Milton Keynes anti-war demo

[denny]

Just got home from the MK anti-war demo. About a hundred people maybe. I was quite surprised that I only knew two other people there, one of whom I took with me and the other of whom is the local Green Party parliamentary candidate... I was expecting to see quite a few familiar faces but apparently not.

There was a girl lying on the floor in a camo jacket, covered in blood (actually it was ketchup (I was downwind)). As I had darklightimages with me I gave her my digicam, her being a professional photographer and wotnot. Then a wave of commuters came out of the train station and the girl on the floor started screaming. I jumped, and I knew she was there. The guys in suits coming home from work almost fainted. The screams were, to quote darklightimages, chilling. So chilling in fact that the professional photographer forget to use the camera until after the girl had done a few more rounds of 'scare the shit out of the commuters' and then got up off the floor before she froze to death. So no pics of her. Did get a (rather dark) crowd shot though:



The guy from the Green Party, Alan Francis, had just come back from London - he left the parliament area around 5pm, having been there since 2pm for a meeting. Apparently there have been around 5,000 kids blocking all the roads in that area since midday. The police keep moving them out of the road, and they just do it again 50 yards further along. Can't arrest kids, you see. He says they seemed to be protesting sensibly though, so that's promising. When he left at 5pm he estimates there were around 20,000 people in that area, with the number about to sharply rise as people finished work. The amount of roads the police had cordoned off led him to believe they're expecting a fairly serious crowd.

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[velvetfox.livejournal.com]

Looks similar to our protest in Nottingham, except we had stone lions joining in too, and street chalking :) I got a spangly new pink badge from Stop the War, with a crossed-out gun on it. My mum aellia is returning from assisting in blockading Dover port, which I think is very amusing as she only had a few others with her.