Monday, March 22, 2004
About 50 activists from Northeast Pennsylvania hopped a bus on Saturday morning to join 100,000 others in New York City gathered to protest the policies and practices of the Bush administration on the on-year anniversary of the US-led invasion of Iraq.
See more of my pictures in the UPJ March volume of the Sultry One's on-line photo album.
You wouldn't know it by digesting mainstream media, but according to march organizers United for Peace and Justice, more than 2 million people protested in the streets of 60 countries throughout the world on March 20.
As reported in Alternet...
"(New York) City officials estimated the crowd at 30,000 to 40,000, but organizers said the number was closer to 100,000, considering that the march at one point spanned more than 40 blocks as it snaked through midtown. The New York demonstrations coincided with peace vigils and protests in more than 300 cities across the US and 60 countries – including an estimated 1 million who swamped the streets of Rome and approximately 25,000 who marched in London..."
Here's the story I missed in this weekend's The New York Times...
