WORLD WIDE PROTETST

New York Times: A Day Late, but Not a Marcher Short, in San Francisco
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 16 — Some people were concerned that the protest here today would be forgotten, coming as it did the day after millions of people attended peace rallies around the world.

They need not have worried. The demonstrations on Saturday were like a big pregame pep rally for peace activists from the San Francisco Bay Area.

At least 150,000 people marched through the city's financial district, chanted antiwar slogans and listened to John Lennon's "Imagine" sung in Arabic. The afternoon of dissent was the largest antiwar demonstration in San Francisco since the protests against possible military action in Iraq began last fall.

New York Times: A New Power in the Streets
The fracturing of the Western alliance over Iraq and the huge antiwar demonstrations around the world this weekend are reminders that there may still be two superpowers on the planet: the United States and world public opinion.