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After multiple years without a peep, I'm thinking about updating this again if I can find a similar rally in the near future. I don't have access to the same audio equipment I used at the time, but I may purchase a field recorder of my own (the one from the old recordings was borrowed) or find some other method, ie, using my smart phone or possibly even a video camera.

This all depends on what sort of activity I can find in the coming weeks that I'm able to attend (and on me being able to avoid being called a liberal plant, which was an issue last time though I didn't get any recordings of that happening - those people generally weren't willing to be recorded, which was obviously within their rights.)

Alternately, I may start posting about a former hobby of mine - reading the Free Republic boards and culling interesting or particularly extremist posts.

Expect activity soon either way.

Things to look forward to; my methods; etc

I plan to do more interviews at the July 4th protest, as well as any others in the Chicago area that I hear about in the interim. Hopefully I'll be able to obtain use of a good-quality video camera by then. If not, expect more audio and higher-quality photographs, as well as more scans of any fliers received.

If there's anything else you'd like to see, let me know in the comments.

I will continue to keep my questions as simple and unbiased as possible and simply let people speak with minimal interruptions. I am not a professional and have no prior journalism experience, nor any media contacts; I'm just a kid who wants to document a social movement. This time around, my leading question was along the lines of "Why are you out here today?/Why are you protesting?" with slight variations in wording as I got used to approaching people (this was honestly the first time I'd done anything like it).

I may branch out to other protests at some point, but that remains to be seen.

a lengthy interview with some anti-scientology protesters present at the sidelines of the tax day tea party. they managed to speak about their cause - tangentially related to the tea party at large - for eight minutes, with specific criticisms and goals.

some interviewees from the tea party protests on 4/15, as well as a mounted officer near the rally site.

more misc photos from the tea party.

miscellaneous pictures of crowds and signs @ the 4/15 tea party.

found a stray flyer!
"HOW ABRAHAM LINCOLN REALLY DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH A PENNY" flyer.

this one was photocopied on longer paper than normal. some of the bottom of each page is cut off. comment if you really want the rest. the main text of each side is still included.