Wednesday March 19th marks 5 YEARS since the start of the illegal invasion and occupation in Iraq! Please join us in the heart of Orange County to send Bush the message: "Five Years and Thousands of Lives Too Many! End this war and bring our soldiers home NOW! "

When: Wednesday March 19, 2008

Time: 5:30 - 7:00 PM

Where: Traffic Circle at Old Towne Orange

(near Chapman University and the 55 & 22 Fwys at the intersection of Chapman & Glassell. There is also a Metrolink train stop several blocks away on Chapman)

Bring candles & signs and your family and friends!

This protest may and probably will be counter protested again by the Freeper group, this time with SOS/Minuteman members. In typical tasteless fashion, they want to disrupt a candlelight vigil. Not a regular protest, but a candlelight vigil. Code Pink needs your support.

I myself plan on attending to see what I can do.

They're stepping it up a notch:

http://saveourstate.org/vforums/showthread.php?t=40181

It's funny they claim that people like Code Pink "march & call our troops killers & nazi's" when they often support them by wanting to bring them home. They even have Iraq war veterans marching with them. Again they're using the word confront and we can probably expect some tension tomorrow night. Bring lots of cameras and video cameras and be like airport security when watching them.

Quick update. The candlelight vigil went through. There was some disruption from a bunch of motorcycle guys with various veteran and military patches. Two or three of them walked through the candlelight gathering, which was blatantly rude. Eileen Garcia from the SOS group(yes that SOS) stood in the candlelight line making a joke of the whole thing. But the speakers spoke and there weren't any physical confrontations that I'm aware of. Just a lot of talk back and forth. A few other SOS/Minuteman participants were there too.

SOS/Minuteman member mocks the candlelight vigil by standing in the gathering.

March goes on

March goes on (delete the post where I forgot to post a pic)

Gathering