u/hyraemous

Protesting a war in Times Square.

I don't know if there were many videos covering this (admittedly pretty small) anti-Iran war protest last Saturday but there was a pretty cool protest outside the recruiting office of the US Armed Forces at Times Square.

Not much of note happened besides a guy that had a speaker and blasting Michael Jackson in the middle of it. I also think there were two counterprotestors (or three) but one of the marshals went to talk to them. I didn't hear much from them after that.

I also covered #NoKings in Queens which was held hours before this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSLGWm7sW24

However this one was packed. I came with a group of friends (including a few sharks) and clowns as part of a posse. We planned to meet up at a cafe to meet with a few additional folks - unfortunately by then the street was so packed we unfortunately couldn't meet up.

There were two marches (one congregating at Columbus Circle and another at Grand Army Plaza in Manhattan) which merged at Times Square. This video only covers (partially) the latter. This also partially explains why it got really crowded and slow around 50th Street (also an ambulance had to go past).

Nonetheless it took 30 minutes or so to walk 7 blocks down. I also did a timelapse covering 30 additional minutes and it was packed (though a few minutes after I finished the timelapse we saw the end of the march).

Despite all of the crowds, a lot of character was found, a lot of signs, flags, frogs and more were moving about, and it was generally a positive experience. Hopefully this video serves as a snapshot of part of that.