Led
by Iraq
and Afghanistan
war veterans, 15,000 people took to the streets of Chicago
to protest on May 20, the opening day of the NATO summit. The demonstration
was the largest antiwar demonstration in the U.S.
in several years. The mass demonstration was the culmination of a week of
activity against NATO and the G8 summits. Both summit meetings were
originally planned for Chicago,
but as protest organizing gained momentum, the G8 summit was moved to Camp David while the NATO summit was
reduced to only 2 days from the week long summits originally planned.
