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We did a short walk this morning. I was walking next to a woman who lived in Mobile 40 years ago, and left right when the civil rights issue was at its peak. She talked about being a senior in high school when her school was forced into integration. It was a school of roughly 3000 people, and when they integrated, they added two black students. She was in the group that protested against integration initially. She was holding signs one day when she saw the two students race out of the school into an escort vehicle, and saw the looks on their faces. That was when she realised the impact of what she was doing, and she became an activist after that. She hadn't been back to Mobile since then, until now.

We had a few one-fingered peace signs from the locals while walking through town, but far more support than anything else. One woman I met, from Mobile, said there isn't a very active peace movement in the area - and was hopeful that having us here would start wheels in motion for that. They have an issue here with media coverage. One policeman driving past us flashed us a peace sign.

We took a lunch break at the memorial in town. Here's the current IVAW contingent from our group:


Eyes wide open was set up again at the memorial:



A side note - it appears our camp sites and exact schedule is a bit fluid, so if you are planning to join up with us, take a few phone numbers of the website with you, so if we aren't where you expect us to be, you can figure out where we hid. Also, if you are bringing a car, they have a shuttle system set up, so the folks taking cars with them drive in a caravan up to a park point, and the white rose bus takes us back to the group. So you can walk a leg with us and not be stranded miles away from your car.