There were much larger protests and bannering in Seattle, of course.  http://www.mvp-seattle.org/Images/JPEGlibrary/3rdFix/index.htm  http://www.stopbushseattle.com/  etc.and numerous news features: http://seattle.indymedia.org/en/2003/08/109395.shtml  http://seattle.indymedia.org/en/2003/08/109430.shtml  http://seattle.indymedia.org/en/2003/08/109469.shtml

Peggy's award winning sign at Hunts Point:

Here's what it looked like at HUNTS POINT:  (picture below)
Crowd erased; stage set; all cameras controlled 
by Todd Boyle 11:08pm Fri Aug 22 '03
 http://www.seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=31851&group=webcast  

This picture is the intersection of 84th Ave and 28th St. at Hunts Point (Bellevue WA) ten min. before Bush arrives for a fundraiser. 

300 people are behind the camera and 200 mostly labor union people are on the upper left (behind the gas prices). The police kept the citizens segregated into four groups. The police control was excessive to security needs and driven partly to sculpt the crowd away from media. Note that all the network and local TV cameras are all uniformly pointing away from the crowd. 

I arrived there with VFP, VVAW-AI and SNOWEN activists bout 9 am, even from that hour NOBODY was allowed on the Hunts Point (84th overpass) but at that time, they let the crowd gather right on the sidewalk on the southeast corner of the intersection where BUSH came off the offramp. I'm uploading one picture  giving you the feel at around 11, as the vans of MONEY DONORS were hustled in. Behind that van is the arrival ramp for Bush. The grass lawn is where they ejected us demonstrators who came hours earlier. ("Most guests were shuttled to the event in small and large private buses from Bellevue Christian High School and Sacred Heart."-KingCountyJournal also lists some of the names ..)

Around that time, there were at least two large buses of union people. The police directed the buses far away, and about 10 minutes later escorted the union members along 84th Ave towards the demonstration site, but stopped about 150 feet away from the Intersection. They were screwed, they couldn't see anything and weren't allowed to join the main demonstration. The police divided them in two groups. (The police also divided the main demonstration into two groups facing each other, strung along 28th Street.) NO group was allowed to face Bush. All the big cameras from the three "Competing" TV stations and CNN were setup pointing completely away from any crowd, pointing down the off ramp towards Seattle to watch our glorious leader arrive, with all his taxpayer-funded symbols of power. 

My camera went dead before Bush arrives but I did take a picture for you, and my unborn grandchildren who no doubt will be living in another country, of 84th Avenue and 28th in Bellevue WA, turned into a total police zone. 

As Bush's motorcycles began arriving the crowd broke into chanting, "Bush Lied People Died". When Bush's car came into view there was a full throated roar of anger and passion from the crowd. There will be some hoarse people tonight. In seconds the motorcade was gone. There was a second of near silence then the crowd chanted "Shame on you" with a great degree of unison, with a staccato sound, with intervals of near silence between the syllables and this went on for a whole minute. Surely the individual police must have been affected to some degree. 

Eight of us walked to the pedestrian overpass at 88th Ave and stood awhile but the police ejected us from there. We walked to Evergreen Point parkNride and Gary D. shot some video of our glorious leader and his paramilitary, leaving the Eastside for Seattle. You could hear the sound of his flags flapping from half a mile away, as he drove the freeway at 80 miles an hour, these are not ordinary flags, they must be made of leather to make such a surreal, almost buzzing sound. It was very similar to the sound of a flat tire.