The first protest I went to with friends rather than parents at the age of 15 (although of course my parents where there also). I felt the power of the people, the atmosphere was full of hope and love, people singing and chanting in favor of peace not war. It was impressive how...
It was the first march I attended. I was 10, and with my parents and our local Quaker meeting group. The march, and the aftermath of the march, made a huge impact on me. I remember climbing on my dads back as we went through trafalgar square, and seeing the march stretching for...
I marched with my two girls aged 7 and 5 and my wife, it was wonderful, serious, joyous, noisy and moving. I work in Westminster, I'm a maintenance man, over the weeks/months I had become very politicised, leaflets and info was being handed out around there all the time. Resulting in me,...
It was the first time I'd been on a march of any kind. I was only 7, but my Mum and Dad took me and my two sisters (aged 9 and 5). I remember it being the most amount of people I'd ever seen in one place. I remember the noise; whistles, shouting,...
When I think back to that time I am struck by rage, depression and betrayal. I went on the demonstration by myself because I felt this was not a social event. When I got there I was confronted by an image of people who were just like me, my contemporaries. ...
Picked up at 5am from deserted streets in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear. I was involved in Sunderland stop the war organisation. We travelled to London and I was quite nervous, at 21 I never attended a national rally before but felt so strongly about the impending attack on Iraq I felt I had...
I had recently begun a relationship with a man I met online. We lived over a hundred miles apart and as I was a nurse, working night duty and most weekends and he worked standard office weekday hours, our time together was rare and precious. On the day of the Stop The War...