I better have made the news. If not, we have a TON of pictures, video, and audio from the trip. I took a digital video cam with me so now you too can feel what it is like inside a protest. It is not at all like the corporate media would have you believe! We were nonviolent, joyous, and powerful. I have pictures of the parks and streets filled with beautiful people carrying signs, sitting in the grass, holding hands in a dancing circle, and carrying giant puppets. And of course, cops!

We stayed in a part of town that was filled with small-business international restaurants - including etheopian, mexican, and vietnamese quisine. We ate out twice there - at a chinese place and a mexican place. At the church where the mobilization meetings were taking place they made vegan lentils and salad for all. We ate a lot of bread, bagels, pop tarts, junk snacks; free or cheap meals were not hard to come by. It was great. Lots of water was drank because we walked a lot.