I was one of the organisers of the Victorian Peace Network (VPN) that brought 150,000 people onto the streets in Melbourne Australia (VPN went the evening before the global day, to catch the Saturday newspapers and inspire other cities in Australia - we knew it would be big). But on the actual day of...
We had 2 or 3 coach loads of people from a small town in north west England, New Mills, going to London for the big demonstration..something unheard of up here. Seeing coaches from all corners of the UK on their way to London was great...
I was on the Stop The War on February 15, 2003. We know we were more than a million. More like two million. As always - furious when the figures on and in the news were watered down. At the time I thought: 'I am able to attend this March, but I personally know...
I marched in New York with a number of other singer friends and colleagues. I had composed a round, a canon - for us to sing. We marched with signs that said "canons for peace" and sang through the streets of Manhattan. Someone filmed us, but I never saw the footage. ...
I went along to the demonstration in Sydney and was so blown away with the power and magnificence of it, that I quit art school and curated an exhibition of photography and a peace education forum, entitled When The World Said NO To War. Myself and some friends - Gary Blumberg, Tim Cole, Chip...
Me and my Mum travelled down together on the bus from the Burnley area for the march, it was crazy , we never made it to Hyde park or got to hear the speakers because there was that many people in the streets. Me and my Ma Susan Brown nee Jones had attended marches...
We were in Manhattan. The demonstration and rally were being held, if I remember right, on the far East Side. We were somewhere in the middle, and the police blocked off all east-west streets to prevent us, and thousands of others, from getting all the way to the main gathering. We had come...
I was one of several coach loads that travelled from Northampton to London that day. I had not felt that empowered since the anti-poll tax protests of the 1990's. The spirit and unity of that day will live with me forever ...
