I arrived from a lot closer, I live in SF, got off the local Rapid Transit and took 3 hours to slowly walk to the Rally. It was a glorious day.
Bonnie sang Steve Still's "For What It's Worth" and thousands of people sang along. She did another blues song and saving Mother Earth, don't recall the name, her solo acoustic guitar and voice were phenomenol. She lifted the crowd so high.
Joan came onstage and said most of the people at the Rally didn't know who she was, and that was a good thing! And that ... this felt so much better than the anti-war protests in the '70's because...this time it actually felt like we could stop something before it began.
Then she read a poem of 'Bush-isms' she's been collecting, called: "Pile the Pie Higher". It was amazing. And she sang Steve Earle's "Jerusalem".
And then she brought Bonnie out and together they did an acapella song the name of which escapes me. They were stupendous and made us cry with their beauty.
The spirit of the March and Rally was infused with a Peace vibe I have not felt in this world . . . since the '60's.
March 1, at 12 noon in San Francisco, and at 3pm in Washington DC, there will be another "Convergence" (that's what the organizers, I think it's still www.internationalanswer.org) are calling it.
Richard in San Francisco
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 23:51:53 -0800 From: Randy Remote <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Anti war in SF njcWell, I got up at 5 am to jump on a bus with about 100 other people who made it down to the anti-war march in SF on Sunday (it was moved from Saturday in deference to the annual Chinese New Years celebration, which is a big event in SF). The crowd was exuberant, even joyful. Up to a quarter of a million people, from old people that could barely walk, to couples pushing strollers, all races, nuns, transexuals, you name it (one favorite sign carried by a sixty-ish couple "Average people against the war"). Street theater. A man standing on a wall, short hair, dressed in a suit covered with blood and a sign saying "Everything is All Right", exhorting people to "go home, everything is all right, you don't need to be here today! Go home and watch your TV!". A small brass band I could hear but not see playing "Give Peace A Chance". A man holding a placard that just said "Imagine". Wonder Woman. Bush and Saddam kicking each other in the butt, then kissing. The slow walk to the city hall. Every five minutes or so you would here this cheer coming towards you from the front, pass through you and keep going onward behind you. We listened to Joan Baez and Bonnie Raitt singing together on KPFA's live broadcast as our bus pulled away early so as to get us home at a reasonable hour. I was thinking of my web friends and the discussions that have been taking place. Some of my favorite signs: War! Good God Y'all! Bush Gives Vegetation a Bad Name Collateral Damage Has a Face (Pic of a Middle Eastern Child) First Strike Makes Us Terrorists Not With My Taxes Got Blood? Stop Mad Cowboy Disease If War is Inevitable, Start Drafting SUV Drivers Save 2 Schools $3.5M....1 F22 Bomber $153M How Did Our Oil Get Under Their Soil? War Kills The Poor Drop Bush Not Bombs Blix Not Bombs Bongs Not Bombs (Flag) These Colors Don't Run Everything George, Why Don't You Send The Twins? (Bush Girls Pic) Who Would Jesus Bomb? Impeach The Son of a Bush God Bless The Rest of the World, Too This is My Patriot Act Resistance is Fertile The King is a Fink Fight Plaque Not Iraq
