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Protestors turned away at Parliament tonight

rikki | 22.01.2003 00:06

Hundreds of protestors were turned away from the public rally ar Westminster tonight.

Alice Mahon MP had booked the Grand Committee room for an anti-war 'public rally' tonight with various speakers including Jeremy Corbin, Harold Pinter, Tariq Ali, and Tony Benn among others.

This was the last part of the "Mass Lobby of Parliament" planned today.

So many people turned up, that a second committee room had to be used, with speakers running between, and still, hundreds of people were turned away as there was no more room.

As well as constant localised direct actions, it's got to be all about Feb 15th. Critical mass, anti-capitalists, wombles, disobedients, grannies, liberals, families, students, fire-fighters, greens, muslims, christians, all cultures, classes, creeds, beliefs - all gather together and protest in many ways, be one more standing up, be creative, be positive, be loving, be peaceful, be challenging, be devious, mis-be-have, be clever, be happy, BE-LIEVE!

Feb 15th Central London

rikki

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Pity they went

22.01.2003 15:44

...they probably got disappointed that the house was full and went peacefully home. Only the day before the Defence Secretary Geoffrey Hoon had announced a quarter of British troops are to be sent to Iraq. How is it possible that all those peope that were in front of Parliament cold not think of anything better to do than go home?

Chiara


Dear Chiara - if only you'd ben there...

22.01.2003 23:33

...you could have shown us all how to beahve and how to stop the war.

rikki