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Date: 23 September 2005 10:43:43
I'm heading down to London again tomorrow to take part in the latest Stop the War march. Even when I was writing the 'blog entry on apathy I was half planning the trip down to London this week, the one next week, and the Martin John Nicholls concert the weekend after. All of which are either protests or have an activist edge (MJN has written some deeply cool protest songs).
I don't expect to stop the war this weekend. I don't even expect the governement to listen, or that we'll get anywhere with the march. It will all be nice and fluffy, and hopefully a reminder that there is still opposition to the war - and that the war is still going on, that people are still dying. I've heard it said that the hope of stop the war lies in america - that whilst the movement is dwindling here, it's expanding accross the pond. Which is hopeful.
Oh, and we are taking the Dalek down to Stop the War. How we're going to get the damn thing around, and just how much of a bad idea this is hasn't been discussed. But we're going to do this. Provided I phone up and ask. And we get wheels on the damn thing, and, and, and.....
So, given we have to leave at about 6.30 tomorrow to take the dalek to the pick up point, I have a lot to do today. And it's raining.
A few quotes...
"With practiced plauability you blame the anarchists. You say we're just misguided fools - naive idealists"
"When the words of mass deception have been written and rehearsed
And the cowards of the media machine have done their worst,
When the silence has been shattered and we've seen the bubble burst
We're still here.
You can raise your flag you can raise your gun,
We will not tremble we will not run,
After all is said and all is done,
We're still here.
We have our rights and we have our pride,
We may scatter but we will not hide,
We maybe torn apart and terrified,
But we're still here."