World Can't Wait San Francisco: Cindy Sheehan

[Der Blaue Engel]

Anyone else going?

I just looked at the website (http://www.worldcantwait.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=32&Itemid=19) and saw that Cindy will be speaking!

PRE-ASSEMBLY AREAS FOR San Francisco rally
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Fremont, CA
10:00 AM at Fremont BART,
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Union City
11:00 AM- meet at BART station
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North Bay Chapter (Marin/Sonoma) Carpool-Caravan Locations:
Santa Rosa -- Piner and Industrial, GGT Park & Ride --
Assemble 8:00, Depart 9:00

Petaluma -- No. Petaluma Blvd at Hwy 101, GGT Park & Ride --
Assemble 8:30, Depart 9:30

Mill Valley -- Seminary Drive at Hwy 101, GGT Park & Ride –
- Assemble 9:00, Depart 10:00
* [phone] * [phone]
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In San Francisco:

Mission Area, SF
10:30 AM 24th and Mission, march to 16th and Mission
11:30 AM Take Bart from 16th and Mission to Civic Center

Tenderloin, SF
Coalition on Homelessness
11:15 AM 468 Turk St.
For info: 346-3740

Hayes Valley/Lower Haight/Alamo Square:
10:00 AM Hayes Valley Green

10 AM San Francisco City College, 10 AM San Francisco State University
Malcolm X Plaza for those who live outside of the city who want to car
pool or arrive at the main rally with others.
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UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY: [e-mail]
9:00 A.M Walk Out at Sproul Plaza, Attend a short Rally and Parade of
Resistance.
11:00 A.M Meet up atBerkeley BART station go to the Civic Center at NOON.

Palo Alto
10:30 AM carpooling from Peninsula Peace and Justice
Center, 457 Kingsley Avenue, Palo Alto
For info: 650-326-8837
www.peaceandjustice.org
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Santa Cruz
9AM am meet at Bay St. and High St. for carpooling
cars and drivers needed!

7-11 parking lot at HIGH and CARDIFF PLACE a block from the main entrance of campus at
9 am, and leaving at 9:30 on NOV 2nd. We need drivers, and anyone
interested should email [e-mail] thanks!

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY: [e-mail]
9:00 A.M Walk Out at Sproul Plaza, Attend a short Rally and Parade of
Resistance.
11:00 A.M Meet up atBerkeley BART station go to the Civic Center at NOON.

San Jose Carpool: 10:00 AM, Meet at San Jose Cahill St. Diridon Station




Main: 12 PM, Civic Center Plaza, San Francisco,
Rally until 1 PM. March at 1PM.
End Rally: 4:30 PM Civic CenterPlaza.

Join with the "Dia de Los Muertos" procession at 24th and Bryant St
at 7PM


Speakers:

Cindy Sheehan

Jeff Adachi, San Francisco Public Defender
Chris Daly, San Francisco Board of Supervisors
Code Pink
Paul Flores, Youth Speaks
Paul George, Peninsula Peace and Justice Center
Mark Leno (statement)
Rev. Taigen Dan Leighton, Buddhist Peace Fellowship
Not In Our Name
Tim Paulson, Executive Director, San Francisco Labor
Council
Steve Pearcy, attorney and artis

Sonoma State University at Vietnam Veteran's Memorial Grove
12:00 noon.
Speakers, Music, and More!
Organized by Sonoma Campus Greens

There's also mention of the Dia de Los Muertos procession...I wonder if she'll be involved in that? Anybody know? Anybody going?

~Betty

[proud patriot]

1. I have to miss it

I'm so bummed about it

[Nik Jam]

2. Couldn't make it.

As much as I would have liked to skip school, my grades aren't doing well and I had an exam. So I had to miss the rally. Although the school (Vista College) did have a session around the same time with progressive speakers.

Well, there will be more rallies. If only this one was at night.

[cascadiance]

3. Maybe they should have had this on election day...

I was just thinking on this earlier today, and how we complain about not having a day off for election day and how that might lower the turnout for citizens to vote (which hurts Democrats usually). If they'd made this protest on November 8th, then some people could use the excuse that they need to vote to take part in the protest. Others also might be more able to vote by taking maybe the only day off they had on election day so that they could do both this protest and vote on the same day.

I gotta believe one could do both protests and voting if one plans it right.

A little late now, but I had to save my day off until next week to help out with the election anyway, and really couldn't justify having two days off within a week.

[proud patriot]

4. My dad went

he said it was a good turnout

[David__77]

5. It was a wonderful day of combativity!

I have not been so fulfilled by a political action in a very long time. The level of energy and fighting spirit was so high! The crowd was probably almost half comprised of brave and determined high school students. We all need to demonstrate such a level of determination in order to drive out the Bush regime!

[Der Blaue Engel]

6. Repost from GD: Pictures from San Francisco protest

Not great pictures (from my cell phone), but I thought I'd share. There were thousands of people there (filled about four city blocks), which is hard to tell from these; I started out walking along the side of the march from the rear, and snapped until I got up to the front, then took the rest from inside the march. There's one of a guy in a suit...he was one of the people who joined as the march passed him; I thought that was great.

I wish I'd taken pics of the cops; there was a massive number of them along every stretch of the route. I tried to duck into the Metreon at one point because I had to use the bathroom, and was blocked by a line of them in riot gear. While I slipped around the building to sneak inside, a few dozen kids were arrested for staging a die-in in the middle of Market Street.








Cindy Sheehan was supposed to be speaking, but I missed the pre-march rally. :(