Amnesty International holds a "vigil"
Amnesty International scheduled a vigil in Davis Square tonight. Odd, since a vigil, in my book, doesn't look like a bunch of election workers on the side of the road:
Oh, wait. What's that right underneath me? The irony of the moment:
By and large, the protesters looked like middle-aged hippies, and college student anti-establishment folks. They were very polite, and were surprised when I asked if they minded if I took their pictures (only one objected, so you'll won't see him centered in any pictures). They were handing out a little yellow "open letter to the members of the UN security council", in which you can find such statements as this one:
"Morever, any such violation [human shields - Andy] of international humanitarian law by Hizbullah would not have absolved Israel from its legal obligations to protect civilians by strictly observing the principle of proportionality."
Heh. Can you spot the false arguments in this statement?
More pictures follow. Unlike Seva Brodsky, I went to a tame rally, so not much exciting here, except for the raspberry lime rickey from JP Lick's.
Someone hands out the open letter to the UN to pedestrians:
The protesters were nice, and all lined up for the camera:
Aha! And here's the blatantly anti-Israel sign:
And of course, what event would be complete without staging a densely packed crowd for your local photographer?
But this is what they looked like most of the hour they were rallying:
And here, the "crowd" breaks up:
