3/18/06 War Protest In Hollywood

To commemorate the three year anniversary of our invasion....

So, I still have to develop the pictures in my camera......yep I lost my digital camera at the last protest LOL......but here are some pics I found online.....to show you a glimpse of what I saw today. It was beautiful.















This was the route:

VIDEO OF THE EVENT:

PART ONE

PART TWO

After the march, the end rally took up the entire city block in front of Mann's Chinese Theatre and the Kodak Theatre......









I will tell you from experience, I DO think that protests have a lot of relevance today. There are a lot of people in this country fighting for what they believe is right, doing the EVERY DAY silent items of talking to their friends, people online, writing their congressmen, etc........but when they attend a rally of any magnitude, it reminds them that they are not alone in their efforts, it inspires them to continue, and even more importantly, to do even more....it is also a great networking tool so that like minds can band together and become more organized in their efforts. Few people that have the conviction to spend a day of their lives at a protest do ONLY that.......



Further, it raises awareness. Even a 30 second news coverage piece on a protest may wake up the sleeping masses of America to what is going on not just here at home, but around the World. Every person that is touched or moved will add to the ranks, and then change can begin to happen.



It was the protestors, the activists, and even the extremists that have brought about almost every positive change in America.....civil rights, women's suffrage, improved labor laws, you name it.



"All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent."

~Thomas Jefferson



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PEACE!

Luv, Lates,
Audrey






SOME WONDERFUL QUOTES:

Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?
~John Baez

That's all nonviolence is - organized love.
~John Baez

Better than a thousand hollow words,
Is one word that brings peace.
~Buddha

The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
~Edmund Burke & Dante

It is the job of thinking people, not to be on the side of the executioners.
~Albert Camus

To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice.
~Confuscious

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you everybody else, means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.
~E.E. Cummings

We must be prepared to make heroic sacrifices for the cause of peace that we make ungrudgingly for the cause of war. There is no task that is more important or closer to my heart.
~Albert Einstein

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
~Dwight D. Eisenhower

Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
~Thomas Edison

I hope...that mankind will at length, as they call themselves reasonable creatures, have reason and sense enough to settle their differences without cutting throats; for in my opinion there never was a good war, or a bad peace.
~Ben Franklin

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall -- think of it, ALWAYS!
~Mahatma Ghandi

I expect to pass through this world but once, therefore any good that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not come this way again.
~Stephen Grellett 1773-1855

I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. I will not refuse to do the something I can do.
~Helen Keller

Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all.
~John Maynard Keynes

I'd like someone to mention the day that Martin Luther King, Jr., tried to give his life serving others. I'd like somebody to say that day, that Martin Luther King tried to love somebody. I want you to say that day, that I tried to be right on the war question. I want you to be able to say that day, that I did try to feed the hungry . . . I want you to say that I tried to love and serve humanity. Yes, if you want to say that I was a drum major, say that I was a drum major for justice; say that I was a drum major for peace; I was a drum major for righteousness . . . I want to leave a committed life behind.
~Martin Luther King, Jr.

The ultimate measure of a person is not where one stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where one stands in times of challenge and controversy.
~Martin Luther King

What a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness God has granted us in this world; to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors, and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world.
~Robert E. Lee, in a letter to his wife, 1864

The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.
~Robert Lynd

The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.
~Douglas MacArthur

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God.
~Matthew 5:3

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world: Indeed it's the only thing that ever has.
~Margaret Mead

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.
~Friederich Neitzche

Do you want long life and happiness? Strive for peace with all your heart.
~Psalm 34:12,14

War does not determine who is right - only who is left
~Bertrand Russell

When the rich make war, it's the poor that die.
~Jean-Paul Sartre

God grant me the courage to change the things I can, the patience to accept the things I can't, and the wisdom to know the difference.
~The Serenity Prayer

Fear less, hope more,
Whine less, breathe more,
Talk less, say more,
Hate less, love more,
And all good things are yours.
~Swedish Proverb

I don't do great things. I do small things with great love.
~Mother Teresa

The law of violence is not a law, but a simple fact which can only be a law when it does not meet with protest and opposition. It is like the cold, darkness and weight, which people had to put up with until recently when warmth, illumination and leverage were discovered....
~Leo Tolstoy

World peace is us....We are each walking agents of the vision of peace we carry inside us.
~Kathleen Vande Kieft

The soul of our country needs to be awakened . . .When leaders act contrary to conscience, we must act contrary to leaders.
~Veterans Fast For Life

A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.
~H.G. Wells

Do all the good you can,
By all the means you can,
In all the ways you can,
In all the places you can,
At all the times you can,
To all the people you can,
As long as ever you can.
~John Wesley

In 1989, thirteen nations comprising 1,695,000 people experienced nonviolent revolutions that succeeded beyond anyone's wildest expectations . . . If we add all the countries touched by major nonviolent actions in our century (the Philippines, South Africa . . . the independence movement in India . . .) the figure reaches 3,337,400,000, a staggering 65% of humanity! All this in the teeth of the assertion, endlessly repeated, that nonviolence doesn't work in the 'real' world.
~Walter Wink