[thechat] Protest counts from around the world

[Martin Burns]

On Sat, 15 Feb 2003, Hugh Blair wrote:

> Here's some counts I've seen, YMMV:
>
> London "at least 750,000"
according to the police, who may have been counting people who left the
starting point of the marches, rather than those who arrived at the rally
at the end

> Glasgow  30,000
97,000

600 in Shetland
http://www.multimap.co.uk/map/places.cgi?quicksearch=shetland

plus I don't know how many on
Arran http://yurel.com/3e4f959ddb91a
Islay http://yurel.com/3e4f95e950690
Orkney http://yurel.com/3e4f96311d249
Canna http://yurel.com/3e4f966af3fb6
Muck http://yurel.com/3e4f968dea389

Cheers
Martin
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