Protests WorldWide
CNN reports:
Police in London, England, said turnout Saturday was 750,000, the largest demonstration ever in the British capital. The organizers put the figure at 2 million. In Germany, 500,000 protested, and 300,000 gathered in 60 towns and cities across France.
The biggest demonstrations seen in Europe for years were part of marches by millions across the globe, from the Antarctic to Iceland.
Yahoo says:
More than four million protesters took to the streets around the globe on Saturday to send a message to President Bush (news - web sites) not to attack Iraq and to give peace a chance.
In a huge wave of demonstrations not seen since the Vietnam War, anti-war marchers in more than 600 towns and cities from Canberra to Cape Town and Chicago called on Bush to back off his hawkish stance toward Iraq, which his administration accuses of hiding weapons of mass destruction that pose a global threat.
On Stand Down, Philip Leggiere shares some first-hand observations:
A cynic might try to describe the throngs as a cacophony of special interest groups, but as one who's been (periodically) to large peace demonstrations since the mid-70s (and is predisposed in many ways to cynicism about political demonstrations) this one feels qualitatively different. Less politically sectarian and far more widely gauged in terms of age and social groups.
Other first-hand reports can be found here and here.
Update: Reuters (via Yahoo news) has upped the worldwide estimate to 6 million participants in today's protests.