As far as marches on a weekday afternoon in Edinburgh go it was quite big, getting on for a couple of thousand maybe.

BBC Scotland
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/2383739.stm

realmedia video footage from BBC Scotland report:
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/video/38410000/rm/_38410225_antiwarvt_vi.ram

What To Do When Your Voice Doesn’t get heard
Your ‘Votes Don’t Count... .Apathy or Action?

The unending ‘War against Terror’ - or to be more current, the ‘War Against Iraq’ or perhaps the ‘War Against Evil' itself is nothing new. These unending wars are a necessary and inevitable next step of globalisation. No country, no people, nothing can escape integration into the global marketplace and its alter-ego, the Global Empire. From Saddam Hussein and the people of Iraq (and more importantly, their oil!) to yourself and everything you care about, there are no options permitted besides death, or life as a cog in their machine. What starts as economic terrorism with prices getting ever more expensive or debt getting continually harder to deal with, can transform within a blink of an eye to military conquest and ruthless carnage. So what are your options?
You can protest by marching and chanting, hoping the State (be it Britain, the United States, or the United Nations) will hear your voice. But by definition, electoral forms of so-called “representational democracy” seize your voice; in fact the State enforces the suppression and subsequent absence of your voice. Their War Machine will only back down when it feels it can’t count on your passive compliance, a compliance they try to shove down your throat in the form of Ikea catalogues, T.V. sitcoms, choosing between Coke and Pepsi (oh wait, we meant votinq), video games, or wars that look like video games. Blair, Bush, and more importantly the corporate CEOs and military bureaucrats aren’t scared of Saddam Hussein; they’re scared of you.
So your CHOICES are just the options that you create - and only when we start creating new options do we even have a chance at surviving in this world. If we can actually make our own choices as individuals, imagine what we can do as communitiés! From community gardens to delivering medicine to dying children in Iraq...only our imaginations can limit us. With enough effort and persistence, we can even stop a war - we can even overthrow this current destructive system and replace it with an un-system...

(May we suggest anarchy? No, don’t get worried, we’re not talking mayhem for mayhem’s sake, we’re talking about you deciding for yourself, i.e., autonomous action, not majority rule politics.)

While the blood-soaked Bush, Blair & Hussein blast our world into jagged ruins, dropping
their bombs from the sky and building their castles from the bones of innocent civilians...

We, the citizens of the world, live in urgent anticipation of the day that will come when we can sleep under the stars without fear of airplanes, bombs, missiles, stock markets, civilisations, or buildings falling down...

For more information, check out:
 http://www.indymedia.org.uk - independent media tells you the news corporate media hides
 http://www.infoshop.org/ - an anarchist perspective an the war; search for peace
 http://www.crimethinc.com - inspirational literature
To get involved with others interested in initiating local forms of action, come visit:
 http://www.autonomous.org.uk - the Autonomous Centre of Edinburgh, 17 W. Montgomery Place.
 http://www.edinburghcity.org.uk - Edinburgh Change It Yourself forum for social change, meets every 2” Wed, of the month at 7:30 P./17. at the Communication Workers Union, 15 Brunswick St.

Edinburgh's demo (31/10/02) against the impending war on Iraq was great - the biggest I've been to in Edinburgh recently (except perhaps Jubilee 2000). We began by adorning Bristo Square with chalk slogans - "no blood for oil", "don't attack Iraq" etc. and then set off to the Parliament accompanied by a surprisingly large number of police. Did they expect to make arrests? Maybe it was their way of supporting the cause!!

Reports vary from 1,500 - 2,500 people but the point was that we marched to the Parliament and clearly stated that we are NOT with Bush/Blair & the war mongers. If that makes me a terrorist in the eyes of the elite - so be it!

I think this march was a fair bit smaller than the 3000 or so
that turned out to protest the Bombing of Afghanistan.
I think many people were disappointed that this Don't bomb Iraq march was not bigger especially after being to big demo in Glasgow recently but I think it was due to people being obliged to work.


Though this gathering allowed some of us to feel a way forward to work more cohesively on causing trouble in event of a war.

Edinburgh news:
 http://www.edinburghnews.com/index.cfm?id=1217042002

and- how embarassing- the same article in The Scotsman:
 http://www.news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=1217042002

Well, The Herald apparantly does not have any article on it.
So, if the owners of Sotsman and Edinburgh News get the Herald, they could have shared this article a third time:
How cost-efficient!
Capitalism at its best!

 http://indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/scotland/2003/06/273263.html