2/15/03 PEACE RALLY TOTALS
i loved these numbers - from antarctica to venezuela - and and was happy to be one among them, in l.a. before the war started we held a poetry for peace event at the beatnik cafe in joshua tree where legendary alchemist/radical journalist art kunkin read poems by his friends, lawrence ferlinghetti and allen ginsberg. ginsberg especially loved statistics. tq
UPDATED 2/15/03 PEACE RALLY TOTALS
FROM AROUND THE WORLD
(have an addition or correction? Send it to dkoff@thelyp.com
please have a supporting link to a newspaper article if possible)
for updated listings go to:
http://www.antiwar.com/feb03demos.html
ANTARCTICA
South Pole Station: 5 (BBC)
ARGENTINA
Buenos Aires: 50,000 (www.lanacion.com.ar)
AUSTRALIA
Adelade: 100,000 (abc.net.au) - biggest in history
Bellingen: 2,500 (Indymedia)
Brisbane: 100,000 (abc.net.au)
Byron Bay: 3,000 (indymedia)
Canberra: 16,000 (Reuters)
Darwin: 2,000 (abc.net.au)
Hobart: 10,000 (ABC)
Lismore: 5,000 (Indymedia)
Melbourne: 150,000 (http://www.theage.com.au/)
Newcastle: 18,000 (indymedia)
Perth: 10,000 (ABC)
Sydney: 250,000 (smh.com.au, yahoo news)
Warrnambool: 200 (Fairfax)
AUSTRIA
Vienna: 30,000 (www.ceiberweiber.at)
BAHRAIN
UN House: dozens (gulf-news.com)
BANGLADESH
Dhaka: 2,000 (AP)
BELARUS
Minsk: 1,500 (news.yahoo.com)
BELGIUM
Brussels: 50,000 (AP)
BOSNIA
Mostar: 100
BRAZIL
Sao Paolo: 15,000 (noticias.bol.com)
BULGARIA
Sofia: 1,200 (www.novinite.com)
CANADA
Calgary: 5,000
Edmonton: 12,000
Halifax: 1,500
Montreal: 150,000
Ottawa: 2,000
Quebec City: 3,000
Salt Spring Island: 1,000
Toronto: 80,000 (www.thestar.com)
Vancouver: 30,000
Victoria: 6,000
Winnipeg: 5,700
(All figures provided by www.canada.com
CHILE
Santiago: 3,000
CHINA
Hong Kong: 500
CROATIA
Zagreb: 10,000
CUBA
Havana: 5,000
CYPRUS
Cyprus: 500
CZECH REPUBLIC
Prague: 500 (AP)
DENMARK
Copenhagen: 25,000 (AP)
EAST TIMOR
Dili: 100 (www.pcug.org.au)
ECUADOR
Quito: 100
EGYPT
Cairo: 2,000 (Palestine Chronicle)
ENGLAND
London: 1,000,000* (CNN, NY Times)
* largest in country1s history
FINLAND
Helsinki: 15,000
FRANCE
Lyon: 10,000
Marseille: 10,000
Montpellier: 15,000
Nice: 3,000
Nimes: 5,000
Perpignan: 6,000
Paris: 400,000 (AP)
Toulouse: 10,000
GERMANY
Berlin: 500,000* (Miami herald)
Cologne: 10,000 (abcnews.go.com)
Villingen: 1,000 (www.skol.de)
* largest since fall of Berlin Wall
GREECE
Athens: 50,000 (Reuters)
Thessalonki: 10001s (www.mpa.gr )
GUATEMALA
Guatemala City: 200
HOLLAND
Amsterdam: 70,000 (www.ad.nl)
HONDURAS
Tegucigalpa: 1,000
HUNGARY
Budapest: 20,000 (es.news.yahoo.com)
ICELAND
Reykavik: 1,000 (yahoo news)
Akureyri: 500
Isafjordur: 50
INDIA
Calcutta: 10,000
Kashmir: 1001s
INDONESIA
Jakarta: 100,000
IRELAND
Dublin: 100,000* (www.online.ie )
Belfast: tens of thousands
* largest in country1s history
ISRAEL
Tel-Aviv: 2,000 (Ha1Aretz)
ITALY
Rome 1,000,000 (UPI)
JAPAN
Tokyo: 6,000 (AP, BBC)
Osaka: 1,000 (indymedia)
JORDAN
Bakaa Refugee Camp: 500 (Palestine Chronicle)
Amman: 2,000 (CNN)
KASHMIR
Srinagar: 2,000 (navakal.com)
KOREA, SOUTH
Seoul: 3hundreds2 (BBC)
LEBANON
Beirut: 10,000 (www.dailystar.com.lb)
LUXEMBOURG
various cities: 10,000
MACEDONIA
Skopje: 500-600 (realitymacedonia.org.mk)
MALAYSIA
Kuala Lumpur: 2,000 (www.malaysiakini.com)
Penang: 500
MEXICO
Mexico City: 30,000 (Reuters)
MOLDOVA
Chisinau: 200 (AP World News)
NEW ZEALAND
Auckland: 9,000 (scoop.co.nz)
Wellington: 5,000 (Common Dreams)
NICARAGUA
Managua: 200
NORWAY
Oslo: 60,000 (AP)
Total for whole country: 100,000 (www.aftenposten.no)
OMAN
Various: 200
PAKISTAN
Islamabad: 1001s (BBC)
Karachi: 300
Lahore: 1001s (yahoo news)
PALESTINE
Gaza: 15,000 (AFP)
Ramallah: 2,000 (Jmandell@aol.com)
PERU
Lima: 1001s
PHILIPPINES
Manila: 6,000 (Rai)
POLAND:
Warsaw: 2,500 (http://www1.gazeta.pl)
PORTUGAL
Lisbon: 80,000 (es.news.yahoo.com)
Porto: 10,000 (es.news.yahoo.com)
RUSSIA
Moscow: 1000 (CNN)
SERBIA
Belgrade: 200 (www.b92.net )
Kragujevac: 5,500
SCOTLAND
Glasgow: 30,000 (AP)
SOUTH AFRICA
Cape Town: 5,000 (AP)
Durban: 5,000 (www.news24.com)
Johannesburg: 4,000 (AP)
SOUTH KOREA
Seoul: 10,000 (www.canada.com)
SPAIN
Barcelona*: 1,300,000 (Miami herald)
Madrid: 800,000 (Reuters)
Seville: 60,000
* largest in country1s history
SWEDEN
Gothenberg: 25,000 (www.svd.se
Jönköping: 2,000
Lund: 2,500
Malmo: 3,000 (www.svd.se
Stockholm: 35,000 (AP)
Umeå: 3,500
Västerås: 2,000
SWITZERLAND
Bern: 40,000 (AP)
SYRIA
Damascus: 200,000 (AP)
TAIWAN
Taipei: 500 (taipeitimes.com)
THAILAND
Pattani: 10,000 (www.nationmultimedia.com)
Bangkok: 3,000 (bangkokpost.com)
TUNISIA
Sfax: 3,000 (alertnet.org)
TURKEY
Istanbul: 5,000 (cnn)
UKRAINE
Kiev: 2,000
URUGUAY
Monte Video 50,000 (www.radio36.com.uy
USA
Ankorage, AK: 300 (abithert@willamette.edu)
Akron, OH: 500 (ohio.com)
Athens, GA: 500 (athensnewspapers.com)
Asheville, NC: 2,000 (cgi.citizen-times.com)
Austin, TX: 10,000 (austin360.com)
Bellevue, WA 1001s (seattletimes.com)
Birmingham, AL 1001s (www.al.com)
Bismark, ND: 70 (grandforks.com)
Blacksburg, VA: 400 (Roanoke.com)
Bloomington, IN: 500
Bremerton, WA: 200 (thesunlink.com)
Broward, FL: 200 (Miami.com)
Charlotte, NC: 500 (charlotte.com)
Chicago, IL 6,000 (IndyMedia)
Cincinnati, OH 300 (icgc1@hotmail.com)
Cleveland, OH: 1,200 (cleveland.com)
Colorado Springs, CO: 3,300 (KVOR Radio)
Columbia, SC: 250 (thestate.com)
Corpus Christi, TX: 300 (caller.com)
Dallas, TX: 5,000 (alternet.org)
Davenport, Iowa: 100 (CNN)
Detroit, MI: 3,000 (freep.com)
Eugene, OR: 2,500 (abithert@willamette.edu)
Flagstaff, AZ: 1,150
Fresno, CA: 1,500 (fresnobee.com)
Grand Forks, ND: 50 (grandforks.com)
Houston, TX: 3,000 (chron.com)
Kansas City, MO: 2000
Knoxville, TN: 500 (knoxnews.com)
Lansing, MI: 1,500 (lsj.com)
Las Vegas, NV: 100 (kolotv.com)
Lawrence, KS: 1,600 (cjonline.com)
Little Rock, AK: 500 (IndyMedia, CNN)
Long Beach, CA: 1,000 (rwagner02@earthlink.net)
Los Angeles, CA: 30,000 - 100,000 (Reuters)
Louisville, KY: 500 (www.courier-journal.com)
Madison, WI: 1000 (Madison.com)
Melbourne, FL: 200-300 (floridatoday.com)
Memphis, TN: 250 (gomemphis.com)
Miami, FL: 500 (Miami.com)
Milwaukee, WI: 1,500 (jsonline.com)
Minneapolis, MN: 7,500 (star tribune)
Missoula, MT: 2,500 (www.missoulian.com)
Mobile, AL: 130 (www.al.com
Monpelier, VT: 500
Nashville, TN: 500 (Tennessean.com)
Newark, NJ: 400 (www.delawareonline.com)
New York, NY: 350,000 (NY Times, CNN)
Orange County, CA 2,000 (ocregister.com)
Orlando, FL: 1001s (Orlandosentinel.com)
Olympia, WA: 2,000
Palm Springs, CA: 150
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii: 500 (the.honoluluadvertiser.com)
Philadelphia, PA: 10,000 (NBC 10 News)
Phoenix, AZ: 2,500 (www.azcentral.com)
Portland, ME: 1,400 (IndyMedia)
Puerto Rico: 900 (AP)
Raleigh, NC: 7,000 (news-observer.com)
Redding, CA: 200
Roanoke, VA: 100 (Roanoke.com)
Sacramento, CA: 5,500
Salem, OR: 1,100 (abithert@willamette.edu)
San Antonio, TX: 1,500 (san Antonio express news)
San Diego, CA: 5,000 (signonsandiego.com)
San Francisco, CA: 200,000 (sfgate.com)
San Jose, CA: 5,000 (sf.indymedia.org)
Santa Cruz, CA: 5,000 (indymedia)
Santa Fe, NM: 4,500 (www.currentargus.com)
Sedona, AZ: 80 (chionisjohn@hotmail.com)
Seattle, WA: 60,000 (seattle.indymedia.org)
Shaker Heights, OH: 150 (Cleveland.com)
Shreveport, LA: 20 (shreveporttimes.com)
Sioux Falls, SD: 75 (www.tc.indymedia.org)
Sonora, CA: 1,000
St. Augustine, FL: 400 (staugustine.com)
St. Louis, MI: 3,000 (www.interventionmag.com)
Wausau, WI: 2,000 (waow.com)
Wilmington, NC: 300-500 (wilmingtonstar.com)
Witicha, KS: 100 (www.kansas.com)
VENEZUELA
Caracas: 1001s (www.vheadline.com
Supporting & reference links:
http://www.antiwar.com/feb03demos.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13397-2003Feb15.html
UPDATED 2/15/03 PEACE RALLY TOTALS
FROM AROUND THE WORLD
(have an addition or correction? Send it to dkoff@thelyp.com
please have a supporting link to a newspaper article if possible)
for updated listings go to:
http://www.antiwar.com/feb03demos.html
ANTARCTICA
South Pole Station: 5 (BBC)
ARGENTINA
Buenos Aires: 50,000 (www.lanacion.com.ar)
AUSTRALIA
Adelade: 100,000 (abc.net.au) - biggest in history
Bellingen: 2,500 (Indymedia)
Brisbane: 100,000 (abc.net.au)
Byron Bay: 3,000 (indymedia)
Canberra: 16,000 (Reuters)
Darwin: 2,000 (abc.net.au)
Hobart: 10,000 (ABC)
Lismore: 5,000 (Indymedia)
Melbourne: 150,000 (http://www.theage.com.au/)
Newcastle: 18,000 (indymedia)
Perth: 10,000 (ABC)
Sydney: 250,000 (smh.com.au, yahoo news)
Warrnambool: 200 (Fairfax)
AUSTRIA
Vienna: 30,000 (www.ceiberweiber.at)
BAHRAIN
UN House: dozens (gulf-news.com)
BANGLADESH
Dhaka: 2,000 (AP)
BELARUS
Minsk: 1,500 (news.yahoo.com)
BELGIUM
Brussels: 50,000 (AP)
BOSNIA
Mostar: 100
BRAZIL
Sao Paolo: 15,000 (noticias.bol.com)
BULGARIA
Sofia: 1,200 (www.novinite.com)
CANADA
Calgary: 5,000
Edmonton: 12,000
Halifax: 1,500
Montreal: 150,000
Ottawa: 2,000
Quebec City: 3,000
Salt Spring Island: 1,000
Toronto: 80,000 (www.thestar.com)
Vancouver: 30,000
Victoria: 6,000
Winnipeg: 5,700
(All figures provided by www.canada.com
CHILE
Santiago: 3,000
CHINA
Hong Kong: 500
CROATIA
Zagreb: 10,000
CUBA
Havana: 5,000
CYPRUS
Cyprus: 500
CZECH REPUBLIC
Prague: 500 (AP)
DENMARK
Copenhagen: 25,000 (AP)
EAST TIMOR
Dili: 100 (www.pcug.org.au)
ECUADOR
Quito: 100
EGYPT
Cairo: 2,000 (Palestine Chronicle)
ENGLAND
London: 1,000,000* (CNN, NY Times)
* largest in country1s history
FINLAND
Helsinki: 15,000
FRANCE
Lyon: 10,000
Marseille: 10,000
Montpellier: 15,000
Nice: 3,000
Nimes: 5,000
Perpignan: 6,000
Paris: 400,000 (AP)
Toulouse: 10,000
GERMANY
Berlin: 500,000* (Miami herald)
Cologne: 10,000 (abcnews.go.com)
Villingen: 1,000 (www.skol.de)
* largest since fall of Berlin Wall
GREECE
Athens: 50,000 (Reuters)
Thessalonki: 10001s (www.mpa.gr )
GUATEMALA
Guatemala City: 200
HOLLAND
Amsterdam: 70,000 (www.ad.nl)
HONDURAS
Tegucigalpa: 1,000
HUNGARY
Budapest: 20,000 (es.news.yahoo.com)
ICELAND
Reykavik: 1,000 (yahoo news)
Akureyri: 500
Isafjordur: 50
INDIA
Calcutta: 10,000
Kashmir: 1001s
INDONESIA
Jakarta: 100,000
IRELAND
Dublin: 100,000* (www.online.ie )
Belfast: tens of thousands
* largest in country1s history
ISRAEL
Tel-Aviv: 2,000 (Ha1Aretz)
ITALY
Rome 1,000,000 (UPI)
JAPAN
Tokyo: 6,000 (AP, BBC)
Osaka: 1,000 (indymedia)
JORDAN
Bakaa Refugee Camp: 500 (Palestine Chronicle)
Amman: 2,000 (CNN)
KASHMIR
Srinagar: 2,000 (navakal.com)
KOREA, SOUTH
Seoul: 3hundreds2 (BBC)
LEBANON
Beirut: 10,000 (www.dailystar.com.lb)
LUXEMBOURG
various cities: 10,000
MACEDONIA
Skopje: 500-600 (realitymacedonia.org.mk)
MALAYSIA
Kuala Lumpur: 2,000 (www.malaysiakini.com)
Penang: 500
MEXICO
Mexico City: 30,000 (Reuters)
MOLDOVA
Chisinau: 200 (AP World News)
NEW ZEALAND
Auckland: 9,000 (scoop.co.nz)
Wellington: 5,000 (Common Dreams)
NICARAGUA
Managua: 200
NORWAY
Oslo: 60,000 (AP)
Total for whole country: 100,000 (www.aftenposten.no)
OMAN
Various: 200
PAKISTAN
Islamabad: 1001s (BBC)
Karachi: 300
Lahore: 1001s (yahoo news)
PALESTINE
Gaza: 15,000 (AFP)
Ramallah: 2,000 (Jmandell@aol.com)
PERU
Lima: 1001s
PHILIPPINES
Manila: 6,000 (Rai)
POLAND:
Warsaw: 2,500 (http://www1.gazeta.pl)
PORTUGAL
Lisbon: 80,000 (es.news.yahoo.com)
Porto: 10,000 (es.news.yahoo.com)
RUSSIA
Moscow: 1000 (CNN)
SERBIA
Belgrade: 200 (www.b92.net )
Kragujevac: 5,500
SCOTLAND
Glasgow: 30,000 (AP)
SOUTH AFRICA
Cape Town: 5,000 (AP)
Durban: 5,000 (www.news24.com)
Johannesburg: 4,000 (AP)
SOUTH KOREA
Seoul: 10,000 (www.canada.com)
SPAIN
Barcelona*: 1,300,000 (Miami herald)
Madrid: 800,000 (Reuters)
Seville: 60,000
* largest in country1s history
SWEDEN
Gothenberg: 25,000 (www.svd.se
Jönköping: 2,000
Lund: 2,500
Malmo: 3,000 (www.svd.se
Stockholm: 35,000 (AP)
Umeå: 3,500
Västerås: 2,000
SWITZERLAND
Bern: 40,000 (AP)
SYRIA
Damascus: 200,000 (AP)
TAIWAN
Taipei: 500 (taipeitimes.com)
THAILAND
Pattani: 10,000 (www.nationmultimedia.com)
Bangkok: 3,000 (bangkokpost.com)
TUNISIA
Sfax: 3,000 (alertnet.org)
TURKEY
Istanbul: 5,000 (cnn)
UKRAINE
Kiev: 2,000
URUGUAY
Monte Video 50,000 (www.radio36.com.uy
USA
Ankorage, AK: 300 (abithert@willamette.edu)
Akron, OH: 500 (ohio.com)
Athens, GA: 500 (athensnewspapers.com)
Asheville, NC: 2,000 (cgi.citizen-times.com)
Austin, TX: 10,000 (austin360.com)
Bellevue, WA 1001s (seattletimes.com)
Birmingham, AL 1001s (www.al.com)
Bismark, ND: 70 (grandforks.com)
Blacksburg, VA: 400 (Roanoke.com)
Bloomington, IN: 500
Bremerton, WA: 200 (thesunlink.com)
Broward, FL: 200 (Miami.com)
Charlotte, NC: 500 (charlotte.com)
Chicago, IL 6,000 (IndyMedia)
Cincinnati, OH 300 (icgc1@hotmail.com)
Cleveland, OH: 1,200 (cleveland.com)
Colorado Springs, CO: 3,300 (KVOR Radio)
Columbia, SC: 250 (thestate.com)
Corpus Christi, TX: 300 (caller.com)
Dallas, TX: 5,000 (alternet.org)
Davenport, Iowa: 100 (CNN)
Detroit, MI: 3,000 (freep.com)
Eugene, OR: 2,500 (abithert@willamette.edu)
Flagstaff, AZ: 1,150
Fresno, CA: 1,500 (fresnobee.com)
Grand Forks, ND: 50 (grandforks.com)
Houston, TX: 3,000 (chron.com)
Kansas City, MO: 2000
Knoxville, TN: 500 (knoxnews.com)
Lansing, MI: 1,500 (lsj.com)
Las Vegas, NV: 100 (kolotv.com)
Lawrence, KS: 1,600 (cjonline.com)
Little Rock, AK: 500 (IndyMedia, CNN)
Long Beach, CA: 1,000 (rwagner02@earthlink.net)
Los Angeles, CA: 30,000 - 100,000 (Reuters)
Louisville, KY: 500 (www.courier-journal.com)
Madison, WI: 1000 (Madison.com)
Melbourne, FL: 200-300 (floridatoday.com)
Memphis, TN: 250 (gomemphis.com)
Miami, FL: 500 (Miami.com)
Milwaukee, WI: 1,500 (jsonline.com)
Minneapolis, MN: 7,500 (star tribune)
Missoula, MT: 2,500 (www.missoulian.com)
Mobile, AL: 130 (www.al.com
Monpelier, VT: 500
Nashville, TN: 500 (Tennessean.com)
Newark, NJ: 400 (www.delawareonline.com)
New York, NY: 350,000 (NY Times, CNN)
Orange County, CA 2,000 (ocregister.com)
Orlando, FL: 1001s (Orlandosentinel.com)
Olympia, WA: 2,000
Palm Springs, CA: 150
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii: 500 (the.honoluluadvertiser.com)
Philadelphia, PA: 10,000 (NBC 10 News)
Phoenix, AZ: 2,500 (www.azcentral.com)
Portland, ME: 1,400 (IndyMedia)
Puerto Rico: 900 (AP)
Raleigh, NC: 7,000 (news-observer.com)
Redding, CA: 200
Roanoke, VA: 100 (Roanoke.com)
Sacramento, CA: 5,500
Salem, OR: 1,100 (abithert@willamette.edu)
San Antonio, TX: 1,500 (san Antonio express news)
San Diego, CA: 5,000 (signonsandiego.com)
San Francisco, CA: 200,000 (sfgate.com)
San Jose, CA: 5,000 (sf.indymedia.org)
Santa Cruz, CA: 5,000 (indymedia)
Santa Fe, NM: 4,500 (www.currentargus.com)
Sedona, AZ: 80 (chionisjohn@hotmail.com)
Seattle, WA: 60,000 (seattle.indymedia.org)
Shaker Heights, OH: 150 (Cleveland.com)
Shreveport, LA: 20 (shreveporttimes.com)
Sioux Falls, SD: 75 (www.tc.indymedia.org)
Sonora, CA: 1,000
St. Augustine, FL: 400 (staugustine.com)
St. Louis, MI: 3,000 (www.interventionmag.com)
Wausau, WI: 2,000 (waow.com)
Wilmington, NC: 300-500 (wilmingtonstar.com)
Witicha, KS: 100 (www.kansas.com)
VENEZUELA
Caracas: 1001s (www.vheadline.com
Supporting & reference links:
http://www.antiwar.com/feb03demos.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13397-2003Feb15.html
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