Home

Stop The War March Photos

Posted August 5th, 2006 by Tom
in

While the rest of the world goes wet and gooey over the UN's proposed green light to Israeli aggression (or as the war criminal's poodle puts it 'I welcome the tabling of this resolution') a few people were apparently marching in London. We've exploded the myth of the police's official estimate of 20,000 already*, so here are five photos from various points. Plenty of others on the net, Lenin's set are particularly good.


12:43 By North Carriage Drive, just north of the march preparing to set off (I was attempting to circumnavigate it)


13:31 March turning into Mount Street, just south of the US embassy - I was turned away by two coppers when attempting a short cut just north of here)


14:07 Main march reaching Piccadilly Circus


14:28 Near the head of the march passing Downing St.


14:30 Down towards Parliament Square (the cables on the left went up to a lorry-mounted crane carrying a CCTV camera pointing at the Downing Street gates. Behind the lorry were 12 coppers on horses, tucked out of sight)

* I forgot to mention that Craig Murray, who started speaking at 15:25, said that he could see people all the way up Whitehall at that time, which is an hour after I got to Downing Street and the front of the march got to Parliament Square. 1.5 hours is looking like an underestimate for the length of the march.

Nice pictures, I'm looking

On August 6th, 2006 Davide Simonetti says:

Nice pictures, I'm looking to see if I can see myself in any of them. I'm just sorting through my photos and video clips now. I'll try to post something later. I particularly enjoyed the lobbing of shoes at Downing St. Craig Murray's speech was good too. Thanks for the mathamatical work on numbers, I had no way of guessing how many people were there. I asked a steward and she said the ot their numbers by assuming that every 5th person picks up a plackard and obviously they know roughly how many of them they have. Not very scientific but they were not far off your estimate.

The US protests are next

On August 6th, 2006 polizeros says:

The US protests are next Saturday, Aug. 12, in Washington D.C., Los Angeles, San Francisco, and other cities.

I've posted a report on the

On August 6th, 2006 Davide Simonetti says:

I've posted a report on the Demo over at The Nether-World. I managed to get the beginning of Craig Murray's speech on video but ran out of space on my camera (strangely enough, the same thing happend to Linin when he tried to film it). I'll try to get high res pictures onto flicker later on if it will let me.