International Demonstrator Count for 27th Sept
Rebel W | 05.10.2003 12:56 | No War F15 | Anti-militarism | Indymedia | London
One day we'll have a GlobalDemonstratorCount.org site I'm sure, but in the mean time, here's my work on 27th September figures worldwide. The figure currently stands at 230,450 from 18 demos; 40 demos uncounted.
Methodology: Basically IraqBodyCounts's Maximum figure method.
Methodology: Basically IraqBodyCounts's Maximum figure method.
"We don't do Body Counts" General Tommy Franks.
The format is as follows:
City, Country (Source): Number;
Big events:
London, UK (STWC): 100,000;
Edinburgh, UK (BBC): 1500;
Dublin, Ireland (BBC): 1500;
Rome, Italy (NL.IMC): 100,000;
Ankara, Turkey (NL.IMC): 4000;
Paris, France (BBC): 3000;
Athens, Greece (BBC): 3000;
Seoul, South Korea (BBC): 2000;
Los Angeles, USA (NL.IMC): 3000;
Brussels, Belgium (NL.IMC): 1200;
Madrid, Spain (NL.IMC): 7000;
Lucca, Italy (IT.IMC): 3000*;
Smaller events:
Berlin: 400;
Stockholm: 250;
Vienna: 200;
Warsaw: 100;
Duisburg* (Germany) 300;
* My translating has made the exact details of this demo sketchy for some reason.
I estimate I'm missing around 40-45 demonstrations, which would put the figure to over 250,000 (and possibly over 275,000) and I'm still not totally sure about the Rome demonstration, not that I doubt it took place.
Now for your bit; if you know of any demonstration not mentioned above, or have a higher figure from somewhere, please whack it down in a quick comment (see link below) and I'll up date it. It should be either an Iraq/Palestine solidarity or end the occupation demo, or one targetting a government for its involvement.
I need the source (for indymedia sites, please state which centre), city, country and figure for each. Hopefully this way we can come up with a big but accurate count. I don't care if it was only small, I just want the closest I can get to a worldwide demonstration total. One day I might start a website which does this job, using the exact same rules as the IBC count does.
(And please, no "lies, damn lies and statistics" jokes!)
The format is as follows:
City, Country (Source): Number;
Big events:
London, UK (STWC): 100,000;
Edinburgh, UK (BBC): 1500;
Dublin, Ireland (BBC): 1500;
Rome, Italy (NL.IMC): 100,000;
Ankara, Turkey (NL.IMC): 4000;
Paris, France (BBC): 3000;
Athens, Greece (BBC): 3000;
Seoul, South Korea (BBC): 2000;
Los Angeles, USA (NL.IMC): 3000;
Brussels, Belgium (NL.IMC): 1200;
Madrid, Spain (NL.IMC): 7000;
Lucca, Italy (IT.IMC): 3000*;
Smaller events:
Berlin: 400;
Stockholm: 250;
Vienna: 200;
Warsaw: 100;
Duisburg* (Germany) 300;
* My translating has made the exact details of this demo sketchy for some reason.
I estimate I'm missing around 40-45 demonstrations, which would put the figure to over 250,000 (and possibly over 275,000) and I'm still not totally sure about the Rome demonstration, not that I doubt it took place.
Now for your bit; if you know of any demonstration not mentioned above, or have a higher figure from somewhere, please whack it down in a quick comment (see link below) and I'll up date it. It should be either an Iraq/Palestine solidarity or end the occupation demo, or one targetting a government for its involvement.
I need the source (for indymedia sites, please state which centre), city, country and figure for each. Hopefully this way we can come up with a big but accurate count. I don't care if it was only small, I just want the closest I can get to a worldwide demonstration total. One day I might start a website which does this job, using the exact same rules as the IBC count does.
(And please, no "lies, damn lies and statistics" jokes!)
Rebel W
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05.10.2003 13:05
No, but seriously. How do we know these figures are correct?
Ozymandias
I wish an end to this meaningless numbers game
05.10.2003 13:39
Humanity think betond all doubt that the 12 year sanctions regime, the 'war' and the curent occupation are wrong from moral points of view.
Humanity also is well aware of the over consuming ways of the pigs as the root cause of such babaric acts so even if million march and do not do anything constructive like overthrowing the 'centuries old oppressive inhumane regimes that foster such consumerism', the humble and probably honest marches like that of Sept 27th are not worth wasting the precious time over.
Become human.
Just listened to what peopel like Nelson Mandela have to say in this troubled times.
Overthrow the pigscum!
ram
Guessing is always a problem
07.10.2003 02:03
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