-- Critical Media Literacy
in Times of War

The Persian Gulf War
Reported Crowd Sizes, Washington D.C. - Anti-War Rally, January 26, 1991

Numbers of Protesters	Source
70,000 to 100,000	"Crisis in the gulf: Peace Protests gather momentum in the US" The Independent (London), Chris McGreal and Adrian Bridge "A week after 15,000 people turned out for a demonstration in Washington between 70,000 and 100,000 protesters turned out there again, recalling the protests against the Vietnam War." (January 27, 1991, p.7)
	"20 years on" The Economist (.U.S.), no author "On January 26, not two weeks into the Gulf war, the White House was surrounded by an anti-war demonstration that was bigger, at 100,000, than any seen in the first two years of the Vietnam war." (February 2, 1991, p.24-5
75,000	"Marchers Urge End to Conflict; Dissent: Protesters say they are pro-America but anti-war. Rally at city hall is the largest locally since hostilities began " Los Angeles Times, Scott Harris "Federal Park Police in Washington estimated that a rally there attracted 75,000 the largest single protest since the war began." (January 27, 1991, p.B1).
	"75,000 March in Washington Demanding End to Gulf War" The Toronto Star, Dale Brazao "An estimated 75,000 anti-war protesters demonstrated outside the White House yesterday calling for a kinder, gentler world - beginning with the withdrawal of American troops from the Persian Gulf." (January 27, 1991, p.A1)
	"War in the Gulf: Antiwar Rallies; Day of Protests is the Biggest Yet" The New York Times, Peter Appleborne "The protest in Washington drew 75,000 people, the United States Park Service said, but organizers said that estimate was too low by more than half." (January 27, 1991, p.17)
75,000 - 250,000	"Thousands March in D.C, San Francisco" The Boston Globe, Michael K. Frisby, Jane Merideth Adams, Staff "The US Park Police estimated the antiwar crowd at 75,000. Organizers said there were 250,000"
	"Desert Storm Stirs a Fury...; Thousands assail Bush in capital" Newsday, Peter Marks and John Holzwarth "The exuberant march from the capital to the White House drew a vast throng from all over the country. While march organizers estimated the crowd at 250,000, the US. Park Police had a much lower estimate of 75,000"
150,000	"The War Within" Newsweek, Jerry Adler, Clara Bingham, Todd Barratt, Debra Rosenberg, Shawn D. Lewis "And there was, finally, undeniably, the presence of more than 150,000 Americans on the Mall last Saturday, little more than a week into a war whose worst horrors surely lie ahead of us. The peace movement, like the troops themselves, has barely begun to fight." (February 4, 1991, p.58)