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http://www.unitedforpeace.org/article.php?id=725
CNN and AP (Associated Press): "Police estimated 150,000 people participated, while organizers put the crowd at 200,000, making it the biggest peace protest in the country since marches 30 years ago against the Vietnam War in which Australian troops fought alongside U.S. forces."
http://asia.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/asiapcf/auspac/02/14/aust.protest.ap/
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150,000 say NO WAR in Melbourne
by repost Friday February 14, 2003 at 09:59 AM
have seen some big rallies such as the MUA dispute rally and the 1st anti-kennet rally but this was the biggest yet! The ABC says 150,000, the organisers up to 200,000 but I think it could have been up to a quarter of a million. I watched the crowds go past for over an hour from 6 to seven PM at Melbourne Central. It took about half an hour before the crowd could even move at that end.
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This was a massive crowd, the largest rally I have ever been in. Larger than the one in Sydney that marched for reconciliation. Organisers said this rally was up to 200,000 people, but I think there was more than that. I spoke to one of the high school kids on the Bourke and Wills monument at the corner of Collins street. The crowd before the march already stretched from the State Library past the monument to Federation Square. It took at least an hour and a half for the crowd from Collins to Latrobe street to pass this monument.
This was not just your collection of socialists, anarchists and Greens marching, although they were all there. Middle Australia was there in droves, expressing its opposition to the Howard and Bush Government's drive to war on Iraq.
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=42211&group=webcast
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