupying. There are many more Iraqis dying in this unjust war than there are American troops - if the death of one U.S. soldier is horrendous, what does that say about the deaths of thousands of Iraqis?

On a lighter note, there was much to see in San Francisco.



A critical mass demonstration also made up a large part of the action.