Tuesday, June 08, 2004
MORE FROM BEHIND ENEMY LINES, EVE OF JUNE 6, 2004
At ¡No Pasarán!, Erik continues to post photos, in partnership with Davids Medienkritik, of a "street dialogue" in Paris with the people of love, peace and freedom.
Erik writes:
Davids Medienkritik notes:
At ¡No Pasarán!, Erik continues to post photos, in partnership with Davids Medienkritik, of a "street dialogue" in Paris with the people of love, peace and freedom.
Erik writes:
When, on the eve of the anniversary of the Normandy landings, an anti-American demonstration saunters throught the streets of the capital of "America's first friend in the world," what's a disgruntled blogger to do? Specifically, how would a Danish-American blogger react, especially if he's accompanied by a German-American blogger and three French comrades-in-arms?Superb.
How about waiting until the photographers and cameramen are ready to snap away at the grumpy bigwigs at the front of the procession, whipping out Old Glory and a sign saying "Sometimes the cowboy is right" (and "We are all Americans" on the other side), jumping in front of their lenses, and breaking out in (patriotic) song?. . .
Davids Medienkritik notes:
All was running as planned for protest organizers at last Saturday’s anti-Bush, anti-USA Communist-Arab-Pacifist rally in Paris, France. The crowd was being whipped into a fury with shouts of “resistance!” The Communist lead organizer was conducting an interview with a highly receptive group of reporters. And best of all for the marchers…there was no one sympathetic to the USA for miles around…or so they thought…You probably read Davids Medienkritik already. However, if you have not become a regular fan of ¡No Pasarán!, you don't know what you're missing. (And I don't write that just because they link to me!) Americans -- who speak somewhere around 23 languages fluently -- bringing us all "the best" from behind "enemy lines" in France, they are more than worth a daily visit. ¶ by Robert, Tuesday, June 08, 2004
