New York
Related: About this forumHey New Yorkers! Where were you on Saturday, Feb.15, 2003
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."
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/
CanadaexPat
(496 posts)It was nuts - there were many more people than they expected and they had to call in extra cops.
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)Kip Humphrey
(4,753 posts)She voted for and defended what you and millions upon millions worldwide demonstrated against.
or here:
Vote for Bernie Sanders!
Squinch
(52,391 posts)SheilaT
(23,156 posts)one of the pictures being shown on CNN had him at the front and center.
choie
(4,398 posts)And that's why I'm voting for Bernie!