Anti War March

Last Saturday I met up with Lesley and walked down to St Annes square for the anti war march. There was a great gathering of people, a stage set up, a large screen and various speeches. I brought my little DV camera along and took hundreds of photos and video clips of the march. There were placards with stop the war messages and of Bush and Blair. We sat at a cafe for a while before the march started.

Along the march we met other people and several dogs (Lesley loves her dogs). Police lined the streets but I saw no trouble and the experience of shouting slogans in a crowd with meaning and purpose was exhilarating. It was quite a short route through central Manchester and down Deansgate but it took 2 hours and we tired quickly.

Afterwards we had more coffee and hung around the square for more announcements. It was a lovely day and it is apparent that climate change is occuring because this summer is an unusually hot one. So much for capitalism and the friendship between Bush and Blair. I think it is a grave mistake to have troops in Iraq and Afghanistan when most people there and here alike do not want them there and it is costing taxpayers loads of money.