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Cardiff: EDL numbers fail to materialise - Photo Report

01-06-2013 19:47

The Bradley Manning solidarity event with Cor Cochion Caerdydd/Cardiff Reds Choir was put off today when it became apparent that the EDL were advertising an event in Cardiff and the choir decided to go to this first. Read this report for the full story. Here are some pictures.

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EDL Swamped 10-to-1 in Cardiff

01-06-2013 17:24

EDL and a handful of locals held a march in Cardiff today, but were outnumbered 10-to-1 by antifascists. Photos to follow.

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White Roses V EDL

01-06-2013 17:19

A hundred anti-fascists gathered at the Brighton’s War Memorial today and left white roses, a symbol of opposition to fascism and war. The White Rose Movement was the name of a group Munich students who opposed the Nazis and were executed. People gathered between 12 noon and 1.30 pm, they held up posters saying “Against Hate, War and Fascism”, “Don’t Hijack Death” and “Don’t let hate divide us”. They laid white roses on the memorial itself.

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EDL ¡No Pasarán! Sheffield

01-06-2013 16:28

There was a party atmosphere to celebrate Sheffield's diversity outside the City Hall today. At around 12.30 a small group of EDL appeared at the end of Division Street they were opposed by a crowd of around a thousand.

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Brighton Bottle Jobs

01-06-2013 12:32

Sussex EDL shit out!

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Banned in USA, playing in South London

01-06-2013 09:41

Rovics outspoken views on everything from occupied Palestine to labor rights have ensured that his music is blacklisted by every commercial radio station in the states.

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Counter the EDL in Portsmouth today june1st

01-06-2013 08:18

The EDL will be attempting to exploit the recent barbaric murder in Woolwich to further their campaign of hate on the streets of Portsmouth.

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EDL Counter Protest, Coventry, June 1st, 2013.

01-06-2013 00:44

EDL in Coventry today.

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Full statement : Newcastle 14 anti fascist defence campaign

31-05-2013 23:13

On Saturday 25 May 2013, 14 anti-racist protesters were arrested outside the Haymarket metro station in Newcastle. The 14 were arrested shortly before the beginning of a counter demonstration against the racist English Defence League (EDL), which had been organised by a coalition of Labour Party councillors, Trade Union officials, and members of the Socialist Worker’s Party (SWP), under the banner of Newcastle Unites. This is Full Statement of what happened.

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There is such a thing as a free lunch

31-05-2013 22:55

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Suggestions for Saturday's EDL & BNP demos

31-05-2013 21:27

Suggestions for Saturday's EDL & BNP demos

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Oppose the EDL - 1st June 2013

31-05-2013 21:04

Saturday could be the largest far right mobilisation on the streets that there has been for many years, with up to 60 English Defence League events planned around the UK. Make sure you show up to oppose them.

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Free Bradley Manning! Free Bradley Manning's banners! (Welcome to Bristol)

31-05-2013 17:22

The big pink 'FREE BRADLEY MANNING' banner has been displayed, without incident, all over the place in the past 18 months or so: Wrexham, Cardiff, Bala, Haverfordwest (where members of Brad's family still live), Chester, Liverpool, Oswestry, north Yorkshire, London, the summit of Snowdon. It's designed to be re-used, attached to railings with easy-to-undo tapes.

In Bristol yesterday, at the start of a five day solidarity effort leading up to Bradley Manning's trial which begins in the US on Monday, this banner and another - 'TRUTH ON TRIAL' - were seized by cops who told me they would be destroying them. In fact they had already badly damaged the banners by hacking them off the railings with a knife and ripping them instead of undoing the bows, having refused my offer to remove them. Since the incident led to an arrest and threat of summons, the banners are now in police custody as exhibits A and B, with the arresting cops announcing as they escorted me to the exit door of Trinity Road police station: ' and when it comes to court we're going to apply for a destruction order.'

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We Are The Many

31-05-2013 14:51

Tomorrow there could be as many as 60 English Defence League protests around England - it will be the largest far right mobilisation we have seen for many years.

Obviously signing a letter to voice your opposition isn't enough but it is something - join over 25,000 people who have signed so far today.

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Stop G8 Direct action skillshare this weekend

31-05-2013 12:56

Skillshare2013 is coming to Brighton this weekend!

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The Daily Mail, Michael Adebolajo, the BNP & Harrow Mosque

31-05-2013 11:23

Conveniently ignoring embarrassing facts like the long-term pattern of Daily Mail support for far-right politics, and BNP chairman Nick Griffin's famous support for Libyan terrorist Colonel Gaddafi etc, the Daily Mail, ITV and BNP are misrepresenting the presence of Michael Adebolajo at a counter-protest to defend Harrow Mosque in 2009 (a counter-protest which was in fact also supported by Tory councillors).

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An open letter to Obama about Syria

31-05-2013 09:35

A modest way of action is writing an open letter. This letter is addressed to Barack Obama and criticizes his Syrian policy. I blame him for : 1. Drawing the wrong red line, 2. Sacrificing human rights and tolerating crimes against humanity to favor American companies 3. Lack of leadership.

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URGENT-Sussex residents-PLEASE phone EA today-RE Fracking

31-05-2013 04:50

Sussex residents - Please lobby the Environment Agency with phone calls NOW!! (Email turn-around time is too long). They are aiming to turn the Balcombe file around by the end of this week for approval by DECC who can then grant Cuadrilla drilling consent...We are hearing that some EA officials are horrified by what Cuadrilla told residents at the drop-in session last week.
Simon Deacon012433756314/Sally Taviner,Team Leader SouthEast-01794 832796.
If you can't get through to them try :Hannah Hyland 01903 703952 or the Chichester Office: 01243 756301.

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Urgent: Rough Sleepers Attacked in Centerl London

31-05-2013 00:24

It has came to our attention that Rough Sleepers are currently being attacked in Central London by a gang of three men on a nightly basis.

We urgently appeal that this information is spread far and wide to those associated with our streets in London.

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UG#643 - Living A Higher, More Ethereal Life (Foreclosures, Monongahela, Walden)

30-05-2013 23:37

What would it mean to live 'a higher & more ethereal life' we ask this week in a successor program to last week's show. The quote is from Henry David Thoreau's classic Walden which we keep reading, and which details the shed he built by Walden Pond in 1845 at a cost of $28.12½ (i.e. around $1000 nowadays). Our main presentation is a 2013 interview about Direct Action to resist the US government sponsored armed gangs who are attempting to evict people from their homes. We supplement this with short readings from John Taylor Gatto's Underground History of American Education and from Suelo.