I travelled from the North of England to take part in my first demo/march at the age of 60. I was full of outrage at Blair's obvious dishonesty and pursuit of a policy that we could all see was both immoral and doomed to failure. It's no comfort to be proved right by...
As an Iraqi exile living in the UK for 30 years, I always had a hope that one day Iraq will one day get rid of the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein. However, during the few months before the "liberation" of Iraq, I had a gut feeling that things are not right; the right...
Me, my husband and our two daughters - aged 3 & 5 - marched. We marched so that my husband's brother and brother in law wouldn't be drafted into a war zone. They eventually did three and two tours of duty respectively. They came back alive, but not unscathed. Many of their friends didn't make...
I marched in London. We left Folkestone early in the morning and were very near to the front of the march. We carried signs saying "Not in my name" and we blew our whistles when we reached Downing Street. We marched until we reached Hyde Park. As we walked back to Charing Cross...
Many of us on the day could not get to the big marches. Perhaps could not afford to get there, had to work, had family commitments, many reasons, but there were smaller protests everywhere. We were amongst several hundred in Bangor in North Wales on the day, seeing the passion, the anger. Firmly...
Hi I took my two older daughters then aged almost 12 and 13 to the Glasgow March. I also had in the buggy my son of 18 months as my husband was more interested in going fishing that day. I wanted the girls to know that you can say not in my name and...
I was with a small group from Devon who had to come to London to be part of the protest against the potential war in Iraq. At that time I was working in Plymouth and, because of that city's connections with the navy, felt very much a minority voice in expressing my horror...
My name is Ismael from El Salvador and have lived in the UK-London since 1995. On that historic day myself and my friends Mike and Eva joined the protest at Piccadilly Circus and marched all the way to Hyde park and heard all the speaches. It was a fantastic atmosphere and we all...
