Marching for peace – then and now
Philip Austin asks: ‘Was it effective?’
The diverse group with whom I traveled to London on 15 February 2003 got nowhere near Hyde Park and the speakers. This was due to the sheer numbers of people with their banners gently shuffling on their way. As well as those on the street, there seemed to be support from people in buildings all along the route. Two questions I have heard asked many times since then are: what happened to all those people (probably at least 1.25 million ‘marching’ in London alone) and since then, why didn’t they continue protesting? The other, bigger, question is whether the march – and the others around the world that day – made any difference.
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