UK Newswire Archive
East Mids Anti-fascists: October report
02-11-2012 10:55
It's been a month dominated by a battle between Boston bigots: Dean Everitt's anti-immigration demo vs. Elliott Fountain's hard right police commissioner bid. It's not been good for the EDL who've been hacked, stabbed in the back and caught out inciting riots and running community organisations into the ground. And meanwhile the BNP have been praising Jimmy Savile.
The month started with a bang for Leicester EDL's Glen Warren, whose 'Let's Make Britain Great Again' Facebook page was hacked and used to slag him off. Some EDL angels joined in calling Glen a "sick cunt" and a "sexist, racist pig who deserves everything he gets".
Nottingham BNP couldn't stem the verbal diarrhoea on their Twitter account urging their supporters not to vote for the "darkie" in the PCC elections and supporting paedophile Jimmy Savile.
In Lincolnshire, Dean Everitt finally got round to calling his anti-immigration demonstration (inviting various BNP, EDL and other far right organisers), which received unanimous abuse in the local paper. "When will Everitt learn that his mob will solve and change nothing!" read one typical comment. Since then he has been arrested on suspicion of assault and criminal damage which has not inspired confidence in his followers, some of whom have called for the march to be cancelled. The demonstration will take place on Sun 18th Nov at the Herbert Ingram memorial.
English Democrat, Elliott Fountain, launched his campaign for Lincolnshire Police & Crime Commissioner with a host of right wing policies on crime including "throwing tenants out of houses faster". We exposed the fact that he was a supporter of Golden Dawn, approved of the EDL's attacks on the police in Walsall and held vile anti-Muslim views. Amusingly, for a man who has publicly said he will target drug users his Facebook page is also littered with references to his own drug taking. Fountain later tried to engage with these criticisms by digging himself even further into a hole.
The real comedy gold came when Everitt and Fountain had a very public punch up after Fountain slagged off Everitt's anti-immigration protest as pointless. Everitt responded by saying that Fountain "now wants to be lincolnshires police commissioner lets just put the crooks in charge of the establishment" and accusing him of "FLOOD[ing] US WITH MIGRANT LABOUR". Fountain's friends published a recorded phonecall from Everitt threatening violence and then called him a "racist thug" and "a puppet who strings were being pulled".
The EDL staged their latest massive disappointing flop of a demo in London. In the run-up Nottingham EDL were stupid enough to try to incite a riot of Twitter.
Meanwhile the knives were out for former EDL leader and Nottingham resident, Guramit Singh. Casuals United called him a "scummy man" with a "nasty plan" and a cunt because he was refusing to pay his debts to a "respected lad". Others on the thread called him a grass who "helped ruin a street movement and told a lot of porkies" and a "wrongun".
Leicester Casuals United were spreading false rumours as usual. This time they were trying to whip up a street army to defend a poppy seller from imaginary "Scum Muslims". They later admitted it had all been made up but not before their fans had foamed at the mouth about a "Pack of wild dogs" that need to be "PUT DOWN".
Finally we reported on how the EDL had successfully managed to hijack the Forgotten Estates campaign on the Thurnby Lodge estate in Leicester. This is the campaign against the city council's decision to give an abandoned scout hut to a Muslim group for use as a community centre. It turns out that the leader of the group is an EDL activist called Chris Hopewell and that the EDL's Leicester leader, Craig Elliott, is involved as well. But things aren't going well for this EDL front group which, according to a supporter, has turned from a spectacularly popular group to a pitiful handful.
As Coal Use Declines Why Make It Easier to Dig It Out
02-11-2012 08:15
The Loose Anti Opencast Network is calling on the Government to align Planning Policy with Energy Policy after discovering that it is the Government's intention to phase out the use of coal for power generation purposes, leading to a 75% decline in the use of coal for such a purpose over the next 10 years. At the same time, through provisions in the Growth and Infrastructure Bill it is possibly making it easier to dig the coal out!October 2012 Review of Opencast Sites
02-11-2012 07:35
This LAON's 6th Review contains the latest information on the stage at which applications for 22 potential opencast mines has reached, 14 in England, 5 in Wales and 2 in Scotland. It also contains a link to a research paper which indicates what the effect would be of introducing a 'buffer zone' of varying widths around Opencast sites on two British Coalfields.Obama has been warned that Global Warming will cause Extinction of Humanity
01-11-2012 18:49
Tax protest outside the Ritz
01-11-2012 17:18
Shared Planet 2012
01-11-2012 16:32
the Bristol City Mayor Fix-Up
01-11-2012 15:32
Halloween haunting at EDO MBM - Demo report 31/10/12
01-11-2012 13:43
Tar sands ‘dirty oil’ could soon be coming to Pembrokeshire, UK
01-11-2012 13:04
US company Valero admits plans to import highly-polluting tar sands oil to UK, where locals vow to oppose it.Death of a Detainee in Harmondsworth
01-11-2012 12:31
UK migration prisons have claimed yet another victim.'Can We Rebuild the Plebs Tradition?'/Destruction of Archives at Ruskin College
01-11-2012 12:25
Meeting in Barsley on 24th November organised by the Independent Working-Class Education Network entitled 'Can We Rebuild the Plebs Tradition?'Also, info on how the archives of Ruskin College, pioneer institution of working-class education, have been partly destroyed, on the instructions of the college principal and despite protests and an offer from the Bishopsgate Institute to take everything. What remains may still be at risk.
Alfie Meadows & Zac King retrial — Day 3
01-11-2012 11:01
Police feared overcrowding in Parliament Square on the day AlfieMeadows nearly died — but kettled protesters who arrived anyway, a
court has heard.
Scotland the corrupt
01-11-2012 00:18
Scotland the CorruptIn the years leading up to the end of the 17th Century, Scotland’s leaders, bankers and landowners had bled and corrupted the nation to such an extent that it was completely bankrupt, driven by greed, fraud and its people subjugated to a life of endless poverty and injustice at the hands of crooked lawyers, judges and the ruling Nobility.
What next for anti-fascism after the 'return to Walthamstow'?
31-10-2012 16:07
This Saturday's attempt by the English Defence League to return to Walthamstow marked another chapter in the decline in fortunes of the organisation. Time was when they could get 3000 to a national demo. Now they only managed 60. After a previous national demo at Walthamstow where 300ish EDL were outnumbered by a couple of thousand opposition, leader 'Tommy Robinson' (Stephen Yaxley-Lennon to his mother) announced there would be a return to Walthamstow. A strange strategy... what made him think that re-running the whole thing two months later would change the result is mysterious.Vigil for Ken Saro-wiwa - 10th November
31-10-2012 14:06
Smash EDO Halloween demo today, 4pm
31-10-2012 13:21
Time for Smash EDO's Halloween noise demo. Today 4pm outside EDO, Home Farm Road, Brighton.Greece: antifascist moto patrols in Athens- VIDEO
31-10-2012 11:03
Greece: antifascist moto patrols in Athens- VIDEOTexas Police Sniper Guns Down Immigrants
31-10-2012 10:49
Welcome to America: Texas Police Sniper Guns Down Immigrants From Helicopter ....... Remember a few months ago how a DEA helicopter was used to gun down two pregnant women and two 14-yr-old boys in Honduras because they were "suspected" of being drug dealers? Well, those same tactics are now being used in America. After being pulled over for having a suspect "covered truck bed," a vehicle which fled from Texas game wardens was shot at by Texas "Department of Public Safety" agents with a sniper rifle from a helicopter.Britain trains Papua killer squads - demo in London against Indonesian president
30-10-2012 20:49
Survival is using SBY's visit to protest against human rights violations in West Papua and to challenge UK Government on its training of specialist anti-terror police who have been implicated in the killing of Papuan leaders.
Report of protest outside North Shields Immigration Reporting Centre - 24/10/12
30-10-2012 14:27
On Wednesday 24th October 2012 Raul Ally and his supporters held a protest to demand justice for Raul and an end to immigration detention and all deportations. See video footage of the protest at:
http://ow.ly/eRX2u Next organising meeting: End Detention! Stop Deportations! Fight back against all forms of racism! Saturday 3rd November, 3.30pm,Gateshead Leisure Centre NE8 4JA