It was the day after Valentine's. At the time I felt quite positive because Hans B had just spoken out so strongly about the absence of WMD. I thought of having a placard that said 'Hans B jag alskar dig' (= Hans B I love you' in my poor Swedish) but I'd traveled...
I've only marched twice in my life. The first was an anti Nazi League March when I was about 13. I went because friends did, and although I believed in the cause, the day scared me. 10 years later, in 2003, I marched against the war in Iraq in London. A totally different experience! Nobody...
I travelled down by coach from Manchester to London with several friends. I will never forget the awesome silence of that day. Due in part the soberness of our mood as we feared the warmongers had already made THEIR decision, but also to the fact of a city brought to a complete standstill. We didn't...
I was only 8 years old on February 15, 2003, but I still remember the passion leading up to the event, and the residual tension afterwards. Truly mind-blowing in scale, with a universal empathy running through the veins of everyone involved, it was a day to remember. Had I been older I would have loved...
I was 57 at the time and had never protested before in my life. I had seen for myself the results of American Foreign policy in Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam and had travelled briefly through Cambodia in 1969 during the Vietnam War. On February 15 2003 I marched in London and to my amazement...
There was huge build up of hope for this march. The Norwich Stop the War Coalition: www.norwichstopwar.org.uk was working hard to encourage our supporters to book the coach seats early. 19 coaches travelled from Norwich with many people booking too late for us to order additional coaches and many people then travelled by train from...
For the first time in my life I was so angry that I felt I must do something, so I booked a coach down to London to join the march. I arranged to meet my disabled daughter who was studying in Bath and came up to London for the weekend. I pushed her...
I've been going on marches and demos since 1974 but this was the biggest and best. One of the reasons I go on demos is to soak in the spirit of unity in a world which otherwise sometimes seems overwhelmingly stacked against us. We are the super power! I hope "Bound in a...
My parents took me to the march when I was 6. I very clearly remember walking underneath the largest fixed white banner in Hyde Park....
I remember It being fairly cold but fortunately dry. The slogan 'War is so 20th Century' at the top of Gower Street. John Peel and his family behind us, the last time I saw him alive - the first had been at Middle Earth in '67 The music playing from the windows of the houses we passed. The...
