The Global Peace March was a total success! More than 87,000 of us sent a clear message to the overwhelming majority of US citizens who oppose Bush's escalation in Iraq--"The world is with you. "
We'll keep uploading pictures from the March throughout the weekend (this first batch you're seeing come straight from Tom's cell phone!) as well as more comments and feedback from Avaaz members.
The response has been phenomenal. US marchers got incredibly fired up about the idea of the rest of the world supporting them and cheered loudly as the colorful Avaaz flag cloud floated by. As Avaaz members holding the banner reading "Citizens from 165 nations march with you" walked past the Supreme Court, the crowd spontaneously started screaming "Close Guantanamo."
There where some really touching it's-a-small-world-after-all moments. Marchers in the crowd--from places as far as China, Pakistan or Australia--saw their flag and came up to ask if they could hold it. This is the kind of globalization we're talking about.
We did this together in less than a week! Let's keep this momentum going, guys.
More to come soon...
Galit
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Comments (2)
Awesome work, guys! Can you give us the full list of countries you ended up representing on the march? I wanna see if little old New Zealand was there...
Posted by webweaver | 01/27/07
Posted on 01/27/07
I think at the end of the ad peole need to hear the sound of a really loud screechy alarm clock, just like the one my wife complains about every day. Then you could also wake up the soporific viewers sitting in front of the box so they take not of the ad.
Posted by Jonathan Holliman | 02/ 6/07
Posted on 02/ 6/07