Demonstrations - Have you? Would you?

All the very best all of you.

March for me and all the other grans who can’t make it.???? boots made for walking

Amagran and anyone else, I wish you all the best. Enjoy the day.

Marches always bring to mind a certain kind of person, not one I'm familiar with and I would never in a million years join one.

My thoughts are borne out by reading some of the fervour displayed by some GNers who can't wait to meet up with others on here to show solidarity.

It usually has no effect on the cause bar a headline here or there.
As for taking backpacks, placards, water, coffee and sarnies and hanging around for hours listening to someone spouting tosh regarding the EU...nah.
I wonder how many of your AC and GC will be there.
Are any of you going to meet up with the relatives you're doing this for?
Will you still march if the rain is a deluge or will you slip into the nearest coffee shop and talk the talk instead of walking the walk?

I'd put a bet on that being on the cards.
Good luck ladies.
It won't make a whit of difference but enjoy your day out.

many with East Midlands CND, Aldermaston, Greenham Common. I really wanted to march last Saturday and had come over to be there- but date had to be changed. Will be there in spirit, for sure.

Nanna58

GillT57, if I have time later, I might do a modest placard with 'Grans for Europe' on it.

Yes, demonstrated when DD’s primary school was relocated next to a refuse depot. Got hauled off to local nick for barricading the road, a bit embarrassing as my husband was Inspector st that station at the time-made for some frosty moments! ???

As a WASPI woman I have been on 3 demonstrations in the last couple of years. 2 in London and 1 in Birmingham. We stopped the traffic in London by sitting in the road and it made Fiona Bruce late for the news but on all 3 occasions they has hardly mentioned it in the media.

Amagran I expect you will have a very enjoyable day as this particular cause is one that attracts people from all walks of life and is actually a very good natured demonstration. I cannot be there because of being poorly at the moment so it will be the first march that The Wonderful Man has been on without me - he's joining the 'Devon for Europe' group and travelling on one of their coaches. Probably he'll be wrapped in an EU flag.

The majority of marches I have been on have been peaceful, but one in particular turned ugly and as I was with my then 16 year old daughter at the time it was very scary.

There's a MN scarf and a MN haircut

GN could have one, what would it be

Maybe we should have a secret GN signal or something so we can identify fellow travellers?

Your messages of support and solidarity and your experiences are coming in so fast I can scarcely keep up with them! Thank you so much to everyone for taking the time to post and make me feel part of something worthwhile.

I have supported antifracking in Co Antrim and also opposition to huge development of an oil tanker port in a lovely little seaside village on the Antrim Coast Road. I would also support an antiBrexit march if I can find one and anti abortion protests. (Not totally of course and nothing to do with religion)

I Joined my daughter in London when she was a student on an anti- Poll Tax march. We ended up hanging over the barrier in Downing Street shouting " Maggie, Maggie, Maggie, OUT,OUT OUT. I felt it was an important demonstration.

Amagran I will be there tomorrow too, I wonder if we will see each other ? I've been on a few demonstations over the years and this is my 2nd People's Vote march. My advice, comfy shoes, go to the loo before you start, take plenty of food, water and coffee. And have fun, the atmosphere will be great and the placards hilarious!

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I'll be there Amagran, marching for our grandchildren's futures somewhere in the crowd. You are not alone. We shall overcome..!

Oh and if you don't have an oystercard make sure you have a debit/credit card handy to pay for the tube....

By the way, if no one feels like shouting on the march, a plastic bottle with a few coins in makes a great noise....

I lived in NZ when the media there was full of the pros and cons of the All Blacks agreeing to play rugby in segregated stadia during a tour of South Africa. I lived in a very small town then and all the local Churches organised a silent march through the town to support the ending of apartheid & saying the all blacks shouldn't go. We marched in silence, we were mostly women. We'd to link arms and put the most vulnerable on the inside as we were attacked by rabble bussed in to scare us. We had glass light bulbs and crockery hurled at us, spat upon, violent threats, pushed & shoved it was very very scary but we kept our silence & finished our march supporting each other. We had dared to question the all blacks!! But I'm proud to have taken a stand as I had been to SA and spoken to people who had lived there. I would not have been able to break the law and damage property as some protesters in the capital did.

Amagran; have pm'd you just on the off chance that we might be on the same coach!

Thank you for marching. Things look very bad for our country. And worse for people in so many parts of the world right now. Like others here I was on the Aldermaston marches in the sixties, surrounded the base at Greenham Common, so many, many marches and demonstrations. For the last thirty years I have had ME and can’t walk or stand. But I demonstrate during ME week in my wheelchair. We lay out shoes to represent the millions who can’t come at all because they are bed bound and missing from life because of the illness and at some point many people lie down on the pavement. Marching demonstrations could be made more accessible for some people with disabilities, for example there could be a float for them. But it isn’t usually thought of. I believe Extinction rebellion bought a lot of equipment to help disabled people participate in their actions that was confiscated by the police, including people’s wheelchairs. It is easy to feel that all these demonstrations achieved nothing, that in my lifetime the things I believe in have been knocked back and knocked back. But I still feel people have to keep trying. Bear witness at least that there is another way. For your grandchildren as you say. Good luck. My blessings go with you.

Amagran thank you for marching, you certainly do so in my name. I was an Aldermaston marcher in my teens and have been on various local marches since. I am unable to march tomorrow but do my bit writing letters.

I marched to Aldermaston in the sixties.

I then resumed campaigning and renewed my membership with CND in the eighties.

I don’t have quite as much enthusiasm now I’m older.

Stay safe, Amagran!

I'm sure you'll have a great time.