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International A.N.S.W.E.R.
Act Now To Stop War & End Racism

Millions March Against War on March 15 in Over 2,000 
Cities Worldwide

Over A Quarter of A Million March in The U.S.:
100,000 in Washington, 100,000 in San Francisco
and 50,000 in Los Angeles

Well over a quarter of a million people demonstrated in 
the U.S. today against a U.S. war with Iraq.  100,000 
demonstrated in Washington, 100,000 came out in San 
Francisco, and 50,000 people braved the driving rain in 
Los Angeles in massive emergency mobilizations called on  short notice by the ANSWER coalition.

Even with dozens of buses making the trip to Washington  from as far away as Florida, Minnesota, Iowa and Maine,  demonstrations also took place in Lansing, MI; Columbus  OH, Lexington, KY, Tucson, AZ; Albuquerque, NM, and scores  of other cities.

With cities around the world responding to the call for 
emergency actions, March 15 was an urgent and critical day  of global anti-war protest, as millions of people turned 
out to demonstrate against Washington's rush to war. CNN  reported that protests took place today in an amazing 
2,000 cities in 98 countries. Turnouts were dramatic: 
Millions marched in Spain and Italy, two countries whose  governments have supported the U.S. war. 100,000 came out  in Berlin; 150,000 in France; 40,000 marched in Brussels.

According to the Associated Press, "Hundreds of thousands  rallied worldwide, in some cases pressing close to the 
symbols of American power: the White House and the 
Washington Monument, the U.S. air base in Frankfurt, 
Germany, and U.S. embassies in Greece and Cyprus. They  also took to the streets throughout Europe, Asia and the  Middle East."

Thousands more turned out in Tokyo, Calcutta, Buenos 
Aires, Yemen, Frankfurt, Moscow, Turkey, Cairo, Amman,  Beirut, many Palestinian cities and refugee camps, 
Bangkok, Seoul, Toronto, Moscow and many other cities and  countries -- one day after millions of European workers  conducted work stoppages to protest the war. Mara 
Verheyden-Hilliard of the Partnership for Civil 
Justice-LDEF, one of the groups in the ANSWER Coalition,  said, "The continued worldwide outpouring against Bush's  planned war of aggression with Iraq makes it clear that  Spain, Britain and the U.S. are meeting in the isolated 
Azores Islands because it's the only place they can go 
without being protested by massive numbers of people."

A highlight of the Washington demonstration was the 
crowd's enthusiastic response to former U.S. Attorney  General Ramsey Clark's speech about his campaign to 
impeach President George W. Bush for planning to fight a  war of aggression against Iraq. "Vote to impeach! Vote to  impeach!" chanted the crowd, referring to the website 
http://www.votetoimpeach.org, where people are voting in  support of articles of impeachment.

The Washington demonstration surrounded the White House  and Justice Department, taking up more than 20 city 
blocks. The crowd completely filled the 10-lane 
Pennsylvania Avenue, with demonstrators marching shoulder  to shoulder in a turnout that surpassed rally organizers'  expectations.  "Bush may be determined to fight this war,"  said Larry Holmes of the International Action Center, also  in the ANSWER Coalition, "but he was also determined to  have a vote for war at the UN Security Council last week.  Bush wanted this war months ago; the anti-war movement has  held him back. War is not inevitable."

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