An estimated 500 people took part in an anti-inauguration march Saturday from the Wallace F. Bennett Federal Building to a rally at the City-County Building - many more than the dozens of people wielding signs with messages like "Stop the Madman/Madness" and "Hail to the Thief" who initially gathered Thursday to protest Bush's second swearing-in.

DeNorris Bradley of the Wasatch Coalition for Peace and Justice, which organized both events, said participants were calling for an end to the war in Iraq, expenditures on human needs rather than war, the defense of democratic rights, the repeal of the Patriot Act and an end to the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory.

Murray resident Gerry Bourke said he last protested in the 1960s when the nation was at war in Vietnam. This time, Bourke said he again disapproves of his government's actions, especially the war in Iraq and its policies on the environment.

"This is enough to make me mad enough to come back," Bourke, 52, said at Thursday's protest, while wielding a sign that read "Not My Mandate." "Just the cumulative effect of all that bad decision-making."

The protest was a chance for the dissident voices to sound off, Bradley said.

"We want to let him know that we don't approve of his policies," he said, adding, the president's war in Iraq "has actually accelerated the threat of terrorism."

Salt Lake City resident Paul Baer, 42, held a sign Thursday that read "Bring Our Troops Home Now!"

"Basically, we were lied into war, and everybody knows that," he said. "Our country was under no threat from Iraq." - Justin Hill