Iraq: Year Five Begins

Yesterday an anti-war vigil in the East Bay marked the 4th anniversary of the start of the Iraq War. In San Francisco 57 demonstrators were arrested in a massive die-in. Our hearless leader marked the anniversary yesterday by warning Americans not "pack up and go home" and demanding that legislators immediately approve additional war funding.

Grandmothers Against The War

Grandmothers Against The War staked out their weekly lonely afternoon vigil on 5th Avenue in front of Rockefeller Center today, as always largely ignored by both tourists and office workers, who cast them scarcely a glance as they bustled onward to the food court and discount souvenir t-shirts.