Demonstrating for peace

Members of the Bloomington Peace Action Coalition gather outside the Monroe County (Ind.) Courthouse. “The purpose,” one says, “is to keep this war on terror that we don’t believe in on the radar screen.”  (Kirk McKoy / Los Angeles Times)

One of the two dozen demonstrators who took part in the latest weekly gathering of the Bloomington Peace Action Coalition in Indiana.  (Kirk McKoy / Los Angeles Times)

A driver waves a Palestinian headband as he passes a peace demonstration in Bloomington, Ind., where some of the participants had brought signs that referred to the current violence in the Gaza Strip.  (Kirk McKoy / Los Angeles Times)

Timothy Baer begins to pack up for the evening after his group’s weekly peace demonstration in Bloomington, Ind. “Our group has gotten smaller and smaller,” he says. “This winter it has really gone down.”  (Kirk McKoy / Los Angeles Times)