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Peninsula | San Francisco | Anti-War | Government & Elections | Womyn

Protesters Greet Palin in San Francisco Style
by Goka/Robertson/Emery
Sunday Oct 5th, 2008 11:28 PM
Environmentalists in wolf costumes howled in pain while union members led chants from a flatbed truck. A Sarah Palin impersonator winked and vamped as protesters in Mad Men inspired 50's costumes sent the message "Sarah is setting back the clock on women's rights". Oh, and there's nothing like a giant missiled war machine with a mask wearing McCain inside to inspire the anti-war activists of San Francisco and surrounding cities!
Thanks to Robin Yasuko Goka for most photos here.

It was all part of a San Francisco style "welcome" for Republican candidate Sarah Palin on October 5.

Several hundred angry protestors gathered in front of the Hyatt-Regency Hotel in Burlingame, adjacent to the San Francisco airport, to demonstrate their displeasure with the GOP platform and particularly with the extremist war-loving and anti-woman's rights views of Sarah Palin.

The Republican vice-presidential candidate was speaking to a monied Republican crowd inside the hotel, but reporters were forbidden to enter.

§A Raging Granny in 50's costume gets lipsticked up
by Goka/Robertson/Emery Sunday Oct 5th, 2008 11:29 PM
palinbyjlipstick.jpg
palinbyjlipstick.jpg

§Anti-war drive by
by Goka/Robertson/Emery Sunday Oct 5th, 2008 11:29 PM

McCain masked demonstrator within
§Anti-war drive by
by Goka/Robertson/Emery Sunday Oct 5th, 2008 11:29 PM

§crowd hit up Palin impersonator with hard questions; she ducked'em
by Goka/Robertson/Emery Sunday Oct 5th, 2008 11:29 PM
palinbyjpalinevie.jpg
palinbyjpalinevie.jpg

§World Can't Wait
by Goka/Robertson/Emery Sunday Oct 5th, 2008 11:29 PM

§AFL-CIO
by Goka/Robertson/Emery Sunday Oct 5th, 2008 11:29 PM

§Somos unionistas!
by Goka/Robertson/Emery Sunday Oct 5th, 2008 11:29 PM

§Spill baby Spill
by Goka/Robertson/Emery Sunday Oct 5th, 2008 11:29 PM

§signs with Hyatt in the background
by Goka/Robertson/Emery Sunday Oct 5th, 2008 11:29 PM

§hundreds across from Hyatt
by Goka/Robertson/Emery Sunday Oct 5th, 2008 11:29 PM

§Endangered wolf howl
by Goka/Robertson/Emery Sunday Oct 5th, 2008 11:29 PM

Real canine in background cocks an ear
§Raging Grannies
by Goka/Robertson/Emery Sunday Oct 5th, 2008 11:29 PM

§Bulldog NOT Pitbull
by Goka/Robertson/Emery Sunday Oct 5th, 2008 11:29 PM

§Enjoying the speeches from flat bed truck
by Goka/Robertson/Emery Sunday Oct 5th, 2008 11:29 PM

§IDC is not scientific
by Goka/Robertson/Emery Sunday Oct 5th, 2008 11:29 PM

Palin is a Creationist!
§Inspired by Mad Men and Mad Woman Palin
by Goka/Robertson/Emery Sunday Oct 5th, 2008 11:29 PM

San Franciscans were some of the first to go for the retro 50's look, long before TV show Mad Men made it popular
§Men against Palin!
by Goka/Robertson/Emery Sunday Oct 5th, 2008 11:29 PM

§Hat and missile
by Goka/Robertson/Emery Sunday Oct 5th, 2008 11:29 PM

§Granny Hats
by Goka/Robertson/Emery Sunday Oct 5th, 2008 11:29 PM

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reaching out to the other side?bernard greeningMonday Oct 6th, 2008 10:26 AM
Thanks for the pics! More photos here...mpalmerMonday Oct 6th, 2008 12:43 AM