I arrive in Grand Central Station at 10AM. The HERE (Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees) were on the picket line there - they have been on strike since December 5th, 2003. I gave them solidarity earlier in the week by walking on the picket line and I said hello. I walked to Bryant Park where labor against the war was meeting, I get there rather early in fact. I see a few people. I also spy the "Protest Wearier" people. "Protest Wearier" are people who support US imperialism, and are weary of all of these protests going on, as it is making empire-building more difficult for them. The last photo is one of the Protest Wearier people. Anyhow, people started flooding in, and I met some out of town Wobblies and NEFAC members, as well as some local Wobblies. A little bit before noon, we start marching from Bryant Park across 40th Street to Madison Avenue, and then down Madison Avenue. From all the pens and the like I saw, I thought this protest was going to be yet another pen disaster (as the cow in the first picture is explaining to a local NYC Wobbly - pens are for cows, not for people). But it wasn't so bad - relative to prior marches in New York. The labor against the war contingent marched together - and picture #3 shows a Syracuse Wobbly holding one end of the NYC Labor Against the War banner, while he also has his placard on display. So everyone packs in on Madison Ave. between 23rd Street on up waiting to start marching. I walked around and met different people. I saw Malachy McCourt (picture #2) and told him I'd seen him on TV and talked to him a little bit, he was nice. I talked to some Indymedia people, two NEFAC people, an Iraqi who was involved in Iraqi labor causes, and I also had a long conversation with a woman who was selling a newspaper called "The Militant". The paper always has a lot of news about labor, which I liked, so we talked about various things. There were lots of good expressive groups, like the shrouded women in picture #4, a brass band playing "I'm going to lay down my sword and shield down by the river side", the radical cheerleaders and so forth. The tail of the march started marching a few minutes before 2:30PM, and by the time they got to 30th Street, the front of the march was being held up by police at 34th Street. So, except for four sparsely covered blocks, the march filled out 23rd to 40th Street on Madison and 6th, as well as the cross-streets. Anyhow, I began marching, saw some people I knew and had a good time. Then I got back to where we'd started from and heard through the sound system people like Dennis Kucinich and Amy Goodman speaking. One incident I came upon was the "Protest Wearier" people went into the middle of the march and started picking fights with people, pulling their posters and the like. They of course picked on women, older people and the like, but some younger guys made their way over and told them they were being rude and they should cut it out. Anyhow, the police came over and grabbed the "Protest Wearier" guys and pulled them out of the march and put them behind the barricade, where they started fuming like the guy in picture #6. The whole incident was kind of amusing, the "Protest Wearier" people seemed to be anti-Arab in a Kahanist sort of way, so the crowd started chanting stuff like "Bigots go home!" and the like. It was quite amusing. The Protest Wearier guys stood there and glared, weary of how these protests are putting pressure on the US government to stop spending money on bombs and empire, and start spending money at home on education and health.