Edinburgh resident Sara Parvis emailed us with her experiences of Saturday's Make Poverty History march. Read Sara's story below, and email us with your Edinburgh tales here.
"Our church, which is very near the Meadows, was due to set off for the march at 12. There were about forty of us there. The large numbers streaming out of parked tour buses and heading in the same direction showed that we would by no means be the last to arrive, though many of them will have left home at 5am to be here. The usual suspects were all around, lined up in groups behind their banners- the Trades Unions, the churches and other faith groups, the Aid agencies, the socialist and anarchist groups, CND. The SWP types were, as usual, trying to radicalise the rest of us. But as well-meaning blue rinse churchy types, we weren't exactly their ideal customers.
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