United for Peace Rally, "March on Washington"... A couple blocks down from my apartment or just east of the GWU campus, the United for Peace rally was taking place. It was a gathering of what seemed like 100,000 people or so. I decided to go check out the first big "protest" that has occurred while living here in Washington DC. In addition, other anti-war protests were taking place around the world today in places such as London, Rome and Paris. The event was planned more as an anti-war march but there were also many protesters against the government's effort or lack of effort in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina as well as the usual crowd of anti-globalization people. I believe the slogan of the day was "Make Levees, not War". Supposedly Jesse Jackson and Cindy Sheehan were two of the organizers of the event, but I didn't see them through the massive crowds around the White House. Of course the President stayed away from the White House during the protest (although the VP was having surgery just a couple blocks away at the GWU hospital) . I think the President was in Colorado and then went down to survey the damage of Hurricane Rita around Texas and Louisiana. The mainstream media was mostly interested in Hurricane Rita and very little was mentioned about the United for Peace rally here in DC. Here are a couple pictures from my camera's viewfinder ( 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 ).