Met wonderful people on the train from Liverpool to London. One couple told me they were going to visit their son in hospital ,he was a soldier and because of an "ACCIDENT"he and two of his fellow serving soldiers were all shot in the foot. later during the march I was inspired by the...
I marched with my husband and our friend Alan . . .a very moving and inspirational experience but overshadowed by a sinking feeling that democracy would not prevail ! It was a case of doing the right thing even if it probably won't succeed ....
I was there. It was in Washington D.C. USA. I crossed the Peace Bridge in Fort Erie,Ontario around 9:00 p.m. on the Friday evening. It was snowing hard. We all met at a College in Buffalo, N.Y. Six buses left that evening and traveled all night to Washington arriving around 9 or 10:00...
My brother and a friend came especially from Germany to join me marching in London. Our banner read NOT CONVINCED! Quoting the German foreign secretary Joschka Fischer who had sad to Donald Rumsfeld (if I remember correctly) 'but what am I supposed to tell the German people if I myself am NOT CONVINCED!"...
My 17-year old daughter and I marched from the Embankment to Hyde Park that day. I had been on several anti-war marches in my time, including those against the Vietnam war in the 1960's. But this was my daughter's first national demonstration, and I was moved by her and her friends' awareness and...
I had taken the day off work to go on the march, over slept and thought I was late to the march . . . I thought I was late to join the march ! but joined it as thousands passed the Palace Theatre, Cambridge Circus, people were hanging out of the...
Im Caroline, my husband Rob and son James travelled from Suffolk on a coach organised by Waveney Greenpeace to London. The coach was full after picking up everyone from stops on the way. We had organised ourselves well with packed food, drinks and goodies. Our son was now at high school so I...
The past is a foreign country. Fifteen years ago it was February 15th, 2003: one million people marched in Barcelona's Plaça Tetuán to say no to the US invasion of Iraq. With the local Indymedia collective we set up a rudimentary wi-fi connection with a box of Pringles (thanks to Mike Harris!) to...
