One million people may march in London anti war demo on Saturday!

-"Our best recruiting agents have been Bush and
Blair," says Andrew Murray, chair of the national
coalition. "The only people who we are not attracting
are high Tories and new Labour cheerleaders."
-"It's a new movement, out of anyone's control. It's
like a tidal wave. The people organising it are not in
control. It has its own momentum."
-[T]he talk is that there could be a million people or
more descending on Hyde Park.

[...]

More than 450 organisations, including such disparate
groups as Greenpeace, Americans Against the War and
Britons versus Bush - a group of Bedford cabdrivers -
have joined 11 political parties including the SNP,
the Liberal Democrats, Plaid Cymru and the Greens, and
affiliated themselves to the Stop the War Coalition.

[...]

For weeks organisers have been confidently predicting
that attendance at the rally on Saturday will top
500,000, easily outstripping the autumn's Countryside
Alliance march. But now they are daring to believe
that the turnout may even outstrip their own original
estimate, and the talk is that there could be a
million people or more descending on Hyde Park.

National organisers sense that support may have
doubled in the past six weeks and has not yet peaked,
a feeling confirmed by local groups. "We had two
people in our group before our first meeting and 100
after," says Jane Mayes of the Carlisle coalition. "We
have now booked four coaches and will probably book
another two. We have more than 3,000 signatories and
last week the local art college students had a sit-in.
It's really snowballed.

"I've been involved in protest stuff since I first
went on the Aldermaston march as a child and I've
never known such strong public opposition to any
government policy, such anger and such determination
from people to have their views heard. People are not
at all equivocal about it - they don't care much about
UN resolutions and "proof" - they just seem to think
it's a crazy and dangerous idea and can't really
believe that Blair could be serious about it."

[...]

March to Hyde Park: times and routes
The Don't Attack Iraq demonstration will begin at
12.30pm on Saturday
There are two assembly points, one in Gower Street
for those travelling from the north, and Embankment
for London and everywhere else
The marches will unite at Piccadilly and continue to
Hyde Park, where speakers will include Jesse Jackson,
Bianca Jagger, Tony Benn and Charles Kennedy
The rally is due to end at 5.30pm
For information about coaches, drop-off points,
tubes and trains go to the Stop the War Coalition
website at stopwar.org.uk