Hey New Yorkers! Where were you on Saturday, FEB. 15, 2003 [View all]

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when NYC played a critical role as center stage for a massive and worldwide
anti-Iraq war protest? The eyes of the world were on you.
Well we need you to turn out once again, lest it happen again!
PLEASE show up for the revolution and support BERNIE!!!
OCCUPY YOUR HOME LAND!

February 15, 2003 - In world-wide demonstrations in hundreds of cities around the world, millions of people protest to try to prevent US plans to attack Iraq. As many as a million people in New York City alone marched. The New York Times reported there were now ”two superpowers on the planet - the United States, and worldwide public opinion."


February 15, 2003, New York Times

Cities jammed in worldwide protest of war in Iraq
Sunday, February 16, 2003

NEW YORK (CNN) -- Huge crowds of anti-war demonstrators jammed into midtown New York on Saturday as protesters in dozens of U.S. cities joined large crowds worldwide in voicing opposition to war with Iraq.
Demonstrators converged near the United Nations to protest the possible war in just one of the more than 600 anti-war rallies around the globe. Organizers estimated the crowd at more than 375,000, but Police Commissioner Ray Kelly estimated turnout at 100,000.
Besides protests in large cities such as Chicago, Illinois; and Los Angeles, California; rallies were held across the United States in smaller towns such as Gainesville, Georgia; Macomb, Illinois; and Juneau, Alaska, according to the anti-war group United for Peace and Justice.

http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/02/15/sprj.irq.protests.main/