Pictures of October 28th Protest in San Francisco

if this was a "peace" rally, why did Richard Becker say this from the podium:

"We are not for peace, we are for the victory of the resistance!"

sounds a bit contradictory. can someone explain this?

Sorry, babe. We have it on tape. So go ahead and deny it as much as your fuzzy little heart desires.

it'll be interesting to see if you can back up your statement with some video. not that i don't believe he'd say it-- i support the resistance.

A few things need to be straight, though:
1. This was an anti-war rally. Many of us do not claim to be pacifists.
2. Many of us do support the Iraqi resistance over the U.S. occupation.
3. Many of us support (ed) the Palestinian and Lebanese resistances over terror state of Israel.
4. Many don't. The anti-war movement maintains a beautiful diversity of viewpoints, with many opinions about how to best end U.S. sponsored terror throughout the region.

Support in this country for the war and for George Bush are at an all-time low.
Yet support for ANSWER and its mass rallies have decreased as well.
Shouldn't the opposite be true?
Maybe we should have a true anti-war rally, without misc. items being dragged into the mix.
Maybe ANSWER aren't the ones to organize it

Latest poll figures for George Bush is that his approval ratings are at 45% which is higher than his predecessor at the same time period.

http://www.pollingreport.com/BushFav.htm

That's your poll. Newsweek says that Bush's approval was at 33% a few weeks ago, and is 37% this week. It all depends on how they phrase the question and which issues they're asking are approved.

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/15455544/site/newsweek/
By Marcus Mabry
Newsweek
Updated: 10:38 p.m. PT Oct 28, 2006

Oct. 28, 2006 - As the race for Congress enters the homestretch, the Republicans find themselves limping to the finish line, according to the new NEWSWEEK Poll. President Bush’s approval rating continues a slow but steady climb—from an all-time NEWSWEEK-poll low of 33 percent three weeks ago to 37 percent today. But it may be too little, too late: if the midterm elections were held today, 53 percent of those likely to go to the polls would vote for the Democratic candidate in their Congressional district versus just 39 percent who would vote for the Republican.
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But the poll is not all bad news for the GOP. President Bush declared this week that the administration was putting the Baghdad government on notice that it had to make progress in stemming sectarian violence and rebuilding the country. Otherwise, Washington would consider changes to its Iraq policy. And it worked—at the margins. Almost half of all Americans still believe taking military action in Iraq was a mistake, but the gap between those who say it was and those who say it was the right decision has narrowed: from 54 to 39 last week to 49 to 43 this week—from a 15-point margin to just six points.

Faith that the United States is making progress in Iraq is up slightly, too: from 25 percent of Americans last week to 29 percent this week. A solid majority still believes the United States is losing ground, but their ranks have decreased from 65 percent to 60 percent. The biggest change is among Republicans. Last week, 50 percent of Republicans said America was making progress in Iraq (35 percent said we were losing ground). This week 65 percent of Republicans say we’re making progress and only 22 percent say we’re losing ground.

That’s good news for the GOP, relatively speaking. But relative is about the only kind of good news the Republicans get these days. (Sixty-one percent of Americans still say Washington should set a timetable for a withdrawal of U.S. forces, including 39 percent of Republicans.)

When all Americans were asked which they would rather see happen: the GOP retain control of Congress or the Democrats win enough seats to take over one or both houses, 50 percent of adults said they want a Democratic takeover while 35 percent said they wanted the Republicans to hold tight the reigns of power; in last week’s poll, 55 percent wanted the Democrats to take over and 32 wanted the Republicans to retain power.

Here's some lists of Bush's failures (not exhaustive)
http://www.thousandreasons.net/reasons.php
Great documentation of the lies, corruption and glaring hypocrisy of this failing administration full of chickenhawks...a must see for any critical thinker.

Which one of the pro-war, U.S. government agencies do you work for? If you're not with any government agency, you're sure making outburst thats in their interest. At the very least, the anti-war movement needs unity. Enough with attacks on the anti-war movemment to then make them appear as if you're with us. Bravo! to to ANSWER for calling the October 28 actions throughout the country and not laying back doing anything but complaint.

why does one of the photos caption say "reclaim the streets"...reclaiming the streets would imply NOT having asked for permits to march, and NOT having answer protest police that attempt to control every significant aspect of the march...

this argument has been given again, and again, but there seems to be a relationship between how everyone already knows exactly what is going to happen at these permitted, liberal marches, and how their numbers are decreasing...there isnt a significant amount of people who all of a sudden decided to be pro war, and thats why they dont come out to these..

They are are facing tens of thousands of dollars worth of fines- maybe they decided to play it safe as a result.
The next question- with so much at stake, do we really want to have our local anti-war group afraid of taking risks?