The couple that looks like death were the first sight I saw when I reached the park where we rallied before marching on the lab.

The woman on the right is Starhawk. I've seen many emails from her that helped shape my impression of such events as the Seattle WTO meeting, but this was the first time I'm sure I saw her live. I don't remember what she said, but I remember that the woman whom I was talking to said "eight is the numerology for power, four is the numerology for work" about that time.

The crowd was really mellow. Everybody was out for a good time.

Peter Camejo was there, but I was working the crowd so I missed talking to him. However, the next day there was a segment in the News Hour on PBS where they discussed the Governor's race. The footage of Camejo they used was captured in Livermore, and I was glad to get that picture for you here.

Clan Dyken took the stage as we headed out to circle the lab. It's hard for me to see them without remembering the many other times I've seen them. New Years Eve at the end of 1991, they played the Green Party Party. I remember that one well, because at the time I was the Name Tag Policeman. I spent the whole evening telling people without nametags "fear not the name tag police", and then giving then name tags with whatever they wanted on them. A year ago they also played this event, but that time you could see the drummers drum cases from the audience. I pointed out to my friend Dana the battered MEND YOUR FUELISH WAYS on the biggest round drum case, and she smiled. If it is still there, it has now been there for more than a decade.

This woman was giving people paper cranes for peace. The tails on her sign are also strings of paper cranes. If you looked close at her sign, which I believe is a Japanese word, you would see that it is made from an arrangement of paper cranes. She explained her campaign was all about paper cranes for peace.

Between this woman and her friends were these strings of paper hands. I talked to her, and she explained that they were all impressions of people in her world that weren't able to make it to the lab to make their opposition to nuclear weapons known for themselves. She had personally worked with each of them to make their hands part of the HANDS AROUND THE LAB event.

I wish I knew the story behind this picture.