anyone have any news on how many people were at this demo???

The BBC said seven thousand and played it down, organizers said at least double that figure. My guess is twenty thousand, lets triple it on May Day, OUR DAY!

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 http://www.pbase.com/nakedvoleprimpa/stop_the_war_demo

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I reckon there were about 15,000 on the streets yesterday. It was an excellent turn-out, considering that the conventional media are no longer reporting on the continued bombing in Afghanistan.

After the police declared the second march to be smaller than the first even though most people agreed the second was bigger (15,000 down from 20,000 - their figures) I decided to do my own count. I counted individually when I could and in tens when there was a block of people. I came up with 5,000. This was fairly conservative (I tried to only count 10 when I was sure there were at least that many - there may have been between 10 and say 17 in each '10'). So my figure for those marching past Hyde Park Corner is between 5,000 and 8,000 odd. This makes the police figure of 7,500 sound credible on this occasion at least.
There was talk at a Media Workers Against the War meeting of getting someone from a university statistics course to do an independent count so that we get around the problem of our word vs. the police on each march - can't this happen and be done on every march?
The police figure for the second march sounded pretty fishy but I don't think it helps either when the march organisers inflate the numbers.

The BBC prefered to report a demonstration of about 3 people with 2 banners in support of the British media's favourite overseas organisation at the moment: the Zimbabwean MDC.