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Trevor Griffith, 21, was part of the march after driving 16 hours from Pensacola, Fla., with three fellow students from the University of West Florida. “The fact that 20 or so individuals right now are determining economic trade policies for four to five billion people just isn’t right,” Mr. Griffith said. “That’s why we’re here.”

The October protest schedule is expected to include marches in Washington and elsewhere. But organizers acknowledge that it may be difficult to recruit large numbers of demonstrators. So groups like United for Peace and Justice are also planning smaller events in communities around the country, including teach-ins with veterans and families of deployed troops, lobbying sessions with members of Congress, film screenings and ad hoc memorials featuring the boots of deceased soldiers and Marines.

Mr. Tutu, a South African Nobel Peace Prize winner, spoke on rocky soil, surrounded by the remains of tear gas canisters and in front of coils of barbed wire, part of the barrier that Israel began building in 2002 across the West Bank as a violent Palestinian uprising was under way. Israel said its main purpose was to stop suicide bombers from crossing into Israel, but the route of the barrier — a mix of fencing, guard towers and concrete wall — dug deep into the West Bank in places, and Palestinian anger over the barrier is as much about lost land as about lost freedom.

When it comes to Post coverage, how many peaceful activists does it take to equal one vandal? If you were advising our youth, would you suggest that they start destroying personal property as the only way for their efforts to be noticed?

One of the possible "crimes" in the file police opened on Amnesty International, a world-renowned human rights group: "civil rights."

I have been disappointed by your pro-Israel/anti-Palestinian bias seen throughout your coverage of Israel's assault on the Gaza Strip. I was especially disappointed on Dec. 31 to see on Page A11 a picture of four bearded, Arab American men wearing Palestinian kaffiyehs to represent the pro-Palestinian protesters who marched in Washington the night before. In fact, the protest was mostly attended by older women and children, as well as by non-Arab Americans like me. To have chosen that picture showed your attempt to paint the protesters as a radical few, rather than a 3,000-strong group that was as diverse as the United States itself. Shame on you for pandering to America's pro-Israel bias.

Sadrist officials said they opposed the security agreement because they did not believe assurances that the Americans would ever leave. They depicted the pact as a successor to colonial-era treaties with Western powers in the last century that, they said, had “sold the Arab and the Muslim lands into occupation.”

Benjamin's file lists two potential terrorism "crimes": a primary one as an environmental extremist and a secondary one as an anarchist and animal rights activist.

“They will benefit from the demonstration,” Mr. Gharrawi said, referring to the government. He explained further that if the Americans pressure the prime minister, “He will say: ‘It is not up to me. The masses want this.’ ”

The police also entered the activists' names into the federal Washington-Baltimore High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area database, which tracks suspected terrorists. One well-known antiwar activist from Baltimore, Max Obuszewski, was singled out in the intelligence logs released by the ACLU, which described a "primary crime" of "terrorism-anti-government" and a "secondary crime" of "terrorism-anti-war protesters."