"Organisers put the crowd in the main demonstration - which earlier had marched peacefully through the city behind a banner "No Bush, no war," and beating drums - at some 150,000. The march stretched for about a kilometre (less than a mile.)
"Protesters - many of whom had taken trains from cities in northern Italy- took aim at local and global issues, including the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as Italy's participation in the latter. Also targeted was Bush's environmental policies and the planned expansion of a U.S. military base in the north-eastern city of Vicenza.
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