Photos from my Iranian vigil for peace
these folks rode on a bus from Chicago & will return the same way at the end of the day |
this is the deported immigrant rights' leader, Elvira Arellano's community from Chicago |
they are also members of the Puerto Rican Cultural Center in Chicago |
bringing music on the march |
young marchers |
cool dude! |
saving the best--and youngest--for last |
immigrants' rghts activists patiently wait to get in to see their Congresspersons |
while they wait, some hand out newspapers telling of the struggles for immigrants' rights |
Olvidio & Meg, parents of Mario Pena Wer who walked from Chicago to DC for peace |
Michael Israel & Ashley Casale, students who walked from San Francisco to DC for peace |
Debra who shared her seafood sandwich with me in thanks for my watching her stuff |
a runner takes a quick rest during lunch |
one of many statues on Capitol Hill |
StartLoving at his post in front of the Cannon House Office Bldg. |
Bill McPherson from Washington state, Rev. Walter Coleman, pastor of Elvira Arellano's church in Chicago, and me |
the statue under which I sat for hours today |
Jim Goodnow, activist/driver of the Yellow Rose Peace Bus |
Jim, Bill & I meet Anne and David Bollen from Goulburn, Australia |
Engy Tawfeik, faculty of Economics and Political Science at Cairo University, Egypt |
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