Photos from Tookie Protest

Zombie, the chronicler of the bizarre and wacky world of protests in California, has put up photos from the death penalty protest outside of San Quentin.

Before arriving at San Quentin, I had been under the naive impression that the crowd in front would be evenly split between anti-death penalty protesters and pro-death penalty protesters. I was sorely mistaken. I quickly learned that the crowd was 99% anti-death penalty. And a substantial proportion of them were avowed socialists, since several radical groups showed up en masse. For example, this group -- the International Socialist Organization -- are hardcore Trotskyites; dozens of ISO members were at the rally, serving as an (un?)official security crew.

There is a large number of pics with commentary. Well worth the visit if you what to no who these people are that have so much compassion for Tookie, and none for his victims.

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