Every fours years the two political parties in the US have national conventions (separately of course), where they outline their political line, and, perhaps most importantly, nominate their presidential candidate. Earlier this summer the Democrats had their convention in Boston; the Republicans have their convention in NYC this week.

Today, more than a quarter of a million gathered to rally through New York to demonstrate. The vast majority of these were against Bush (the North East, New York in particular is traditionally Democratic), but there also was a small minority demonstrating pro-Bush. I did not get a “piece of the action” as some of the demonstrators felt they had to fight with the police. But thanks to tight security and a huge number of law enforcement officers in the streets, everything went rather smoothly. According to the TV channel C-SPAN, this was the largest demonstration in US history.

I got a picture from a cab, when the demonstration was near its end, see below.

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