INTERNATIONAL DEMONSTRATION STOP BUSH & BLAIR'S WAR END THE OCCUPATION OF IRAQ Sunday 17th October 2004 Concluding the London European Social Forum Central London - time and route to be announced Click here for details Love Clairexxx
I'm going to let out a massive growl at this point, seeing as it's slap bang in my first week of uni. Still, I'm gonna try my darndest to make this one, seeing as I haven't been able to make it to the last couple, and it's about time we hit the streets again....
yes that'll be nice.. i think i'll be there for that 1. i'll still be in the country so i think i should really.
Ahhh you'll learn my friend, university is for skipping! I always did and always will encourage my students to go on marches and miss lectures, and that such things are far more important than mere degrees...
Ahh Showmet man, it was great seeing you at Beautiful Days. I wish I'd spoken to you more. In my more sobre moments you were nowhere to be found, and when you were about, I was in no fit state to talk coherently. Your friend Ross was really cool though, even if he was from the 'other place'! You should introduce him to the forums....
Sounds good my first big march i'll definately try to be there. Im not sure about a ride though, if anybody is willing to take me. Please. "When the rich wage war, It's the poor who die." - Jean - Paul Sartre.
I'll not be able to make this one unfortunately. No money to get there and nowhere to stay if I could. Guess I'll have to wait for the next Sunderland march, even though there was only about 100 people on the last one!
Sounds like fhun. Felt chained to my hideous summer job this year so it'll be nice to start skiving off some lectures come the winter.
I shall try me best to be there! I'm in London most of october I think because it's my God daughter's birthday (yeysey!) . So I should be a managing to get there! Love, Sunny xxx
I'm a wee bit troubled by this, hopefully some of you guys can clear something up. Lets say your protest works and Allied forces are removed from Iraq. Once they've gone a terrorist organisation decides to have a coup and becomes the ruling power in Iraq. Can you say this won't happen? Is Iraq in a fit state to have democracy on its own? I'm no bigger fan of Bush and Blair than you guys, and some of the fools working at abu ghraib are terrible human beings, but I'm worried about the alternative to Allied occupation.
I'm pretty concerned about it too. Pulling our troops out could be a very bad move, not as bad as sending them there in the first place, but it could have some awful consequences. But it's becomming more obvious that the general population don't want us there anymore. Shouldn't we respect the wishes of this now free nation? Can't the U.N step in and take a more important role? Shouldn't we be talking with all walks of life there (including the religious right) and deciding fair and just laws for the land? Things certainly can't continue the way they are at the moment. There seems to be no plan at all! They truly have no idea what they're doing there anymore. They say they're fighting the scattered remains of the old regieme, but they only have one demand, leave Iraq to the Iraqi's. As long as our troops are there, we're just creating more and more enemies, more and more people to fight and the ex-war will be neverending. P.S. My personal peace march is about stopping Bush, not bringing troops home. I just don't want to see him invade a third country and start a whole new mess.
Troops should leave right now they are not wanted! Or do we somehow know whats best for the Iraqi people? Noble savages and all that?
i would march to show solidarity in stopping president bush...although i think i lack the anger many express towards and about him...i feel so sorry for the guy...for a man that professes to be a christian, i think he needs an awful lot of prayer. i shall hopefully be there on the 17th looking forward to meeting up with you all love luch x
