Just after 9/11, President George W. Bush climbed the rubble where the World Trade Center had stood. Surrounded by shouts of anger, he said, ‘The people who knocked these buildings will hear all of us soon!” With these words, Bush ushered in the War on Terror. Quickly, a global protest movement mobilized against it, reshaping the political, moral and media landscape.

Millions of Americans participated in thousands of acts of protest, from demonstrations to civil disobedience to peace encampments in Iraq. On February 15, 2003, up to thirty million people worldwide took to the streets in the largest protest in human history. The latest work of New School historian Jeremy Varon, Our Grief is Not a Cry for War provides the definitive history of the global people’s movement that opposed the War on Terror.