Another full text report of speakers is at:

 http://uk.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=12171

Friend, whilst I found your report very informative, I must take issue with your defenition of violence here.

Please, a few youngsters throuwing bricks at armies of heavily protected and armed riot police is not violence.

Surely the violence of the state, as mentioned in your article, should be our defenition of the word. We need to be careful of accepting the laungauge of the state, and therefore playing into its hands.

If people find themselves up against police attacks at demonstrations -and no doubt they will when the big anti war demos get going- then, in my eyes, they have the right to defend themselves.

So, lets keep things in perspective shall we.
Thanks.

Peter Sellers displayed it best. A war? Against who? Lizards and sand fleas in Afghanistan? Britts tried twice. Russia flopped. Nuke kids? Nawww.
Sadam? Maybe.

I am very proud of the work that people are doing to change the wrongs of the world and replace war famine and suffering with peace prosperity and above all love. I for one am becoming more interested in the plight of anti capatalists and these good people I see taking action and making thier cases heard. My love and respect goes out to all of my countrymen including Tony Blair. I far from agree with war mongering and the effects of greed on the 3rd world however Tony is a man like me and so is George and instead of purely apposing any wrong doing we should extend our love to these people and ask the question. Why should these men feel the the need to appose humanity in the way that they do? whats the driving force behind their blindnes s of a more spiritual and eco friendly excistence?.so I ask you to change the world with action through love and kindred spirit at this turbulent time in the course of the earth and humanity. SEND LOVE TO THESE POWERFUL MEN NOT HATRED AND SEPERATION. LOVE Samuel

PS send me some love and with it any info which may help me to create a peaceful unpolluted and loving earth THANK YOU.

Just a small comment regarding the Arms Fair at Excel.

It started on the 11th September. It didn't go ahead despite the attacks. It was going on when the attack happened.

I don't know if it continued though. I suspect the place was evacuated as soon as it turned out that a terrorist attack had taken place.

Anyway, a small point, but it is important to be accurate about these things. We should caricaturise these people in the same way they do to us.

Besides, if they did cancel the arms fair, it was probably a case of self preservation rather than respect for the dead. If they didn't cancel it, then I guess you can draw your own conclusions from that (from an economic point of view they probably all had $$$ signs in their eyes KA-CHING!).

For your information... the DSEi arms fair continued at the Excel centre in London's Docklands, despite the attacks on the WTC/Pentagon.
A group of activists, mainly from Faslane Peace Camp and Campaign Against Arms Trade stayed on after the "Fiesta for Life Against Death" to protest against the fair for the rest of the week.