troops out of iraq, no trident protest march
yesterday saw me and the spark travelling to london on the peace coach from gloucester for the 'troops out of iraq, no trident' protest march from hyde park to trafalger square, organised by the CND and STOP THE WAR COALITION and THE BRITISH MUSLIM INITIATIVE.
a brilliantly diverse mass of people walked through the streets of london banging drums, chanting and blowing whistles. some were dressed up in fabulous costumes, some were in their everyday wear, all were united in a need to get the message to the government that we do not want this illegal war in our name. the feds put the number as 10,000 the organisers put it nearer 100,000.
after a peacefull but very noisy march we ended up in trafalger square where there were a few stalls with petions to sign and badges, stickers or t-shirts to sell. there was also some guest speakers including the inspiring brian haw, mark thomas and tony benn.
of course we then walked totally the wrong way to get the coach home leaving the rest of our fellow travellers waiting 45minutes for us, woops!
below are some of my pictures from the day............
a brilliantly diverse mass of people walked through the streets of london banging drums, chanting and blowing whistles. some were dressed up in fabulous costumes, some were in their everyday wear, all were united in a need to get the message to the government that we do not want this illegal war in our name. the feds put the number as 10,000 the organisers put it nearer 100,000.
after a peacefull but very noisy march we ended up in trafalger square where there were a few stalls with petions to sign and badges, stickers or t-shirts to sell. there was also some guest speakers including the inspiring brian haw, mark thomas and tony benn.
of course we then walked totally the wrong way to get the coach home leaving the rest of our fellow travellers waiting 45minutes for us, woops!
below are some of my pictures from the day............
Comments
They won't listen you know, if marches changed anything, they would be illegal.
Still, helps Socialist Worker paper sales I suppose ;)