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We, as a civilized people,

must know better and do better.

We must be a greater nation than that.

You build confidence, and all

of a sudden you start daring

to do stuff that you never ever thought

possible in the past.

And the next step was to call

for a global day of demonstrations.

I mean, I don't know

what we were thinking, actually,

that there could be even

a global demonstration.

I mean, nobody had ever done that.

It was a, you know,

completely left-field idea

even for us, and we'd had a few.

And that day was put at 15th of February.

So we started thinking together

what to do, what to do.

We had a very strong European network.

At the end of the European Social Forum,

we had a massive assembly

in a disused railway station.

There were thousands and thousands

of people packed into this meeting.

We made the announcement

to say we have to make February 15th

into the biggest day of global protest

there has ever been.

I now hand over to my final speaker

on European coordination,

Raffaella.

To all citizens of Europe,

we call on the movement

and the citizens of Europe

to start from now

organizing European anti-war demonstrations

in every capital on February 15.

We can stop this war.

And the response was just overwhelming.

It was absolutely tremendous.

You need a moment

in which somebody says "Yes, we can,"

and so you start.

And after that, we knew that this day

was going to be something special,

something the world had never seen before.

The Stop The War Coalition

has been meeting in London

to make plans for a demonstration

against war with Iraq.

The London demonstration is due

to take place on February 15th

to coincide with marches

in several other European capitals.

Somebody said,

I don't even remember now who it was,

that they had heard that folks in Europe

were planning

for a day of international

demonstrations on February 15th

against the war, and we said,

"Oh, OK, let's do that."

The notion that we could pull this off

on a global level...

Oh, my God, this was huge.

This was an enormous challenge.

The notion that we were

part of something global

was terrifying and thrilling

all at the same time.

And Saddam Hussein must understand

that if he does not disarm

for the sake of peace,

we, along with others,

will go disarm Saddam Hussein.

This is a matter of weeks, not months.

It was only much later

that I came across

the single most devastating document,

which is the legal memorandum

written by Lord Goldsmith,

in which Lord Goldsmith

tells the British Prime Minister,

"You cannot use force without

a further Security Council resolution."

If you go down the document,

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