I was far too young to understand it (bare in mind I am now 18, so that would have been 13 years ago), but I remember being on my dads shoulders chanting "Down down Tony Blair!" with thousands of people. I remember seeing thousands of people underneath me and I was trying to...
I felt I had to do this. In all the names of the soldiers who had died in all the wars, particularly WW1 and WW11. There was no sense of us being in jeopardy. Nothing was being done about dictators in other countries. We didn't do this with Idi Amin in the 70s,...
I marched with friends and family. It felt empowering to be part of such a massive crowd, and we were horrified when the government took no notice. But it's incredibly important to me that even if we weren't able to stop the disastrous war, the march went down in history as proof that...
I marched with friends and family. It felt empowering to be part of such a massive crowd, and we were horrified when the government took no notice. But it's incredibly important to me that even if we weren't able to stop the disastrous war, the march went down in history as proof that...
We joined the march, even though we had little doubt about what was going to happen next...
My daughter insisted we go on the march.We had to get up real early to drive from Northumberland. The sheer size of the demonstration and the peaceful atmosphere re-invigorated my tired activist heart. The silence.The fierce intent.These stay with me.I am proud of my daughter and so glad I was there....
Went with some friends to show the world that going to war again wasn't the answer. We should have learnt from our past mistakes that going to war doesn't resolve anything....