{"id":24524,"date":"2025-10-25T11:00:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T15:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/?p=24524"},"modified":"2025-10-25T23:53:56","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T03:53:56","slug":"photographing-3-no-kings-bergen-county-nj-rallies-in-2-5-hours-10-18-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/?p=24524","title":{"rendered":"Photographing 3 \u201cNo Kings\u201d Bergen County, NJ, rallies in 2.5 hours 10-18-25"},"content":{"rendered":"

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And it only took me a week to put this together…….<\/span><\/p>\n

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These events occurred in River Edge, Paramus and Teaneck on October 18, 2025. Their start times were 11am, 12pm and 12pm, respectively.<\/span><\/p>\n

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RIVER EDGE<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

First up: River Edge (about 2 miles from home). The given location was 135 Kinderkamack Rd (corner of Main St), where a CVS Pharmacy is located. It\u2019s a block away from a McDonald\u2019s I worked in last century.<\/span><\/p>\n

The intersection is a very busy one, as it feeds traffic from north, south and east onto Route 4 West, going to VERY busy Paramus (where my second stop was).<\/span><\/p>\n

The CVS was at the eastern end of a 2-3 block-long strip of stores. Strategically, I parked my car at the western end, so – when I left – I could avoid the busy Kinderkamack\/Main intersection and the couple hundred protesters and hop right onto Rt. 4 (the Paramus event was right ON Rt. 4, at a pedestrian overpass).<\/span><\/p>\n

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As I was walking the 2-3 blocks to the intersection, I suddenly noticed someone in one of the parked cars, but it was not just anyone\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026..it was:<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u2026\u2026\u2026..a rather jovial former person, who was singing an Iggy Pop song:<\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-fWw7FE9tTo&list=RD-fWw7FE9tTo&start_radio=1<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Well, that\u2019s a rather obvious selection\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026except he changed the words a bit to suit his situation better:<\/span><\/p>\n

I am the passenger<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

I keep my foot on the dash<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

I hope and pray that I won\u2019t die again<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

In another car crash\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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Well, he looks pretty happy singing it\u2026\u2026..and it\u2019s a great shot to start my day with, but I\u2019ve got an event to shoot.<\/span><\/p>\n

There\u2019s just one problem\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026nobody\u2019s here.<\/span><\/p>\n

Yeah, it\u2019s 10:30am, but there are ALWAYS people who come early to get the best spot.<\/span><\/p>\n

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I decided to take a walk up Kinderkamack Rd. I got about a half-block when I met a guy carrying a sign. We got to talking and it turns out he\u2019s a local organizer, who takes me to task for parking in a store lot and for not wearing yellow – a pre-rally suggestion that signifies unity (uh\u2026\u2026\u2026.I don\u2019t own<\/em> any yellow clothes).<\/span><\/p>\n

But he was a nice guy and we had some things in common\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.and all of a sudden, people started showing up.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cOur\u201d corner became the place to be – maybe because the cars from north, south and east heading for Rt. 4 all had to pass us as they turned. The other corners started filling up, but ours generated all the car horn honks as they passed us.<\/span><\/p>\n

I became the corner photographer, shooting some of the interesting signs, making sure to ask everyone if they wanted their faces in the shot (most didn\u2019t care):<\/span>\"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a>-7<\/span><\/p>\n

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Time for a video walk in the street (becoming a bit dangerous with all the honking cars speeding by to Rt. 4) past all the people on our corner:<\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=I-hnYEHZSHU<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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It was getting near noon and I had another rally to get to (Paramus), so I concentrated on shooting ALL of the interesting signs.<\/span><\/p>\n

Can you stand 30 more sign pictures?<\/span><\/p>\n

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PARAMUS<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

As mentioned before, I went back to my car, hopped on Rt. 4 and drove about 2 miles to that pedestrian overpass. Not many people were on the overpass or on the ground at 11:50am. Here\u2019s what all the westbound drivers saw and heard:<\/span><\/p>\n