Pasadena DFA - 5th Anniversary of the War Vigil

Written by: Patrick Briggs on Mar 20, 2008 5:21 PM EDT

Pasadena DFA worked with the national Moveon.org rallies to create an event to mark the 5th Year Anniversary of the Start of the Iraq War yesterday evening.  The event was successful beyond our expectations!

Almost all the Pasadena DFA Steering Committee members were present!  We attracted a few new members and some regulars.  Altogether, we had 120 plus Pasadena neighbors show up.  Some of those neighbors came from as far away as La Puente and downtown Los Angeles.

Hats off to Maddie Gavel-Briggs for doing a great job coordinating with the local press.  We got our main paper, the Pasadena Star News to run a story on our vigil front page!  We also got about a minute of TV coverage on channel 4 - KNBC!  Here's a link to the newspaper coverage (wish they had gotten our group's name right):

http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/ci_8632169

For a different approach to our rally, commuters saw a Burma-Shave style signage before even getting to our intersection.

More on the flip:

We are proud to have contributed to the boisterous, horn-honking, neighbor-talking, sign-waving, civic activism and reminder that Dick Cheney's "so what" to the American people will not be tolerated in Pasadena, California!  We are the change we've been waiting for and Pasadena DFA, once again is leading the way in our community.  We have the power and we will continue to help restore that sense of empowerment to our fellow Pasadenans!

A lot more pictures can be viewed here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/39995061@N00/sets/72157604168788988

Tags:
Location: Pasadena, CA 91104