by David Dayen [courtesy of Calitics - Front Page]

by Jessica Falker [courtesy of Blog for America]

This is a few days late, but Happy Anniversary BFA! The first front page post here was by Zephyr Teachout,  03/15/03 @ 05:07 pm

The blog has changed a little since then, but it's still "home" to me. Use this thread to discuss what you love about BFA and how it could be improved. Please stay positive so HQ can use this thread as a list of what they are doing right and suggestions for what they could do to make BFA even better.

by Patrick Briggs [courtesy of Blog for America]

Pasadena DFA worked with the national Moveon.org rallies to create an event to mark the 5th Year Anniversary of the Start of the Iraq War yesterday evening.  The event was successful beyond our expectations!

Almost all the Pasadena DFA Steering Committee members were present!  We attracted a few new members and some regulars.  Altogether, we had 120 plus Pasadena neighbors show up.  Some of those neighbors came from as far away as La Puente and downtown Los Angeles.

Hats off to Maddie Gavel-Briggs for doing a great job coordinating with the local press.  We got our main paper, the Pasadena Star News to run a story on our vigil front page!  We also got about a minute of TV coverage on channel 4 - KNBC!  Here's a link to the newspaper coverage (wish they had gotten our group's name right):

http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/ci_8632169

For a different approach to our rally, commuters saw a Burma-Shave style signage before even getting to our intersection.

More on the flip:

by Jeff Gardner [courtesy of Blog for America]

by Bob Brigham [courtesy of Calitics - Front Page]

Five years ago today, I went to check out the San Francisco protests with one of my interns. Today, I went downtown to Market and Montgomery at noon and in retrospect am quite glad I didn't bring anyone with me. I did however, bump into my buddy Luke Thomas from Fog City Journal. You'll see him in some of the pics below (with his bright pink SFPD press pass clearly visible against his black jacket). He's also in the video, trying to protect his camera while he is treated like a human pinball. This is the craziest video I've ever shot.