This video has been online for a while but I thought it might be nice to put up some screenshots to take a trip down memory lane. I'm planning on having 3 articles worth of images.
A22 Bush Protest
 http://portland.indymedia.org/en/videos/#A22BushProtest
Also check out the following videos:
A30 Critical Mass - to see the followup to the A22 video
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/videos/#A30CriticalMass
A Million Dollars Later (August 21, 2003 Bush Protest)
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2004/02/280784.shtml
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/videos/#AMillionDollarsLater
Fuck the Corporate Media - for an anlysis of media coverage of the A21 Bush Protest
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/videos/#A22BushProtest
And here are some other useful links:
more videos from the resistance
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/videos/
online video guide - how to download and watch these videos
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/static/videoguide.shtml
portland indymedia video collective
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/static/pdxvideo.shtml
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From the march in the beginning, throughout the morning to the police shutdown of Columbia Park in the afternoon, the day was full of satire, parody, music, theatre, and yes, contempt, taunts and ridicule. I must remark on the contrast between government and police severity of demeanor and the frolicing, boistrous, almost carnival deportment of the crowd. Citizens were there to make a serious statement against Bush adminstration policies which are slowly eroding our civil rights, our environment and our standard of living. Yet, much of it was accomplished with individualistic humor, with innovative phrases and creative motion.
Contrast the staunch, morose, anonomous robotic minions of law and order, standing, marching, riding, advancing, attacking in straight lines, a fleet of carbon copy machines, without thought, without individuality, following orders, following orders. In some ways they were the funniest part of the day, if one ignores for a moment their trained tendency towards violence as their bottom line response to minor infractions of "law and order."
And too, there were the Bush supporters. I guess it all depends on your point of view. Though doesn't it seem like a paradox to you that so many of his defenders are Christians, whose "savior" is also called "the Prince of Peace," whose fundamental religious tenants demand one turn the other cheek when abused, and that, perhaps arguably, Christs most famous and universally acclaimed teaching is "above all things, love one another?" For those of you that were there, perhaps this video will bring some of it back; to those who were not, perhaps this will give you an inkling of this local reaction to the latest escapade of George Bush in Oregon, collecting from the rich, distaining the rest.
A21 DSL/CABLE Stream
A21 56K Stream