“Fight Brewer!, Fight Back!, Fight Brewer!, Fight Back!, …” was the chant of the crowd on Mass Ave. in Boston today. A group of angry protesters assembled and marched under police cover in protest of Arizona Governor Jan Brewer, who was visiting Boston today. According to FOXNews, Governor Brewer is in Boston for the National Governors Association Meeting. (It was the first hit on Google. I don’t read Fox News, I swear.)

I snagged a few choice photos of the crowd shaking their fists and yelling toward a crowd of almost entirely white onlookers. I wasn’t fast enough, however, to catch a Boston local whistling and giving the protesters the double-bird. I assure you, however, that he was there, basketball shorts and all.

The group of protesters was fierce, but small in comparison to the size of their police escort. The crowd was no doubt muted by the downpour. A local police officer, who had to work the protest in the rain, remarked that he was happy for the rain because it meant that the protesters would be gone faster.

The main lesson I took away from this is that if you want to have a great protest, it is absolutely essential that you have a loud, angry woman with a mega phone and a small child shouting at the top of her lungs. It just wouldn’t have been the same without her…