War and Peace

Anti-war protests that have been increasing steadily around the globe found new impetus March 20 after the first bombs struck Baghdad. Here, protesters light candles around a streamer as they gather near the U.S. Embassy in Manila for a Catholic Mass and to pray for peace.

In San Francisco, Loretta Linseed yells as firefighters use a saw to cut apart anti-war protesters who linked themselves together with metal pipes to block Market Street in the financial district. They pledged a "festival of resistance'" that would paralyze the morning commute.

Residents of Jammu, India, stage an anti-war demonstration March 20. Indians have reacted angrily as the United States finally fired the first shot in Iraq.

In Paris, the sidewalk in front of a McDonald's restaurant is littered with debris after its windows were smashed during a demonstration against the war.

Christin Hinojosa and John Didion, front left and right, lead others members of "guerrilla theater" dressed in white run through an intersection en route to an anti-war protest Thursday, March 20, 2003 in Chicago.

Vietnam Veteran Ron Murray, a supporter of the Iraq war, argues with protesters Chris and Kezia Klupp during an anti-war demonstration near the State Capitol in Harrisburg, Pa.

An Indonesian Muslim woman is overcome with emotion as she prays during an anti-war demonstration in front of the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta March 20. Around 1,000 protesters rallied outside the heavily guarded American Embassy in downtown Jakarta, calling for the immediate end to the war.

Students demonstrate in front of the U.S. military headquarters in Heidelberg, southern Germany, March 20, the day when the 2003 war on Iraq started.

Cindy Schinder of Austin holds up a sign as she joins about a dozen anti-war demonstrators hours after the Baghdad bombing began March 19. The Texas protest took place at the state capitol in Austin.

A peace activist burns an American flag during an anti-war protest outside the parliament building in Kiev, Ukraine, March 20. Scores of demonstrators, under flags of Ukraine's various political parties, protested against the U.S.-led war against Iraq.

Ryan Fitzpatrick of Iowa City joins a handful of citizens on the pedestrian mall in downtown Iowa City, Iowa, late at night on March 19 to protest the U.S. strike on targets in Iraq.

Turkish protesters chant slogans, holding banners that read "Hold out Iraq, hold out Saddam, oppressed people are with you." The anti-war demonstration in Istanbul March 20 coincided with a Turkish parliament vote to allow Uth e.S. military to use the airspace over Turkey in its Iraqi campaign.

Protesters scuffle with police officers during a protest against a U.S.-led war against Iraq near the U.S. Embassy in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, March 20.

More than 100,000 protesters rally in front of the U.S. embassy, right, in Athens, Greece, March 20 during an anti-war demonstration.

A statue of Britain's World War II Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill is plastered with anti-war posters, during a protest by teenagers against the war in Iraq in London's Parliament Square, March 20.

Police officers arrest a demonstrator during one of many citywide protests against the war in Iraq on March 20 in San Francisco, Calif.

An anti-war demonstrator is pushed to the ground after trying to run away from San Francisco police after a group of protesters were rounded up for arrest during a rally Friday, in downtown San Francisco.

Mary Bugallo, of Chicago, makes a peace sign during an anti-war protest in Chicago. Thousands of people gathered and marched through the city in opposition to the war in Iraq.

An anti-war protester, hand covered with a red substance, flashes a peace sign while being arrested during a demonstration outside the White House Friday, March 21, 2003. Anti-war activists rolled out another wave of demonstrations Friday in their campaign against the war on Iraq that includes sit-ins in the streets and at federal buildings, mass rallies and quiet vigils. Hundreds have been arrested.

Anti-war protesters run from Jordanian riot police during clashes at the al-Wihdat refugee camp for Palestinians in Amman, Jordan, Friday, March 21, 2003. Across Jordan protestors came out in the streets to voice their opposition to the US-led war in neighboring Iraq.