San Jose's peace community decided to
gather at Christmas in the Park and pass out fliers urging people to
call their Congress Critters and voice opposition to the war in Iraq.
The PPJC made special white "TROOPS HOME NOW!" shirts for the occasion,
so we all wore them for the evening. I must report that they are MADE
IN USA with an 88 union bug on the label.
It seemed like hundreds of
organizations had put up christmas trees at the event. Everything from
the Water Company to the Battered Womans Shelter had a tree. Many were
well done, but these were my favorites.
There were these machines hanging on
the light poles behind christmas ornament decorations. Every now and
they they would start making a whirring noise and spitting out this
spray of suds or something like that. The look of it falling was a lot
like the effect of snow falling. I was tempted to yell out "artifical
weather event!" It was almost as real as the rainstorms on the produce
aisles at Safeway.
Little kids thought it was great.
