Fairford Protestors in Fairford damaged 30 supply vehicles used for servicing B52 bombers that will bomb Baghdad. More non-violent direct action events are being planned over the next few weeks. School students storm out: Rainham A LARGE group of children at the Howard School in Rainham stormed out of their school classroom just after 9am to stage their own demonstration against war in the Gulf.
Student Lee Pearson, 16, said: "I got into school and heard people saying everyone was going down to the field for an anti-war meeting. The next thing I knew around 200 of us were out there." Youngsters with the words "Stop the war" painted on their bare chests and faces, waved banners and chanted "don't attack Iraq". Another teenager, Kris Sheppard, 16, said he felt sorry for the innocent people who would die. He said: "People who aren't involved could be killed and that's bad. There shouldn't be a war -there is no point." Brent At the Willesden site of the College of North West London, more than 1000 staff and students attended a Stop The War meeting on March 20.
The meeting opened with a statement by the NATHE branch chair Fawzi Ibrahim, who is also the National Treasurer of NATHE, declaring opposition to an unnecessary war pledging that 'we will not forget, neither will we forgive'. Bristol Brian Drummond On March 19 a group of around 40 University of Bristol students walked out of lectures and seminars to demonstrate their opposition to the impending war against
The students were supported by their lecturers, who also came out to voice their opposition and the Association of University Teachers gave a statement to the Bristol Evening Post backing the students' position.
The day war broke out, over a hundred students walked out of their lectures to join college students, school children and workers in the centre of Bristol. Traffic was stopped and the demonstrators marched Newcastle Newcastle Stop the War Coalition have been organising local protests including rallies and sit downs over the past few weeks. On March 10 over 600 people attended a public meeting addressed by antiwar MP Jeremy Corbyn and Billy Hayes, General Secretary of the CWU union. A few days before war broke out 300 school students marched out of school and went to protest at the monument. Then we held a demonearly morning rush hour sit down in the Haymarket, with many young people blocking the road. At I1 am, we stopped the Tyne Bridge with another sit down protest. By 6pm we held a rally at the monument, held a march and stopped the traffic. Workers at both Gateshead and Newcastle Civic Centres staged walkouts in protest at Britain's involvement. We plan to continue to organise rallies and protests to stop this war. We are also holding public rallies every Colchester 250 Colchester Institute, Sixth form college and St. Helena school kids marched out at lunch time and demonstrated through town. They spontaneously blocked and sat in the road and caused mayhem for several
Alison Heard, deputy head of St. Helena, said no one would face suspension "We had no problem with them going." 50 pupils from Colchester Royal Grammar school protested at lunch time. Philip Morant school are putting on a production of Oh Colchester Sixth Form students marched out in the morning and hung banners from a bridge across a busy road through
Students at Essex University held teachins, and a 400 strong rally during the day in the main squares. At 6pm. outside the town hall about 400 people gathered. They were joined by a march from the university of around 150 students. The 400 rushed into the road to greet them and sat in the road
40 protested in Bury St. Edmonds, and pupils from schools in Woodbridge and Stowmarket walked out including 2 year old Charlotte, who told the local press " am very much against the war. I just find it really stupid, and am concerned what will happen next. I am worried people will get Edinburgh Within the space of four exhilarating days Edinburgh held no less than four huge and vibrant anti-war demonstrations: one on the Wednesday, then two demos on the
Don Irau Thursday, and another huge one on the Saturday. They weren't like any other protests that Edinburgh has seen for
The first anti-war protest on the Wednesday involved two separate events that came together: a mass die-in in Princes Street, when the one o'clock gun went off, coinciding with a school students strike at Parliament Square organised by a large
Despite a futile attempt by police to lock 2000 school students into Princes Street Gardens, Princes Street was swamped by protestors, and all traffic redirected as the people reclaimed the streets for themselves. Speakers who clambered onto an oil drum to address the huge crowd included Mark Thomas, Tommy Sheridan MSP Lloyd Quinan MSP, Robin Harper MSP and many
What happened on those four days was history being created and was like a breath of fresh air blowing round the streets of old Edinburgh. Entirely new forms of protest were being established, with a whole new generation of young people taking part to make their voices of opposition to war
Around 3,000 people - most of them school students - took control of the centre of Edinburgh and went on a "roving demonstration" which included sit-downs at the busiest junctions in the city centre, outside the US Consulate, and outside the Scottish
Another school students' walk out on the Thursday was around 1,500 strong and again brought Edinburgh to a halt as the Anti-war movement
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The fourth demonstration took place on the Saturday afternoon. This time the march was massive, around 12-15,000 peo ple. These were exhilarating protests. New traditions were being born on the wing as part of inspirational resistance to an unjust, illegal war. The war may have begun but the ranks of rebellion and protest have begun to be swollen at long last by the energy and fighting spirit of the youth. Hastings In Hastings, the local anti-war group regularly has 50 odd people attending weekly meetings. We had 100+ turn out for a noisy "pots and pans' town centre protest on
12 school students from Filsham Valley school in St Leonards have been suspended following a walk-out to stage a peace protest outside their school. On Friday morning an impromptu anti-war protest by health workers outside the Conquest hospital in Hastings brought on a corresponding spontaneous protest by some 30 school students at the Helenswood Lower School. Over in Eastbourne, usually pigeonholed as conservative and elderly, some 200 young people from Willington Community School were involved in a spontaneous protest
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