protest blocked key road junctions and grid -locked the traffic. When police tried to block the protest march from Princes Street at Waverly Bridge, a group of four young girls, no older than 14, put themselves at the head of the march, led it up Cockburn Street where other youth joined in, over The Bridges and onto Princes Street by a different route! They would not
By now, complete fearlessness was beginning to take root by among the protestors and by the time the evening march assembled at 5pm, again at Parliament Square, the route was being decided by the protestors not the police. The youth had shown how to do it! This time around 7,000 marchers took control of Princes Street On the day war broke out around 300 students and staff from City & Islington College and London Metropolitan University gathered to stage a lunchtime protest on the Holloway Road. This lunchtime rebellion
The issue was clear: Bush and Blair are war criminals flouting world opinion and international law. Disobedience is now necessary. Today will not be "business as usual". Today we make them pay a price for their war against humanity.
Exhilaration accompanied our first steps
At Highbury Corner we sat down in the
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