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Anti-War Troops Home London Demo Starts

pix | 24.09.2005 13:12 | Anti-militarism | London

Tens of thousands of people gathered in London at lunchtime today to take part in the latest stop the war coalition demonstrations.

Two feeder marches headed towards parliament square where the main march was meeting - the demo ends up at hyde park for a rally.

Protests are also being held today in Washington, as well as in Glasgow and in Ireland.





wow a traffic cam thats working
wow a traffic cam thats working

whitehall while the march was gathering
whitehall while the march was gathering

whitehall cam then switched off
whitehall cam then switched off

along with several others
along with several others

march poster
march poster


vid caps from tv + webcams
(lots of tv coverage this morning)

pix

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Numbers game already in play

24.09.2005 13:30

AP Pic
AP Pic

Interestingly the tv and early web news reporting of the london demo was saying only a few hundred people turned up. I suspect this was a result of a police statement made just prior to 12.30pm. The march wasn't due to start until 1pm anyway, and there were 3 start points. However this report of only a few hundred has been repeated across various media. Will be interesting to see if they change the numbers reporting through the afternoon - either way a lot of outlets have reported the 'few hundred' line already.

watcher


Washington DC Protests

24.09.2005 13:33

For news of the weekend of events and protests in DC check
 http://dc.indymedia.org/

See also
 http://www.septemberaction.org/cs/

linx


two more webcam pics

24.09.2005 13:55



2 more

some are working


Blinded

24.09.2005 15:39

Nothing at all on BBC's website.

Nothing at all on BBC's website.


Nice work.

24.09.2005 17:00

Forgive me if I don't sound over-joyed with indymedia's sudden lacklustre approach to reporting. For a long while now I have often been found scouring these pages for interesting and more importantly insightful comments made 'by the people for the people'. Unfortunatly, now, like many other times this illusion had been dashed. It seems to me that instead of being a network of ordinary grass-roots civilians contributing their own points-of-view to an online array of counter-mainstream articles, a very different story can reveal the truth. Indymedia is infact merely an online den for pseudo-anarchist types, built to convince themselves that everyone appreciates un-structured, more-bias-than-fox, grammaticaly bastardised pieces of tat that wouldn't be out of place in the reader-comments page of the Sun.

Now if I want to listen to this stuff, I can go and eat beans in a faeces encrusted field surrounded by middle-class hippies scrounging off daddy's trust-fund for all eternity. Unfortunatly, the majority of the 'people' are working hard in factories, schools, fire-stations, hospitals etc and subsequently have no time to frequent this chin-stroking, pot-smoking culture of yours. They watch the BBC - a fantastic institution, built around the basis of public-broadcasting. You see the concept is simple - you vote for the government who administers the BBC. If you have a clear argument against the way it is run you have every right to go out and try and convert people to your point of view. If it's strong enough - it will win. Remember Apartied? More importantly, remember what 'Independent Television' has devolved into!

Yours Peacefully,

Random Socialist.

Chris
mail e-mail: chrisjmarks@hotmail.com


Chill dude!

24.09.2005 17:45

At the end of the day, psuedo-anarchist or not, in terms of providing reports and images of the events that the rest of national media 'forgot' Indymedia is pretty invaluable.

joe


Nice work

24.09.2005 17:53

So Chris, when can we expect your article about the demo?

Moaning is easy and quick. Writing an article takes time and effort.
You're the journalist here. So get writing, and quit leaving it to others to do for you.

DB


Dear Random Socialist

24.09.2005 19:16


"Forgive me if I don't sound over-joyed with indymedia's sudden lacklustre approach to reporting."

- well the truth is that Indymedia often doesn't have brilliant reporting of STWC demonstrations. There was very in depth coverage of the early demos, right through to the bush visit to london (witness one of the best reported events ever on indymedia), but many of the more recent STWC demos haven't had that much coverage on indymedia - look back through the archives to see this.

The current demo in any case has lots of media coverage (esp yesterday - 5-6 pages in the independent for gods sake!) - and mostly accurate apart from the numbers issue - to see check the google news search:
 http://news.google.co.uk/news?hl=en&ned=uk&q=anti+war+london&btnG=Search+News

"Indymedia is infact merely an online den for pseudo-anarchist types, built to convince themselves that everyone appreciates un-structured, more-bias-than-fox, grammaticaly bastardised pieces of tat that wouldn't be out of place in the reader-comments page of the Sun."

Erm yes obvioulsy, just look at the depth of material and reports from DSEi and the G8 Summit back in July - a mixture of protest pictures, background audio interviews, pdf reports from NGOs and other campaign groups, videos and so on - a very broad church. But ultimatly Indymedia is only as good as the people who volunteer their time, which means the quality goes up and down, often in waves. I personaly value it highly, but am, like many other people pissed off with the amount of crap and carping posted in the 'comments' facility.

Ho hum.

Right I'm off the read the Socliaist Worker, for another view of the world :-)




random reader


Point is Chris

25.09.2005 11:39

BBC don't report the demo or with cops low numbers but then CCTV is switched off so people can't see for themselves.
Conclusion: the "journalists" at the BBC are a bunch of spineless statist arselickers and you're so upset cos everyone can see this through indymedia.

Was nice to see the faces of the Britons murderous secial forces for a change.

JJ


Watch that ego, JJ !

29.09.2005 20:49

Do you really think Special Forces would be deployed against a bunch of half baked, doped up, tree hugging, liberals like you lot? Not bloody likely, you'll have to make do with PC Plod !

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