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Full Coverage
"As he claims the qualities of leadership to be the next president of the United States, Senator Kerry should be held accountable for the failure to honor the commitment he made when he voted for the October Resolution." [more]
"It would be a cheap shot to write off last weekend's demonstrations or the larger European unease about war as knee-jerk pacifism. It isn't just Western Europeans who took to the streets on Saturday; there also were anti-war demonstrations in Russia, Ukraine, South Africa, Australia and New York." [more]
"What can anti-war activists do as a follow-up? Where does the drive to stop the war go from here? Given the history of protest movements, how much opportunity is there now to sway public opinion? And why is it that the opposition, any opposition, finds it so difficult to counter a president once his mind is made up?" [more]
"The United States and Britain have indicated they will press on with a second UN resolution preparing the way for war against Iraq in spite of a weekend of unprecedented worldwide peace rallies." [more]
"The fracturing of the Western alliance over Iraq and the huge antiwar demonstrations around the world this weekend are reminders that there may still be two superpowers on the planet: the United States and world public opinion." [more]
"At least 150,000 people marched through the city's financial district, chanted antiwar slogans and listened to John Lennon's 'Imagine' sung in Arabic." [more]
"In what may be the largest U.S. protest against war in Iraq to date, at least 200,000 people massed in San Francisco on Sunday as activists tried to build on the momentum of Saturday's turnouts around the world." [more]
"And indeed, many protesters came Sunday because they were actively recruited for the first time. While the total was modest compared with Sunday's overall turnout, the large number of newcomers pleased organizers, who face several challenges in organizing communities that have not turned out in large numbers for anti-war protests since the Vietnam War." [more]
"Ringing cowbells, banging temple drums, chanting, singing, dancing and waving colorful signs, puppets and placards, the marchers moved slowly up Market in a huge anti-war demonstration. While most simply walked the route, many pushed baby carriages, underscoring the argument that war would threaten the future of children most of all." [more]
"Protesters hit the streets from London to Rio de Janeiro and New York to New Zealand, but the largest rallies were in countries where the governments support Mr Bush's war plans including Britain, Spain, Italy and Australia." [more]
"The protesters joined a worldwide wave of demonstrations, not seen since the Vietnam War, with about 6 million anti-war protesters, some estimate up to 10 million, in more than 600 towns and cities from Auckland to San Francisco to Seoul." [more]
"As marcher Jackie Woods had said earlier: 'Who knows if it will achieve anything?' She had to march, though, like the 250,000 others. 'I feel like it's out of control and this is the only way I can express how I feel.' " [more]
"What differed from the protests of three and four decades earlier was the palpable fear that this time global annihilation is possible." [more]
"The demonstrations continued yesterday. And so did the rain. But this time it was children who marched in protest of war." [more]
"Attempts are being made to close the international divisions over what to do about Iraq. Although new UN resolutions are in the works, the prospects for war remain high." [more]
"The larger-than-expected crowds that rallied around the world fed a renewed confidence among peace activists that the message of signs carried at one of the weekend's first rallies in Auckland, New Zealand might yet turn out to be right: 'We can stop this war.' " [more]
"As the streets are being snowed over, I cant help thinking that the voice of the people is receiving a similar snow job." [more]
"With 11 leading American poets, the event dubbed 'A Poetry Reading in Honor of the Right to Protest as a Patriotic and Historical Tradition' capped a long weekend of antiwar demonstrations around the world and across the country." [more]
"So far the atmosphere had been one of stalwart good cheer, but the physical experience was not unlike that of commuting where you often find yourself shuffling along en masse ... We were surrounded by thousands of stationary people. The only thing we needed was a banner saying 'Queue Against the War'." [more]
"Confronting America's countdown to war, throngs of chanting, placard-waving demonstrators converged on New York and scores of cities across the United States, Europe and Asia yesterday in a global daisy chain of largely peaceful protests against the Bush administration's threatened invasion of Iraq." [more]
"As he prepares for a summit meeting of European leaders on Monday, Mr. Blair is heading for the gathering armed with little more than a sense of high moral purpose and an alliance with President Bush neither of which has done much to persuade fellow Europeans to join a war in Iraq." [more]
"Wearing skeleton suits topped with Uncle Sam paper hats, a dozen musicians, and several dozen more marchers tooting kazoos and banging plastic buckets or aluminum pots, turned this city's protest into an upbeat parade, as thousands of people high-stepped to patriotic tunes like 'You're a Grand Old Flag.' " [more]
"Armed with a kaleidoscope of hand-scrawled placards and a few choice words for Mr. Blair, hundreds of thousands of protesters braved frigid weather and descended on the heart of London today to oppose a war with Iraq in what is being described as the largest demonstration in [Britain's] history." [more]
"From the parks of London to the piazzas of Rome and the avenues of Paris and Berlin, more than 1.5 million Europeans marched today in a huge protest against war in Iraq. It was the Continent's biggest coordinated peace demonstration in memory and left many protesters jubilant at the show of antiwar sentiment." [more]
"Although yesterday's demonstration against war was speckled with professional peace activists, leftist doctrinaires and a kaleidoscopic array of malcontents advocating the end of capitalism, imperialism, sexism and taxation, a great many of those who converged on the East Side of Manhattan were the unaligned and the unaffiliated." [more]
"The largest rallies were in London, Rome, Berlin and Paris the heart of Western Europe where the generally peaceful demonstrations illustrated the breadth of popular opposition to U.S. policies among traditional allies." [more]
"Over the last several days, ANSWER's politics have created a rift within the leadership of the antiwar movement that demonstrates the difficulty in having such a small, radical group play a prominent role in organizing the peace effort." [more]
"A sea of protesters poured through the frigid streets of midtown Manhattan today to protest a possible United States invasion of Iraq, as police hurriedly closed avenues to make way for the chanting, sign-waving, horn-tooting thousands." [more]
"This is not an America we recognize. When we recited the pledge of allegiance in our long-ago scout meetings, it was to a different America, one with different principles. It was an America that lived by the rule of law. An America that was a land of compassion and brotherly love. An America that took seriously a promise to be a good neighbor, both across the street and around the globe." [more]
"In an exhilarating expression of the anti-war movement's profound decentralization and spontaneity, peaceful demonstrators filled the streets, marching in whatever direction they could. It was the best anti-war protest yet, everyone agreed. Who needed to stand still in the cold and listen to the (at least 30) boring speeches, when so much of the city was one enormous, intoxicating, unpredictable protest march?" [more]
"It was only the remarkable restraint of protesters accustomed to obeying the law a diverse array of families from the boroughs, twenty-something Manhattanites, and retired couples from Westchester that prevented the day of peaceful dissent from turning into a riot." [more]
"The immediate hypocrisy was maddening! The cops had instigated the violence by penning people in and then pushing them back when they had nowhere to go. Sending a message for the long-term, I'd say." [more]
"More than 250 people were arrested during a massive demonstration against possible war in Iraq as tens of thousands of protesters packed a 20-block area north of United Nations headquarters, New York police said Sunday." [more]
"The antiwar mood in Europe seemed to crystallize Friday after Hans Blix, the United Nation's chief weapons inspector in Iraq, told the Security Council that he had not uncovered any weapons of mass destruction." [more]
"Millions of protesters many of them marching in America and the capitals of Americas traditional allies demonstrated Saturday against possible U.S. plans to attack Iraq." [more]
"The United States and Britain considered giving diplomacy more time on Sunday in the face of resistance at the United Nations to their plans for war to disarm Iraq and after vast weekend peace protests." [more]
"Yesterday, a new diverse, anti-war movement was born on the streets of New York." [more]
"Police last night said the arrests were mostly for disorderly conduct and resisting arrest. To manage crowds that were larger than expected, the Police Department's highest ranking uniformed official, Chief of Department Joseph Esposito, declared a Level 4 mobilization, the force's largest emergency deployment." [more]
"It's a strategy of the stockyards applied to people, and called, appropriately, 'the pens.' " [more]
"The US on Sunday dismissed millions of anti-war protesters around the world and European-led efforts to delay a conflict with Iraq, saying they strengthened Saddam Hussein, the Iraqi leader, and made war more rather than less likely." [more]
"Thousands rode BART into the city this morning for anti-war rallies and a march that organizers said could be one of the biggest in recent memory." [more]
"While huge anti-war demonstrations have been taking place around the world, the streets of the Middle East have been relatively quiet. Political analysts say one reason is because governments in the region have don't want large demonstrations, fearing they could turn into anti-Arab government rallies." [more]
"Rallies and marches have been held in hundreds of towns and cities worldwide, attracting millions of people opposed to a US-led war against Iraq." [more]
"Tens of thousands of people thronged the streets of Sydney and other Australian cities on Sunday, beginning a second day of global marches against a possible U.S. war on Iraq. In a massive wave of demonstrations not seen since the Vietnam War, more than six million peace protesters took to the streets in towns and cities from Cape Town to Chicago on Saturday." [more]
"Despite intense pressure from the Bush administration, French President Jacques Chirac continues to maintain that France will veto a United Nations Security Council resolution authorizing a war in Iraq. Today, I witnessed firsthand why Chirac maintains his firm antiwar stance." [more]
"While other major cities around the world held peace rallies Saturday, a demonstration planned in San Francisco was held back a day to make way for the city's traditional Chinese New Year's parade." [more]
"Interviews conducted over the past few days in England, France and Germany show mounting anger and disgust with the administration's perceived determination to push the Iraq crisis to a military conclusion regardless of world opinion." [more]
"The unprecedented turnout had shocked the organisers, shocked the marchers. And there at the end before them, high on top of the Wellington Arch, the four obsidian stallions and their vicious conquering chariot, the very Spirit of War, were stilled, rearing back caught, and held, in the bare branches and bright chill of Piccadilly, London, on Saturday 15 February 2003." [more]
"The big crowd yesterday was in New York City, but people in dozens of cities across the country held peace demonstrations as well." [more]
"From New York to Hollywood via Chicago and Colorado, anti-war protestors took to the streets in the broadest display so far of American public dissent to a military strike on Iraq." [more]
"Seattle lent its voice and lots of feet to peace demonstrations around the world yesterday, with thousands of marchers turning out for what might have been the biggest anti-war march in the city's history." [more]
"In an extraordinary day of protest evoking the anti-war fervor of the 1960s, at least 100,000 people massed in Midtown Manhattan yesterday, demanding a peaceful end to the U.S. showdown with Iraq." [more]
"They have done all the things that anti-war activists normally do. They marched on Washington. They requested meetings with the president. They prayed. 'We want justice, not retribution,' said Bethke, a Methodist pastor from Freehold whose brother Bill died [in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks]." [more]
"More than 100,000 people hit the streets of San Francisco on Sunday to join the voices around the world this weekend protesting a possible U.S. invasion of Iraq." [more]
"Thousands of people opposed to a war with Iraq protested across the United States on Saturday, staging rallies in New York, Southern California, Detroit, Miami, Chicago and other communities that recalled the peace demonstrations of the 1960s and '70s." [more]
"Protests in Europe included some of the largest antiwar demonstrations in decades, authorities said. And the biggest marches took place in nations that are strong U.S. allies and whose governments support President Bush's confrontation with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein." [more]
"To Nile Delta villagers, a war on Iraq would be unjust and a disaster for Egypt's economy." [more]
" 'Peace! Peace! Peace!' screamed South African Bishop Desmond Tutu from a platform in the middle of Manhattan's First Avenue. The Nobel Peace Prize winner exhorted President Bush, 'Listen to the voice of the people because, many times, the voice of the people is the voice of God.' " [more]
"[The] message was shared Saturday by thousands of protesters in Chicago and millions around the world: No war in Iraq. The rally was part of a global wave of protest that started early Saturday in New Zealand and rolled west to North America." [more]
"On a global scale, the demonstrations were among the largest in decades, and, taken as a whole, may have been the largest simultaneous, single-day antiwar protest in history." [more]
"Philadelphia police estimated the crowd at 10,000, making the gathering one of the largest peace demonstrations in city history." [more]
"Demonstrators said they are anxious that time is running out to stop an attack on Iraq, but they said they hoped the massive rallies coming on the heels of a rebuff of the US position at the United Nations on Friday will make things particularly uncomfortable for the Bush administration." [more]
"Weekend protests worldwide by millions of anti-war activists delivered a stinging rebuke to Washington and its allies on their hard-line advance towards war." [more]
"This is a the charge sheet and lexicon of the 'antiwar' movement. Whatever possible benefits might flow from military action are, it seems, rejected and disparaged, either on grounds of the means (the cure is worse than the cold), or on grounds of America and Britain's corrupt and hypocritical motives." [more]
"Yet even as demonstrators declared that they were standing with the world and especially with Germany and France, whose opposition to war with Iraq in the U.N. was commended on sign after sign the event was filled with the burnished spirit of New York. Although there were marchers from across the country, locals predominated, many angrily rejecting the way they say the administration has hijacked their city's grief." [more]
"As diplomatic and military preparations continued toward a possible war with Iraq, anti-war protests stretched around the globe yesterday And although the demonstrations in the United States paled in comparison to those in Rome, Berlin and London, marches and rallies took place in more than 150 American cities." [more]
"Anti-war demonstrators packed the streets north of the United Nations headquarters Saturday, filling police-barricaded protest zones for more than 20 blocks as civil rights leaders and celebrities energized the banner-waving crowd." [more]
"While the rest of Rome was deserted, the streets of the city center were flooded with colorful rainbow peace flags and joyful demonstrators." [more]
"In the current campaign against a war with Iraq, large rallies are a valuable publicity tool for antiwar groups whose attempts to woo undecided Americans are frequently drowned out by a government that argues that it may be necessary to go to war. Given the disparity of antiwar groups and how some have tried to promote agendas that go beyond Iraq, swaying ordinary Americans on the issue isn't always easy." [more]
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(IHT, Apr 30)
"In just five years, Bush has challenged more than 750 new laws, by far a record for any president, while becoming the first president since Thomas Jefferson to stay so long in office without issuing a veto." [more]
(Interactivist Info Exchange, Jul 26)
"Horizontalism is not an ideology, however, it is a relationship — a way of relating to one another in a directly democratic way while at the same time creating through the process of discovery. What has resulted is the creation of an amazing complex of movements, all linked." [more] |
This website is a tribute to Why War?, one of the nation's first and most innovative post-9/11 student antiwar organizations. Born on October 22, 2001 at Swarthmore College, we were a handful of freshmen and sophmores who vocally opposed the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere. And now, seven years later, we are retiring this website as we focus our efforts on new directions. We hope that it continues to serve future activists and we remain confident that humanity is on the verge birthing a better world.
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