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18:30 London. Westminster Bridge blocked by dancing protesters.

18:00 Bristol. City blocked. Peaceful, diverse protest, including a sit-down protest led by a 12 year old! London: 1000 students arrived in Parliament Square, walking towards police lines. Samba block is marching down Westminster Bridge, blocking it's south side near Waterloo station.

17:00 London Parliament Square still packed. Helicopter & mounted riot police in Whitehall.

16:30 London. Up to 5000 people are taking over Parliament Square and resist police attempts to move them on. Clashes between asian youth and riot police ensued after police arrested a young asian protestor.

Earlier in the afternoon, several 100 schoolkids tried to run out of one of the exits. After a fight with police officers, several were arrested. Near City of London, kids blocked a road.

15:00 Cambridge city centre is now blocked by protestors, whilst central Bristol is now gridlocked. People is still arriving at central London with thousands of people currently blocking most roads around Westminster and Holborn.

14:00 Hundreds blocking downtown Birmingham - health workers due to walkout of 4 hospitals; demo of 600 in Edinburgh; 300 outside Manchester town hall; over 400 school kids in Walthamstow blocking traffic and causing mayhem; 150-200 students from London Metropolitan university heading for parliament square, where around 1,500 are already demonstrating; sit-down protest at Tottenham Court Road; arrests as mass protest brings Hereford to a standstill.

12:00 Demos of mainly schoolkids all over the place. In Edinburgh, they stopped the city center, several arrests. Protesters held in St. Leonards police station

Labour Party South-East Regional HQ Occupied in Reading

Violence at student demo in Lewisham

M621 closed cause of blockade also A8, A272 & A58 blocked.

A peace camp has been set up in Lancaster town centre.

Early morning: Bengali school students demonstrate in the Whitechapel area of Tower Hamlets.

Students blockade Keele university.

People blocking roads in Newcastle (pic)

Around 40 blocking roads with lock-ons in Leeds

Schoolchildren protesting at Tube Station North London

Roads blocked in Sheffield

50 people blocked Parliament Square, while 100 blocked Whitehall.

Around the world:

100,000 demonstrators reported in Athens, as well as demos in Moscow and Holland; riot police attack protesting lawyers in Jordan; tens of thousands of students leave school to protest in Germany; 15,000 block motorway north of Barcelona as 10,000 protest outside US consulate, students and teachers on strike; thousands more protest in Rome, Italy, and Madrid.

AP - Washington: Millions upon millions of people showed their support for the US today by going to work and not going to demonstrations, today.

...the Lemming Like march of the apathetic to be a positive?

As if everyone that went to work supported the war!

Don't confuse inaction for support!

Most people and especially the poor cannot afford to not go to work. Lots of people are afraid to protest. I know plenty of people who don't care for all this, who think it's wrong, but they don't protest for whatever reason.

Another thing- even if a majority support it, which I'm not sure do, it doesn't mean it's RIGHT. Would you say the citizens of Nazi Germany were correct in following their leaders blindly?