I hade never been on a demonstration in all my 46 years but I felt so strongly about what was being said and proposed at that time, I just had to go. So on that Saturday morning my husband and I boarded a train from north Kent to make the journey into London....
I was visiting home. I have lived in the States for many years now, but I watched in horror as the Bush administration beat the drums for war. I tried in my speech at the Bournemouth rally to tell the British people that many in America were against the war. In fact, as...
We marched all day and evening and I have never felt much part of the world as then. All of us are brothers and sisters and we must never forget that now more than ever. We cam from Bridgwater in Somerset and came with the Labour Party branch and had every hope that...
I was 20 at the time and I march because I could not believe that the US wasnt going to listen to the UN, that they were going to take matters into their own hands and not listen to the body meant to protect us from these actions. My favorite sign from the...
Me and my daughter Ashley Storrie took part in our first ever protest march. We made a banner and we were stunned at the crowds in Glasgow. We sang, we wept, we sang songs and we chanted slogans as we thought of the innocent people being killed in our name. It was the...
London was full with people all against the tide that was causing suffering. It was all a ploy for agendas as we see in what has happened and still is happening now in middle east. The people causing this war with powerful funding of politicians to lobby for self interest is so rife...
I marched just two days after my 16th birthday. The Iraq war was my political awakening, introducing me to many of the injustices in the world as well as the power we hold. Over the past 12 years I've continued the journey through student movements, occupy and now work in community development. Whilst...
I lived in a town relatively untouched by political activism, I responded to a flyer about the Anti Nazi League and through that met a handful of people in the last part of 2002. We decided to go on the march in Feb. Some of them were members of the SWP but the...
