{"id":1268,"date":"2013-03-20T11:42:42","date_gmt":"2013-03-20T15:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=1268"},"modified":"2013-10-27T16:13:55","modified_gmt":"2013-10-27T20:13:55","slug":"goodbye-blue-sky-03-20-03","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=1268","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye, Blue Sky: 03.20.03"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/embed\/ProtestsMarkStartOfIraqWarV2.0WashDc03.20.03\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"true\" mozallowfullscreen=\"true\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Sorry, gang; the YouTube copyright police are jerking me around again on account of the old Pink Floyd tracks I used in this piece. You can <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/download\/ProtestsMarkStartOfIraqWarV2.0WashDc03.20.03\/washdcMar2003remaster_sml.mp4\">download a copy of the mpeg4<\/a> with the sound track intact (05:39, 66.3mb) from <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/ProtestsMarkStartOfIraqWarV2.0WashDc03.20.03\" target=\"_blank\">archive.org.<\/a> Sic semper tyrannis.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Oh say, can you see<br \/>\non the bridge named for Key<br \/>\nwhere the &#8220;Aqua Team&#8221; marched,<br \/>\nand a bunch were arrested&#8230;!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/washdcMar2003fotos\/washdcMar2003-03new.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/washdcMar2003fotos\/washdcMar2003-03new600w.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"395\" \/><\/em><\/a><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>It was bone cold, rainy, sloppy, and miserable<\/strong> only a day before the official beginning of spring &#8212; in other words, your typical mid-March morning in DC. It was also a morning full of coordinated disobedience actions across DC marking the first day of Iraq War v2.0. Our group, nicknamed &#8220;Aqua Team&#8221;, was given the plum job of mobbing aboard a Metro to Rosslyn and taking Key Bridge early during rush hour.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/washdcMar2003fotos\/washdcMar2003-07new.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/washdcMar2003fotos\/washdcMar2003-07new600w.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"395\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Things turned out quite nicely. All the color-nicknamed groups gathered for their rallies at designated points around DC, not knowing where they were headed until it was actually time to go &#8212; a brilliant piece of strategy which greatly reduced the chances of any snitches in the crowd getting the word ahead to the cops &#8212; in our case, it was a meetup at Eastern Market, right in my backyard, then onto an Orange Line all the way across town to Rosslyn, where hilarity ensued&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/washdcMar2003fotos\/washdcMar2003-08new.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/washdcMar2003fotos\/washdcMar2003-08new600w.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"395\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry, gang; the YouTube copyright police are jerking me around again on account of the old Pink Floyd tracks I used in this piece. You can download a copy of the mpeg4 with the sound track intact (05:39, 66.3mb) from archive.org. Sic semper tyrannis. Oh say, can you see on the bridge named for Key [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,64,13,10,82,9,77],"tags":[490,489],"class_list":["post-1268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bushit","category-dc-local","category-iraq","category-media","category-middle-east","category-war-and-peace","category-war-on-terror","tag-key-bridge","tag-wmata"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1268"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1397,"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268\/revisions\/1397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}