we filled the upstairs room of the peacock pub on mansfield road, with over 20 people in attendence. depsite the flinging around of plenty of industrial metaphors ('building' this that and the other, i felt like i was in a soviet propaganda movie), the meeting was good at generating a genuine coalition of students against war. email lists, message boards, etc. seem to be in the pipeline, and people were keen to get involved in the Peace conference and ceasefire. we also discussed ways that we as a large student group could try to radicalise the existing anti-war movement further, and planned actions against the erosion of civil liberties.

knowing there's a whole bunch of people out there ready to get involved in stuff makes this activism thing a whole lot more pleasant. long may it last.