I joined the March in Trafalgar square. it seemed to go on forever. People swarmed into the Square for hours on end and then I remember migrating to Hyde Park. There were millions of people. The largest demonstration I had ever seen although the Press, as they do now, tried to say there...
I don't go to demonstrations these days, but this one felt important. I got out of the subway on Manhattan's East Side and was amazed at the amount of demonstrators everywhere, on Lexington, 3rd, 2nd and 1st avenues. I'd been to the big anti-war demonstrations of the 60s and the anti-nuclear one in...
I marched with my daughter. I couldn't understand why everyone in the world did not know the Bush/Cheney propaganda was bogus. (When we tried to enter Bloomingdale's after the march they turned us away because of our signs. lol)...
I marched in Minneapolis, Minnesota. I had moved to the US from the UK a few days before 11 Sept 2001. I heard so much racism, Islamophobia and war mongering in those years. But as I marched with thousands of people in the streets of Minneapolis, I realized that many working class people...
At the time I had been living in the UK for 8 years and during those 8 years I never felt moved to get involved let alone travel to London with my 7 years old daughter to march against a war in Iraq. As events unfolded prior to the march I became increasingly more...
Ever since I was a teenager, I have been cynical about political demonstrations, not only in Iraq, my home country, but also in Britain, my adopted country, as I feel the system is so rigged - overtly or covertly - that demonstrations simply help to legitimise it by implying that it is fair,...
I was there. It was in Washington D.C. USA. I crossed the Peace Bridge in Fort Erie,Ontario around 9:00 p.m. on the Friday evening. It was snowing hard. We all met at a College in Buffalo, N.Y. Six buses left that evening and traveled all night to Washington arriving around 9 or 10:00...
I happened to be the organiser of the Young People's Parliament for Essex. Aged 11-16 they all wanted to go so I hurriedly organised parental permission and a couple of parents came as well. It was the first march they had been on so what an introduction to protest ! It was so...
It was clear there were no WMDs and that getting control of Iraq's oil was paramount. The fact that Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11 was also clear. As predicted a country that had few if any terrorists was turned into a chaotic hotbed of terrorism. Blair's arrogant disregard of evidence and...
A total humbling experience to be part of such a world movement with a united voice of 'not in my name'. We experienced the inevitable kettling by the Police but it didn't break the chain of resistance that was powerfully palable- linked as we knew for sure - with a worldwide thread of...
