Anti-racist uprising in Oldham
brian | 27.05.2001 19:03
The New York Times, Sunday May 27 reports on a major upheaval in Nothern England, describing over 500 youth fighting a pitched battle in the streets with riot clad cops. Any Indymedia reports or interviews on that came down?
According to the Times report ( http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-Britain-Riot.html) the fighting began after a group of white youth attacked the home of a south asian family in the North England town of Oldham. Youth from the community responded with an attack on a bar frequented by whites in the community. Agence France Presse called it
"one of Britain's worst outbreaks of racial violence in years, hundreds of youths clashed with police in Oldham on Saturday night and Sunday morning."
Is there any further reporting or background info from the independent media?
"one of Britain's worst outbreaks of racial violence in years, hundreds of youths clashed with police in Oldham on Saturday night and Sunday morning."
Is there any further reporting or background info from the independent media?
brian
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Shhh! We're having an errection
27.05.2001 19:53
How am I supposed to manufacture consent if theres ruckus and riot?
Its not like we can put them all on rotting hulks and ship them off to another planet.
I dont know how to pay them to shut up as a succession of manmade disasters just struck.
Im even thinking of turfing out the Queen,She wont last a new york minute when we all go euro.They have standards.
The too hard baskets full Im afraid.
It would take a violent revolution
to change my mind.
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Molotovs for robocops
27.05.2001 20:55
Proven in new field trials.
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Background info
27.05.2001 22:21
Despite what you might have heard, this is not an anti-white uprising, but it does appear that there are some feelings of hatred towards ordinary white people among the Asian community and some fools put bricks through random windows of people's homes. Overall though the events have been encouraging, with most anger focused on the cops. What happens in the near future is unpredictable, but unless working class people in Oldham start working together against fascism and the pigs there is likely to be more segregation and that can't be healthy.
Links for more info:
Anti-Nazi League report of Oldham clashes between NF and anti-racists/Asian community on May 05:
www.anl.org.uk/news.htm
Lib Dem Simon Hughes accuses Hague of provoking racial unrest:
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/election2001/story/0,9029,497403,00.html
Independent On Sunday coverage and background info (best by far):
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/story.jsp?story=74845
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/story.jsp?story=74918
BBC coverage (surprisingly good):
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_1354000/1354363.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_1354000/1354486.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_1354000/1354777.stm
Lemming
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Love Thy Neighbour
27.05.2001 23:00
Sanctimonious
Race the trump card?
27.05.2001 23:49
It's perfectly good that new labour can give the impression that they are all for fairness and equality, but the fact is, this is not a fair society. Generally speaking, we don't care or share in this country, we jealously possess and protect the things we own. Which is why there is still inequality and alienation, arguably more so than 10 years ago.
So, with this in mind, the petty and possessive nature is likely to influence anyone born here, regardless of their race. What the bbc termed 'third generation asians' have increasingly become influenced by the rot that is being experienced by the whole country. And inevitably, some of the more stupid, less caring people in any society, will get the wrong idea about who is to blame and will start causing friction with each other, which sooner or later turns into petrol bombs and casualties.
The fact is, these people are just not happy and so they are looking for people to blame. I blame the governments and busineeses, but a white racist might blame a pakistani and vice versa. I think in recent times with the massive coverage of the Stephen Lawrence murder and other incidents, with the huge importance placed on good race relations and the huge stigma now of being labelled racist, people have been feeling threatened and I personally sometimes have found myself walking on eggshells around people with different colour skin to me, in case I am labelled a racist for something I might say.
Now, I have no racist tendancies at all, but because of this constant social pressure *not* to be racist, I find myself noticing people's skin colours more than ever. This does not look to me to be a good way of intregrating a society.
Just a thought anyway... never intended it to be this long.
townie
e-mail: cant_cope@hotmail.com
according to the tv news in America
28.05.2001 00:50
The other notable facts were that only 15% of Oldham are Asian, and the skins were organizing around the fact that a white had been allegedly brutalized (and killed? maybe?) by an Asian.
A skin was interviewed briefly, his accent was so thick that ABC provided subtitles, and he attributed many problems to Asians.
This sounds a lot like nazi tactics even in the US. They fixate on minority-on-white crime and say that it's a sign of social decline, indicating that the minorities have "forgotten their place" and a threat to some imagined nationalistic birthright. They get people fired up, and then have a demonstration.
Here (in California) the nazis don't have much support, and the anti-nazis are a little more popular, so the nationalists have a rally and don't attack anything. They wait for anti-nazis to attack first. In other states and in rural areas, they still can vandalize and terrorize people.
Before anyone starts going off on the "we should all become colorblind" rhetoric, remember that coordinated anonymous vandalism that's racist is an effective form of terrorism. It's unacceptable. If the cops aren't fighting it, can you blame the people if they take it upon themselves to deal with it. And can you blame them for considering the cops their enemy?
johnk
e-mail: johnk@woodstock.com
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28.05.2001 02:19
But the same logic applies to attacking police because they are police, or attacking suits. It is lazy and stupid generalisations that started this whole mess in the first place and the sooner we transcend this and start to accept every person as an individual, the sooner this crap will all be over and we can all concentrate on making the world good again.
townie
e-mail: cant_cope@hotmail.com
More mainstream media links
28.05.2001 03:15
www.guardian.co.uk/racism/Story/0,2763,497637,00.html
www.guardian.co.uk/racism/Story/0,2763,497644,00.html
www.guardian.co.uk/racism/Story/0,2763,497643,00.html
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Homepage: http://www.guardian.co.uk
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