more on the demo

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Date: 21 November 2003 20:10:41

Gambit mentioned that it was right to protest and i agree. It was right to protest. But i would still have appriciated knowing what was going on. And silent protests are very powerful but an organisational nightmare.

Occupying a couple of roads would have been fun though.

I think it was important to make the our voices heard and to show both governments that the opposition to war is still there and won't just go away if it's ignored.

The experience of such a large national demo (350 000 according to stop the war and 70 000 according to the police)was interesting and i am glad that i did it even thought being in a crowd was kinda scary at the time (i was told by an old friend from Cell in Manchester who is now at uni in York that i am stronger than i give myself credit for...)

On a spiritual note, I thought i had lost the passion i once had for and in events like Message 2000 and Soul Survivor and He@t, but now i'm not so sure...In talking to Dave (friend who is now at york) the subject of Greenbelt came up and I told him about it and Visions. With a passion i thought i had lost. He was also very jealous that i have me the Rev. Gerald and he hadn't :D