Students from the United World College of the Atlantic in South Wales became one of the latest groups to sign up and send representatives to the Peace protests in Brighton on 30th September. Working with the South Wales Coalition Against the War they will be sending at least 50 students to the protests, expected to join over 10 000 people from around the country. They have only managed to charter one coach but it has been vastly over-subscribed by students eager to show their opposition to American military action.

This follows a packed special meeting where speakers from countries including Palestine, Pakistan, and the USA almost unanimously spoke of their horror at the attacks in the states but also their total rejection of a military 'solution' to the crisis. During the discussions speakers spoke passionately about not just the terrorist attacks in the States but also the attacks by the Israeli state on Palestinians and the continued bombing of Iraq. Almost all speakers felt that US foreign policy had to change yet few had faith in the Bush administration to make the right decisions.

Opening the debate was a speaker with an apartment just minutes away from the WTC who had known people killed by the attack. Yet he spoke of his horror of what the American Government might now do in his name and said that the world had not changed - that would only come when the USA bombs Afghanistan not with bombs but with food and medical parcels.

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