[19] The city of Oviedo had a population of 180,000 and a turnout of 100,000.

They initially had some problems getting permission for the action, but on the Thursday before, a U.S. District court ruled that the planned nude protest was legal at the public beach.

Between 800,000 and a million people marched on the National Mall in 1993 for LGBT rights. Instead, protesters were only permitted to hold a stationary rally. [17][18], Small protests took place across Japan mostly being held outside US military bases.

[72], In Cape Town 5,000 (USA Today estimate) to 20,000 protesters (WSWS estimate) joined a demonstration march which started at 10 in the morning on Keizersgracht road and ended at the offices of the US consulate-general which was guarded by a ring of riot police, where there was a rally with speakers.

[22][56], Organisers of the New York City protest had hoped to march past the headquarters of the United Nations. The Daily Mirror gave large coverage in the lead up to the march and provided thousands of placards on the day. [82], The unprecedented size of the demonstrations was widely taken to indicate that the majority of people across the world opposed the war. [68], Areas in Asia with large Muslim populations, in particular the countries of the West Asia, had the highest levels of opposition to the proposed Iraq war, however demonstrations in many of these countries were relatively small. The demonstration through central Warsaw passed the US embassy. Christians, anarchists and communists mingled". The protest in Rome involved around three million people, and is listed in the 2004 Guinness Book of World Records as the largest anti-war rally in history. However, the potential effect of the protests was generally dismissed by pro-war politicians. [80][81], At the time, many commentators were hopeful that this global mobilization of unprecedented scale would stop the coming Iraq war.

[57] According to Donna Lieberman, executive director of the New York City Civil Liberties Union, judicial denial of a permit for a protest march was an unprecedented restriction of civil liberties, as marching and parading through streets to express various points-of-view is "a time-honoured tradition in our country that lies at the core of the First Amendment". [58], On that day, over 300 buses and four special trains brought protesters in from across the country. Walthamstow Catholic Church, the Swaffham Women's Choir and Notts County Supporters Say Make Love Not War (And a Home Win against Bristol would be Nice). Between 800,000 and a million people marched on the National Mall in 1993 for LGBTQ rights.

[14][79], A group of scientists at the US McMurdo Station held a rally on the ice at the edge of the Ross sea. The February 15 Worldwide Protests against a War in Iraq: An Empirical Test of Transnational Opportunities. The peace demonstrations represented, not a globalisation of commerce, but a globalisation of conscience". Lerner claimed that he was not picked to speak for reasons of anti-semitism due to his support for the existence of the Israeli state. [25][26] According to the Green Left Weekly (GLW), the demonstration contained people from across Italian society; "Catholic nuns and priests marched alongside young people with dreadlocks, nose rings and Palestinian scarves. On the day 50,000 people (GLW estimate) turned out to protest under the dual slogan "Stop the war on Iraq; Stop the war on immigrants", more than on the Seattle protests against the WTO Ministerial Conference of 1999. The Labour Party requested that the SECC refuse permission for a stage and PA system outside the conference hall. The protest attracted between 1.2 and 2 million people. [18][73], Protests of thousands of people also took place at Durban and Bloemfontein. European delegates sought to popularise the plan for the increasingly international demonstration.

It was in response to President Ronald Reagan's decision to fire 12,000 air traffic controllers who went on strike and demanded wage increases and safer working conditions. wage increases and safer working conditions. In Austria, 30,000 people (SW estimate) took to the streets of its capital, Vienna. The size of the demonstration meant that the majority of demonstrators did not make it into the final rally and in total three million people (organisers' estimate, supported by the Guinness Book of World Records) were on the streets. 34 were arrested on failure to disperse and other charges[22] [14], In Denmark 20,000 to 30,000 protesters (WSWS estimate) took part in a march in the capital city, Copenhagen. [29], In Russia, which had several demonstrations, the largest occurred in Moscow, with 400 people (WSWS estimate) in attendance. Jong-Myo Park was surrounded by riot police who almost out numbered the protesters. It was sparked by President Ronald Reagan's decision to fire 12,000 air traffic controllers who went on strike and demanded wage increases and safer working conditions. The weather, on the day of the protest was grey and cold, but reports noted that people remained "in high spirits" as London became gridlocked and protesters were stuck for hours at Gower Street and the Embankment, the two starting points for the march. [14], Beyond the capitals, many major cities and towns around Australia had protests. [14] Taiwan had a protest of more than 2,000 people (WSWS estimate) in the capital city of Taipei under the slogan of "No Blood for Oil". BBC estimates that 100,000 protesters took part in a rally near the UN headquarters.

Toddlers. [17], Approximately 1,000 demonstrated (SW estimate) in Malta. [23], A large protest also took place on the streets of Damascus in Syria, which borders Iraq.

Women barristers. [14][18], In the Czech Republic, over 1,000 people joined a rally at Jan Palach Square in Prague.

Charles Kennedy, then the leader of the Liberal Democrats, was a late addition to the list of speakers.

since. Participants advocated for a global focus on the International Panel on Climate Change's report on the catastrophic effects of a 1.5 degree Celsius increase in global temperature.