[Seattle-editorial] feature proposal: antiwar action

[Jason Reep]

Approve

jonathan lawson wrote:

> 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.
>
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