Because they have been knowingly party to the big lie for the last few months so spectacularly, you cannot expect the main media to advertise any opposition, with a whole heart.They've been complicit in the propaganda front. Only by taking the message about the lies away from the internet and on to the front pages can there be any movement(see Canadian Vision TV and the Vancouver Sun}. However good the speech of a Galloway, he's part of the problem. Why's he still in the Labour Party? He must know he's living a lie - to be still part of something so corrupt. Things have changed since last September, and unless the left take the challenge to explain exactly what it is, they will find themselves bleating in the widerness, and there will not be an ongoing campaign - just crisis management - when Iraq or somewhere takes the biscuit, it'll be big again. Which is why we can admit to a smaller scale demonstration today. It's a question of joining the dots and exposing the reality. See the conspiracy agenda.

Tony Benn's idea for mass action to coincide with the start of the ('real') war against Iraq is an interesting one. Living in a city in the south east, it might be worth bringing this up with local friends and contacts - when the attacks begin we immediately come together and begin OUR attack on the system by blocking roads, occupying the town hall etc etc etc. Sure it's symbolic in nature, but at least it sends a message.

Also, the big war demos in London are flawed - we need militant action, both in large crowds and through non-violent direct action in small affinity groups on the street. Why not organise locally?!

As an anarchist, I hope my plans and ideas are supported by the wider 'Stop the War Coalition' when I bring them up at the local meeting. I urge other direct actionists, anarchists, ecologists etc etc to do the same before Reverend Blair and Demonic Bush and the other rogue terrorist leaders of the world start a third world war.

I think it's a bit much to expect all the media websites to be updated by now. Wait untill when the papers are published. I expect the coverage will be appalling in the usual suspects, but the guardian and one or two other half-decent publications should have good coverage.
I agree that the prominance given to the story on the BBC website was awful though, and have told them as much.

Could the reason why the march was ignored have anything to do with the fact that nothing of any import really happened. When a small group of malcontents deviated from the party line and tried to hold a sit-in at Picaddily Circus (see link below) the stewards swooped and tried to explain how this was going to generate bad press which would harm the movement. As several people pointed out, bad publicity (particularly the headlines they were talking about) would be far, far more publicity than the near total lack of coverage which the march would otherwise receive. Unfortunately due to lack of numbers it soon became clear that the only likely consequence of sitting it out would be an ass-kicking by the police and so everyone continued on to Trafalgar Square before causing sufficient disruption to make anyone sit up and listen.

perhaps it is time to begin building for the next demo on March 30?

Fuck The War!
Fuck The System!
Fuck The Party Line!

It's time the Guardian offices were put on the Mayday monopoly board. It's no use hoping for fair coverage of the protest movement from these scum. They are part of the problem and must be protested against. Picket the Guardian offices on mayday. Blockade their distribution networks. Occupy the pubs and cafes where their reporters congregate. Protest against them. Treat them as part of the machine, they are as evil as Brian Cass or the racist cops who kill black people, they should be down there with Dr Harold Shipman or Milosevic, these slimey media liars....

Don't be too hard on the guardian, they're the best of a bad lot, plus they appear to have been getting slowly but steadilly more millitant over the last few years. I can remember when they were well up for kicking Ass in Kosovo and anti-capitalist campaigners were dangerous freaks who were far too scary and active for the liberals to handle. Not so now. OK, so they're not perfect, but their hearts are in the right place. give them a break. Save the Harold Shipman comparisons and other violent gibberish for all the motherfuckers in the british press who wrote twisted editorials trying to compare the anti-globalisation movement to Osama Bin Laden.