Pics From Wed London antiBush Protest

Updates from Resist Bush Tea Party
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[18:10]: 200 people chanting are trying to break away from the cordon. In Buckingham Palace gardens there are still around under a thousand strong crowd. About 200 people have gone to Mall Gates, chanting. An african drumming band is with this crowd.
[17:30]: The Samba Band has stopped playing. Police have now separated the crowd from the press outside of the railing barriers. People have been lobbing plants at the police.
[17:15]: About 2000 people are opposite the gates of Buckinham Palace now, including a Samba Band.
[17:10]: There has been an attempt to break the police cordon and jump over the barriers in front of Buckingham Palace, the police simply pushed the crowd back. There has been an unconfirmed number of arrests in the area.
[16:50]: More than a thousand people in front of Buckingham Palace. Cops in riot gear and on horses.
[16:45]: Report on an attack on a peaceful protest by police. A man was cheerfully singing anti-Bush songs on a sound system; about 40 police have just jumped on him really violently, taking down the sound system and confiscating the speakers.
[16:35]: The area in front of Buckingham Palace is now cordoned; people need to stand behind barriers.
[16:31]: Samba Band now approaching Buckingham Palace.
[16:25]: The march that was going down Victoria Street is now arriving at Buckingham Palace, where the crowd is now over 1000 strong. People are holding peace plackards.
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/

The last pic of of the Alternative State Procession
Updates
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[12:45]: The police suddenly arrested a young man in the middle of the crowd for swearing! The police threw a cordon round the crowd to prevent them de-arresting him, and then proceeded to arrest a photographer also for swearing, and dragged him away violently!
[12:30]: The relaxed and upbeat procession has now ended in Trafalgar Square where there was the Big Red Bus back from Baghdad. A effigy of President Bush as a monkey was paraded around. and the mock Queen and Bush gave a speech from the carriage. Pictures
[12:15]: Now heading past Charing Cross Station towards Trafalgar Square.
[11:45]: The procession has just set off and is now marching over Waterloo Bridge.
[11:30]: 500 people gathering in Jubilee Park and being surounded by a line of police, which in turn, are surounded by masses of corporate media. The protesters have brought in several props, which include a moc royal carriage, a pink tank and a massive missile. Many people dressed up in ceremonial gear. The atmosphere is jovial and fun.
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/

British police officers, directing the security operation surrounding the visit of U.S. President George W. Bush, watch monitors showing CCTV (closed-circuit television) and news images in the control room at New Scotland Yard in London, November 19, 2003

This is excellent! Lots of appreciation to you from us, your comrades in solidarity against the war in Iraq and Israel's occupation and unjust war on the Palestinians.
Way to go!!!!

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2003/11/281043.html

how ridiculous is that little boxed in protest? What sort of free speech is contained into a square? what if someone were there and was walking their dog? or trying to get somewhere? are the media in that box also?

Excellent pictures, makes most of us proud to have such a fine President.

Who are these dirtbag demonstrators anyway? 1/10 of one percent of the population of the small island of Britain, getting 50% of the press coverage. Wait until the 2004 Bush landslide.

thank you for being there. It´s good to know that we´re not alone against this madness!!

thank you for being there. It´s good to know that we finns are not alone against this madness!!

To RAL-US citizen: The man and his puppetmasters can't win an election honestly. That's why his pals at Diebold et al are preparing the crooked electronic voting machines that will crown him king. And if that doesn't work, his other pals, the ones who aren't so visible, are preparing another 9/11, so he can declare martial law, appoint himself dictator, do away with all our rights, and complete the corporate takeover of America. What kind of citizen are you, RAL? The kind that goosesteps and salutes the top dog, whoever he is, and whatever he does? That's not citizenry. That's being a "good German." Get informed. Wake up. Detach yourself from commercial news propaganda. Develop your own thoughts, not the ones being brainwashed into you by the powers that be. Do we really want to be a bully nation that stomps on little countries all over the globe, that worships money, that permits big money to control everything done in our name, and that can't even take care of its own people, but lets transnational corporations loot our treasury and bleed jobs out of the country? What country are you a citizen of? Exxon? Halliburton? Wal-Mart? Do you think they give a damn about you or any citizen? Do you think Bush Inc. cares about this country? Look what they're doing to the U.S. soldiers in Iraq! Get informed. Become a real citizen. Question authority!