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Protesters Greet Palin in San Francisco Style

by Goka/Robertson/Emery
Environmentalists in wolf costumes howled in pain while union members led chants from a flatbed truck. A Sarah Palin impersonator winked and vamped as protesters in Mad Men inspired 50's costumes sent the message "Sarah is setting back the clock on women's rights". Oh, and there's nothing like a giant missiled war machine with a mask wearing McCain inside to inspire the anti-war activists of San Francisco and surrounding cities!
Thanks to Robin Yasuko Goka for most photos here.

It was all part of a San Francisco style "welcome" for Republican candidate Sarah Palin on October 5.
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Several hundred angry protestors gathered in front of the Hyatt-Regency Hotel in Burlingame, adjacent to the San Francisco airport, to demonstrate their displeasure with the GOP platform and particularly with the extremist war-loving and anti-woman's rights views of Sarah Palin.

The Republican vice-presidential candidate was speaking to a monied Republican crowd inside the hotel, but reporters were forbidden to enter.

§A Raging Granny in 50's costume gets lipsticked up
by Goka/Robertson/Emery
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§Anti-war drive by
by Goka/Robertson/Emery
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McCain masked demonstrator within
§Anti-war drive by
by Goka/Robertson/Emery
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§crowd hit up Palin impersonator with hard questions; she ducked'em
by Goka/Robertson/Emery
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§World Can't Wait
by Goka/Robertson/Emery
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§AFL-CIO
by Goka/Robertson/Emery
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§Somos unionistas!
by Goka/Robertson/Emery
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§Spill baby Spill
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§signs with Hyatt in the background
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§hundreds across from Hyatt
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§Endangered wolf howl
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Real canine in background cocks an ear
§Raging Grannies
by Goka/Robertson/Emery
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§Bulldog NOT Pitbull
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§Enjoying the speeches from flat bed truck
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§IDC is not scientific
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Palin is a Creationist!
§Inspired by Mad Men and Mad Woman Palin
by Goka/Robertson/Emery
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San Franciscans were some of the first to go for the retro 50's look, long before TV show Mad Men made it popular
§Men against Palin!
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§Hat and missile
by Goka/Robertson/Emery
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§Granny Hats
by Goka/Robertson/Emery
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