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  E-mail sets off anti-war protest
Updated 05 March 2003, 19.01
Police hold back the protestors outside Downing Street
Hundreds of kids gathered outside 10 Downing Street on Wednesday, but how did they get organised?

It certainly came as a surprise to their teachers. Apparently without warning, kids all across London stormed out of school waving anti-war banners.

Fact File
London schools at the demo
Hampstead School
Camden School for Girls
William Ellis Boys School
Parliament Hill Girls School
Owens School
Elliot's School
Fortismere
Ackland Burley
City of London Girls and Boys School
It might have seemed completely unplanned to many adults, but lots of kids knew all about what was going to happen on tuesday night.

E-mail

The whole thing was sparked off by the power of e-mail!

Newsround spoke to one of the kids on the protest. She told us that she had received an e-mail telling her what was going to happen.

The message said that kids should protest outside Parliament about the war, and when they should do it.

The e-mail quickly went round hundreds of kids all round London.

She described how, in her playground at break time the next day, a bunch of kids brought out banners they had made, and walked out.

Almost the whole school followed!

Teachers couldn't stop them

Their teachers tried to stop them, but the children ran to the Underground.

The children started prostesting in Parliament Square, but were moved on by police at 1pm.

They started waving their banners and chanting anti-war slogans outside Downing Street, where police kept them off the road.

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