[Seattle-editorial] Seattle Protest Story and Photos
jonathan lawson
jonathan at indymedia.org
Sat Feb 15 18:42:15 PST 2003
approve!
At 06:22 PM 2/15/2003 -0800, Gentry Lange wrote:
>Hi all, Gentry here, I think we need a story for the front page on today's
>Seattle march.
>I will have more pictures and links shortly, but let's get something up on
>the front page! I've thrown together the following draft:
>
>Title: Record Crowds Turn Out Around the World to Protest War
>Subtitle: Seattle Crowd tops 50,000
>
><p><img
>src="http://images.indymedia.org/imc/seattle/seattle2-15-03-thumb.jpg"
>width="160" height="106"></p>
><p>Feb. 15, 2003, millions around the world join in international public
>outcry
> against the war. An unprecedented day of global action, the people of the
>world
> have cleary come out against the Bush Regime and the potential escalation
>of
> the War in Iraq. London, Australia, Melbourne, and many other cities
>around
> the world are reporting all-time record crowds. </p>
><p>In Seattle, roughly 55,000+ people marched across downtown, from the
>Seattle
> Center down 5th Ave, past the Federal Building with the march culminating
>at
> the INS. Many elected officials turned out, including <a
>href="http://www.house.gov/mcdermott/" target="_blank">Jim
> McDermott</a>. The march brought traffic to a standstill throughout
>downtown
> for about two hours, and some frustrated drivers could be heard yelling
>the
> occasional insults at the massive march splitting the city in two.
>However,
> most driver's waited patiently for the crowd to pass, and many drivers had
>pre-made
> or hand written signs displayed in support of the protest. </p>
><p>The Seattle Police were out in force, and well stocked with pepper spray
>and
> other<a
>href="http://www.ci.seattle.wa.us/police/Publications/forg/community.htm"
>target="_blank">
> "less leathal" weapons of mass repression</a>. However, the day went off
>without
> many reported incidents or cases of protestors being arrested, harrassed,
>or
> attacked by police. </p>
><p>While the major news media seems to be concentrating on the "No Blood for
>Oil"
> message, there was an large contigency of "Impeach Bush" sloganeering
>clearly
> visible throughout the day. Numbers are still coming in here... Check
>other
> Indymedia site's for more pictures and stories from around the world. </p>
>
>
>
>
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>Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2003 14:42:16 -0800
>To: Seattle-Editorial <seattle-editorial at lists.indymedia.org>
>From: Sheri Herndon <sheri at indymedia.org>
>Subject: [Seattle-editorial] Fwd: IV> Protest stats
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> >Delivered-To: sheri at speakeasy.org
> >Delivered-To: sheri at indymedia.org
> >From: "Rick Ingrasci M.D." <rick at bigmindmedia.com>
> >To: "Invitational" <invitational at bigmindmedia.com>,
> > "Subscribers of soulducs" <soulducs at bigmindmedia.com>,
> > "Subscribers of natcap" <natcap at bigmindmedia.com>,
> > "Subscribers of shareholders" <shareholders at bigmindmedia.com>
> >Subject: IV> Protest stats
> >Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2003 14:15:46 -0800
> >Reply-To: "Rick Ingrasci M.D." <rick at bigmindmedia.com>
> >List-Id: <invitational.bigmindmedia.com>
> >Organization: BigMindMedia
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> >Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2003 12:38:06 -0800 (PST)
> >From: Marieke Van Coppenolle
><<mailto:marieke4u at yahoo.com>marieke4u at yahoo.com>
> >Subject: European protests underestimated in the US?
> >To: Tom Atlee <<mailto:cii at igc.org>cii at igc.org>
> >
> >Hi Tom,
> >
> >I just called a friend in Oregon. I came home from the demonstration
> >in Brussels, and asked him whether he had seen the news over there in
> >the US. "Millions of people have been demonstrating in Europe," I
> >told him enthousiastically. He said, "on the news they only mentioned
> >500,000 people protesting in Europe - the Bush administration
> >controls the news here." I said, "we should send out the right
> >numbers to American e-mail lists, then, so that the American
> >people know that WE DON'T WANT WAR..." He said that would be a good
> >idea.
> >
> >I immediately thought about you. Because I know you would be
> >interested anyway, as this is so strikingly about (the lack
> >of) democracy...
> >
> >So here are some more accurate numbers of European protests, as far
> >as I know by now. I took them from one of our most reliable
> >newspapers, "De Standaard"
> >(<<http://www.standaard.be/>www.standaard.be>http://www.standaard.be/>www.s
>tandaard.be,
> >only in Dutch
> >unfortunately).
> >
> >Brussels: officially: 42,000 (radio news: 50,000) - organizers: 80,000
> >London: officially: 500,000 - organizers: over 1 million
> >Glasgow, Belfast: thousands
> >Berlin: over 500,000
> >Frankfurt: 50,000
> >Paris: 100,000 (there were also American pacifists)
> >Also in other French cities, although it seemed there were not so
> >many people as in the other big European countries.
> >Athens: 200,000
> >Oslo: 60,000
> >Kopenhagen: 50,000
> >Amsterdam: 40,000
> >Stockholm: 30,000
> >Bern: 30,000
> >Helsinki: 12,000
> >
> >From our national radio news, 02/15 at 6 p.m.: Rome: 2,000,000 people
> >(!!) (the organizers had expected 500,000)
> >
> >Please, Tom, help tell the American people that their "official" news
> >is badly underestimating European protests! Find information at
> >independent news agencies and channels! This is really important - if
> >we take what they want us to believe, we are only coworkers in
> >bringing down our right for free speech and hence democracy...
> >
> >Marieke from Belgium
> >
> >To anyone who gets this message, please network it if you can!
> >
> >Marieke Van Coppenolle, IJzermaalberg 61, B-2550 Kontich, BELGIUM
> >Tel. +32-3-457.01.92
> >e-mail:
> ><<mailto:marieke at motherearth.org>marieke at motherearth.org>mailto:marieke at mot
>herearth.org>marieke at motherearth.org,
> ><<mailto:marieke4u at yahoo.com>marieke4u at yahoo.com>mailto:marieke4u at yahoo.com
> >marieke4u at yahoo.com
> >check websites:
> ><<http://www.motherearth.org/>www.motherearth.org>http://www.motherearth.or
>g/>www.motherearth.org,
> ><<http://www.nanish.org/>www.nanish.org>http://www.nanish.org/>www.nanish.o
>rg
> >
> >_ _ _ _
> >Thousands Worldwide Protest War in Iraq
> >
> >By ROBERT BARR, Associated Press Writer
> >
> >LONDON - Millions of protesters - many of them marching in the
> >capitals of America's traditional allies - demonstrated Saturday
> >against U.S. plans to attack Iraq.
> >
> >In a global outpouring of anti-war sentiment, Rome claimed the
> >biggest turnout - 1 million according to police, while organizers
> >claimed three times that figure.
> >
> >In London, at least 750,000 people joined in the city's biggest
> >demonstration ever, police said. Berlin had up to half a million on
> >the streets, and Paris was estimated to have had up to 100,000.
> >
> >Peace activists hoped to draw 100,000 demonstrators in New York City
> >later for a protest near the United Nations
> >(<<http://rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/ap/ap_on_re_eu/inlinks/*http://rd.yaho>htt
>p://rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/ap/ap_on_re_eu/inlinks/*http://rd.yaho
> >o.com/DailyNews/manual/*http://search.news.yahoo.com/search/news?p=%22
> >United%20Nations%22&c=&n=20&yn=c&c=news&cs=nw>news -
> ><<http://rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/ap/ap_on_re_eu/inlinks/*http://rd.yahoo>htt
>p://rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/ap/ap_on_re_eu/inlinks/*http://rd.yahoo
> >.com/DailyNews/manual/*http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?cs=nw&p=Unit
> >ed%20Nations>web sites).
> >
> >"Peace! Peace! Peace!" said Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa,
> >who led an ecumenical service near U.N. headquarters. "Let America
> >listen to the rest of the world - and the rest of the world is
> >saying, `Give the inspectors time.'"
> >
> >London's marchers hoped - in the words of keynote speaker Rev. Jesse
> >Jackson
> >(<<http://rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/ap/ap_on_re_eu/inlinks/*http://rd.yaho>htt
>p://rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/ap/ap_on_re_eu/inlinks/*http://rd.yaho
> >o.com/DailyNews/manual/*http://search.news.yahoo.com/search/news?p=%22
> >Rev.%20Jesse%20Jackson%22&c=&n=20&yn=c&c=news&cs=nw>news -
> ><<http://rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/ap/ap_on_re_eu/inlinks/*http://rd.yahoo>htt
>p://rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/ap/ap_on_re_eu/inlinks/*http://rd.yahoo
> >.com/DailyNews/manual/*http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?p=Jesse%20Ja
> >ckson>web sites) - to "turn up the heat" on Prime Minister Tony Blair
> >(<<http://rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/ap/ap_on_re_eu/inlinks/*http://rd.yaho>htt
>p://rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/ap/ap_on_re_eu/inlinks/*http://rd.yaho
> >o.com/DailyNews/manual/*http://search.news.yahoo.com/search/news?p=%22
> >Tony%20Blair%22&c=&n=20&yn=c&c=news&cs=nw>news -
> ><<http://rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/ap/ap_on_re_eu/inlinks/*http://rd.yahoo>htt
>p://rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/ap/ap_on_re_eu/inlinks/*http://rd.yahoo
> >.com/DailyNews/manual/*http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=Tony+Blair>web
> >sites), who has been President Bush
> >(<<http://rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/ap/ap_on_re_eu/inlinks/*http://rd.yaho>htt
>p://rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/ap/ap_on_re_eu/inlinks/*http://rd.yaho
> >o.com/DailyNews/manual/*http://search.news.yahoo.com/search/news?p=%22
> >President%20Bush%22&c=&n=20&yn=c&c=news&cs=nw>news -
> ><<http://rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/ap/ap_on_re_eu/inlinks/*http://rd.yahoo>htt
>p://rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/ap/ap_on_re_eu/inlinks/*http://rd.yahoo
> >.com/DailyNews/manual/*http://search.yahoo.com/search/search?p=George+
> >W.+Bush>web sites)'s staunchest European ally for his tough Iraq
> >policy.
> >
> >Rome protesters showed their disagreement with Prime Minister Silvio
> >Berlusconi's support for Bush, while demonstrators in Paris and
> >Berlin backed the skeptical stances of their governments.
> >
> >"What I would say to Mr. Blair is stop toadying up to the Americans
> >and listen to your own people, us, for once," said Elsie Hinks, 77,
> >who marched in London with her husband, Sidney, a retired Church of
> >England priest.
> >
> >"You don't fight terrorism with a preventive war," said Tommaso
> >Palladini, 56, who traveled from Milan to Rome. "You fight terrorism
> >by creating more justice in the world."
> >
> >Several dozen marchers from Genoa held up pictures of Iraqi artists.
> >"We're carrying these photos to show the other face of the Iraqi
> >people that the TV doesn't show," said Giovanna Marenzana, 38.
> >
> >Some leaders of German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's government took
> >part in the Berlin protest, which turned the tree-lined boulevard
> >between the Brandenburg Gate and the 19th-century Victory Column into
> >a sea of banners, balloons emblazoned with "No war in Iraq" and
> >demonstrators swaying to live music. Police estimated the crowd at
> >between 300,000 and 500,000.
> >
> >"We Germans in particular have a duty to do everything to ensure that
> >war - above all a war of aggression - never again becomes a
> >legitimate means of policy," shouted Friedrich Schorlemmer, a
> >Lutheran pastor and former East German pro-democracy activist.
> >
> >In the Paris crowd at the Place Denfert-Rochereau, a large American
> >flag bore the black inscription: "Leave us alone."
> >
> >Gerald Lenoir, 41, of Berkley, Calif., came to Paris specifically to
> >support the French demonstrators. "I am here to protest my
> >government's aggression against Iraq," he said. "Iraq does not pose a
> >security threat to the United States and there are no links with
> >al-Qaida."
> >
> >In southern France, about 10,000 people demonstrated in Toulouse
> >against the United States, chanting: "They bomb, they exploit, they
> >pollute, enough of this barbarity."
> >
> >Police estimated that 60,000 turned out in Oslo, Norway, 50,000 in
> >bitter cold in Brussels, while about 35,000 gathered peacefully in
> >frigid Stockholm.
> >
> >About 80,000 marched in Dublin, Irish police said. Crowds were
> >estimated at 60,000 in Seville, Spain; 40,000 in Bern, Switzerland;
> >30,000 in Glasgow, Scotland; 25,000 in Copenhagen; 15,000 in Vienna;
> >10,000 in Amsterdam; 5,000 in Cape Town and 4,000 in Johannesburg in
> >South Africa; 5,000 in Tokyo; and 2,000 in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
> >
> >"War is not a solution, war is a problem," Czech philosopher Erazim
> >Kohak told a crowd of about 500 in Prague.
> >
> >In Baghdad, tens of thousands of Iraqis, many carrying Kalashnikov
> >assault rifles, demonstrated to support Saddam Hussein
> >(<<http://rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/ap/ap_on_re_eu/inlinks/*http://rd.yaho>htt
>p://rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/ap/ap_on_re_eu/inlinks/*http://rd.yaho
> >o.com/DailyNews/manual/*http://search.news.yahoo.com/search/news?p=%22
> >Saddam%20Hussein%22&c=&n=20&yn=c&c=news&cs=nw>news -
> ><<http://rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/ap/ap_on_re_eu/inlinks/*http://rd.yahoo>htt
>p://rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/ap/ap_on_re_eu/inlinks/*http://rd.yahoo
> >.com/DailyNews/manual/*http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?cs=nw&p=Sadd
> >am%20Hussein>web sites) and denounce the United States.
> >
> >"Our swords are out of their sheaths, ready for battle," read one of
> >hundreds of banners carried by marchers along Palestine Street, a
> >broad Baghdad avenue.
> >
> >In Damascus, the capital of neighboring Syria, an estimated 200,000
> >protesters chanted anti-U.S. and anti-Israeli slogans as they marched
> >to the People's Assembly.
> >
> >Najjah Attar, a former Syrian cabinet minister, accused Washington of
> >attempting to change the region's map. "The U.S. wants to encroach
> >upon our own norms, concepts and principles," she said in Damascus.
> >"They are reminding us of the Nazi and fascist times."
> >
> >In Ukraine, some 2,000 people rallied in snowy Kiev's central square.
> >Anti-globalists led a peaceful "Rock Against War" protest joined by
> >communists, socialists, Kurds and pacifists.
> >
> >In the Bosnian city of Mostar, about 100 Muslims and Croats united
> >for an anti-war protest - the first such cross-community action in
> >seven years in a place where ethnic divisions remain tense, despite
> >the 1995 Bosnian peace agreement.
> >
> >"We want to say that war is evil and that we who survived one know
> >that better than anyone," said Majda Hadzic, 54.
> >
> >In divided Cyprus, about 500 Greeks and Turks braved heavy rain for a
> >march that briefly blocked a runway at a British air base.
> >
> >Several thousand protesters in Athens, Greece, unfurled a giant
> >banner across the wall of the Acropolis - "NATO
> >(<<http://rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/ap/ap_on_re_eu/inlinks/*http://rd.yaho>htt
>p://rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/ap/ap_on_re_eu/inlinks/*http://rd.yaho
> >o.com/DailyNews/manual/*http://search.news.yahoo.com/search/news?p=%22
> >NATO%22&c=&n=20&yn=c&c=news&cs=nw>news -
> ><<http://rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/ap/ap_on_re_eu/inlinks/*http://rd.yahoo>htt
>p://rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/ap/ap_on_re_eu/inlinks/*http://rd.yahoo
> >.com/DailyNews/manual/*http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?cs=nw&p=NATO
> > >web sites), U.S. and EU equals War" - before heading toward the U.S.
> >Embassy.
> >
> >U.S. Ambassador Thomas Miller said the Greek protesters' indignation
> >was misplaced. "They should be demonstrating outside the Iraqi
> >embassy," he said before the march.
> >
> >Police fired tear gas in clashes with several hundred anarchists
> >wearing hoods and crash helmets, who smashed store windows and threw
> >a gasoline bomb at a newspaper office. Thirteen youths were arrested,
> >while five policemen and two protesters were injured.
> >
> >In Moscow, 300 people marched to the U.S. Embassy, with one placard
> >urging Russian President Vladimir Putin
> >(<<http://rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/ap/ap_on_re_eu/inlinks/*http://rd.yaho>htt
>p://rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/ap/ap_on_re_eu/inlinks/*http://rd.yaho
> >o.com/DailyNews/manual/*http://search.news.yahoo.com/search/news?p=%22
> >Vladimir%20Putin%22&c=&n=20&yn=c&c=news&cs=nw>news -
> ><<http://rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/ap/ap_on_re_eu/inlinks/*http://rd.yahoo>htt
>p://rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/ap/ap_on_re_eu/inlinks/*http://rd.yahoo
> >.com/DailyNews/manual/*http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?cs=nw&p=Vlad
> >imir%20Putin>web sites) to "be firmer with America."
> >
> >Between 3,000 and 5,000 people marched through a suburb of Canberra,
> >the Australian capital, to protest government support for U.S.
> >policy. Australia has already committed 2,000 troops to the Persian
> >Gulf for possible action.
> >
> >_ _ _ _
> >
> >For two more reports on the demonstrations, see
> ><http://truthout.org/docs_02/021603A.htm>http://truthout.org/docs_02/021603
>A.htm
> >
> >
> >________________________________
> >
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>>Delivered-To: sheri at speakeasy.org
>>Delivered-To: sheri at indymedia.org
>>From: "Rick Ingrasci M.D." <rick at bigmindmedia.com>
>>To: "Invitational" <invitational at bigmindmedia.com>,
>> "Subscribers of soulducs" <soulducs at bigmindmedia.com>,
>> "Subscribers of natcap" <natcap at bigmindmedia.com>,
>> "Subscribers of shareholders" <shareholders at bigmindmedia.com>
>>Subject: IV> Protest stats
>>Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2003 14:15:46 -0800
>>Reply-To: "Rick Ingrasci M.D." <rick at bigmindmedia.com>
>>List-Id: <invitational.bigmindmedia.com>
>>Organization: BigMindMedia
>>X-Priority: 3
>>Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2003 12:38:06 -0800 (PST)
>>From: Marieke Van Coppenolle
>><<mailto:marieke4u at yahoo.com>marieke4u at yahoo.com>
>>Subject: European protests underestimated in the US?
>>To: Tom Atlee <<mailto:cii at igc.org>cii at igc.org>
>>
>>Hi Tom,
>>
>>I just called a friend in Oregon. I came home from the demonstration
>>in Brussels, and asked him whether he had seen the news over there in
>>the US. "Millions of people have been demonstrating in Europe," I
>>told him enthousiastically. He said, "on the news they only mentioned
>>500,000 people protesting in Europe - the Bush administration
>>controls the news here." I said, "we should send out the right
>>numbers to American e-mail lists, then, so that the American
>>people know that WE DON'T WANT WAR..." He said that would be a good
>>idea.
>>
>>I immediately thought about you. Because I know you would be
>>interested anyway, as this is so strikingly about (the lack
>>of) democracy...
>>
>>So here are some more accurate numbers of European protests, as far
>>as I know by now. I took them from one of our most reliable
>>newspapers, "De Standaard"
>>(<<http://www.standaard.be/>www.standaard.be>http://www.standaard.be/>www.standaard.be,
>>only in Dutch
>>unfortunately).
>>
>>Brussels: officially: 42,000 (radio news: 50,000) - organizers: 80,000
>>London: officially: 500,000 - organizers: over 1 million
>>Glasgow, Belfast: thousands
>>Berlin: over 500,000
>>Frankfurt: 50,000
>>Paris: 100,000 (there were also American pacifists)
>>Also in other French cities, although it seemed there were not so
>>many people as in the other big European countries.
>>Athens: 200,000
>>Oslo: 60,000
>>Kopenhagen: 50,000
>>Amsterdam: 40,000
>>Stockholm: 30,000
>>Bern: 30,000
>>Helsinki: 12,000
>>
>> From our national radio news, 02/15 at 6 p.m.: Rome: 2,000,000 people
>>(!!) (the organizers had expected 500,000)
>>
>>Please, Tom, help tell the American people that their "official" news
>>is badly underestimating European protests! Find information at
>>independent news agencies and channels! This is really important - if
>>we take what they want us to believe, we are only coworkers in
>>bringing down our right for free speech and hence democracy...
>>
>>Marieke from Belgium
>>
>>To anyone who gets this message, please network it if you can!
>>
>>Marieke Van Coppenolle, IJzermaalberg 61, B-2550 Kontich, BELGIUM
>>Tel. +32-3-457.01.92
>>e-mail:
>><<mailto:marieke at motherearth.org>marieke at motherearth.org>mailto:marieke at motherearth.org>marieke at motherearth.org,
>><mailto:marieke4u at yahoo.com>marieke4u at yahoo.com
>>check websites:
>><<http://www.motherearth.org/>www.motherearth.org>http://www.motherearth.org/>www.motherearth.org,
>><http://www.nanish.org/>www.nanish.org
>>
>>_ _ _ _
>>Thousands Worldwide Protest War in Iraq
>>
>>By ROBERT BARR, Associated Press Writer
>>
>>LONDON - Millions of protesters - many of them marching in the
>>capitals of America's traditional allies - demonstrated Saturday
>>against U.S. plans to attack Iraq.
>>
>>In a global outpouring of anti-war sentiment, Rome claimed the
>>biggest turnout - 1 million according to police, while organizers
>>claimed three times that figure.
>>
>>In London, at least 750,000 people joined in the city's biggest
>>demonstration ever, police said. Berlin had up to half a million on
>>the streets, and Paris was estimated to have had up to 100,000.
>>
>>Peace activists hoped to draw 100,000 demonstrators in New York City
>>later for a protest near the United Nations
>>(<<http://rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/ap/ap_on_re_eu/inlinks/*http://rd.yaho>http://rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/ap/ap_on_re_eu/inlinks/*http://rd.yaho
>>o.com/DailyNews/manual/*http://search.news.yahoo.com/search/news?p=%22
>>United%20Nations%22&c=&n=20&yn=c&c=news&cs=nw>news -
>><<http://rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/ap/ap_on_re_eu/inlinks/*http://rd.yahoo>http://rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/ap/ap_on_re_eu/inlinks/*http://rd.yahoo
>>.com/DailyNews/manual/*http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?cs=nw&p=Unit
>>ed%20Nations>web sites).
>>
>>"Peace! Peace! Peace!" said Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa,
>>who led an ecumenical service near U.N. headquarters. "Let America
>>listen to the rest of the world - and the rest of the world is
>>saying, `Give the inspectors time.'"
>>
>>London's marchers hoped - in the words of keynote speaker Rev. Jesse
>>Jackson
>>(<<http://rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/ap/ap_on_re_eu/inlinks/*http://rd.yaho>http://rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/ap/ap_on_re_eu/inlinks/*http://rd.yaho
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>>Rev.%20Jesse%20Jackson%22&c=&n=20&yn=c&c=news&cs=nw>news -
>><<http://rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/ap/ap_on_re_eu/inlinks/*http://rd.yahoo>http://rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/ap/ap_on_re_eu/inlinks/*http://rd.yahoo
>>.com/DailyNews/manual/*http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?p=Jesse%20Ja
>>ckson>web sites) - to "turn up the heat" on Prime Minister Tony Blair
>>(<<http://rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/ap/ap_on_re_eu/inlinks/*http://rd.yaho>http://rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/ap/ap_on_re_eu/inlinks/*http://rd.yaho
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>>Tony%20Blair%22&c=&n=20&yn=c&c=news&cs=nw>news -
>><<http://rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/ap/ap_on_re_eu/inlinks/*http://rd.yahoo>http://rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/ap/ap_on_re_eu/inlinks/*http://rd.yahoo
>>.com/DailyNews/manual/*http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=Tony+Blair>web
>>sites), who has been President Bush
>>(<<http://rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/ap/ap_on_re_eu/inlinks/*http://rd.yaho>http://rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/ap/ap_on_re_eu/inlinks/*http://rd.yaho
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>>President%20Bush%22&c=&n=20&yn=c&c=news&cs=nw>news -
>><<http://rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/ap/ap_on_re_eu/inlinks/*http://rd.yahoo>http://rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/ap/ap_on_re_eu/inlinks/*http://rd.yahoo
>>.com/DailyNews/manual/*http://search.yahoo.com/search/search?p=George+
>>W.+Bush>web sites)'s staunchest European ally for his tough Iraq
>>policy.
>>
>>Rome protesters showed their disagreement with Prime Minister Silvio
>>Berlusconi's support for Bush, while demonstrators in Paris and
>>Berlin backed the skeptical stances of their governments.
>>
>>"What I would say to Mr. Blair is stop toadying up to the Americans
>>and listen to your own people, us, for once," said Elsie Hinks, 77,
>>who marched in London with her husband, Sidney, a retired Church of
>>England priest.
>>
>>"You don't fight terrorism with a preventive war," said Tommaso
>>Palladini, 56, who traveled from Milan to Rome. "You fight terrorism
>>by creating more justice in the world."
>>
>>Several dozen marchers from Genoa held up pictures of Iraqi artists.
>>"We're carrying these photos to show the other face of the Iraqi
>>people that the TV doesn't show," said Giovanna Marenzana, 38.
>>
>>Some leaders of German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's government took
>>part in the Berlin protest, which turned the tree-lined boulevard
>>between the Brandenburg Gate and the 19th-century Victory Column into
>>a sea of banners, balloons emblazoned with "No war in Iraq" and
>>demonstrators swaying to live music. Police estimated the crowd at
>>between 300,000 and 500,000.
>>
>>"We Germans in particular have a duty to do everything to ensure that
>>war - above all a war of aggression - never again becomes a
>>legitimate means of policy," shouted Friedrich Schorlemmer, a
>>Lutheran pastor and former East German pro-democracy activist.
>>
>>In the Paris crowd at the Place Denfert-Rochereau, a large American
>>flag bore the black inscription: "Leave us alone."
>>
>>Gerald Lenoir, 41, of Berkley, Calif., came to Paris specifically to
>>support the French demonstrators. "I am here to protest my
>>government's aggression against Iraq," he said. "Iraq does not pose a
>>security threat to the United States and there are no links with
>>al-Qaida."
>>
>>In southern France, about 10,000 people demonstrated in Toulouse
>>against the United States, chanting: "They bomb, they exploit, they
>>pollute, enough of this barbarity."
>>
>>Police estimated that 60,000 turned out in Oslo, Norway, 50,000 in
>>bitter cold in Brussels, while about 35,000 gathered peacefully in
>>frigid Stockholm.
>>
>>About 80,000 marched in Dublin, Irish police said. Crowds were
>>estimated at 60,000 in Seville, Spain; 40,000 in Bern, Switzerland;
>>30,000 in Glasgow, Scotland; 25,000 in Copenhagen; 15,000 in Vienna;
>>10,000 in Amsterdam; 5,000 in Cape Town and 4,000 in Johannesburg in
>>South Africa; 5,000 in Tokyo; and 2,000 in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
>>
>>"War is not a solution, war is a problem," Czech philosopher Erazim
>>Kohak told a crowd of about 500 in Prague.
>>
>>In Baghdad, tens of thousands of Iraqis, many carrying Kalashnikov
>>assault rifles, demonstrated to support Saddam Hussein
>>(<<http://rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/ap/ap_on_re_eu/inlinks/*http://rd.yaho>http://rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/ap/ap_on_re_eu/inlinks/*http://rd.yaho
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>>.com/DailyNews/manual/*http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?cs=nw&p=Sadd
>>am%20Hussein>web sites) and denounce the United States.
>>
>>"Our swords are out of their sheaths, ready for battle," read one of
>>hundreds of banners carried by marchers along Palestine Street, a
>>broad Baghdad avenue.
>>
>>In Damascus, the capital of neighboring Syria, an estimated 200,000
>>protesters chanted anti-U.S. and anti-Israeli slogans as they marched
>>to the People's Assembly.
>>
>>Najjah Attar, a former Syrian cabinet minister, accused Washington of
>>attempting to change the region's map. "The U.S. wants to encroach
>>upon our own norms, concepts and principles," she said in Damascus.
>>"They are reminding us of the Nazi and fascist times."
>>
>>In Ukraine, some 2,000 people rallied in snowy Kiev's central square.
>>Anti-globalists led a peaceful "Rock Against War" protest joined by
>>communists, socialists, Kurds and pacifists.
>>
>>In the Bosnian city of Mostar, about 100 Muslims and Croats united
>>for an anti-war protest - the first such cross-community action in
>>seven years in a place where ethnic divisions remain tense, despite
>>the 1995 Bosnian peace agreement.
>>
>>"We want to say that war is evil and that we who survived one know
>>that better than anyone," said Majda Hadzic, 54.
>>
>>In divided Cyprus, about 500 Greeks and Turks braved heavy rain for a
>>march that briefly blocked a runway at a British air base.
>>
>>Several thousand protesters in Athens, Greece, unfurled a giant
>>banner across the wall of the Acropolis - "NATO
>>(<<http://rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/ap/ap_on_re_eu/inlinks/*http://rd.yaho>http://rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/ap/ap_on_re_eu/inlinks/*http://rd.yaho
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>>NATO%22&c=&n=20&yn=c&c=news&cs=nw>news -
>><<http://rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/ap/ap_on_re_eu/inlinks/*http://rd.yahoo>http://rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/ap/ap_on_re_eu/inlinks/*http://rd.yahoo
>>.com/DailyNews/manual/*http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?cs=nw&p=NATO
>> >web sites), U.S. and EU equals War" - before heading toward the U.S.
>>Embassy.
>>
>>U.S. Ambassador Thomas Miller said the Greek protesters' indignation
>>was misplaced. "They should be demonstrating outside the Iraqi
>>embassy," he said before the march.
>>
>>Police fired tear gas in clashes with several hundred anarchists
>>wearing hoods and crash helmets, who smashed store windows and threw
>>a gasoline bomb at a newspaper office. Thirteen youths were arrested,
>>while five policemen and two protesters were injured.
>>
>>In Moscow, 300 people marched to the U.S. Embassy, with one placard
>>urging Russian President Vladimir Putin
>>(<<http://rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/ap/ap_on_re_eu/inlinks/*http://rd.yaho>http://rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/ap/ap_on_re_eu/inlinks/*http://rd.yaho
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>>Vladimir%20Putin%22&c=&n=20&yn=c&c=news&cs=nw>news -
>><<http://rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/ap/ap_on_re_eu/inlinks/*http://rd.yahoo>http://rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/ap/ap_on_re_eu/inlinks/*http://rd.yahoo
>>.com/DailyNews/manual/*http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?cs=nw&p=Vlad
>>imir%20Putin>web sites) to "be firmer with America."
>>
>>Between 3,000 and 5,000 people marched through a suburb of Canberra,
>>the Australian capital, to protest government support for U.S.
>>policy. Australia has already committed 2,000 troops to the Persian
>>Gulf for possible action.
>>
>>_ _ _ _
>>
>>For two more reports on the demonstrations, see
>><http://truthout.org/docs_02/021603A.htm>http://truthout.org/docs_02/021603A.htm
>>
>>
>>________________________________
>>
>>Tom Atlee * The Co-Intelligence Institute * PO Box 493 * Eugene, OR 97440
>><http://www.co-intelligence.org>http://www.co-intelligence.org
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