WASHINGTON CAN'T DENY IT NOW: WORLD SAYS NO TO BUSH'S WAR
Page 1 2 3 4 5 6 7PROTESTS IN 'NEW EUROPE' AND OLD
The Bush administration got no free ride in what it calls the "new Europe," that is, the formerly socialist countries that are now colonies of the West. Bush's war drive has sparked the birth of new anti-war movements in these countries to counter the puppet regimes' policies of providing military aid for the U.S.
Bucarest: credit- www.punchdown.org
Tens of thousands demonstrated in Budapest, Hungary, while other thousands protested in Warsaw and other Polish cities and in Prague, Czech Republic.
Prague: credit- www.punchdown.org
Thousands marched in Sofia, Bulgaria, in Kiev, Ukraine, in Minsk, Belarus. Hundreds more came out in Moscow and in the Baltic states. In Zagreb, Croatia, a surprising 10,000 came out, with marches also taking place in other Croatian cities.
Zagreb: credit- www.punchdown.org
Back in what War Secretary Donald Rumsfeld called "old Europe," 500,000 people met at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany.
Berlin: credit- www.punchdown.org
Other hundreds of thousands marched in Paris, joined by large protests in other French cities.
left--Paris / right--Toulouse: credit- www.punchdown.org
In Brussels, Belgium, where the government also had delayed compliance with U.S. orders to NATO, another 80,000 demonstrated.
In Ireland, over 100,000 demonstrated in Dublin against the war, and in Belfast, both Irish Republicans and Unionists joined the anti-war protest in what was the largest such demonstration in history.
In Greece, where the movement was strongest worldwide during the 1999 U.S.-NATO aggression on Yugoslavia, 200,000 people demonstrated in Athens, and young people clashed with the police. The working class-led Greek movement plans direct actions and job actions to stop the U.S. war machine.
[AN EMAIL FROM LIMNOS, GREECE: Unfortunatley the march against the war was cancelled on our island,due to weather conditions, we thought we should at least send an e-mail to join in the struggle against the war.
Some people told us that with this letter we will not acheive anything...but to us it means something because deep down inside we know that we will have played our own part in this universal fight!
Why is this war about to begin? There are so many reasons......one of them is oil.America already has a large amount of petrol in her grounds and only 10% of it is used.So imagine the great profit USA can make in the future,when most of the petrol from other countries will have nearly run out.Do so many poeple deserve to die?
Taking into consideration, the 11th of sept disater i can almost be sure that the same thing is going to happen.That means that many more innocent lives are going to diminish in the name of USA politics!It's unfair and inhuman!
If war is declared,the whole of 9th grade at our school has agreed to not go to school, and try to organize a protest. We would love to hear that others will do the same, or at least something to show how they care.
LETS GIVE PEACE A CHANCE! Alexandra,Anna,Alexandra,Elina Limnos,Greece]
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