Oakland STOP THE WAR Fed Building Protest photos

12/10/02
Protest to STOP THE WAR, Oakland Federal Building.
Part of a nation wide Anti-War Day of Action on
International Human Rights Day.
(The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was Adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on 10 December 1948.)

Close to 400 demonstrators at the Federal Building.

First - an Interfaith peace vigil that included people taking turns reading from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights:
http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html

Then - props, signs, speakers, giant puppets etc.
Seems that people decided to hold-off on the civil disobedience 'til a later date.

Great moment when the MC, Wilson Riles, asked the crowd to wave at the agents taking pictures from the roof. The entire crowd waved as Riles said something like "Hello, we are here to protest and exercise our constitutional rights."

United for Peace
http://uofp.meer.net/