AWARE and others in the not-quite-July-4th parade


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Meg Miner's trailer and CRV festooned with balloons

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Some signs we would have carried


AWARE Remembers Lessons from Lincoln on War and Work

"Teach All the Folly of Being the Beginners of a War"

"Allow the President ... to repel an invasion ... and you allow him to make war at pleasure."

Eugene V. Debs "Intelligent Discontent is the Mainspring of Civilization..."

Jane Addams "The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain unti it is secured for all of s and incorporated into our common life."

Frederick Douglass
"What, to the slave, is the 4th of July?"

Lysander Spooner
the right of states to secede derives from the natural right of slaves to be free

"Labor is the Superior of Capital, and Deserves Much the Higher Consideration" (with Staley and Immokalee workers)

Some Lincoln quotes on capitalism

Elijah Lovejoy, killed defending his abolitionist newspaper from a pro-slavery mob

Charles Sumner

"Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people?"

Fellows in the parade


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LGBT's impressive float...

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... complete with wedding bower


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"Exotic Pet Service" = UofI Vet Med clinic

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... who came prepared for the rain ...

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martial arts people had gone running in the rain

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Cat Snap