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The marching club has a ‘practice parade’ a week before the real deal. The only thing they really practice is drinking, staggering through every Irish bar in the city over the course of the day.

As Charlie puts it, “Where else are hundreds of drunks going to get to stop traffic throughout the city- with a police escort?!”

Bemused tourists stop and gape. A few beads are carted along to give away, but mostly it’s just about hanging out as a guy-time. Charlie had to work and so he missed the kickoff, but I dropped him off around lunchtime.

It was my intention to catch up to them and see how everyone was holding up, but it was kind of a nasty day and I had to get back to the office, so I headed back to the car, and I’m glad I did, because I got to see this most interesting form of protest:

They’re an organization called Katrina Rita Express taking this trailer around the country to show people what people have been living in for two years now and explain what kind of ‘help’ the government has provided most people.

Very admirable, and I think the more people who know and actually see them the better. My only issue is that their idea of a fix isn’t entirely clear.

On one hand “Eviction is not the answer.” *

But on the other hand they’re (absolutely justifiably) upset that the trailers are poison.

I’m sure they have ideas of what the solution might be, but I sort of looked at it and it was one of those things that make you go “hmmmm.”

Pics of the other sides of the trailer after the jump. If you’d like to see pics from St. Pat’s after all this practice, they’re here.

*(most parishes are starting to pass laws that the trailers need to be hauled away)

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