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I marched along with tens of thousands of men women and children. I had marched on the same route in 1968 to protest about the Vietnam War.This day 2003 I was accompanied by my daughter who was 4 mths pregnant with my first grandchild.I felt such a mix of emotions as I was...
I had just started a PhD in Anthropology at Goldsmiths University of London. About a month in, in November 2003, I turned up for a class in Anthropology and Representation, and our lecturer informed us that we were all going into town to join the protest against the Iraq war. A huge demonstration...
Tony Blair was visiting Glasgow. We marched, good humoured, from George Square to Crown Plaza Hotel where he was attending a meeting, many of us convinced that our numbers, our passion, our conviction that he was one of us, would be the factor that would make him stand against war. How wrong could...
We went to several anti Iraq war marches around that time so I can't remember exactly which one was 'the big one' but I do remember being kettled with my then three year old by some extremely hostile police.It was terrifying....
I marched to overthrow the corrupt government, and I'm still marching...
It was my first ever demo, I felt nervous but the suffering in Iraq made me angry, as I watched Blair lie his way into the war I knew it was wrong, I knew he was lieing - The manchester demo was massive and somewhat intimidating to a newby but by the end...
Although I had a young child at the time, I kept waking up thinking "this is something I would be prepared to go to jail for". I went down on the train from Manchester with 4 other women. We never reached the end of the march because it was so HUGE. It was...
There was a feeling of togetherness, of joining a mass of people who all felt the same. It was an awe inspiring testimony to the goodness that resides in all of us, to the goodness that we are all capable of....
