Austin's vigil

[sonias]

Unfortunately I couldn't go to any of the vigils last night since I had a meeting but I would have gone to this one on Lamar bridge. Hope someone posts real pics. Peace for the whole world - no exceptions.

If the local rag says there were 500 there were probably 800. This was one only 1 of 9 vigils in the area. Two of them were in big public places like this bridge the other at Little Stacey Park. This one had at at least 760 people officially registered to go to it and the event at Little Stacey Park another 250.

http://www.statesman.com/metrostate/content/metro/stories/08/18vigil.html
Austinites crowd bridge for peace
(snip)
Between 300 and 500 people in Austin joined hundreds of candlelight vigils Wednesday night across the United States and Europe, organized by backers of an antiwar demonstration near President Bush's ranch

Young and old, many old enough to have demonstrated against the Vietnam war, the Austin crowd took over the north end of the Pfluger pedestrian bridge over Town Lake.

Signs and leaflets said the crowd was behind Cindy Sheehan, the California woman who started an antiwar protest Aug. 6 on the outskirts of Crawford in memory of her son Casey, a 24-year-old soldier who died fighting in Iraq last year. Symbolically, some women pushed empty strollers on the bridge.(/snip)

Sonia

[GOPisEvil]

1. What is that reporter smoking?

I had gone from the top of the bridge, down to the bottom and back to the top again, and there were people who hadn't left the top yet. 5-700 my white ass.

But at least they sent someone. Their pictures were good, too. I counted at least 3 local news channels, too.