Anti-war in Barcelona

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Friday February 14, 2003 11:39

by Justin Moran - Personal capacity

Anti-war activity report from Barcelona, the public transport shut-down is especially interesting. Author not party affiliated

Anyway, I'm heading to this anti-war demo tomorrow in Barca. It's
literally 30 seconds walk away from where I live. Apparantly
500,000 people are expected (according to The Guardian). Most of
the notices of activity are in Catalan, so I haven't a clue what's
happening, but I'm gonna head along anyway. Would indymedia.ie
appreciate pictures and words from the event? I'm sure the Barcelona
indymedia folks will have more than enough coverage of the event, but I
was thinking of writing a report and taking some pictures if it'd be of
any use to yiz. There's also some anti-war activity (camps, flags etc.)
in my area, I've already got pictures of some of those things.

The anti-war activity is very high over here. Public transport is
shutting down at 12 today for 5 minutes to protest against the
war plans, according to what I could make out from the Catalan
notice on the bus today.

- Brian Scanlan