I travelled independently by rain from Hereford. I was amazed as we stopped at every station, especially villages in Tory heartland Cotswolds, to see how many ordinary families, some armed with banners, were joining the protest. It definitely was a popular cause which was, regrettably, ignored by our rulers....
I took part in this, a local college campus peace group and other demonstrations....
After attending the rally me and a friend road tripped down to olive oil country in Spain. Everywhere we went we saw anti war poster, bed sheets hung over balconies. Even in a scruffy olive oil 'depot', the very old farmer had a 'Non la guerre' poster behind his scruffy counter....
Several of us traveled down from Bristol. We had dodgy homemade posters. They had to be dodgy; they represented the evidence gathered to convince us of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. On my poster, pens were stuck on showing the mass stocks of weapons; aspirin were the chemical weapons alluded to and a...
After many smaller protests in Suffolk and Norfolk, where we have more U.S. bases than anywhere else, my friend Annie and I travelled to London with others from our area. Old, young, couples, families...
It was an amazing experience. I had never seen so many people together. There were so many images, posters, so many different groups of people, all coming together for one purpose....
My husband and I joined the march (and others like it) with our young daughters, 2 and 5, one of whom perched on my husband's shoulders shouting, "We don't want a war," except she couldn't say her "r's" so it was "We don't want a waw." But the message was clear. WE DIDN'T...