For Wednesday at noon, this was a big crowd at Zoe's office. Many of the cars going by honked, so the people in the office had to know we were there.

     

The San Jose Peace Center had been collecting signatures on their "stop funding the war" petition for weeks. Smriti had a large stack of signatures to give the Congresswoman, and the event was mostly about adding an exclimation point to that gesture.

  

     

     

  

  

Just after the time you could reasonably expect the staff to be back from lunch, we all marched in to go knock on the door. Smriti went in by herself to invite the Congresswoman's local representative to come out and talk with us.

This is about what she saw a minute or so after I took this picture.

The staffer was gracious and professional. She thanked us for our work and promised that the Congresswoman would see our petitions.