Marcin, from Poland, but alliteratively travelling in Panama sent the
Beetle this message: Hola Hombres, after only 3 hours in Panama, my host
Johnny from Haiti and I went to the demonstration against the war in Iraq.
It’s good that Panama also want to show that something is wrong
in our world. There weren’t too many people but the atmosphere was
great and the first time I saw nuns, priests and old ladies with rosary
beads on the demonstrations walking along with young communists with Che
Guevara flags, Indians, feminists everybody in the same spirit and I hope
that our effort can make a change.

The Beetle attended the London march: who knows how many people plodded
along the London streets – the organisers say 2 million, the police much
less than that. It took three hours to walk from Blackfriars Bridge to
Hyde Park at a slow shuffle. The atmosphere was marvellous, people of
all age, race, shape, colour attended. Despite the cold and the bad sound
system, it felt like attending a historic moment.