PARIS, November 16 (IslamOnline.net) - Some 100,000 anti-globalization advocates took to the streets of Paris on Saturday, November 15, denouncing the U.S. hegemony on the world and supporting freedom-seeking peoples around the world.

Winding up a four-day European Social Forum (ESF), an umbrella conference for anti-globalization movements, the heads of labor unions, France's leftist parties and leading NGOs spearheaded the march.

The protesters blew whistles, danced, sang and played Arabic, Asian and African music, celebrating three days of fruitful discussions on social justice, poverty, corporate greed, liberalism under the banner of " For a Europe of rights in a war-free world."

Some marchers voiced their support for the Palestinians in their uphill struggle against the Israeli occupation, flapping Palestinian flags and carrying banners in different languages reading 'Free Palestine.'

Others set up a life-sized cardboard for Israel's West Bank separation wall, which cuts off vast swages of Palestinian land.

They deemed the wall as a sort of apartheid adopted by the Israeli government of Ariel Sharon.

The 700-kilometer wall will cut occupied Jerusalem off from the rest of the West Bank. It could cost up to $2.2 million a kilometer or a total of $1.8 billion.

The Palestinian cause was also given due attention during the forums seminars and workshops.

The protesters further carried banners denouncing the U.S. occupation of Iraq and hegemony on the world.

The mass rally was a cultural and social mosaic with the influx of Muslims, Christians, Jews, Hindus, animists, Marxists, Arabs, Asians, Europeans and Africans.