Stories from 2003-02-16
"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]
"The organizers of the recent Washington and San Francisco marches refuse to say anything critical of Saddam Hussein ... Whatever their views on Iraq, no one in the current peace movement has put forth a moral vision that might unite and sustain it beyond the precipice of war." [more]
"Frankly, without any real evidence, that just isn't good enough. It looks like desperation. It looks like Mr. Powell is floundering, anxiously casting about for some justification for an American attack. Is it any wonder the French are saying Non?" [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]
"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]
"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]
"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]
"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]
"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]
"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]
"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]
"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]
"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]
"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]
"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]
"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]
"It's a strategy of the stockyards applied to people, and called, appropriately, 'the pens.' " [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]
"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]
"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]
"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]
"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]
"No one doubts that an Iraq conflict will hurt the area's economy, what's unclear is how much and for how long." [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]
"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]
"To Nile Delta villagers, a war on Iraq would be unjust and a disaster for Egypt's economy." [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]
"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]
"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]
"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]
"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 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]
"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]
"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]
"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]
"Philadelphia police estimated the crowd at 10,000, making the gathering one of the largest peace demonstrations in city history." [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 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]
"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]
"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]
"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]
"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]
"The big crowd yesterday was in New York City, but people in dozens of cities across the country held peace demonstrations as well." [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]
"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]
" '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]
"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]
"Yesterday, a new diverse, anti-war movement was born on the streets of New York." [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]
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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]
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