The February 15, 2003 protests comprised the largest antiwar rally in world history

Evidence

One day his father ran into Eman, a family friend who is also Palestinian American and who was looking for volunteers. She was helping organize the massive February 15, 2003, demonstration against the looming war. (With protests in eight hundred cities around the world, this was the largest antiwar rally the planet has ever seen.) — Moustafa Bayoumi, How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being…, 723

Categorization

• CANDY: A light fact for conversation: the largest peace protest ever happened, in hundreds of cities, against a war that came anyway.
• XREF: connects to: Over ten million people protested worldwide against the 2003 Iraq war invasion — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 123