- London will be hit with a second massive protest march
inside a week today when up to 100,000 people are expected to join a rally
against war with Iraq.
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- The Stop the War Coalition and the Muslim Association
of Britain have joined forces for a combined protest march which they hope
will be the biggest since the CND rallies of the 1980s.
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- Organisers accept they will not match the 400,000 people
who joined the Countryside Alliance's Liberty and Livelihood march through
the capital last Sunday. But they hope that the protest will surpass the
numbers at a demonstration held in March against the war in Afghanistan.
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- The coalition includes trade unions, Labour MPs and Muslim
organisations. The demonstration will gather at Victoria Embankment close
to the Houses of Parliament before marching through Piccadilly to Hyde
Park for the rally.
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- Speakers will include the Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone;
the former United Nations weapons inspector Scott Ritter; Tony Benn MP;
Iqbal Sacranie, of the Muslim Council of Britain; and an Arab member of
Israel's Knesset, Azmi Bishwara. Union speakers include Bob Crow, general
secretary of the RMT; and Mick Rix, general secretary of Aslef.
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- http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/story.jsp?story=337391
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