GLOBAL PROTESTS BY
MILLIONS AGAINST THE BUSH WAR
February 15 - 16,
2003
30 Million across the planet
marched against the impending war on Iraq this weekend.
Here are estimates and final
numbers in cities and countries around the
world.
GREAT BRITAIN
1,500,000 in
LONDON
SPAIN
2,000,000 across
Spain
800,000 in
Madrid
1,300,000 in
Barcelona
ITALY
1,000,000 in
ROME
GERMANY:
500,000 in
BERLIN
FRANCE
400,000 in Paris
AUSTRALIA:
100,000 to 200,000 in
MELBOURNE
CANADA
100,000 in
Montreal
80,000 in
Toronto
20,000 in
Vancouver
5,000 in Calgary
SYRIA
200,000 in
Damascus
UNITED STATES
500,000 in New
York
60,000 - 75,000 in
Seattle
10,000 in
Philadelphia
7,500 in
Minnesotta
5,000 in San
Diego
2,000 in Detroit
1,000 in Portland,
Maine
IRELAND
100,000 in
DUBLIN
PORTUGAL
80,000 in Lisbon
NETHERLANDS
70,000 in
Amsterdam
NORWAY
60,000 in Oslo
GREECE
50,000 in ATHENS
URUGUAY
50,000 in
MONTEVIDEO
ARGENTINA
50,000 in Buenos
Aires
SWITZERLAND
40,000 in BERN
BELGIUM
30,000 in
Brussels
AUSTRIA
15,000 - 30,000 in
Vienna
HUNGARY
20,000 in
Budapest
BRAZIL
10,000 - 20,000 in Sao
Paolo
FINLAND
15,000 in
Helsinki
MEXICO
13,500 in Mexico
City
NEW ZEALAND
8,000 - 10,000 in
Auckland
6,000 in
Wellington
THAILAND
10,000 in Pattani
Province
JAPAN
6,000 in TOKYO
LONDON
Demonstration in London was no
doubt the largest outcry for peace in the history of the city:
1,500,000 rally against the Bush war for oil.
BERLIN
500,000 demonstrated in Berlin
in the city's largest antiwar demonstration.
AMSTERDAM
On the Dam Square in Amsterdam,
thousands gathered with signs saying 'NO BLOOD FOR
OIL'.
SEOUL, KOREA
Demonstrators in downtown
Seoul, capital of South Korea.
BUDAPEST,
HUNGARY
In Budapest, the capital of
Hungary, thousands of people form a peace chain across the
city.
BRANDENBURG GATE,
BERLIN
The sea of 500,000 people
people surround the historical Brandenburg Gate all around, once the
infamous dividing line between the West and East Germany. A
resounding message of NO to the imminent Bush war.
CALL
FOR PEACE
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PROMETHEUS, Internet Bulletin for Art, Politics and
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Nr. 86, Spring 2003