Stephen Hawking to Lead Anti-War Protest on Election Day

[Larkspur]

Kerry should take note of this action as well. I think Europe will be harder to convince to send their sons and daughters to our disaster in Iraq even if Kerry wins.

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/1031-03.htm

Stephen Hawking, Britain's most eminent scientist, has become the latest prominent opponent of the Iraq war by agreeing to take the lead role in a ceremonial protest to coincide with the United States presidential election.
Peace protesters will gather in Trafalgar Square at 5pm on Tuesday, where they will read out the names of 5,000 Iraqi men, women and children known to have died in the conflict.

The full death toll was put last week as high as 100,000.

Playwrights Harold Pinter and David Hare, actress Juliet Stevenson, the Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, and relatives of British soldiers killed in action in Iraq have all agreed to take part.

Professor Hawking, the author of the best-selling book A Brief History of Time, is wheelchair-bound as a sufferer from motor neurone disease. He recorded a message on Friday that will be broadcast at the start of the rally.
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[billbuckhead]

1. He needs to wear a black hoodie

[Robbie67]

2. Good for Hawking!

Good for all those who participate! I'm hoping we'll have another big anti-Iraq war march and rally on January 20th

[Dudley_DUright]

3. Bravo Steven

Lots of prominent scientist on this side of the pond are also working to defeat BushCo including many Nobel Prize winners. You can find a list of them here:

http://www.scientistsandengineersforchange.org/founding.php