Saradise Lost - Chapter Fifty-Five -- Hockey Moms and Lipstick in Anchorage

Here are some pictures of signs at Saturday's biggest street demonstration in Alaska history. It was a grassroots event, organized from late Wednesday. It was meant to show the world that Alaska's strong, intelligent women want progress, and don't believe Sarah Palin is emblematic of it.

Writing Raven at Alaska Real has more photos.

And Maia at Own the Sidewalk, has more, plus some video.

At Mudflats, AK Muckraker (who has more pics) writes:

This was the biggest political rally ever, in the history of the state. I was absolutely stunned. The second most amazing thing is how many people honked and gave the thumbs up as they drove by. And even those that didn’t honk looked wide-eyed and awe-struck at the huge crowd that was growing by the minute. This just doesn’t happen here.

Then, the infamous Eddie Burke showed up. He tried to talk to the media, and was instantly surrounded by a group of 20 people who started shouting O-BA-MA so loud he couldn’t be heard. Then passing cars started honking in a rhythmic pattern of 3, like the Obama chant, while the crowd cheered, hooted and waved their signs high.

Steve, at What Do I Know? has more pics. The title to his article is:

44,000 (NYE) at Alaska Women Against Palin Demonstration

I've posted a large gallery of photos of the demonstration at my facebook niche.

One very remarkable thing about all these photos, by five progressive Alaskan bloggers, is that there are so very few repeats of sign titles in our images.

Now, had we been concentrating on the GOP Palinbots and their signs, there would have to have been a lot of repeats. Not because there were so few opposition Republican demonstrators there at Eddie Burke's hateful call. It is that their signs were largely manufactured. Those few that were homemade, showed little of the passion and wit, as did those in support of women's rights and Obama.