also from SO: Progressive Groups Join in Protesting Bush Inauguration

January 20, 2005 - Eighteenth Legislative District PCO Ann Warren deserves tremendous recognition and thanks from a variety of liberal and progressive groups in southwest Washington. Ann decided only a couple of weeks before the inauguration that she could not allow the date to go unrecognized by the many people who so strongly disagree with the current administrations policies. She organized a sign waving party on the Evergreen overpass over I-5, followed by a march through downtown Vancouver culminating in a rally at Esther Short Park during the time Bush was being inaugurated in Washington, D.C. Ann was instrumental in organizing a presence from several groups including the Clark County Democratic Party, Vancouver for Peace and Democracy for Vancouver. Our own party patriarch and firebrand Dan Ogden was the keynote speaker. Michelle Cotner, Mike Ellison, Patrice Jacob and Ann Warren also addressed the group of approximately 40 people. There was a moment of silence to commemorate the actual swearing in of Bush as the President for the next four years. Representatives from all the Portland television stations and The Oregonian newspaper attended the rally, filming the activities and interviewing the people present. Vancouver's own Columbian newspaper was conspicuous by their absence.