On Saturday, the day before Halloween, my husband and I went to the Rally for Sanity and/or Fear with Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. I was a little nervous as I do not enjoy large crowds or being squished and everywhere we turned in Columbia Heights people were discussing how excited they were to attend.
We got on the VERY crowded green line metro and then walked down from Gallery Place/Chinatown. The crowds grew and grew as we wandered down toward the National Mall. We managed to find a good place near the back of one of the audience "pens" and snuggled down to wait the start. At 10am they started videos and pre-show of past show clips discussing the rally.
The rally itself was pretty wild. Special guests Cat Stevens, the Mythbuster guys, The Roots, Sheryl Crow, Kid Rock, R2D2, Kareem Abdul Jabar, a huge Stephen Colbert puppet and video appearances by the flight attendant who popped the safety chute and others really rounded off a varied and very NON political rally.
The diversity in age and race and religious background was wonderful to see. Even the diversity in political beliefs was inspiring. Even though we had to walk all the way home, I left the day quite satisfied.
Pictures below...
Some of the Crowd
One of the MANY signs
Ryan and I after the Rally
Flags were waving during the song, "It's the greatest strongest country in the world.."
Our view of the Rally and the Capitol. Huge TV's were just off to the side.
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