Sat, 22 Mar 2003
I didn't go this far ...
Iain Banks wasn't on today's march. But arguably he went one step
further, as
this letter to
The Guardian suggests. (Go, Iain!)
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Today's Demonstration in Edinburgh
I took a camera along to today's anti-war demo in Edinburgh. Just
in case anyone is swallowing the lies and spin that the anti-war
movement is (a) violent or (b) tiny, you might want to look at
my photo albumn. My guess is in the range 10-20,000 demonstrators
showed up today in a city of 600,000. Given that there were demonstrations
on Thursday in just about every town in Scotland, on the basis of less
than 24 hours' organising, I'd expect this pattern to repeat across
Scotland with a total turn-out in the 50-100,000 person range across
a country of five million. It will be very interesting to see
what's going on in London right now ...
Stop press: my mobile phone tells me that a bunch of demonstrators
headed for Charlotte Square after the main march broke up, to go and heckle
outside the official residence of Jack McConnell (Scotland's First Minister,
who is facing an election in six weeks time). Apparently the police
arrested one of the march stewards -- no one is sure why, but the word
is that the police are trying to stir something up. If so, I hope they
don't succeed.
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