Excellent. The actions are getting better and better...can't wait to hear what happens tonight!!

WELL DONE.

Thank you-a truly intelligent, inspiring and creative form of protest. We need much more like it in order to succeed. Thank you uk indymedia for the report and pics!

protesting is one thing if done in a peaceful professional manner which I have yet to see but pouring red dye into fountains is nothing more than an act of vandalisim, sad and childish I think it may be time for these people to grow up

Just ignore the moaning trolls. It's just some sad loser jerking off alone in some basement bedsit.

Couldn't believe the atmosphere on the streets last night outside the pigscum hotel where the pigscum death merchants were stuffing their faces. Great turnout, great solidarity, possibly the best demo in London for years! What was really amazing was the reaction from local people - everyone was waving and cheering from their balconies and even some of the motorists were sympathetic to what we were doing!

Keep up the good work!

EAT PROTEST!
SLEEP PROTEST!
SMOKE MARIJUANA!

I've just seen the photos of the fountain and would like to say BIG UP YOU ALL! Succinct, striking, imaginative, and every other good word I can think of.
I couldn't come to the protests but have been following your every move on Indymedia and I think you all rock. Massive respect to the peaceful massive!

And Paul, "vandalism"? A teensy bit of red dye? Please...There are times and places for bold statements, and this was definitely one of them.

Yes, this was an excellent way to make the point that the blood of inncocent people in the Third World will be unecessarily spilled by these weapons.

We did this is Manchester on the day the Iraq war started. In Piccadilly Gardens, there are now some fountains that shoot up into the air periodically (rather like the ones in Paris near the Eiffel Tower). Red dye was put into these fountains and it had a similar effect.

We need to find ways to communicate visually and, even better, using as many of the senses as possible, to bring home to people the horror and pointless carnage of imperialist war. The thing is most young people in Britain today have never experienced the horror of full scale war like previous generations. War films never show the true horror of war--they can't really because it would a have such a traumatic effect on people.

But there are ways of giving people some sense of the horror. Dressing protestors up as "wounded" people with bandages and lots of ketchup and doing publicity stunts like die-ins, are good ways of making the point.

In Manchester we had a mock "funeral" for the war victims last March with people dresed in black, wearing creepy-looking white face masks, and carrying "coffins" through the streets of Manchester. The important thing is to VIDEO this sort of theatrical stunt so that they can be shown to a wider audience globally via sites like this. Invest in a video camcorder and record them fro a wider audience and also for posterity. For example, the above event in Trafalgar Square should have been videoed. If a pictrure is worth a thousand words, a video is worth million...

2 people I was talking to who normally condemn anything other than peaceful marches along the pavement (because blocking cars is bad) both said they thought that sounded cool when I told them about it. nice one

Hey Paul. You're an idiot!

Imaginative, effective, brilliant.
congrats

B

Paul.. Vandalism!!! red fucking dye.. i suppose you'd prefer a nice fluffy march along the pavement achieving absolutely fucking nothing.. but sticking completely within your idea's of the boundary's of the law... "protest in a peaceful and Professional manner" ok so pouring red dye into trafalgar sq. fountain wont really achieve anything other than to spread awareness of the cause but i wouldnt call it childish vandalism.. as someone else wrote, you are indeed a fucking idiot..

so this was a good idea, I know its abit unariginal but can we repeat it round the country. Decide on a date and sincranize. Have lots of blody fountins?