UK Indymedia - UK Anti-racism Newswire Archive

Yarl’s Wood Migrant Solidarity: Mothering Sunday Demonstration.

10-03-2010 15:06

Noise demo on Sunday 14th March, 12pm - 2pm, Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre, Bedford, MK41 6HL .

We are calling a demonstration in solidarity with the women on hunger strike in Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre. We join these women in their protest against the detention of migrants. We support their bravery and we oppose immigration laws that restrict the freedom of movement of those in need. All welcome!

transport contact: 07879793739, press contact: 07879972629

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AMAZING: Hardcore Nazis Invited To Attend EDL Rallies

10-03-2010 04:29

Liam Pinkham posting on the hardline national socialist chat site VNN, has just posted an insight into why the himself and Hitler-loving cohort Wigan Mike are always seen on EDL marches. His allegations are fatally damaging to the repeated "we are not neo-nazis" propaganda that Trevor Kelway and friends post regularly throughout the internet.

There's far more to it than that in an expose which if true, threatens to cast doubts on the continual rantings of EDL internet trolls that they are not nazis.

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Detainee hunger strikes and arrests in Italy

09-03-2010 23:48

Hunger strike in detention centre in Italy; people involved in the grassroots campaign against detention and racist laws are arrested on 23rd February

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Stop the EDL's racist March in Bolton - March 20

09-03-2010 16:26

Protest against the EDL, Saturday 20 March, 11am, Victoria Square, Bolton

For transport from Oxford see below

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EDL Yobs Urinate On Westminster Abbey

09-03-2010 00:17

If desecrating Nottingham Castle was not enough, on Friday the 5th of March, whilst in London to pay homage to their far right extremist prophet Geert Wilders, the "patriotic crusaders of England's cultural heritage" paid their ultimate respect to one of England's most historic sacred Christian sites, deluging Westminster Abbey with gallons of filthy urine.

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BNP meeting Durham

08-03-2010 22:52

Details sent to a fake facebook profile

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UAF Oppose EDL March in Westminster - Pictures

08-03-2010 21:22

The UAF opposed the EDL march in Westminster in support of in support of Geert Wilders on Friday 5 March 2010. Police largely kept the two groups apart and ensured the march could take place. Photographs Copyright (C) Peter Marshall 2010, all rights reserved.

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Demonstrate Ageinst Home office in Glasgow FESTIVAL COURT 11.30 AM

08-03-2010 17:17

Call Out for Demonstration Ageinst Home Office and its abirtory decisions that are ruining many lives in GlasgowT
hree people kill themselves in Glasgow Red Road court rather than being removed.

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UAF Protest vs EDL March – Pix-&-Vidz – 05 Mar 10

08-03-2010 08:51

Dateline: Tate Britain to the Palace of Westminster, Millbank to Abingdon Street, London, UK, 12:45-17:00 Fri 05 Mar 10 – The far-right English Defence League rallies a white male extremist mob outside Tate Britain on Millbank, to march to the Palace of Westminster on Abingdon Street, in support of Dutch far-right politician Geert Wilders showing his anti-Islam film Fitna in the House of Lords, at the invitation of Baroness Cox and UK Independence Party leader Lord Pearson. So Unite Against Facism called a counter-demonstration which attracted a mix of women and men from varied ethnicities to oppose the rightist ravings of the racist boot boys – only to face harassment, restriction and arrests by the rozzers.

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Asylum Seeking Playwright released from detention

07-03-2010 10:44

MULE has been following the story of community campaigner and playwright Lydia Besong since December, when she was taken into detention just days after her debut play premiered at The Zion Centre in Hulme.

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Newcastle protest in solidarity with Yarl's Wood Hunger Strikers

06-03-2010 17:53

Members of No Borders North East unfurled a banner from a rooftop in Newcastle city center this morning. They were showing their support for the women from Yarl's Wood detention center, who have been on hunger strike for several weeks, and demanding an end to immigration detention.

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Letter from editors of 6 Iranian news agencies to their Western counterparts

05-03-2010 21:12

Chief-editors of six news websites in Iran composed an open letter to some American and European news agencies (newspapers and websites) and criticised their way of covering Iran’s news in the aftermath of the 2009 June election and objected to the unprofessional behaviour of these media outlets in escalating the tension and chaos in Iran and distorting the news about Iran.

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EDL/UAF London 5th March 2010 - disinformation and what actually happened

05-03-2010 18:47

UAF continually created disinfo about this demonstration. why?

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UPDATE: Peter Tierney’s court date moved – protest still on

05-03-2010 15:59

Liverpool Antifascists have learned that, perhaps in a bid to deter protests, Peter Tierney’s trial for assault at the Crown Court has been moved from Monday march 15th to Wednesday March 17th. With the express aim of highlighting the violence used by even high-profile members of the British National Party, we will still be picketing this event.

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Oxford Radical Forum 2010

04-03-2010 22:30

We are proud and excited to present to you the third Oxford Radical Forum, taking place Friday - Sunday, 5 - 7 March.

The Oxford Radical Forum is a FREE three-day event bringing people together to discuss and debate key issues for the left and critical political thought, from climate-change to women's liberation, culture, racism and resistance.

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Unite Against Fascism - Emergency Protest against English Defence League

04-03-2010 19:19

Unite Against Fascism has called an emergency protest to confront a march by the neo-nazi English Defence League to welcome the far-right Dutch MP Geert Wilders to parliament. Geert Wilders is currently on course to become the new Prime Minister of the Netherlands, and is campaigning for the repatriation of all Dutch Muslims.

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No Pasaran! No EDL in Sheffield!

04-03-2010 12:43

The English Defence League (EDL) have made plans to march in Sheffield on 30th May. We call on autonomist anti-fascists to make a stand against them.

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Protest at Prison Supports Yarl's Wood Women

04-03-2010 10:34

More than 50 people protested at Holloway Prison on Wednesday evening against the holding of five women from Yarl's Wood immigration detention centre without trial or charge and to support the women at Yarl's Wood in the fourth week of their hunger strike against the degrading conditions and inhumane treatment there. Photographs Copyright (C) Peter Marshall, 2010. All rights reserved.

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Liverpool Antifascists Folk Night

03-03-2010 23:11

After the success of our first benefit gig, Liverpool Antifascists will be holding another one in order to continue our involvement with the local music scene and to raise further awareness of the antifascist cause.

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EDL splinter group plans "event" in Bradford on St Georges Day

02-03-2010 17:37

An EDL splinter group called “Firms Unite” is reportedly planning a “social gathering” in Bradford on St Georges Day. Evidences shows that at least some of the members of this currently five hundred strong group have intentions to create racial disorder in the city in a similar fashion to how the National Front caused rioting in the city in 2001. Although the group claims to be independent to the EDL,.