All our family attended. Could not believe that so many people turned out to join the march. Met up with many friends and their families from the Northern cities and towns such as Leeds,Bradford, Manchester, Oldham and Rochdale. There seems a real sense of solidarity among people from different walks of life. Diversity in...
We went as a family to the demonstration on the 15th and many before and after. We saw the We Are Many movie last night with our 12 year old daughter who was there as a baby. The film celebrated the power of truth and showed the ways this has lead to positive...
I came back from university for the day and marched with my Dad. He's no longer with us but he taught me everything I know about justice, peace and equality. I remember him saying, "It's times like these you need to get out onto the streets". We joined the crowd at the Houses...
My Wife of five months and I, had never been on a protest march together before, but she felt so strongly about the proposed attack on Iraq, that she immediately declared to me “I’m going to join the protest march!” It was her first ever protest and she didn’t know what to expect (whether...
On the day I travelled up from SE London to London Bridge and walked towards the Embankment to the start. I never had any doubts about the need to demonstrate which I had done many times before against the threat of war. As always, however, until the start of the march the uncertainty about...
I travelled down down to London from Bedfordshire on the train with my wife and children. There were so many people doing the same. I couldn't understand why the government want listening....
I travelled down down to London from Bedfordshire on the train with my wife and children. There were so many people doing the same. I couldn't understand why the government wasnt listening....
The atmosphere in Baghdad may have been different than it was in the rest of the world ,tension , fear , and anticipation was roaming all around the country, I was 6 years old at then, just starting my first primary year schooling, I used to hear my father and mother talking ,...
I just had to be there, and I was. I really believed that with that many people saying 'No' to war, with that number of people so clear with their view and intent, that it would make a difference, that the government would hear it. When it didn't, my understanding of democracy completely...
