Hundreds of thousands turned out yesterday - and over 87,000 of us from 198 countries around the world joined them! Check out a couple more photos here:
The Capitol was totally surrounded. here is a list of all the flags I *think* we carried (it got a bit crazy there at the end!), the countries where most people were joining the Global Peace March -
Afghanistan, Argentina, Australia, Austria
Belgium, Brazil
Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica
Denmark, Egypt
Finland, France
Germany, Greece, Hong Kong
India, Ireland, Italy
Japan, Lebanon
Malaysia, Malta, Mexico
Netherlands, New Zealand (nice one webweaver and all!), Norway
Pakistan, Portugal
Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland
Turkey, Venezuela
United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, USA (thousands of US citizens who couldn't get on a bus joined us, including at least one who was pregnant - so that's plus-one virtual marcher!)
amazing. look at what we did, 87,000 of us, in less than a week with nothing more than energy, friendship and belief in each other.
Looks like it's time for us to step things up a gear.
more soon -
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Comments (2)
I had a great time at the march with the Avaaz team. There was great energy and the flags had a meaningful impact. I saw two foreign TV stations using the flags during the march, Telemundo and a German station.
Posted by James | 01/28/07
Posted on 01/28/07
it's nice to see the malaysian flag over there!
Posted by Shazeea | 01/29/07
Posted on 01/29/07