When 3 Million People Across the World Took
to the Streets to Stop the War
By MIKE MARQUSEE, Published
February 25 / 26, 2006, CounterPunch.org
Three years ago, the world witnessed
something unprecedented. On the same day, in 900 cities in forty
countries north and south, east and west, thirty million people
took to the streets in protest against the imminent attack on
Iraq. There were demonstrations in Moscow, Karachi, Dhaka, Manila,
Johannesburg, Cairo, Kinshasa, Tel Aviv, among many others, but
the biggest turn-outs were in the belligerent nations. The marches
in Britain, Spain, Italy and Australia were probably the largest
in their countries’ histories. [read more]