Mouths Wide Open's first day in Union Square -- 12-2 and 4-6 went smoothly. We handed out information flyers with the numbers of Iraqi dead and we read one name per minute for the four hours. Many people who stood silently and looked at our display with some photos of the dead (from Dahr Jamail's website.) The pictures were laid lovingly on a muslin sheet with rose petals and a dirt circle. Every minute we read a name, with age and cause of death, with bells accompanying it. Several people accepted the offer to put rose petals on the cloth as they offered thoughts to the dead. We had some beautiful responses: an Afghani man who sat for awhile and then said thank you so much for doing this. Several park cleaners from West Africa wanted flyers and to hear about what we were doing. There was a large confluence of cops at Union Square, but the one that came up to me early on stood with me for awhile and offered the comment at how lamentable it all was, and made no move to interrupt our work. Of course, many people walked by quickly with cell phones and didn’t/wouldn’t look -- but that level of unconsciousness is exactly the reason for which we were doing this action!