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UK Anti-racism Newswire Archive

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Genocide education needs to be brought into the present

22-01-2010 11:26

Secondary education is comprehensive in teaching about the Holocaust and schools around the country will mark Holocaust Memorial Day with commemorative activities. Yet there are limited avenues for educators to translate commemoration into practical action against the racism and prejudice today. A small organisation of young people in the UK tries to make a difference.

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WTF? Anti-extremist protesters jailed

22-01-2010 01:17

When the $^*% did a racist rampage become 'anti-extremist protest?'

thanks bbc

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Camden fascist pub Gloucester Arms has most of their windows shot out

21-01-2010 18:07

Fascist pub The Gloucester Arms at 59 - 61 Leighton Road has been the centre of protests from anti racists following the decision by landlord John Coyne to let hardline neo nazis, the Jobbik Party hold meetings in the pub. The Jobbik Party are part of a European Alliance of Nationalist Movements drafted by the BNPs Nick Griffin. During the past 24 hrs most of the pubs windows have been shot out.

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Shooting The Messenger

21-01-2010 12:28

Sheikh Jarrah protest
2009 began with a determined effort from Israel to destroy their enemies in Gaza, claiming the lives of 500 children in the process. It must have been an irritation to the military that they could not so easily wipe out the journalists, activists and relief workers who made their atrocities public. As a new year dawns, it is these voices of conscience who are becoming an endangered species.

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Emergency in Calais as police repression escalate

21-01-2010 10:36

Please get down to Calais if you can!

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“F*** the p***s” – meet the EDL’s anti-racist poster boy

20-01-2010 22:54

Ever since its formation last year, the English Defence League (EDL) has insisted it is not racist and doesn’t have a problem with ordinary Muslims, just radical extremists. Amit Singh is a British-born Sikh and EDL activist who will address the EDL’s demonstration in Stoke this Saturday to try and show British Asians that the group is neither racist nor anti-Muslim.

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Lili and Keiran still here, but still in danger! Protest this Friday, Newcastle

20-01-2010 15:34

The deportation of Lili and Keiran did not go ahead on Monday. No explanation has been provided by the UK Border Agency for this, they simply never came to collect Lili and Keiran from their room. They have been given new removal directions for next Monday, 25th January at 6.05 am from UK on Easyjet flight U22431 Luton to Paris, for onward transit to Cameroon. There's a further protest this Friday.

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DE: Searches against Antifa in Berlin and Dresden

20-01-2010 14:14

At the 19th February took place a wave of searches against left and anti-fascist rooms, which support the protest against the Nazis’ march at the 13th February in Dresden.

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Antifascist Film Day in Bradford This Saturday

20-01-2010 14:09

No Pasaran! - A day of antifascist films at Bradford's 1 in 12 Club.

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Italy Fiore’s fascist ‘good boys’ gang jailed

20-01-2010 09:45

The most important investigation of the last decade into the activities of violent nazis has come to an end with a court verdict that imposed prison sentences totalling 104 years on 18 people aged between 22 and 35.

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Bad news for Mumia - what are we going to do?

19-01-2010 20:14

Today's ruling in a US court means the death penalty is back on the cards for Mumia Abu Jamal.

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NF Gaffe!

18-01-2010 14:54

The NF have made another gaff and the infighting continues on the far right.

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Stop the EDL in Stoke - 23rd January

17-01-2010 22:14

Anti Fascist protests mach in opposition to the EDL last year
Basic background to EDL and the counter protests, details of 23rd January unity rally in Stoke on trent including travel arrangements

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Boycott fascist pub in Camden week of action 25th-29th Jan 2009 update

17-01-2010 20:48

The Gloucester Arms on Leighton Road in Kentish Town has been subjected to protests by anti racists following the landlord, John Coyne's decision to let organised racists hold meetings in the pub. There will be a week of email and telephone action on the week of 25th - 29th Jan asking that Camden council remove the pub's licence especially as they play hardore porn in front of kids.

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United States Police Pepper Spray Children In 'clash' with Anarchists

17-01-2010 13:26

Before the police attack
The use of inverted comma's to describe 'clash' is useful to those of us that know the police often start or incite these 'clashes' to begin with.
In Phoenix Police sprayed kids as they 'clashed' with anarchists.

Please visit here for video of child who was pepper sprayed:

 http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/bastard/2010/01/scuffles_between_anarcchists_a.php

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Camden Racist Pub Gloucester Arms - week of action at Camden Council Jan 25-29

16-01-2010 21:57

Camden Anarchists protested outside the fascist pub Gloucester Arms on Leighton road, Kentish town, Camden NW5 followoing the decision by landlord John Coyne to let the Jobbik party who are part of an Alliance Of European Nationalist Movement, drafted by Nick Griffen of the BNP. Anonymous activists have asked that a week of emailing / phone action about the pub be carried out.

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Active fascists in the EDL

16-01-2010 18:17

BUA blackshirts on a march - wonder which the EDL member is?
In the run-up to the English Defence League's latest provocation in Stoke-on-Trent, they claim more loudly than ever that they are not a racist/fascist organisation, as they continue their propaganda campaign. However, the real nature of the EDL is never far from the surface, as inspecting their forum quickly reveals.

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Bombs, BNP Splits & The EDL by ‘Malatesta’

16-01-2010 11:50

The 11 prison year sentence passed down to BNP bomber Terence Gavan, the ongoing Aryan Strike Force trial, the ructions in Stoke council group and the general election fallout, and the forthcoming EDL demo means continued strife for the BNP and far right groups.

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Mafia, racism and the crisis of democracy in Italy

16-01-2010 01:38

Paolo Borsellino
... Instead of striking out at Cosa Nostra, the 'Ndrangheta and the Camorra, the recent security laws, (the ill-famed “security package”) was written and approved in the form of a racial law that criminalizes and persecutes the Roma people, refugees and more vulnerable foreigners by excluding them from the workforce - often allowing them to fall into the hands of the clans themselves ...

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BNP Bomber Nailed

15-01-2010 15:54

BNP tendency to run bomb factories jailed today at the Old Bailey after being found guilty of 22 charges.