[Seattle-editorial] feature proposal: antiwar action

[jonathan lawson]

subtitle: WORLDWIDE CALLS FOR PEACE INTENSIFY
title: Resistance Builds Against Bush's Plannned 'Pax Americana'

On Oct 26, many thousands in the US and worldwide demonstrated peacefully 
against the Bush administration's stubborn plans to make war against Iraq. 
The largest actions in the US took place in <a 
hfref="http://dc.indymedia.org">Washington, DC</a> (100,000) and <a 
href="http://sf.indymedia.org">San Francisco</a> (over 20,000), but 
thousands marched across the country--in <a 
href="http://www.tc.indymedia.org:8081/index.php3">Minneapolis</a> 
(10,000), <a 
href="http://seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=19380">Spokane</a>, 
<a 
href="http://chicago.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=15045">Chicago</a>, 
<a href="http://www.tc.indymedia.org:8081/front.php3?article_id=7460">Sioux 
Falls</a>, <a href="http://nc.indymedia.org/news/2002/10/1144.php">Durham, 
NC</a>, <a 
href="http://portland.indymedia.org/archive/features/2002/10/2002-10.html#5673">Portland</a>, 
<a href="http://maine.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=2639">Augusta, 
Maine</a> (3000), <a href="http://www.indyhawaii.org/">Hawai'i</a>, <a 
href="http://madison.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=7899">Madison</a>, 
and <a 
href="http://indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=212853">elsewhere</a>. 
6500 marched through downtown <a 
href="http://seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=19352">Seattle</a>, 
where <a 
href="http://seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=19397">rally 
speakers</a> included US Representatives Dennis Kucinich (Ohio) and Jim 
McDermott. Read accounts of the Seattle demonstrations <a 
href="http://seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=19353">here</a> 
and <a 
href="http://seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=19383">here</a>.

<p>More large-scale protests against the American government's drive 
towards war are taking place <a 
href="http://indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=212853">around the 
world</a>. Oct. 26 peace demonstrations were held in over <a 
href="http://www.internationalanswer.org/news/update/102002intldemos.html">ten 
countries</a>. UK protesters blockaded a US spy base at Meriwith 
Hill;15,000 protested in Glasgow on October 20th. An anti-imperialist rally 
was held in Brussels. Over 90 towns and cities in Germany protested in 
solidarity with the US anti-war movement. In Spain, 3,000 protested in 
Seville. Anti-war events took place in Rome and a half dozen other Italian 
cities; major demonstrations are planned in London, Leeds, Brighton and 
Manchester in the UK on October 31. More domestic unrest is sure to follow, 
as the Bush administration and the Congressional leadership of both major 
parties remain unwilling to consider alternatives to war.