"Unwelcome Guests at a Coronation"
Produced by Scott Harris and Anna Manzo

Protests at the Presidential Inauguration of George W. Bush

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Doris "Granny D" Haddock, activist who, at the age of 90, walked 3,200 miles across the country to build grassroots support for campaign finance reform, speaking at the D.C. Anti-War Network's Jan. 20, 2005 Counter-Inaugural Rally at Malcolm X Park, Washington, D.C. Granny D celebrated her 95th birthday over the weekend.

Aidan Delgado, U.S. Army Reserve soldier, at the D.C. Anti-War Network's Jan. 20, 2005 Counter-Inaugural Rally at Malcolm X Park, in Washington, D.C.

The Raging Grannies, acapella singing group at the D.C. Anti-War Network's Jan. 20, 2005 Counter-Inaugural Rally at McPherson Square in Washington, D.C.

Interview with investigative journalist and former National Security Agency analyst Wayne Madsen, at McPherson Square in Washington, D.C., Jan. 20, 2005, on journalist Seymour Hersh's New Yorker magazine report that the Bush administration is planning airstrikes against Iran.

David Cobb, 2004 Green Party presidential candidate at the D.C. Anti-War Network's Jan. 20, 2005 Counter-Inaugural Rally at Malcom X Park in Washington, D.C. In Ohio, Cobb and Libertarian presidential candidate Michael Badnarik demanded a recount of the vote and worked to investigate and expose voter suppression, voter fraud , flaws in election machinery and other irregularities that many progressives feel changed the outcome of the presidential election.

Medea Benjamin, cofounder of the human rights group Global Exchange and the women's peace group Code Pink -- two organizations that have been actively involved in organizing the U.S. antiwar movement, at the D.C. Anti-War Network's Jan. 20, 2005 Counter-Inaugural Rally at Malcolm X Park in Washington, D.C. Benjamin has traveled several times to Iraq and in January 2005, she organized a delegation of families of U.S. military personnel killed in Iraq and victims of the 9-11 attacks to bring $600,000 worth of humanitarian aid to the survivors of the American attack on Fallujah.

Stan Goff, an author and former soldier in the U.S. Army's Special Operations force who has served in Vietnam, Grenada, and Haiti, at the D.C. Anti-War Network's Jan. 20, 2005 Counter-Inaugural Rally at Malcolm X Park in Washington, D.C. He is a founding member of the Bring Them Home Now campaign and member of Military Families Speak Out.

Brian Becker, co-director of the International Action Center and national coordinator for the A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition, speaks to thousands of anti-Bush protesters assembled near Washington, D.C.'s Pennsylvania Avenue and 4th Street, moments before President Bush's motorcade traveled down the traditional parade route for the presidential inauguration on Jan. 20, 2005. The crowd can be heard booing and chanting as his limousine and police escorts sped by.