The Longshoremen shuttin it down. Good turnout and they sent a powerful message.

The link, http://ptmccleese.smugmug.com/gallery/4846...

17 pics in all....

A few photos and "my" take on the day....
Great weather, great activists and what was really encouraging was the amount of young people that showed up...
Peace

http://ptmccleese.smugmug.com/gallery/3725...

My take on the recent visit of the "presidential" kind in Bellevue, Wa. last week.
Photo link http://ptmccleese.smugmug.com/gallery/3400...

Photos from the weekend, VFP, IVAW, Code Pink, and moms. They all went to DC to stir things up, call for peace, impeachment and make fun of Alberto Gonzales. Not necessarily in that order and it went quite well....
Thanks for looking...

http://ptmccleese.smugmug.com/gallery/2859...

Hi Photo Group!
Hey I am working on getting a new photo blog up and running and was hoping to get a few suggestions on a blog name. Quick background, I have been covering the peace movement, rallies, marches etc. I am a Desert Storm era vet, a full time stay at home dad with a six year old and a 21 month'er...my wife takes time off work when I travel to un-do all my hard work with the kids.
I need to write more, so a photo blog seems like the right path for now. So far I've got....peace trail, peacephoto, the rally, rally point..etc.
I would like to use the blog as an outlet for some of my "better" photos, get some more exposure for the events and to allow me to vent or add my perspective to the fray if you will. Right now all those experiences are just layin around in my notes and mixed in with those dad duties of mine...so in other words, I will forget them!
Thanks for any help in advance, that 21 month'er of mine is up from naps...hence my rambling and less than to the point post!
( this took me 20 minute's)

A link to see some of what I am doing...
http://ptmccleese.smugmug.com/gallery/2166...

Great to be here...and Hi
So just got my son to naps, and I was reading a post on Portland Indy, http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2007/01/3...
Guess I was hoping for you all to translate a bit...towards the bottom of his post he makes some general comments I guess most would agree with, but the rest? (I didn't follow any of his links) This is the first I have read about boycotting peace rallies to implement peace?
Is he just wanting to ditch the big name peace groups and have all of America lay down in the street to stop commerce? Or something like that?
Can you help me find my keys? Do people really watch Deal....or no Deal? Am I the only stay at home dad here? Is this where I put the sarcasm button thing? Did I post this in the wrong section?

Sorry, just trying to get the serious and the not so serious stuff all packed in to one big fun filled first post! You guy's let us new people in and look what happens....we go crazy!

Whew, that felt alright. I'm done. Thanks.