WORLD WIDE PROTEST

BBC: No let-up in anti-war protests
Protesters across the world are taking to the streets this weekend to demand an end to the US-led war on Iraq.
Rallies have been taking place in the cities of Europe and the Americas, and, in Asia, China is due to hold its first officially sanctioned protests on Sunday.

Tactics among the protesters range from rallies under banners to a "die-in" in Genoa where people lay down in busy streets to simulate Iraqis killed in air raids, to a naked march through the streets of Bogota.

"The Yankees are gangsters," one speaker told a rally in Moscow, asking who would be the next US target after Iraq.

In the United States itself, the city of Boston held what observers said was the biggest march since the Vietnam War.

Tens of thousands, many of them students or academics, chanted "this is what democracy looks like".

Independent: Fresh wave of anger spreads worldwide, Human chain stretches from
Munster to Osnabruck in Germany as hundreds block Rhine-Main US air base

Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators around the world staged a fresh
wave
of peace protests yesterday, including the first officially sanctioned
anti-war marches in China. In a deliberately restrained criticism of
the
US-led war in Iraq, the Chinese authorities allowed 150 foreign
residents
to march past the US ambassador's residence and British embassy in
Beijing,
while another 100 protested in a walled park in east Beijing. The
rallies,
tightly scripted to avoid repeating the violent protests that followed
the
US bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade in 1999, came as hundreds
of
thousands of demonstrators again targeted US, British and Australian
military bases and embassies.