I travelled independently by rain from Hereford. I was amazed as we stopped at every station, especially villages in Tory heartland Cotswolds, to see how many ordinary families, some armed with banners, were joining the protest. It definitely was a popular cause which was, regrettably, ignored by our rulers....
After attending the rally me and a friend road tripped down to olive oil country in Spain. Everywhere we went we saw anti war poster, bed sheets hung over balconies. Even in a scruffy olive oil 'depot', the very old farmer had a 'Non la guerre' poster behind his scruffy counter....
Several of us traveled down from Bristol. We had dodgy homemade posters. They had to be dodgy; they represented the evidence gathered to convince us of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. On my poster, pens were stuck on showing the mass stocks of weapons; aspirin were the chemical weapons alluded to and a...
After many smaller protests in Suffolk and Norfolk, where we have more U.S. bases than anywhere else, my friend Annie and I travelled to London with others from our area. Old, young, couples, families...
It was an amazing experience. I had never seen so many people together. There were so many images, posters, so many different groups of people, all coming together for one purpose....
I was 12 years old and my mum and I marched together. It was my first protest and it was such an exciting and strange feeling to walk with united strangers....
I'd marched before for and against several issues over the years but this felt different from the start. Just the hint of the size. The point it hit me I think was as we went down the length of Whitehall and the march stretched ahead and behind as far as I could see...
I traveled from Falkirk, Scotland to London UK and took part in the Mass Anti War Demonstration. I took part, not because it would halt the war, since Blair / Bush et al had already made up their minds, I took part because of the charade they played vis-a-vis the UN which had...
