I marched in London with my friend Tim. It was a massive march, the weather was a little cold and very grey and I remember Hari Krishna people brightening the scene with their orange robes and drums amongst all the different crowns of anarchists, communists, Trade Unions and other non-affiliated people. I was...
We made signs, bundled up in our warmest coats, and marched with about 1 million people in NYC. There was a group of Thayer artists named Billionaires for Bush carrying signs "Blood for oil!" We were students & professionals, artists & lawyers, children & grannies, rich & poor, and every color in the...
My clearest memory of that day is the amazing tamales someone was selling out of a cooler. It was a long time ago, but I remember the sea of people in front of City Hall. I remember looking down Market St. and seeing more people behind us than I had ever seen in...
At the time I was a busy mother of 4 and could not get child care so decided to organise a peace rally in our church where those of us who could not go to London to march got together for the day - people could come and write a message on a...
I was 13 years old in 2003 and I remember on the day of the march, there was a buzz. People in school were talking about it. At lunchtime we decided that we were going to try and leave the school (which wasn't allowed) and get the Metro into town to protest. The...
Myself and two friends plus my friends son and his girlfriend. We went on the first March where I remember a lot of angry people. I thought by the time of the 2nd March that if the politicians ignored us that democracy was dead. As we were ignored I lost trust in politicians....
I felt alive and powerful. We all had smiles on our faces and felt united and hopeful....
