Saturday, February 15, 2003

Speakers. Here's what the speakers had to say in Hyde Park today. Jesse Jackson, Ken Livingstone, the wonderful Tony Benn, Bianca Jagger, Harold Pinter ... Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Anti-war march: what the speakers said The playwright Harold Pinter described the US as "a country run by a bunch of criminals ... with Tony Blair as a hired Christian thug". The planned attack on Iraq is a pre-meditated attack of mass murder," he added. "Resistance is embodied today in this massive gathering, and the word I want to direct to Tony Blair is resign, resign, resign. 9:02:52 PM     |

People. This is Hyde Park. The little dots are people. I watched the speeches, Tony Benn was fantastic, as always. 'Million' march against Iraq war. Hundreds of thousands of UK protesters converge on London to stage the largest ever peacetime demonstration. [BBC News | Front Page | UK Edition] 8:31:04 PM     |

Wonderful. I've been trying to get down there myself, but without the Central Line running it's virtually impossible. There are more than 1 Million people in London protesting against the war. More people in fact than on V-day. Wonderful. 2:27:03 PM     |