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It was a wonderful day in Manhattan on Saturday, Feb. 15. The place that gave us Mr. Rogers and Big Bird pulsated a single message to the world: "The World Says No To War.”
I was there to witness this historic anti-war, peaceful coalition of 500,000 Americans that emphatically said to President George Bush and his administration: let’s turn the tide and give peace a chance.
This mass event was sponsored by United for Peace and Justice, a coalition of 120 organizations on a very frigid and blustery day.
The half million dissenting faces on hand had the real flavor of America. They represented students and children, the middle aged and elderly, blue collars, professionals, church and community groups and small businesses.
You could read this on the thousands of handmade signs and banners calling for “No war, Not in Our Name.”
I met a freshman pre-med student from Ohio Weslyan College that was attending her first demonstration. The young lady was very nervous, but wanted the president to hear her objections.
Ohio Weslyan College, near Columbus Ohio, has a student body of 1,800 and 100 of them showed up to send a message: “No To War.”
New York City was joined by over 600 other protest marches around the globe, amassing voices of eight to 11 million people in such places as San Francisco ( 300,000) London ( 1 million), Rome ( 1 million), Barcelona ( 400,000),
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