";s:4:"text";s:40060:"Social movement researchers have described the 15 February protest as "the largest protest event in … Over 10 million. The police take time to react and then start coming round with their lines, their discipline, their orders. If some of us started running the whole mass would not automatically turn. They are not just protesting against this war, they are fed up with a world where such wars are possible, fed up with the authoritative, stifling, boring factory of school. Once we were there we spent quite a long time demonstrating, with placards etc. Provocative and sure to stir debate, this book lays bare the damage that can be done by unchecked power in our institutions of international governance. As the war in Iraq has unfolded, the British media have focussed on the battle front, and largely ignored the parallel story of sustained and unprecedented global protest. The Eton George Orwell Society. Eventually, the crowd moved on. I think the point is that you can easily punish one person for doing something wrong – but you can’t punish everyone and even though one person may have a good point – a group of people are going to be much more effective. Mearns Castle High School, Glasgow walk out by 250 third year pupils against war in Iraq. Click here to register now. At least, he says, the march is "a historical alibi for the British people" although that might not mean much "if you've had your arms blown off in Iraq". The Iraq protest, then, represented more than just the war. Anti war protests and actions ARCHIVE: London - 15th February 2003 (This is the press release issued before Feb 15th, 2003) No War On Iraq Assemble 12 noon at Embankment, London (nearest tube Embankment) to march at 12:30pm [Resources]. Throughout the world, millions gathered to protest at the prospect of a war in Iraq. Even in Britain -- by far Washington's staunchest ally in the Iraq war -- thousands of people say they will take to the streets to protest President … I remember it well and, retrospectively, would have loved to have been part of that mass march on Whitehall. Thousands Protest Iraq War in London - 2003-04-12. A demonstrator wearing a mask to impersonate Tony Blair protests before the release of the John Chilcot report into the Iraq war, at the Queen Elizabeth II centre in London, Britain July 6, 2016. To all the pupils involved in today's protests, Kirkby Times salutes you. 08:41 PST -- In a unique form of opposition, some protesters at the Federal Building staged a "vomit in,'' by heaving on the sidewalks and plaza areas in the back and front of the building to show that the war in Iraq made them sick, according to a spokesman. NATFHE at Handsworth College and East Birmingham College. Amongst these were very young children, who were extremely frightened, with older siblings and parents were trapped on the other side and pleading with police to let them out, and a young diabetic who was needing to leave to get insulin. There had never been a moment like it in protest history. Toddlers. Chilcot report: UK role in run-up to ruinous Iraq War. Stirling University was closed due to protest action. ▶ Use the site private messaging system Swansea - Cwmtawe Comprehensive School, Pontardawe. In February 2003, Ed Caldecott tore the sheet from his bed at Eton and painted "The Eton George Orwell Society" on it. The author Andrew Wiard has asserted his Moral Rights according to the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. 100s of students from Manchester Uni have walked out of lectures and blocked traffic on Oxford Road, a busy main road out of. Are there other plans now? Trade union bodies representing 5 million US workers – one third of organised labour in the country – have come out against the war, as have most of the major religious denominations. Tony Blair’s government is accused of using phony evidence to launch 2003 invasion despite a million British protesters. Though the advance into Iraq was not easy, resistance was far less than what U.S. forces had expected prior to the war. Oh definitely! ", Hilary Wainwright, founding editor of Red Pepper, went on the anti-Vietnam war demos of the 1960s which influenced Harold Wilson's decision not to send troops in support of the Americans. English: Photograph of a protest against the war in Iraq, taken from Hungerford Bridge, in Embankment London. In Khartoum, the capital of Sudan, there was a blanket ten minute work stoppage in solidarity with Iraq. We stuck to our own and did not trust the group to take risks together. What they see in the war on Iraq is a contempt for their own right to determine their destinies and a disregard for the value of non-US, non-British human life. Something can happen if we all talk to each other. They had energy, power and unity and I felt really privileged to be there in that moment with them.”. ... We Are Many will have its premiere in London on … Social movement researchers have described the 15 February protest as "the largest protest … "It was really devastating that it was ignored, and ignored in such a cynical way," says Caldecott. We went to school without our bags or anything. It was like watching a film. Just to show that people WERE protesting and concerned about the 'dodgy dossier' et al well before the invasion, despite … School is there to prepare us for future exploitation. 30 students in Swindon walked out to join the march. “The Stop the War march in 2003 was so huge and monumental and it did absolutely nothing”, noted left-wing activist Ellie Mae O’Hagan in 2011 about the biggest demonstration in British history. On February 15, 2003, there was a coordinated day of protests across the world in which people in more than 600 cities expressed opposition to the imminent Iraq War.It was part of a series of protests and political events that had begun in 2002 and continued as the war took place. There have been marches and rallies in cities and towns across the country. The division of subjects prepares us for the division of jobs people doing one boring job over and over again for years. School children walk out of their classes and stop traffic in City Centre and Tyne Bridge in the morning. We were pushed up against the gates of Downing Street just because there was so many people. The usual round of anti-war graffiti and pacifist peace vigils have also taken place - but the spontaneous and inspiring actions of school students, unencumbered by party positions, surely points out the way to go if we wish to stop the war machine in its tracks. Found insideOn 15 February 2003, in cities around the world, many people took to the streets to protest against the coming war. Exactly how many people took part in the ... They were already waiting for us. The Police were not happy atall with these protests, but as we all know the Police are only happy if protesters behave like a herd of polite sheep. We were rebelling against the Government because we feel it is rebelling against us. ... 36 million people across the globe took part in almost 3,000 protests against war in Iraq, with demonstrations on 15 February 2003 being the largest. They came when they heard what was going on. Students rallied on campus in Keele, and in Leeds council workers joined students for a day of protest, and further actions took place in Aberdeen, Barnsley, while in Cardiff evening protests brought the city to a standstill, which were later attacked by police. Human existence could be a fluid moving between activities, ideas, creativity… the beauty of building, the dance of design, the poetry of pottery, the music of maths, the love of languages… (not so sure about the lyricism of that one…). Have people been passing round bits of paper? Offers a reappraisal of one of the most contentious and consequential events of the early twenty-first century Advances an original perspective on Britain’s role in the 2003 invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq Maps out new ways of ... The students walked out at dinner time after the headteacher sent out a letter banning younger students from going outside school for their lunch. “I was ready for it!” he says, enthusiastically. We learn languages to communicate with students struggling in other countries, we learn about technology to communication over the internet, we have to work out what we really think, because it matters for once. Events began at 8 am at the Haymarket. Cyprus was brought to a standstill by a 30 minute work stoppage – even the stock exchange was closed. 2000 people including uni students, school students, council workers and lecturers marched round Manchester city centre, closing major road junctions. March 19, 2008 being the fifth anniversary of the United States 2003 invasion of Iraq and in protest and demonstration in opposition to the war in Iraq, anti-war protests were held throughout the world including a series of autonomous actions in the United States' capitol, Washington, D.C. in London, Sydney, Australia and the Scottish city of Glasgow with the later … Many of the kids were still around at 5:30 the same afternoon, when nearly 5,000 people (probably Brighton's biggest ever demo) converged on Churchill Square. ", The government's refusal to listen to the anti-war march was "such a dramatic illustration of a dysfunctional democracy" that Wainwright believes it shaped a "strong and growing" taste for direct action – not just UK Uncut and Occupy but local direct actions against the privatisation or closure of libraries and services, most notably the Lewisham hospital protests. Now they realise what can go on – what a group of people can do. School students from Parrs Wood school in Didsbury, Manchester joined the student march, Hundreds of schoolkids walked out from Priory, West Exeter, St Peter’s school and others, 500 kids walked out of lessons from Clyst Vale school, Devon and held a protest meeting outside that went on all day, Queen Elizabeth Community Comprehensive Upper School, Crediton, Devon, Tiverton, Devon 200 schoolkids walked out from Ivybridge school, Devon and marched through the town. One thing's for sure, Tony Blair would use these Pupils, and is maybe using some of their older brothers as cannon fodder which may well be said to be 'political exploitation' of the very worse sort. "My worry was that we might not get as many as the Countryside Alliance march to save fox-hunting [in 2002]. 20 March 2003 at 12 noon to protest against war in Iraq. In Italy in the 70s students took over schools and universities and turned them into social centres, to create their own autonomous spaces. "People feel very disappointed by it but the only way you could say it failed is if people now said the Iraq war was right and Tony Blair was right after all," says Lindsey German, convener of the Stop the War Coalition. Found insideThis new volume showcases the latest research into Muslim political participation both in terms of electoral politics and civil society initiatives. The government's dismissal of the anti-war march bred both apathy and new activism. Regardless of its outcome, the Iraq War has had a transformative effect on the Middle East. Only the back entrance of the Federal Building on Turk Street was open this morning. It was a dark day for Australian democracy. It was amazing at Embankment tube – they have a line of ticket barriers and we were all standing there, looking around, thinking “Shit, what should be do?” and then we walked up to the barriers and said “shall we just jump it?” and we had about 600 people all jumping over the barriers at Embankment station. It attracted a diverse group of people, many of whom had never taken part in a protest before. In London, where some analysts said antiwar fervor appeared to lose steam once British forces were engaged in battle, bicyclists protesting the war blocked the square in front of the House of Commons. The system is set so that 80% of people will get less than a ‘good mark’, thereby having their self-esteem knocked enough so they will be more resigned to their fate of exploited worker, parent, unemployed reserve workforce. We all just got up, the whole class, she tried blocking the door and saying ‘you will get in trouble’. He is still involved with Stop the War Coalition while working for Friends of Al-Aqsa, an NGO for Palestinian human rights. People seemed quite shocked. Here are the defining events of the time, from the Labour Party’s new dawn to the war on terror; from the death of Princess Diana to negotiations for peace in Northern Ireland; from Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq to the Hutton Inquiry of ... More than 250,000 people took to London's streets to protest the toughest spending cuts since World War II, one of the largest demonstrations since the Iraq war as riot police clashed with a small groups. No government has increased competition in the classroom more than New Labour. I went back with my mates on the tube. "We saw there were mechanisms for political change within the system [after the 60s protests]. In "Strategic Maneuvering in Argumentative Discourse," Frans H. van Eemeren" "brings together the dialectical and the rhetorical dimensions of argumentation by introducing the concept of strategic maneuvering. Walking out of school was definitely the focus. We could easily have done it on a Saturday but coming out of school was more effective. It is also about school. huge lines at mcdonalds. Protests against the 2003 Iraq war: lt;p|>| Beginning in 2002, and continuing after the |2003 invasion of Iraq|, large-scale |protest... World Heritage Encyclopedia, the aggregation of the largest online encyclopedias available, and the most definitive collection ever assembled. An upstanding, tax-paying, Daily Mail-reading bystander who was later quoted in the Argus, described the event as sickening and depraved, but a nearby American reckoned it was the most beautiful thing she had ever seen. As SchNEWS rounded a corner near Cardinal Newman school, the sight that awaited was grand indeed - 20-30 blue and grey-jumpered Newman kids pouring over an exterior stone wall after teachers had blocked all other routes of exit from the school. What would happen if the war started. The Dixie Chicks backlash begins. ... Organisers say up to 100,000 marched in the British capital. or seid lieb [which i find quite cute, it translates as “be nice”], 13:30 after protesting in front of the us-embassy in bern, the kids need a big mac. Many of the approximately 300 protesters demonstrating at the building at 450 Golden Gate Ave. attempted to block building entrances. That was the bit where the police started to get a bit heavy. Non-violent direct action has proliferated – almost entirely unreported in the media. When many of them took a bus to join the protests in Central London they were violently stopped by the police. Shamiul Joarder, 32, is typical of a younger generation who were roused by the anti-war march. Tweet. 30pm. Anthology of over 100 poets of the 20th and 21st centuries writing on war; most of the poems first appeared in the ebook of the same name during the first three months of 2003. According to the organisers of the demonstration, Stop the War Coalition and the Muslim Association of Britain, 100,000 people attended the march and rally, which ended in Trafalgar Square in the heart of the capital. From the first day of the war up to the present moment, protests involving hundreds of thousand have been staged regularly in Germany, Italy and Spain. So everybody got pushed back and we decided to sit down. A large group hung about until the end and then marched up to the Haymarket and again stopped traffic by sitting in the road. We are Many: The new movie teaching us lessons to learn from the 2003 Iraq war protests. We were knocking over the crash barriers every time we ran onto the road and sometimes dragging them round into the road to help our block. What should we do. Sixth, when civilian casualty incidents occur, it is at least as important to get the story right as to get the story out. The Iraq war protests spread... Read Wearemany.com news digest here: ... London, England. They realised what was going on even though it wasn’t organised by them. 80 students plus a dozen teachers from two local comprehensives and a college staged a march around Abingdon town centre. There was a big dash to Whitehall, by Downing Street. Yeah – I think so. AUT, Bristol University lunchtime walk-out. Social movement researchers have described the 15 February protest as "the largest protest event in … The cars were furious and taxis were driving into people. "Over the last 10 years, however, Japan hasn’t found a way out of its economic depression, and from the children’s viewpoint, the academic record-oriented system has collapsed. They weren’t being really bad though. Protests against the Iraq War From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Protests against the Iraq War The February 15, 2003 anti-war protest in London. From Moscow to Seoul, Johannesburg to Buenos Aires, popular indignation with the US-British invasion has found expression in countless marches and rallies. Anti-war demonstrators took to the streets in cities across the U.S. and in London on Saturday to protest Washington’s killing of the top Iranian general Qassem Soleimani in Iraq and urge restraint by western governments. People being picked up by their throats, having hands twisted behind them, that wasn’t nice. The British march, and public opinion (a poll that weekend put opposition to a war at 52% with only 29% in favour) was dismissed by most MPs and Blair's government: 29 days later, the invasion of Iraq began. Before it was like ‘what’s the point in talking about things like that, we can’t make a difference’, but now we feel that we CAN do that. Up to a thousand school kids were holding a demonstration inside school grounds in Glastonbury - supported by the school authorities who even called the local media to come and film the event. January 2003. It was an epic day of protest by people who didn't usually do that sort of thing. They fizzled out as it became obvious that the war would just go on despite what was done in the streets. Now is not the time for polite protests, we've been down that road and it never worked. What was the reaction from people on the streets as you marched to the tube? A chance to have our say. You think more recently about sleaze and expenses but the lies that we were told and the dismissive way in which Blair dealt with the British people is a bad thing for democracy." Students at three other local schools were locked in by staff. Kids from my school are getting mugged and threatened on an everyday basis. The Pupils walked out of lessons to protest at the news of the Iraq War starting off in earnest at around 2.45 am early this morning, early dawn in Iraq. We run across Parliament Square to the south side and repeat the sit down. Altogether around 500 assembled in Albert square in Manchester at lunchtime. The police then really wanted to be people away. I only wish I was as passionate and enthusiasm about opposing the war as they were. When I questioned police about why they were holding the crowd prisoner, none of them could answer. Some protesters carried posters with a picture of Bush and the text: “Wanted - dead or alive. Preferably dead. They are unified – in touch with each other – there is a group mood and a group mind. As part of a worldwide weekend of protest against the Iraq War, people took to the streets of London in their masses in 2003. By this time there were about 1000 people there. "It was really disastrous for democracy and led to a huge disengagement. They found in every lecture at least two thirds were against the war. Not surprising that another element is needed to get it working. Writing no war signs. What sort of conversation are you having now? I marched with my partner. Yet the mass antiausterity protests that have rocked Europe or even the largest actions of Occupy Wall Street have not been able to match the scale of what took place on Feb. 15, 2003. Based on over 60 interviews, case studies of a full range of groups, and analysis of extensive documentary evidence, this title studies the anti-war movement since the mammoth demonstrations of February 15th 2003 that dwarfed any previous ... In Nottinghamshire, more than 100 pupils walked out of lessons at West Bridgford School to stage a demonstration on a nearby playing field. "The first day of war in Iraq saw some of the largest and most militant activity that Newcastle has experienced in recent times. This poster is based on a placard designed by artist David Gentleman for a major StWC demonstration against war in Iraq in London on 15 February 2003. Are you saying 300 kids are going to preyed on by perverts or something? Inspired by the Occupy Wall Street movement, hundreds of people set up tents outside St Paul’s Cathedral in 2011. We got to Embankment tube and more people had come by then – from more schools around London. German is convinced the anti-war movement had a lasting impact on what we know about the war (without protest there would have been less of the scrutiny that exposed the sham of WMDs), on British public opinion (more sceptical of other wars) and on politicians. Are discussions taking place anywhere else as well – amongst you lot? SchNEWS were on the scene at Blatchington Mill when, at 11am, a brave group of around 50 students walked out of school past barely-opened iron gates and a grimly frowning headmaster. Number. The police helpless and confused. They also blocked traffic on the road outside the school till police were called. The February 15, 2003 anti-war protest in London. In Accra there have been demonstrations protesting the cautious ambivalence of the Ghanaian regime. We were told to spread it around among our mates. March 19, 2008 being the fifth anniversary of the United States 2003 invasion of Iraq and in protest and demonstration in opposition to the war in Iraq, anti-war protests were held throughout the world including a series of autonomous actions in the United States' capitol, Washington, D.C. in London, Sydney, Australia and the Scottish city of Glasgow with the later … Not sure I've shared this before, here is the 1-2 Million Iraq War Protest March from Feb 15th 2003. Anti-war protest in London. Police banned Extinction Rebellion protests in October 2019. People that go on marches all the time. The Day the World Said No to War. We Are Many. This reading feeds into our discussions and decisions it is not cold and sterile as it is in school. Iraq war protest Feb 15-16 2003By Emma and ChristinaThe Iraq war protest took place over the 15th to the 16th of February, 2003.It was part of a series of protests and political events that had began in 2002 and continued after the 2003 invasion of Iraq.This protest has been described as “the largest protest event in human history.”The protest was about stopping the war against … The Etonians' banner showed how up to two million people who crammed into central London to oppose the looming war in Iraq were not the usual suspects. Staff and students from schools in North East London - Northumberland Park, Gladesmore and William C. Harvey walked out. Student activism has reached levels not seen sine the 1970s. Occupy, and the struggles of the 99% have been similarly branded. I was in the city yesterday, and witnessed the protests. You could find similar headlines in newspapers everywhere – except in Britain and the USA. There is a general feeling that if we keep in contact then it is going to spread more. The students marched to the town centre, and from there to the harbour where they picketed a Royal Navy minesweeper. In February 2003, London was transformed into a swarm of protest. Meanwhile, one group of school kids (pursued by rabid Socialist Worker's Party paper-sellers) broke off from the main march and paid a visit to the local American Express building. In Ecuador, 1,000 people massed outside the US embassy chanting “peace, yes – war, no”. Tens of thousands have opposed the war in the streets of all the major South African cities. Cambridge University students have blocked the traffic along with 400 people at the war memorial, and 50 students have occupied the army recruitment centre. but would “make love not war” be too sexual for todays youth?] STOP THE WAR”. 200 pupils at St.Katherine's school at Pill, walked out of lessons and gathered on the school field for three hours to protest the attack on Iraq. Our movement changed history. Anti War University students at Swansea Uni invaded large lectures on Thursday morning and asked for a vote on the war before asking people to walk out and join them. Found insideAn analysis of the repeated existential crises affecting the resilience of the European Union in the twenty-first century. Don’t know. Caldecott has been on a few marches since, including some Occupy protests, until he realised getting arrested could jeopardise his business. Fircroft College of Adult Education, NATFHE. The only route left, as protesters and Police will soon discover, is Civil Disobedience. ", "In London, smaller local protests starting with school walk-outs in the morning converge into Parliament Square around noon and remain centred around that area into the evening. Citizens have become far more aggressive in directly challenging corporate behavior. Written by two activists who are constantly in the eye of this storm, Insurrection charts the growth of this dissatisfaction. What was your reaction? Organisers of marches, people with placards. Kirkby times can report that were protests by School Pupils in Liverpool City Center today Weds 20 March 2003. Photograph: Martin Argles for the Guardian Date. Two separately-organised strikes of Uber drivers are coming up over the next few weeks. Barnsley College NATFHE members held a dinnertime protest rally. “I went down to Parliament Square about 10.00 am and there were mostly school kids there. It was amazing when we got on the tube. This is what we are now left with – celebrating anniversaries. And then we generally decided, by people shouting, that we should move to Whitehall. "You can't go to one protest and think that things are going to change for ever. Women barristers. Mass walkouts in Gowerton, Llanelli and Bridgend each involved a hundred or more students. Students at Keele Uni blocked the main entrance to the campus as lecturers arrived for work, before being dispersed by campus security. On February 15th 2003, 30 million people protested against the USA and UK’s plans to invade Iraq. Lecturers at Swansea University spent the morning leafleting against the war. 350 school and sixth form kids sat outside the front of their school in a quite leafy suburb in surrey. 3. We should be glad our kids have an interest in such matters. a girl is complaining as she slurps her coca cola, she has never seen such a long line, Capitalism-as-usual (no security) comes to Japan, and schoolkids turn violent. The pupils were said to number between 250 and 300 and the protests began at 1.00pm when it became apparent to Merseyside Police that large numbers of the protestors blocking roads at Mount Pleasant/Brownlow Hill were pupils aged between 12 to 15 according to Police spokesman Superintendent Alan Cooper who said on Radio Merseyside that "Officers noticed many protestors in uniform" and also said that they were "Obviously truanting" However, a lot of parents support their kids making a stand and will not agree with Supt Alan Cooper. Although Poland is one of the very few countries to have supplied even a token number of troops to the US-British operation, an opinion poll has showed that 69% of Poles are against the war. We do not necessarily agree with everything said here, and in fact it's a fairly ecelectic collection - but it gives some idea of the enormity of this movement. Some went to work but the schoolkids present weren't finished yet. Only two African governments can be found among the “coalition of the willing” – Eritrea and Ethiopia, both competing for US assistance. Bringing together both contemporary and historical just war concepts, Peter Lee shows that Blair's illusion of morality evaporated quickly and irretrievably after the 2003 Iraqinvasion because the ideas Blair relied upon were taken out of ... All streets and roads around Westminster and Whitehall were blocked throughout the day. Here we have 4 sections on this movement: 1. Essex Uni students binned Daily Mail and Sun copies in the campus shop. Are there people who you weren’t friends with before who you talked to on the demo, who you now have a different relationship with? Like Wainwright, Ken Livingstone was fired up by the anti-Vietnam protests but by 2003 he was London mayor. Craig, 27, from Barnsley took part in a walkout in his school. There’s certainly no single political mastermind behind it – it’s bubbled up from the grass roots. Do you think that they would walk out with you if it happened again? Go ahead and rewrite if you want. Then loads of police arrived in vans. 20 March 2003 at 12 noon to protest against war in Iraq. So does the demo have any historical importance? REPORT PHOTOS - FOUR DECADES OF PHOTOJOURNALISM. Anti-war protest in New York on Saturday. School kids across the UK walked out of lessons to stage demonstrations against the start of the war with Iraq starting on Thursday March 20th. But the Iraq war galvanised thousands of young people to take political action for the first time. Pupils at Shenley Brook End School staged their own spontaneous protest after morning break at 11 o’clock. They occupied Lancaster town hall, shut down the centre of Leamington Spa and took to the streets of Northern Ireland. They occupied the town hall and handcuffed themselves to the gates. Rogers said all seven were charged with creating a disturbance and two were additionally charged with resisting arrest. 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