US peace marches
un | 27.10.2002 11:47
Tens of thousands of people have marched in the US cities of Washington and San Francisco as part of a day of worldwide protests against a possible American-led war against Iraq.
A number of other US cities saw demonstrations, while protest rallies also took place in Mexico, Japan, Spain, Germany, South Korea, Belgium and Australia.
In the US, the protests are being hailed as some of the largest in the country since US citizens took to the streets in the 1960s and 1970s to protest the Vietnam war.
Waving banners and chanting slogans, the protesters called on the US president to abandon plans to topple the Iraqi leader, Saddam Hussein, and to spend the billions of dollars needed for a military campaign on social programmes instead.
The US Congress has granted George W Bush the power to wage war on Iraq - with or without the approval of the United Nations
Germany was the scene of some of Europe's largest protests, with more than 80 cities holding rallies.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/2364151.stm
Tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets of San Francisco on October 26 to demand an end to Bush's wars. Estimates of the crowd size varied from forty thousand to over one hundred thousand.
After the main march to City Hall, an unpermitted break-away march continued the resistance in the streets while blaring music from the Coup on a mobile soundsystem.
http://sf.indymedia.org/
It is bumper to bumper buses to the peace march in Washington D.C. on 10/26/02, some 2 hours after the rally has started!
I just heard this news on KPFA, 94.1 FM. It sounds like there are many hundreds of thousands in Washington, D.C.
http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2002/10/1539106.php
The memory of the late Senator Paul Wellstone was invoked throughout the demonstration as conspiracy theories were discussed openly on local Seattle radio talkshows. Williamson told the protesters, “Don’t mourn – organize!”
Sounds like Mother Jones… Some people felt like weeping but most were inspired by the large numbers of participants and marched proudly through the downtown business district to the surprise of many motorists and pedestrians. The march was led by the Anti-Fascist Marching Band and included a group of school children carrying a huge globe of the earth on their backs.
http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2002/10/1539327.php
In the US, the protests are being hailed as some of the largest in the country since US citizens took to the streets in the 1960s and 1970s to protest the Vietnam war.
Waving banners and chanting slogans, the protesters called on the US president to abandon plans to topple the Iraqi leader, Saddam Hussein, and to spend the billions of dollars needed for a military campaign on social programmes instead.
The US Congress has granted George W Bush the power to wage war on Iraq - with or without the approval of the United Nations
Germany was the scene of some of Europe's largest protests, with more than 80 cities holding rallies.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/2364151.stm Tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets of San Francisco on October 26 to demand an end to Bush's wars. Estimates of the crowd size varied from forty thousand to over one hundred thousand.
After the main march to City Hall, an unpermitted break-away march continued the resistance in the streets while blaring music from the Coup on a mobile soundsystem.
http://sf.indymedia.org/ It is bumper to bumper buses to the peace march in Washington D.C. on 10/26/02, some 2 hours after the rally has started!
I just heard this news on KPFA, 94.1 FM. It sounds like there are many hundreds of thousands in Washington, D.C.
http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2002/10/1539106.php The memory of the late Senator Paul Wellstone was invoked throughout the demonstration as conspiracy theories were discussed openly on local Seattle radio talkshows. Williamson told the protesters, “Don’t mourn – organize!”
Sounds like Mother Jones… Some people felt like weeping but most were inspired by the large numbers of participants and marched proudly through the downtown business district to the surprise of many motorists and pedestrians. The march was led by the Anti-Fascist Marching Band and included a group of school children carrying a huge globe of the earth on their backs.
http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2002/10/1539327.php
un
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The real America shines out its light
27.10.2002 17:04
make them pay for their war on every front, and especially at home
heatherman
Hundreds of thousands!
29.10.2002 00:13
150,000 attended the rally and march in DC, Nearly 100,000 were in San Fransisco.
I could not find anything about this in the Guardian. Did the Euro press cover this at all?
pjd