From the Raleigh News and Observer http://www.newsobserver.com/front/story/2211994p-2088453c.html Independent count of 6000 protestors, 100 counterprotestors. Sadly, our local cable news channel, dedicated to 24 hours coverage of North Carolina, is ONLY showing clips from the Freepers, none from the peace rally. Man, could the media BE any hornier for this war????
The Washington Post has been beating the war drums on the Op Ed pages for a while (just one example). Their coverage of the protests seems to be a little more balanced.
NY Times: above-the-fold headline "From New York To Melbourne, Protest Against War With Iraq"; three color pictures. It shares the top half with stories of new US strategies to disarm Saddam. NY Daily News: "HUGE WAR PROTEST GRIPS CITY" and small color photo above the masthead, but then the main cover story is "TORTURED BY SADDAM": US Army soldiers suing Saddam for torturing them 12 years ago during the Gulf War.
NY Post front page: "FACEOFF -- HUNDREDS ARRESTED AS ANTI-WAR PROTEST STRANGLES MIDTOWN" and a pic of a cop strangling a protestor as a cop on a horse watches. This is interesting because using the term "hundreds" is like describing my bedroom as "miles" away from my living room. It only works if you work with fractions.
Anyone have any good source (not the protest groups) for actual numbers? I've seen 1m Italy, <700k in UK, about 500K in Australia, no good source on France or Germany, and about 100k for NYC plus very small numbers in Turkey, Japan, etc. No matter how you look at it, this looks way short of the 10 million number goal. If you have a better number share it.