Washington DC: the yes we can city

I arrive into DC and the first thing I hear on the metro is the guard announcing after the train pulls out of each station: “welcome to the yes we can service …..”

Outside the White House, a group of students were chanting “yes we can end genocide (in Darfur)”.

And on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, in the same spot where Martin Luther King Jr gave his famous ‘I have a dream’ speech 40 years ago, the global citizen advocacy group Avaaz has set up a giant “Yes we can together change the world” board for people to write their messages of congratulations to Obama on.  It is part of a global ‘petition’ Avaaz is organising.