Red and Blue in Rochester

When President Bush visited GreeceAthenaHigh School
May 24, the audience was invitation-only, the citizen-panelists were screened,
and the presidential speech was scripted.

            But outside
in the rain, the mood and the demonstrations — pro-Bush and con — were more
spontaneous. (Anti-Bush activists, like Bush supporters, did plenty of
organizing, however, encouraging demonstrators to show up not only at Greece
Athena but also downtown, where they packed FirstUniversalistChurch
to protest Bush’s push to partially privatize Social Security.)

            Photographs
from Greece Athena are by Jared Stehler.

This article appears in May 25-31, 2005.