2 posts tagged “march”

I've realized that I always have a lot of fun at protests and marches... although before yesterday the last one I had gone to was International Workers Day back in May.  There's something about being in the middle of a large group of people who are energized about an issue that is so electrifying.  So anyway, the protest and march against Prop 8 yesterday were great.  It was hot as hell in Civic Center, so I periodically had to wear my sign on my head to keep from getting sunburned.  Speaking of which, here it is:

There were a lot of speakers, the two best being Tom Ammiano and Amos Brown, who both fired up the huge crowd.  I also enjoyed Carole Migden, who proposed slicing the state of California into two separate states, north and south, and then nominated herself as Governor of the newly formed North California.  Ha.  Here's a snippet of Amos Brown's speech... I would have taken more but I couldn't actually see him (although I was pretty close to the front):
  The speakers weren't quite done when we drifted away, but we had noticed that a march had started down Market street, and honestly our interest had kind of waned when a guy started singing a gay marriage folk song.  So we marched down Market until we hit Cafe Flore, where we stopped for cocktails and a light lunch.  Did I say it was a fabulous day, or what?
Oh, and finally, my favorite sign of the day:
  Closely followed by this one:

Okay, so this is a little late, but I just now figured out how to upload photos from my cell phone to my computer.  Don't laugh, I am slowly catching up with the rest of civilization.  Anyway, these are a couple of photos from last Thursday, ie May Day, ie International Workers Day.  I met up with Andrew and a couple of his classmates on Muni, where a large group of SFSU students had swarmed and taken over an entire train. 

I'm just glad I knew what was going on, because if I had innocently been taking Muni and all of a sudden a mob of students pounding drums and chanting "Si se puede!" had appeared, I might have found it mildly irritating.  But as it was, it was pretty fun to be caught up in the excitement.  We (our little group, not the entire mob) stopped in the Castro for a couple of beers before the rally in Dolores Park, and then joined the march to Civic Center before everyone wandered off in different directions.  I'm not the most political person, so for me the best part was just being out in the sun.  But like I mentioned already it was easy to get caught up in everyone else's enthusiasm, which made the whole thing pretty fun in the end.