In Norway, thousands of people took to the streets of Oslo Thursday as President Obama accepted the Nobel Peace Prize. Obama used his acceptance speech to defend the escalation of the Afghan war, calling it a just use of force. US peace activist Cindy Sheehan addressed a crowd of marchers in Oslo.

Cindy Sheehan: “How dare the committee give the Peace Prize, which will be forever known now as Peace Prize, to Obama? And how dare he accept it? How dare the committee legitimize the crimes and — the war crimes and other crimes of the Bush regime by rewarding Obama for continuing them?”

Meanwhile, in New York dozens of people marched in a parallel rally against Obama’s Nobel Prize. The demonstrators carried mock coffins as they walked from the United Nations to a military recruiting station in Times Square.

Protester: “He kind of rehashed the 'just war' argument, and it’s something that I think is kind of offensive, personally, to try to paint a military effort, where people are going to be dying, in terms of peace and in terms of, you know, positive thinking. And it just doesn’t make any sense, I don’t think.”