SF Antiwar Protest Pics


Click to see mini-DSC00117.JPG
Street protest March 19, 2003
Click to see mini-DSC00118.JPG
Market Street, SF, March 19, 2003
Click to see mini-DSC00119.JPG
Peace flag on Market
Click to see mini-DSC00120.JPG
Click to see mini-DSC00121.JPG
7th & Market, 19 March 2003
Click to see mini-DSC00122.JPG
Iraqi flag outside 45 Fremont 20 March 2003
Click to see mini-DSC00123.JPG
Protesters blocking 45 Fremont Street, San Francisco, 20 March 2003
Click to see mini-DSC00125.JPG
Street group marching Fremont Street
Click to see mini-DSC00126.JPG
Blocking intersection Mission & Fremont San Francisco
Click to see mini-DSC00127.JPG
Fremont & Mission 20 March 2003 San Francisco, CA
Click to see mini-DSC00128.JPG
Group marching down Fremont Street End of Day, March 20th, 2003 San Francisco, California
Click to see mini-DSC00129.JPG
Che' makes an appearance!
Click to see mini-DSC00132.JPG
Police line blocking protesters from getting on the skyway
Click to see mini-DSC00134.JPG
Group gets larger in front of the police line
Click to see mini-DSC00136.JPG
Some objects thrown at this point, getting interactive...
Click to see mini-DSC00137.JPG
Pushing into the police line
Click to see mini-DSC00138.JPG
Muni bus drivers watching the festitivies below
Click to see mini-DSC00140.JPG
Protesters leaking onto the ramp behind the police line
Click to see mini-DSC00141.JPG
Another group climbs the fence (I backed up at this point)
Click to see mini-DSC00142.JPG
Making a break up the 80 offramp
Click to see mini-DSC00143.JPG
Rest of group is growing at this point as multiple groups converge.
Click to see mini-DSC00144.JPG
A significant number make it up the ramp (they're running opposite the direction of traffic, which is exiting 80 down this ramp.)
Click to see mini-DSC00145.JPG
Police reinforcements appear from the 1st Street side (where my car was parked)
Click to see mini-DSC00147.JPG
Motorcycle SFPD units (red lights) charging up the ramp to corral protesters up on the skyway.
Click to see mini-DSC00152.JPG
Some protesters crossing in front of police lines definding Bay Bridge onramp
Click to see mini-DSC00153.JPG
Apple ad, this seemed to good not to take...
Click to see mini-DSC00156.JPG
Police line blocking access to Bay Bridge (they're in full riot gear).
Click to see mini-DSC00158.JPG
The Battle of Bechtel, 21 March 2003, police clearing Beale Street
Click to see mini-DSC00159.JPG
A skirmish, protesters charge police line (one famous arrest of a Franciscan priest occurred here)
Click to see mini-DSC00164.JPG
Latte with that protest? on Mission near Bechtel Building, 21 March 2003
Click to see mini-DSC00165.JPG
Some anti-Israel comment on Market, 21 March 2003
Click to see mini-DSC00167.JPG
Police had the upper hand on Friday, 21 March 2003, plenty of riot units on hand.
Click to see mini-DSC00168.JPG
More police on Market at small demo, 21 March 2003. Brown uniforms are CHP.
Click to see mini-DSC00170.JPG
Lots of press covering this, Radio Shack store manager being interviewed on Channel 2
Click to see mini-DSC00174.JPG
More police units at smallish protest - SF County Sherriff van with riot helmet wearing SFPD officers
Click to see mini-DSC00175.JPG
SFPD officers waiting between incidents on Market St.
Click to see mini-DSC00179.JPG
Smallish group marching down Market on sidewalk
Click to see mini-DSC00182.JPG
Some individual comment - bicycle parked in front of 425 Market Street.
Click to see mini-DSC00183.JPG
Skirmishes continue - riot units deploying at 425 Market Street
Click to see mini-DSC00184.JPG
Evening 21 March, reinforcments going to City Hall area by borrowed Muni Buses.
Click to see mini-DSC00188.JPG
San Francisco's beautifully restored City Hall, 21 March 2003 near sunset.
Click to see mini-DSC00192.JPG
Raising the Iraqi flag at City Hall. Same guy as in the other picture on Fremont Street.
Click to see mini-DSC00195.JPG
Evening 21 March 2003 - major arrests are going on right behind this line of riot police on Hayes at Market.
Click to see mini-DSC00196.JPG
small group that broke away on Market around Civic Center Muni stop.
 
Pictures shot by Joe Pistritto
Taken with Sony DSC-F55 on streets of San Francisco, 19 March - 21 March 2003 during the war with Iraq