Bathing Suit (163/365)

I was almost comically unsuccessful at everything today. here is my awesome 80's swimsuit pattern:

Roadworks (162/365)

The road near my house is being torn up, so this is my walk home just now.

Photojournalism FTW (161/365)

Day two! I went down to document the destruction:

Cops were swarming everywhere, of course.

Then I ran into the Bike Bloc.

Amen brother.

Peaceful protest at King and Bay.

Cops catch the same streetcar as protesters to Dundas.

Meanwhile, at Queen and Spadina:

Be nice to the cops, and they'll be good to you. Photo op!

A journalist trying to find his team, who I think were stuck in a protest area.

Then it started to POUR.

The rest are on facebook!

So It Begins (160/365)

So this picture is up on my facebook:

It is of a protester at Spadina and Richmond facing off with police.

The rest of these are in chronological order. Here is the peaceful march, which was interesting and coherent. I caught up with them around when the tail end was turning onto Queen Street:

The perimeter was being enforced south of Queen, after I wandered into the protest for a bit. not every street was barricaded, but anything bigger than an alley was. (Just realized this is out of order....whatever.)

Here is the end of the march, as I came upon it as it turned onto Queen:

Peaceful protesters:

Protesters watch a guy who climbed the statue on the University:

Protesting for democracy in Vietnam:

More stuff on Queen Street:

Once the protests hit Spadina and tried to turn down towards the lake....

It got ugly.

Black Bloc people are just to the right of this shot:

Lots of face-covering going on at this time:

I fled (legit) just before they blocked everyone in. I was hanging out in a studio on Richmond with a new friend because we couldn't get out either way, when the police came in and took over the street. This was my view towards Spadina:

Those are all cops (some riot cops, some normal and some plainclothes). here was my view facing away from Spadina:

This was the view I got once I snuck out past that last barricade, trying to get away before they locked down the city:

That was south, this was north:

Greeeeeeeat. Right about now I realized that every single vehicle contained a clown-car appropriate number of cops. If that doesn't freak you out, look back three photos:

Made it back to University and Richmond. Bad idea:

There were people trying to get home, held on one side of the barrier, then police, then protesters. This is looking through stranded Torontonians to the police and protesters:

I then had to sneak (slash cry at cops) to get out of the King St. barricades:

Once I busted out of there I ran through all of downtown with my 32lb backpack (yeah, I weighed it when I got home) to beat the protesters, who were spreading east.

Here is a map of the trip I had today:

Yellow/Red Line = Legal/Illegal Marching Areas

Blue/Teal/Green Lines = My Getting Caught in the Protest/Trying to Get Out of the Barricades/My Jog Away from the Protest

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