The 2003 anti-war protests were the last worldwide mass street mobilization
Evidence
The last time millions upon millions of human beings—including Muslims, Jews, Christians, Hindus, agnostics, and atheists—poured into the streets worldwide was on February 15, 2003, against the atrocities of the American government in Afghanistan which, supported by Friedman and his employers at the New York Times, it was about to repeat in Iraq. — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 49
Categorization
- XREF: Contrasts with contemporary protest waves; ties to the rarity of genuinely global civic mobilization post-2003.