Keynote speaker Sherman Alexie held the crowd with gentle humor and uncompromising defiance. Musicians included Clinton Fearon and the Boogie Brown Band. Total Experience Gospel Choir, and Jim Page. The rally was followed by a 3-hour-long march to the INS Detention Center, and was unmarred by violence or arrests.

Sponsored by:Act Now to Stop War and End Racism (ANSWER),  American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), Church Council of Greater Seattle, Green Party of Washington State, Hate Free Zone Campaign of Washington, Northwest Labor & Employment Law Office (LELO), No War Against Iraq Coalition of Washington, Not In Our Name, Sound Nonviolent Opponents of War (S.N.O.W.), Washington State Jobs with Justice.

List of some of the 60+ cities participating in Feb. 15th protests worldwide: 
Albacete, Alicante, Amsterdam, Antwerp, Aotearoa, Athens, Bangkok, Barcelona, Beirut, Belfast, Berlin, Berne, Brussels, Budapest, Cairo, Calgary, Cape Town, Charleston, Charlotte, Chicago, Colorado Springs, Copenhagen, Corpus Christi, Detroit, Dublin, Edmonton, Eugene, Fillmore, Glasgow, Granada, Grand Rapids, Havana, Helsinki, Huelva, Hong Kong, Islamabad, Istanbul, Jaén, Jakarta, Johannesburg, Kelowna, Kuala Lumpur, Lahore, Lancaster, Lansing, Lisbon, Ljubljana, London, Los Angeles, Luxembourg, Madrid, Málaga, Manila, Matsumoto, McMurdo Station, Melbourne, Mexico City, Montreal, Moscow, Murcia, New York, North Newton, Olympia, Oslo, Ottawa, Oviedo, Paris, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Prague, Prince Albert, Ramallah, Reunion Island, Reykjavik, Rome, Sacramento, Salamanca, San Juan, Santa Monica, Santander, Santo Domingo, Sao Paulo, Seattle, Seoul, Skopje, St. Augustine, Stockholm, Sydney, Tallinn, Tokyo, Toronto, Valencia, Valetta, Vancouver, Vienna, Vigo, Warsaw, Youngstown.

San Francisco and Sydney held large protests on Feb. 16th. 

March 5 - National Moratorium to Stop the War on Iraq
The Next Phase of Conscience and Resistance
To Stop the War before it Starts
No School, No Work, No Business as Usual

Wednesday, March 5th is intended to be an emergency response BEFORE all-out war on Iraq--with our sights set on preventing it. Seattle Not In Our Name is calling a convergence in downtown Seattle beginning at noon, with program to start at 2 p.m. For full info, click here.
What's that line you haven't crossed yet to show your determination to stop this war?
Prepare to cross it, in large and small acts of courage.

On March 5...
* You could call in sick.
* You could close your business.
* Professors could cancel classes.
* Students could plan citywide high school walkouts and other campus actions (and they are!).
* City councils and county boards that have passed resolutions against the war could mark the day in appropriate ways.
* Unions that have passed anti-war resolutions could call job actions.
* You could stand for peace at the nearest post office or government building.
* You could begin a campaign of boldly-worded letters to legislators, the president and his secretaries.
* You could establish "no war zones" with signs and banners at strategic intersections (as they are doing in Atlanta).
* You could hang banners from major overpasses (as they are doing in Chicago and Washington).
* You could bring your protest to a military facility, with acts of civil disobedience "supporting" the soldiers by attempting to stop the U.S. military machine from sending them off to war.
* Houses of worship could call for special services that day, could call their congregations to protest at military recruiting offices or elsewhere, could open their doors to conscientious objectors.
* Afternoon or evening convergences could bring together everyone who's acted earlier in the day.

The possibilities are endless, collective and individual.
Lay something important in your life on the line,
Along with hundreds of thousands of others
On the same day, on March 5
TO STOP THIS WAR ON IRAQ.

The National Moratorium is sponsored by: United for Peace and Justice, African American Institute for Policy Studies, Baptist Ministers Conf. Of Greater NY and Vicinity, Fellowship of Reconciliation, Forum of Concerned Religious Leaders, Global Exchange, Interfaith Communities United for Justice and Peace, International A.N.S.W.E.R., Middle East Children’s Alliance, NYC Labor Against War, Not in Our Name Project, Pax Christi USA, Progressive National Baptist Convention USA, RANT (Root Activist Network of Trainers), South Carolina Malcolm X Grassroots Mvt for Self Determination, the Southern Christian Leadership Foundation, and YVPAN. It is in cooperation with the nationwide student walk-outs organized by the National Youth & Student Peace Coalition.