On November 2nds past, I've participated in the bewitching Dia de Los Muertos candlelight procession through the San Francisco Mission District. It is a recognition of the impermanence of life, and of death that is its natural companion. It is also a time to honor those who have come before us, those who are no longer with us. The procession ends at a park filled with beautiful altars celebrating the lives of those we have lost.
This November 2, however, I honored the dead by taking to the streets with thousands of my neighbors in one of hundreds of World Can't Wait protests held across the nation. Over 2,000 American soldiers and hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqi citizens have died in an illegal war based on lies, and more continue to die every day. With every illegitimate breath they take, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and their greedy cabal spit on the graves of those slain. How much more damage will these criminals do to the Earth in the remaining three years of their falsely-gotten reign? How many more must die to line their pockets and the pockets of their corporate cronies? Drive out the Bush regime; the world can't wait.
Below are the pictures I took at the protest on my cell phone camera.
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