The crowd moved through Brixton and along to Clapham Common. There was also an anti-racist anti-fascist march heading towards Trafalgar Square, on the other side of the river Thames. The two crowds were quite friendly to each other, and some of the anti-fascists elected to join the 'Free the Weed' mob.

Rickshaw park

Just as places like Bangkok and Chiang Rai are consigning the human drawn rickshaw or pedicab to oblivon, so English towns are seeing a resurgance of such vehicles. This shows just how much has widened the chasm between rich and poor in the UK.

These people are showing their defiance of Jack Straw, the current Brit Home Secretary, or Minister of the Interior. London has always had people who opposed government policy. The current era is no exception.

The good nature of people stands in direct contradiction to the behaviour of our national leaders who are quite content to rain down bombs on Serbia thereby and escalating the conflict and creating millions of victims.

All conventional political parties seem to oppose the decriminalisation of drugs.

There were several thousand people gathered to celebrate May Day with their friends and their drugs. The tents were selling food, drink, music, incense, pipes, books and so on. There were jugglers, acrobats, fortune tellers, and gurus. This is typical the old fashioned traditional Mayday celebrations in the UK, going back to the time of Shakespeare.