Proud to have Marched (capital M intended as it was the most powerful march I have ever participated in) in that amazing day. With thousands of people I, a Portuguese student in the UK at the time, went to the March in London. We screamed for the world to hear, and more importantly...
We were on one of 9 coaches from Colchester. Never a response to any demo anything like that before. For many it was possibly the only demo they had ever attended. It did not stop the invasion because there was no other pressure we applied (like non payment over the poll tax)....
We marched in London, 3 generations of my family. The streets were so packed with humanity that we couldn't actually march, more a sort of shuffle forward. We send off at the appointed hour, but it became clear very quickly that we would never reach the rally, so many people. We saw later...
My main memory is just of the enormous numbers - came on a West Midlands CND coach with members of Hall Green CND (Brum) and friends. We passed lots of other coaches with posters in the windows, often saying where they were from as well as that they were going where we were...
I've already had been to a few anti-war-protests and expected this to about the same size. I planned to meet my girlfriend and some others friends at the protest, but when I got there the streets were packed. It took my one hour to find my girlfriend, and while I met a lot...
I Marched in London- I was mental, people everywhere spilling out into side streets, cafe's etc. My former husband also organised physicists against the war and took out an Advert in New Scientist. We both said what would come of this war- what has happened. And yet the powers that be act like...
I travelled from the North of England to take part in my first demo/march at the age of 60. I was full of outrage at Blair's obvious dishonesty and pursuit of a policy that we could all see was both immoral and doomed to failure. It's no comfort to be proved right by...
