D.A.A.W.N is a network of autonomous activists striving to improve the visibility and intensity of the anti-war struggle. We are not a political party with a common platform, and we make our decisions on an open, democratic and accountable basis. We respect a diversity of tactics and opinions.

On Saturday afternoon @ 1pm, we ask everyone who opposes George Bush's criminal war to come to the belly of the beast - Grosvenor Square - home to the American and Italian embassies. D.A.A.W.N will be meeting inside the park at the foot of the Roosevelt memorial. We ask all participants to bring food, drink, enthusiasm and an appetite for life. The anti-war struggle isn't just about marches and rallies, but represents an affirmation of our courage and dignity in standing up to the repressive police measures used to stifle autonomous protest.

We propose to transform this police-controlled environment into a living space, filled with eating, drinking and merriment. We will eat, because today 800 million of the world's citizens went without a proper meal. We will drink, because 2.5 billion of the world's citizens lack access to clean drinking water. We will laugh and sing, because thousands of activists are murdered every year by repressive US-backed regimes.

In place of state-sanctioned protest on Trafalgar Square, we envisage a festival without beginning and without end. We urgently require jugglers, clowns, puppets and musicians. But above all, we call on the population of the UK to resist using their ingenuity and creativity. For an autonomous civil society . . . D.A.A.W.N!

"Pray, come and crush a cup of wine." (Romeo and Juliet.)