I remember the day as clear as Crystal. The oppressive feeling of the build up to war was weighing heavy on mine and many more of my friends shoulders. We all met at Brixton tube station and already there where hundreds of people with placards and signs getting on the tube. One of...
My Story for 15 February 2003 My story is of the best day of my life. 2 and Quarter Million People on the streets of London (if you ask me, I can supply convincing evidence that it was that number) and more than 40 Million, actually on the streets, around the world saying “No...
I went down on one of 4 coaches from Matlock organised by the people associated with Scarthin Books in Cromford. I sat next to expat Welsh man Tony Rees from Matlock and conversed in Welsh on the journey down the M1 to London. We were heartened to see the huge number of coaches...
I was a Student Nurse at the time. I travelled to London from Nottingham on a full coach with other marchers. When we were at the motorway services it was obvious that the turnout was going to be massive. I found the whole day very inspiring and emotional to see all the different...
I hade never been on a demonstration in all my 46 years but I felt so strongly about what was being said and proposed at that time, I just had to go. So on that Saturday morning my husband and I boarded a train from north Kent to make the journey into London....
New York City with Attorney General Ramsey Clark...
My wife and I had demonstrated on our own at the busiest street corner and were encouraged with the ratio of thumbs up to "F" you. It was pretty trying to do it on our own, so we were encouraged when there was a mass demonstration in Seattle, just 40 minutes away, on...
I was visiting home. I have lived in the States for many years now, but I watched in horror as the Bush administration beat the drums for war. I tried in my speech at the Bournemouth rally to tell the British people that many in America were against the war. In fact, as...
We marched all day and evening and I have never felt much part of the world as then. All of us are brothers and sisters and we must never forget that now more than ever. We cam from Bridgwater in Somerset and came with the Labour Party branch and had every hope that...
