The march has begun - a half hour late, so they made up about 15 minutes somewhere. One person is already on his way to Grady on a stretcher thanks, I'm assuming, to heat exhaustion. Didn't even make it past the Capitol. One down, several thousand to go ( Read more... )

The US Social Forum rally has begun. Late, of course. Loony Liberals are too busy feeling to bother to show up or start anything on time. The march to the Civic Center was supposed to start at 2:00, but the speakers didn't start talking until 1:45; and it's taking them twice as long to talk because every sentence is being translated into Spanish ( Read more... )

Pictures from the rally are posted here. I may put them on Flickr, too.

ETA: now on Flickr

Before 3:00 ever rolled around, everybody left. The GBA (Ga. Building Authority) was collecting all the barriers and all the streets were reopened. I counted maybe six or seven people still on Washington St, sitting in the shade near the porta-potties; one of them was giving an interview to a pretty blonde with a mic and her camera guy with a ( Read more... )

The crowd is somewhat nowhere near 100,000. It does not, in fact, even fill all of Washington St in front of the Capitol ( Read more... )