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@Oliver Schick
I was on one of the early anti-Iraq War demos, long before 9/11, and we'd just arrived in Trafalgar Square and were gathering to hear some speeches. There weren't many people there, maybe a couple of hundred to a thousand at the most, and the stage that had been set up looked a bit like overkill. Out on the fringes of the crowd where it had very much thinned out stood two people with banners reading:
'FIGHT FOR WAGED HOUSEWORK'
'STOP UNPAID SLAVERY'
It is obviously an important issue, but at the time it seemed only incongruous to my inexperienced self compared to the threat of war (which was actually felt very strongly at the time, although of course nothing compared to the urgency when it was about to happen).