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I attended a protest march in London yesterday in opposition to the wars currently being engaged by the UK. These photos are available in a Flickr set.

Crowds at Trafalgar Square

Manchester University Student Union sent two coach-loads of people.

A temporary stage was set up.

Emotive slogans.

Tens of thousands of people flooded Trafalgar Square and the surrounding area, but what little media coverage there was of this played the numbers down.

The fact that McDonalds just carried on regardless was fairly amusing.

Damn straight.

The majority of placards at the protest were produced in the thousands by organisations (I carried one from the CND), so more sincere, hand-made versions stood out well.

Final phase of the rally at Westminster.

CPGBs started chanting about revolution. Great to see people enthused, but that wasn’t really the topic of the day chaps.

I noticed these placards lying around at the very end, seemed to sum up the feeling of the day.

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Audio from George Galloway’s speech this afternoon at Luther King House in Manchester.
Some elements are taken from from his confrontation with the US senate in 2005 (video is well worth watching, despite it’s length - Galloway is unshaken and resolute throughout).

MP3 audio (40kbps, 11.1MB download) / Ogg Vorbis (32kbps, 5.5MB download)
Note that quality is similar in both files, go with Ogg Vorbis if you can to save on bandwidth.

Apologies for the poor audio quality, the recording was made on my mobile phone, which saves to the AMR format. I cleaned it up (or tried to) using Audacity.

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