W A R B E G E T S W A R
Day of Dissent
26 March 2003
What I am condemning is that one power, with a president who has no foresight, who cannot think properly, is now wanting to plunge the world into a holocaust. - Nelson Mandela, February 28, 2003

News Roundup

Report from Spain.

Barcelona: A Spanish student attacks the front of a department store with a fire extinguisher in central Barcelona, northeastern Spain Wednesday, March 26, 2003 following a demonstration against the war in Iraq. (AP Photo/Cesar Rangel)

Barcelona: Spanish students march through central Barcelona, northeastern Spain Wednesday, March 26, 2003 during a protest against the war in Iraq. (AP Photo/EFE, Alberto Estevez)

Barcelona: Spanish students attack the front of a McDonald's hamburger restaurant in central Barcelona, northeastern Spain Wednesday, March 26, 2003 following a demonstration against the war in Iraq. (AP Photo/Cesar Rangel)

Barcelona: Protesters form a peace sign in the Catalonia Square in Barcelona, northeastern Spain, Wednesday March 26, 2003, during a demonstration to protest against the war in Iraq. (AP Photo/Cesar Rangel)

Anti-war demonstrators are cut free from a contraption that binds them together after they blocked rush hour traffic at 14th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington March 28, 2003. Thirteen demonstrators were arrested for blocking one of Washington's busiest intersections near the White House during the peak of the morning rush hour. Photo by Brendan Mcdermid/Reuters

Damascus: Syrian anti-war demonstrators hold banners against the war during a demonstration in Damascus, Syria, on Tuesday March 25, 2003. Hundreds of thousands of Syrians took part in the protest, the largest in Damascus since the start of the war. Banner below reads in Arabic: 'No to war in Iraq, yes to the continuation of the heroic uprising in Palestine'. (AP Photo/Bassem Tellawi) - Mar 25 9:31 PM ET

D.C: Longtime anti-war protester Daniel Ellsberg, seated at center, sings hymns while fellow protesters are arrested in Lafayette Park across from the White House in Washington, Wednesday, March 26, 2003. All of the peaceful demonstrators were arrested for refusing to leave the restricted area around the White House. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Presbyterian Minister George Taylor, of Hyattsville, Maryland, calls out in protest against the war in Iraq as a U.S. Park police officer arrests him for refusing to leave Lafayette Park, in front of the White House in Washington, March 26, 2003. Religious leaders and members of several peace groups came together for the non-violent civil disobedience action to protest the war in Iraq. REUTERS/Jim Bourg - Mar 26 4:08 PM ET

D.C: Nobel Peace Prize laureate and International Campaign to Ban Landmines founder Jody Williams (L) gets a kiss from fellow Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Mairead Corrigan Maguire from Northern Ireland, as park police officers arrest them while demonstrating in front of the White House in Washington, March 26, 2003. Police arrested the Nobel Peace prize winners along with more than 60 other people protesting near the White House against the U.S.-led war in Iraq. (Jim Bourg/Reuters)

Manaugua: Supporters of the Sandinista National Liberation Front burn a U.S. flag in front of the U.S. embassy in Managua, Tuesday, March 25, 2003. Several hundred protested the U.S.-led war against Iraq. (AP Photo/Mario Lopez) - Mar 25 10:26 PM ET

Protesters flee from a teargas bomb launched by police near the U.S. Embassy in Quito, Ecuador during an anti-war march, Wednesday, March 26, 2003. Some 400 students protested against the U.S.-led war in Iraq in front of the embassy and two fast food restaurants where it came to clashes with the police. The banner reads 'You can get the best McCombos at McDonalds.' (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)

Ecuadorean students shout protests against the war in Iraq in front of police officers guarding the U.S Embassy in Quito, Ecuador, Wednesday, March 26, 2003. Some 400 students protested against the U.S.-led war in Iraq in front of the embassy and two fast food restaurants where it came to clashes with the police. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)

Paris: A demonstrator shouts slogans behind an Iraqi flag during a demonstration in Paris, March 25, 2003. The demonstration was organized to protest against the U.S.-led war against Iraq. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer

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D.C: Religious anti-war protesters raise their hands in prayer, facing the White House, prior to being arrested in Washington's Lafayette Park, March 26, 2003. More than 60 people were arrested in the non-violent civil disobedience action, organized by religious and peace groups, to protest against the war in Iraq. REUTERS/Jim Bourg

Mexico City: Students burn US flags during an anti-war protest in Mexico City, Wednesday, March 26, 2003. The protesters demanded the stop of the U.S.-led war on Iraq. (AP Photo/Jaime Puebla)

Salamanca: Spanish riot policemen remove an anti-war demonstrator Wednesday, March 26, 2003 during a protest against the war in Iraq in Salamanca, Spain. (AP Photo/EFE,J.M. Garcia)

Salamanca: An anti-war protester holds up his foot to protect himself from the club of a Spanish riot police during a demonstration in Salamanca, Spain, Wednesday March 26, to protest against the war in Iraq. (AP Photo/EFE, J.M. Garcia)

Seoul: A South Korean civic group member carries a banner during an anti-U.S. rally demanding stop of the Iraq war and opoposing dispatch of 600 South Korean engineering soldiers to Iraq, near the U.S. Embassy building in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, March 25, 2003. (AP Photo/ Yun Jai-hyoung)

Seoul: Students chain together to resist the attempt by policemen to take them away after they tried to get inside the National Assembly building in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, March 25, 2003. Students protested the U.S.-led war on Irag and opposed the bill to dispatch 600 South Korean engineers and medics to Iraq in support of the U.S.-led war against Iraq. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)

Seoul: A South Korean environmental activist shouts slogans as he is taken away by police during an anti-U.S. protest in Seoul Wednesday, March 26, 2003. The protesters demanded the stop of the U.S.-led war on Iraq. More than 20 protesters were arrested. (AP Photo/ Yun Jai-hyoung)

A South Korean environmental activist, center, is taken away by policemen during an anti-war protest in Seoul, Wednesday, March 26, 2003. (AP Photo/ Yun Jai-hyoung)

Sydney: Anti-war protesters try to tear apart an American flag during a demonstration near Sydney's Town Hall Wednesday, March 26, 2003. Thousands of protesters gathered in the city when clashes with police began resulting in at least 14 arrests and a police officer injured when bottles and chairs were thrown by the protesters. (AP Photo/Dan Peled)

Sydney: Police struggle with anti-war protesters as a bottle flies through the air (near center frame) during a demonstration near Sydney's Town Hall Wednesday, March 26, 2003. Thousands of protesters gathered in the city when clashes with police began, resulting in at least 14 arrests and a police officer injured when bottles and chairs were thrown by the protesters. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith)

Sydney: A chair flies through the air toward police during an anti-war protest near Sydney's Town Hall Wednesday, March 26, 2003. Thousands of mostly student protesters gathered in the city when clashes with police began resulting in at least 14 arrests and a police officer injured when bottles and chairs were thrown by the protesters. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith)

Thessaloniki: Police officers push back demonstrators during clashes after a school parade in the northern port city of Thessaloniki on Tuesday, March 25, 2003, to commemorate Greek Independence Day. The national holiday marks Greece's 1821 battle for freedom from the Ottoman rule after a 400-year occupation. About 200 people expressed their opposition against the U.S-led war in Iraq. (AP Photo/Nikolas Giakoumidis)

Tokyo: Japanese protesters shout slogans and hold anti-war messages during a rally in Tokyo(AFP/Toru Yamanaka)

Zaragoza: Spanish riot police detain an anti-war demonstrator Wednesday, March 26, 2003, during a protest against the war in Iraq in Zaragoza, northeastern Spain. (AP Photo/EFE, Javier Cebollada)

Zaragoza: Spanish riot police officers detain an anti-war demonstrator Wednesday, March 26, 2003 during a protest against the war in Iraq in Zaragoza, northeastern Spain. (AP Photo/EFE,Javier Cebollada) - Mar 26 5:50 PM ET

Banned on Wall Street and wiped off the Internet, Arab news channel al-Jazeera defended its controversial coverage of the Iraq war March 26, 2003 and demanded the United States come to its aid in the name of a free press. Al-Jazeera, which angered Washington by showing footage of dead and captured American soldiers, voiced concern after two of its reporters were banned from the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and its Web sites were hacked. A Palestinian family watches a speech by Iraqi President Saddam Hussein on Al-Jazeera TV, in the West Bank city of Hebron, March Photo by Nayef Hashlamoun/Reuters - Mar 26 5:41 PM ET

Caracas: A Venezuelan student, her face painted with the peace sign, takes part in an anti-U.S. protest against the war in Iraq, in Caracas March 25, 2003. Venezuelan students and members of the Arab commnunity in Venezuela demonstrated againstthe U.S.-led war in Iraq. REUTERS/Jorge Silva

Munich: A young boy carries a candle and a peace sign while marching through downtown Munich, southern Germany, Tuesday evening, March 25, 2003. Some 600 children and youths protested peacefully against the war in Iraq. (AP Photo/Diether Endlicher)

Sao Paolo: A child waves a white flag during a protest for peace at the Sao Paulo central market in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Wednesday, March 26, 2003. Dozens of children gathered to demand an end to the war in Iraq.(AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)

Report from Spain.

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