A smashing success
We had over 80 126 avatars in attendance which is pretty much exceeds the limit of what Second Life can tolerate (SL Capitol Hill is TWO islands mashed together). We had people from all around the country and a few from around the world, I think we broke Second Life, and I was interviewed by BBC radio!!!!
Lots more links and pics to come. Now back to my first life…
Thanks to Errcheck Hicks, Effulgent Brown, Rik Riel, Kiwini Oe, TROI Timtam, Drew Frobozz, and everyone who participated in any way!!!
Update: After I left, an Iraqi refugee who is living in Jordan came by and shared his experiences. Several people reported that it was a touching and apt closure to the event, really bringing the problems back home to a personal scale. I got the transcript of that and will try to post it later.
I posted some more pictures from today and made an album on flickr. More cool pictures and an interesting blog entry were posted by the only furry at the march.
Because of SL crashing, I lost much of the chat log which includes people saying where they were from and making up slogans and stuff. 
Hopefully someone else who was there will send me a copy.
Someone from Capitol Hill also sent me some pictures of the event, but I don’t know how to get the images out of Second Life!
I’ll keep watching to see what turns up…
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Congratulations on a job well done! It was truly a moving experience, and hanging out with Spider from Iraq was a perfect closing to the event.
Thanks again for all of your work.
I will be posting video soon.
Comment by Rik Riel — January 30, 2007 @ 12:11 am
[...] Ruby Sinreich of lotusmedia reports on a successful Second Life war protest yesterday. [...]
Pingback by A Virtual Protest at connecting*the*dots — January 30, 2007 @ 12:52 pm
Video of “Avatars against the War” Peace Demo in Second Life…
I did a rush job pulling together some video of the Avatars Against the War peace demonstration that took place on Monday at the Capitol Hill sim. Thanks to In Kenzo for sharing her footage of the event, which was…
Trackback by The Click Heard Round the World — January 31, 2007 @ 12:55 am
[...] My stay was brief, due to Kids In Pool syndrome, but I did manage to get over to the RootsCampSL march on virtual Capitol Hill Monday night (”Virtual March for Peace”). I exchanged my cool sign that wasn’t able to be raised for one with an arm-pumping gesture, and then I teleported from Progressive Island to the Capitol steps with 3-5 dozen avatars from several countries. The final count from the event was 126 avatars … enough to break Second Life after I left. [...]
Pingback by BlogSchmog | Blog Archive » Silent Protest — January 31, 2007 @ 6:38 am
Congrats on a big success!
Comment by Beth — January 31, 2007 @ 8:32 pm
[...] This past Monday a bunch of RootsCamp alumni, led by Ruby Sinreich, Rik Riel, and avatars named errcheck Hicks and Effulgent Brown, organized an anti-war protest on Virtual Capitol Hill in Second Life. Sinreich (nom de avatar: Ruby Glitter) expected about 80 avatars to show up — 40 more than Second Life usually recommends, due to massive slowdown issues — but in the end 126 residents showed up to dance, wave signs, yell slogans, and show their support. It was, Sinreich says, a smashing success. [...]
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