Do you sums properly. That is 52 on top of the many, many others who have already declared their opposition to the US war mongering in the America’s, Europe (including half of the EU countries btw), Asia and Africa. Did you read what the 115 member NAM statement said the other day?
So far there are only 2 coutries that have sent troops to fight the US war on Iraq - the US and UK. What a “coalition of the willing”. 
The NAM summit has ended with member nations issuing a strongly worded condemnation of unilateral action against Iraq.
Non-Aligned Summit Ends With Anti-War Declaration](VOA - Voice of America English News) VOA News 25 Feb 03
Ministers from 116 developing nations have declared their opposition to any war in Iraq without the approval of the United Nations Security Council, but they have called on Baghdad to actively comply with U.N. demands to disarm. The declaration is among several adopted Tuesday by leaders of the Non-Aligned Movement as they closed a two-day summit in the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur.
Anti-war sentiment was a key theme. The members, who represent more than half the world’s population, also called for a peaceful resolution to North Korea’s standoff with the United States over nuclear development. Pyongyang blocked the group’s efforts to send a strong message urging that it re-join a global treaty preventing the spread of atomic weapons.
Another summit declaration condemns Israel for what it describes as human rights violations and war crimes in Palestinian areas. The document did not impose the economic sanctions that Palestinians had hoped to see. The Non-Aligned Movement was founded more than 40 years ago, at the height of the Cold War, as a group of nations seeking neutrality in the East-West confrontation. During the summit, many leaders voiced concern over the lack of a counterbalance to U.S. power since the Cold War ended.
And the mass protests continue around the world…
200,000 Yemenis protest war in Iraq](Yahoo News: Latest and Breaking News, Headlines, Live Updates, and More)
**Thousands in Pakistan March Against War **](Yahoo News: Latest and Breaking News, Headlines, Live Updates, and More)
Thousands of Japanese Protest Against Iraq War](Yahoo News: Latest and Breaking News, Headlines, Live Updates, and More)
Thousands gather in Bosnian town to protest possible war against Iraq](Yahoo News: Latest and Breaking News, Headlines, Live Updates, and More)
“A lot of ordinary people from all kinds of backgrounds want to express their sense of the immorality and illegality of this war,”
US set for more war protests](BBC NEWS | Americas | US set for more war protests) BBC 03 Mar 03
As the build up to war intensifies in the United States, anti-war activists in the country claim that their movement is growing rapidly to match it. The latest opinion poll in the United States, conducted by TIME/CNN, suggests that 61% of Americans either oppose a war in Iraq on any terms, or would support one only if it had UN backing. United for Peace and Justice, a national coalition with more than 200 affiliates, says that in line with mounting public opposition, acts of non-violent disobedience and protest are planned in 43 American cities over the coming days and weeks.
“A lot of ordinary people from all kinds of backgrounds want to express their sense of the immorality and illegality of this war,” the organisation’s spokeswoman, Andrea Buffer, told BBC News Online. “Some support may evaporate if the UN gives its mandate to any military action, but generally we’ve never seen such a wall of opposition to one issue for a long time.”
Student boycotts
United for Peace and Justice brings together civic institutions including churches, student bodies, trades unions and local political lobby groups. It was behind a protest outside the American mission to the United Nations in December, in which many religious leaders were arrested. Student boycotts at high school and college level are now being organised, a march by women on the White House, hunger strikes and rallies.
More disruptive action is planned for the day that any attack is launched on Iraq, including occupations and sit-in protests in federal buildings. According to the activists, the demonstrations reflect the outrage witnessed in famous acts of public protest such as the civil rights marches and anti-Vietnam war protests during the 1960s.
Warmongers
In Chicago, 43 religious leaders - representing all the major faiths in the city - united to send their message of opposition to Washington. It is the first time there has been such an inter-faith statement for more than 20 years. “Our message goes further than protesting over military action. We are saying that if this nation goes to war then we want regime change here,” said one of the co-ordinators, Mike McConnell.
“These warmongers cannot continue.” In Britain, the Stop the War Coalition, which organised one of the world’s biggest anti-war protests last month, says details of further protests will be decided at a gathering next week. It says 2,300 delegates representing many civic institutions will meet at a venue near parliament to discuss acts of civil disobedience and mass demonstration.
Area campuses to join anti-war walkout](http://www.gazettenet.com/03042003/five_col/3944.htm) Daily Hampshire Gazette
By BRANDI JOHNSON
Tuesday, March 4, 2003 – Rallies, teach-ins and a multischool march are planned on area college campuses Wednesday as part of “Books not Bombs,” a national student protest against the prospect of war in Iraq. Organizers from the National Youth and Student Peace Coalition say students on hundreds of campuses nationwide will walk out of classes to oppose “an unnecessary and unjustified U.S. war against the Iraqi people.” Locally, students from Amherst Regional High School also are expected to participate. Rallies are planned at all Five Colleges and Greenfield Community College. Most also will have forums or teach-ins about the possible war.
Students from around the area will gather at Haigis Mall at the University of Massachusetts at 5 p.m. to march to the Amherst Common, where they will hold a vigil. “We are participating in a national campaign,” said Mount Holyoke College senior Caitlin Higgins, 22, of New Jersey. “This is a great way to promote education and not war.”
Not all students support the protest, however. “I don’t think that the walkout is going to be effective,” said Christopher Carlozzi, 22, of Brockton, a UMass senior and president of the UMass Republican Club. “If students would just stay in their classes and learn something, they would see that there is a need to go into Iraq.” “All they are doing is disturbing our academic atmosphere,” said Carlozzi. Other club members also oppose the protest, he said.
The UMass Antiwar Coalition will hold a rally from noon to 1 p.m. on the Student Union steps. A series of forums will follow on “domestic and international consequences of a preemptive strike on Iraq,” according to a coalition news release. More than 80 professors plan to discuss war in class or to allow students to attend the events, said Ann Ferguson a UMass professor of philosophy and women’s studies who will speak at the rally. The Progressive Students Alliance at Amherst College will hold a rally in front of the dining hall at noon before joining the 5 p.m. march from UMass to the town common.
At Hampshire College, activities are scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. in the Robert Crown Center, including speakers, art-making, live music, community discussion and a luncheon. President Gregory Prince has sent a letter encouraging participation by students, faculty and staff.
Mount Holyoke students and professors will replace normal classes with discussions about the prospect of war. At 12:15 p.m., Mount Holyoke students plan to gather in front of Skinner Hall to demonstrate for peace, and at 7 p.m. students, faculty and staff and South Hadley residents are invited to an event with poetry readings and a band, at Torrey Hall on the campus
Smith College students plan to walk out of classes at 1:30 p.m. for a rally in front of Neilson Library, followed by teach-ins led by local activists, professors and students. And students at Greenfield Community College plan to leave classes at 11 a.m. for a rally on the main campus steps. Teach-ins will begin at noon, including films, singing, art-making and letter-writing.
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Nadia,
Long time. 280 million live in the US and less than a handful are protesting. The same world wide, a few million does not even dent the totsl number of people who live in this big world of ours. To think this handful speaks for all is just plain dumb. I support those billions who by silence have spoken louder than all protests combined.
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For every person that was on the streets protesting the war there were even more at home, that also felt as they did, but relize that marching in the streets carrying stupid signs will change nothing. I agree with the protesters, but see no reason to waste my time, knowing Bush would not change his mind if every human on this planet marched in the streets against this slaughter he calls war.
This invasion of Iraq by George W. Bush is just wrong, and I only hope that God will have mercy on the American people for the sins Bush is about to commit.
More huge rallies against this war this weekend, the biggest in Indonesia.
Mass peace rally in Indonesia](BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Mass peace rally in Indonesia)
Thousands of women protest war in Iraq](http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/politics/5348655.htm) The Mercury News, 08 Mar 03
WASHINGTON - Several thousand women clad in pink marched near the White House Saturday to protest against war in Iraq and to urge President Bush to back down from his threatened war against Saddam Hussein.
The colorful Washington march, staged under sunny skies in spring-like temperatures, represented what organizers called a Code Pink for peace, hoping it would contrast with the government’s color-coded alerts against terrorist threats. Protestors ranged from schoolgirls to grandmothers. The crowd, estimated by organizers at between 5,000 and 7,000, stretched along several city blocks as it wound its way along the streets near the White House.
“We’re taking to the streets because Bush refuses to listen,” said Kristi Laughlin of Oakland, California, one of the organizers. "He’s determined to go to war, but we’re here to bring the voices of women and children to demand peace, and to demand a non-violent solution."Protestors sang songs such as Give Peace a Chance, chanted refrains such as, “This is what democracy looks like,” and carried signs including, “Drop Bush, not bombs,” "No Bombs on Iraqi Moms, and “Blessed are the Meek, Cursed are the Warmongers.” Several carried signs thanking France for opposing war.
They were kept far from the White House. Uniformed Secret Service guards and U.S. Park Police expanded the secure area around the White House, refusing to let the marchers enter Lafayette Park across the street from the executive mansion or onto Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the house. Marchers walked around the complex to the Ellipse.
Most protestors said when asked that they oppose Saddam Hussein, but that they believe there are peaceful ways to contain him or force him to disarm. Many said they were resigned that Bush has made up his mind for war. “I don’t think we’ll change his mind, but maybe we can change the minds of other people,” said Elisabeth Curtis of Carrboro, N.C., a member of a local chapter of a national group called Raging Grannies.
Many also said the war would take money away from other domestic priorities. “There are plenty of other things like unemployment we should focus on,” said Lynn Hasselbarch, a sophomore from the University of Michigan. The Washington march was one of several demonstrations in the United States and around the world using International Women’s Day as a stage to protest war. In Tokyo, thousands of anti-war demonstrators marched as their government signaled its support for Bush.
Longish article but full of valid points (as usual). Maybe types like bcms57 “but relize that marching in the streets carrying stupid signs will change nothing. I agree with the protesters, but see no reason to waste my time,” will realise it is not wasting time if one joins the protests, invents new methods of civil disobedience and acts to try and stop this mad rush to test WMD on an already destroyed people and country.
"Disobey
by John Pilger
March 13, 2003
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How can they attack, in our name, a country already crushed by more than 12 years of an embargo aimed mostly at the civilian population, of whom 42 per cent are children - a medieval siege that has taken the lives of at least half a million children and is described as genocidal by the former United Nations humanitarian coordinator for Iraq?
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“Few of us,” Arthur Miller once wrote, “can easily surrender our belief that society must somehow make sense. The thought that the State has lost its mind and is punishing so many innocent people is intolerable. And so the evidence has to be internally denied.”
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Bush himself offered an understanding of this on 26 February when he addressed the annual dinner of the American Enterprise Institute. He paid tribute to “some of the finest minds of our nation [who] are at work on some of the greatest challenges to our nation. You do such good work that my administration has borrowed 20 such minds. I want to thank them for their service.”
The “20 such minds” are crypto-fascists who fit the definition of William Pitt Rivers. The institute is America’s biggest, most important and wealthiest “think-tank”. A typical member is John Bolton, under-secretary for arms control, the Bush official most responsible for dismantling the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, arguably the most important arms control agreement of the late 20th century. The institute’s strongest ties are with extreme Zionism and the regime of Ariel Sharon. Last month, Bolton was in Tel Aviv to hear Sharon’s view on which country in the region should be next after Iraq. For the expansionists running Israel, the prize is not so much the conquest of Iraq but Iran. A significant proportion of the Israeli air force is already based in Turkey with Iran in its sights, waiting for an American attack.
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Perle helped to set up another crypto-fascist group, the Project for the New American Century.
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It said that nuclear war-fighting should be given the priority it deserved. This has come true. It said that Iraq should be a primary target. And so it is. And it dismissed the issue of Saddam Hussein’s “weapons of mass destruction” as a convenient excuse, which it is.
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Vladimir Slipchenko, one of the world’s leading military analysts, says the testing of new weapons is a “main purpose” of the attack on Iraq.
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Such is Mailer’s pre-fascist state. If appeasement has any meaning today, it has little to do with a regional dictator and everything to do with the demonstrably dangerous men in Washington.
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The Bush gang, and Tony Blair, cannot be allowed to hold the rest of us captive to their obsessions and war plans.
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My own view is that if the protest movement sees itself as a world power, as an expression of true internationalism, then success need not be a dream. That depends on how far people are prepared to go. The young female employee of the Gloucestershire-based top-secret Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), who was charged this month with leaking information about America’s dirty tricks operation on members of the Security Council, shows us the courage required.
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http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=41&ItemID=3232
Anti-War Rallies Sweep Europe](http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/03/14/iraq/main544077.shtml) CBS News 14 Mar
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(CBS) Opponents of a looming war against Iraq staged small protests in the United States and massive demonstrations overseas Friday. More were planned for the weekend.
Labor unions said millions of workers in countries including Spain, Germany, Italy and Switzerland answered a continent-wide call to strike for 15 minutes to press for peace and put the brakes on the U.S.-led drive for war. In Germany, where polls show an overwhelming majority of people oppose a war, the strikes briefly halted vehicle production at three Volkswagen factories and a DaimlerChrysler plant. Trams ground to a halt in the eastern city of Halle. …
Global outcry against war](BBC NEWS | Middle East | Global outcry against war) BBC 15 Mar 03
The latest round of protests against a possible war in Iraq has begun, with marchers turning out in their thousands in Thailand, New Zealand, Japan and Australia. Later on Saturday, thousands of Americans are planning to join the protests - the largest demonstration expected outside the White House, as diplomatic efforts to avert war appear to be nearing exhaustion.
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On Sunday, peace vigils are planned in more than more than 2,800 cities in about 100 countries, the Associated Press news agency reported. In Christchurch, New Zealand, more than 3,000 demonstrators marched to the city’s central square, chanting “Give Peace a Chance”, with another 1,000 turning out in the city of Dunedin. Thousands of Australians attended protests in Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney, holding peace picnics and education sessions.
Thailand saw more than 3,000 people stage a protest outside the United Nations building in the capital, Bangkok, shouting anti-war chants and holding banners with slogans such as “No Bush oil” and “UN stand up to the US”. And around 10,000 people marched through a central shopping district in Tokyo, Japan, protesting against the government’s support for US-led action in Iraq.
‘Last chance’
In Washington DC, tens of thousands of demonstrators are expected to convene outside the White House, hoping to equal the 100,000 people who attended January’s protest - the largest seen in the city since the days of the Vietnam war.
Activist groups ranging from Vietnam veterans to student groups and Jewish anti-war activists are expected to attend, with organisers saying buses would bring marchers from more than 100 US cities. Many protesters are saying they believe this weekend could be the final opportunity for diplomacy - and for protesters to make their voices heard. “Saturday may be the last chance for the American people to stand up and say no,” anti-war activist and former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark told the Associated Press news agency.
‘Solidarity’ protests
Protests are due to be held in other US cities, including Los Angeles and San Francisco, where on Friday police made several arrests after 200 protesters blocked the entrance to the Pacific Stock Exchange building. In London, Muslim groups are preparing to march past the embassies of several prominent Islamic nations. The Stop the War coalition said protests were being organised in other parts of London and in cities such as Leeds and Newcastle, in “solidarity” with US marchers.
Millions of workers in Spain - a staunch ally of the US stance on Iraq - stopped work for 15 minutes on Friday to protest against any war, while in the Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpur, demonstrators released white pigeons and burned an American flag outside the US embassy.
New York - Anti War
So they say… New York is against war…unless absolutely needed…
So the City-Council may have said…read this a few days ago..some of the news items are gone…
Here is a couple links… a few days ago were many more.
Perhaps a great example of media?
http://edition.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/03/12/ny.resolution.ap/
World Rallies Against War
World Rallies Over U.S.-Iraq Conflict](Yahoo News: Latest and Breaking News, Headlines, Live Updates, and More) Yahoo News
WASHINGTON - The antiwar drumbeat sounded urgently in Washington and around the world Saturday in a round of protests energized by the approach of conflict with Iraq (news - web sites). In what could be the final chance to voice mass opposition before bombs start falling, protesters assembled near the Washington Monument for a march around the White House and carried their message to streets in scores of cities in Asia, Europe and the Middle East.
An estimated 10,000 antiwar protesters, including many who remember World War II, paraded peacefully through central Tokyo. “Let’s put aside the discussion of which side is wrong or right,” said Miwako Masuda. “In my youth, I experienced the war and lost my family.” In Washington, U.S. Park Police reinforced their ranks with officers from New York and San Francisco to help them handle the large crowds.
“Although permits call for as many as 20,000 people, we are expecting quite a bit more than that based on information from organizers,” said Sgt. Scott Fear, Park Police spokesman. One protester held a sign saying “Viva La France,” in gratitude for that country’s opposition to U.S. war plans. …
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Granada Spain, Peace Protest March 15
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Madrid Spain, Peace Protest March 15
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Denmark, Peace Protest March 15
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Argentina, Peace Protest March 15
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Columbus Ohio, peace protest
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Argentina Protest March 15
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Washington Protest March 15
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San Francisco Protest March 15 (Iraqi dead babies) :(
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Cambridge Mass, Peace protest March 15
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Little Rock, peace protest March 15
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San Francisco California, Peace Protest March 15
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Pampona Spain, Peace Protest March 15
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San Francisco, Peace Protest March 15
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San Francisco, Peace Protest March 15
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Moscow, Peace Protest March 15
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Toronto Peace Protest
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Sao Paulo Brazil Peace Protest March 15
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Toulouse France, Peace Protest Mar 15
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Atlanta Peace Protest
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Bucharest Hungary
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Madrid Spain Mar 15
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Milan Italy Mar 15
Huge anti-war demo planned for capital](Ananova News) Anonova 16 Mar 03
Anti-war protesters are to call on Tony Blair to resign over his support for action against Iraq at a demonstration planned for the capital. The Stop The War Coalition has announced the protest plans after a weekend of anti-war demonstrations around the country. Chairman Andrew Murray said he expects next Saturday’s protest march to be “huge”.More than a million demonstrators joined a similar march in London last month to protest at any military action against Iraq.
Around 100 secondary schoolchildren from across the country met in London today and agreed to call for walk-outs from schools on the day that war starts. Union officials also expect workers to walk out of offices and factories in protest at any military action.
Wonderful threads and images, DhP. :) Thank you.
For some reason this is one of my favourite anti-war images - from an anti-war demonstration in New Delhi, India on 15th February this year:
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Thanks nadia :) Some more images from the March 16 protests below. Its great to see so many people from every creed, colour and religion march against war.
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Azores Peace Protest (Where Bush's war summit was held)
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Azores Peace Protest
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Azores Peace Protest
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Karachi Peace Protest
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Hiroshima Japan Peace Protest