I am a Methodist Minister and had to dedicate a tree in the village of Bozeat in memory of a member who had died. Then I dashed home and went with my husband by train from Wellinborough to London to march against the Iraq invasion. The train was packed with people doing the same thing...
I saw in my local paper that a coach was leaving for the protest in London, Organised by the Quakers (i think). I felt i had to do something but had no means of getting myself to London so despite being an Atheist, i kept quiet as i have no problem with others...
I was 13 at the time. I had been on one demonstration before in September of the previous year and I had really enjoyed it! I actually felt like I was making a difference! I went along with my mother, father, sister and local stop the war group. I was excited, young and...
I was 13 years old, and at secondary school. I remember vividly, not really understanding the dynamics of the protest, but being avidly against creating more war. At the break between lessons, we were discussing how disgusted we were about the impending invasion of Iraq, and someone declared we should protest as well. Within...
We took the tube from Finsbury Park to Covent Garden then walked down to the Embankment. We were surrounded by people all walking down to Embankment - people with whistles, horns, drummers - it felt like carnival. By the time we arrived which was around 10 the whole of Embanment was a sea of...
Right after 9/11, some kind of military action was inevitable. The Bush administration decided to attack the Taliban regime in Afghanistan. Wether or not they were involved in the planning of the attacks, from what I knew of the Taliban, if the military strike helped toppling these hypocritical radicals, it would not be...
I got the train down from St Neots (Cambridgeshire) with my first child who was three and a half months old at the time. Without the use of a mobile phone (yes, really) I managed to meet up with my parents who had come down on a coach from Newcastle. Eleanor was snuggled up...
As I walked south through central London towards the main body of the march with my friend, we were both struck by the never-ending stream of people on every single street .It was as if there were literally thousands of tributaries flowing into the main powerful river of protest. The whole of London...
I was in Berlin in the week before 15th February 2003, at the film festival. When it ended, many of us took to the march in Berlin. It was the biggest gathering I had ever participated in. When I returned to London, I heard about the scale of the gathering there. And i soon...
I was there, I marched, and I missed Leeds Utd at home. Now that was commitment to the cause as anyone who knows me can say. ...
