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Article: Where's the protest? The war in Iraq is as unpopular today as the Vietnam War was at its height-yet there are no mass demonstrations on America's streets. Can an antiwar movement confined largely to the Internet and the voting booth change the course of a war?
- Article from:
- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- November 5, 2006
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ON MARCH 22, 2003, two days after the start of the bombing
campaign that began the US-led invasion of Iraq, more than 100,000
people took to the streets of New York City in protest. At a rally
there the month before, organizers had claimed that a crowd of
350,000 had shown up, and twice in the previous six months tens of
thousands of antiwar protesters had rallied on the National Mall in
Washington against what already seemed an inevitable war. In mid-
February, one million antiwar protesters had marched in London and
another million in Rome. And in the invasion's opening weeks,
American antiwar activists promised to continue their own fight with
a campaign of civil disobedience: In San ...
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