forced to cancel appearances due to so called "security concerns" which are nothing of the sort (they are PR concerns - it is bad PR having to deploy a phalanx of heavies to protect you from an angry banner waving crowd when you are just trying to pay a friendly visit to the local mosque). If nobody turned out to protest you can be sure as shit she would use it as a propaganda weapon - "Look, no protestors - the people of Liverpool clearly all agree with the policies of the Bush administration!" But as I said, for me it is not important whether Blair takes any notice of the proposed action because he won't (he has far more important things to worry about, like being dragged into Italian corruption scandals etc). What is important is that people who feel stongly about a political issue get together and have the experience of doing something collectively in the streets - even if it is "only" symbolic. Just because you eventually became disillusioned with protesting does not mean that it was not an essential part of your political development. Anyway, it is not like this is going to detract from any of the other actions that are being planned for May Day in London. On the contrary, the more people turn up for this the more successful any other actions are likely to be. If you have something better to do that day then I wish you the best of luck