Click link below to access dozens of stories about student protests around the world. Extracted from Google's selection is the story from the Cambridge Evening News\

Bush and Blair are igniting a global social movement they will not be able to control. This is not Kosovo, this is not Afghanistan: a quick military victory will not stop this tidal wave. Time for the forces of darkness to retreat.:

 http://politics.guardian.co.uk/foreignaffairs/story/0,11538,908152,00.html

For the remarkable story of these 500 Cambridge teenagers, who staged a sit down protest at the police station until they were released:

 http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/news.asp?sec=1&id=527726

HUNDREDS of sixth formers today abandoned lessons and took to the streets of Cambridge to protest against the imminent war against Iraq, resulting in three arrests.


Around 300 students from Hills Road and Long Road sixth form colleges walked out of class shortly after 9am.

They protested in Hills Road at first, chanting "No War" and "Stop the War", to the backdrop of honking cars showing their support.

The anti-war banner-carrying crowd then walked the distance to the city centre heading for the Market Square for a "democratic debate".


Police who were on the scene to "ensure the students' safety" were at first obliging, but later tried to stop them marching into the city centre.

"We've been told we cannot go to the city centre," said Ed Cope, 14, of Hills Road Sixth Form College and one of the organisers.

"I think this is still a democratic country so they're not going to stop us."

Moments later three youngsters were arrested and taken to Parkside police station.

A police spokeswoman said two 16-year-old boys from Ely and Cambridge and a 17-year-old girl from Cambridge had been arrested for public order offences.

The students immediately resorted to an impromptu sit-in outside the police station.

Some 20 minutes later they were moved on and allowed to head for the Market Square.

Among the demonstrators was Katherine Connolley, 16, of Hills Road Sixth Form College.

She said: "We're marching out of school because we're disgusted that our Government thinks they can go ahead with a war against our wishes."

Asked if she wasn't too young to be protesting against a war, she added: "No. You're never too young to be involved in politics.

"Tony Blair, obviously, does not think Iraqi children are too young to be bombed, so how can we be too young to protest?"

She had her parents' support, she said, but conceded the school was less than pleased with their actions.

Frances Rayner, 16, of Long Road Sixth Form College, said: "We are completely against the war."

She did not consider herself too young to be protesting, either. "Young people have a reputation for being politically apathetic and we're here to show that's not true."

Simon Lake, 19, also of Long Road, said he was acting to stop the war so young Iraqis would not get killed.

Both colleges said they "respected" the strength of feeling among the students and their right to protest.