[Seattle-editorial] Seattle Protest Story and Photos
Brandon Faloona
brandon at faloona.net
Sat Feb 15 19:02:33 PST 2003
approve!
jonathan lawson said:
> 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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>> 1. Book publishing - help offered / Bokutgivning (Polyglots - Paz)
>> 2. Fwd: IV> Protest stats (Sheri Herndon)
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>>Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2003 23:42:03 +0100
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>>Subject: [Seattle-editorial] Book publishing - help offered /
>> Bokutgivning
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>>Message: 2
>>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
>> >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.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
>> >
>> >
>> >________________________________
>> >
>> >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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>>>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
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>>> 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
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>>> ckson>web sites) - to "turn up the heat" on Prime Minister Tony Blair
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>>> .com/DailyNews/manual/*http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=Tony+Blair>web
>>> sites), who has been President Bush
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>>> .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
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>>> 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
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>>> .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
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>>> .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
>>>* http://www.democracyinnovations.org
>>>Please support our work. * Your donations are fully tax-deductible.
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