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The Northern Green Gathering and the British National Party

Antifascist | 03.08.2006 14:23 | Anti-racism | Sheffield

Get your dates right or you'll be bedding down with some very strange bedfellows.

Since Hitler was reputedly a vegetarian, perhaps BNP leader Nick Griffin will stay on site for the Northern Green Gathering after the British National Party's annual 'Red, White, and Blue Festival' comes to an end later this month. That's right, the organizers of the Northern Green have chosen the same site on which the fascist BNP and their fellow Nazis are holding their yearly get-together. So, when you're paying into the Northern Green, remember that some of your cash is going straight into the pockets of the fascist-friendly scumbag who owns the site. And since the BNP are just as aware of the forthcoming event as the Northern Green organizers are of their predecessors, you might want to check under the toilet seats for razor-blades before sitting down. Alternatively, you could do something better with your weekend.

Antifascist

Additions

Event Location

03.08.2006 14:43

Dockber Laithe Farm

Northern Green Gathering
Dockber Laithe Farm
Clitheroe
Lancs
BB7 4LF

The site is just off the A59 near Sawley, Clitheroe, Lancashire.

The above is taken from thre NGG web site:

http://www.nggonline.org.uk/

The BNP site, www.bnp.org.uk/rwb06 has this info:

Tickets for the RWB 2006 are now on sale.

Saturday - Sunday 12th - 13th August, usual site at Sawley, Lancashire.

Look up the NGG post code on Google Maps and you get the attached location.

searcher

EF! gathering's better anyway

03.08.2006 23:59

Anyway, the Earth First! summer gathering is better to go to anyway, than the Northern Green, if you have to choose. And this year you get a mid-Wales seaside beautiful venue thrown into the bargain. All for less money, and all for trying to get together to change things for the better. And no fascists to boot (as it were).

The Earth First! Summer Gathering is the place where people involved in radical ecological direct action - or those who want to be involved - get together for five days of time and space to talk, walk, share skills, learn, play, rant, find out what's going on, find out what's next, live outside, strategise, hang out, incite, laugh and conspire.

The gathering is also a practical example of non-hierarchical low-impact living in action.

We are a diverse community with a wide range of approaches to our action, so there should be plenty to interest and inspire everyone whether you have been active for years or are completely new to it all.

greenie anti-fash
Homepage: http://earthfirstgathering.org.uk

Or look at it this way

05.08.2006 12:45

You could equally say that the Green-friendly farmer is pocketing money from the BNP. Personally, we believe the landowner has sympathies only with his bank account, and is guilty of just not caring what goes on on his land. We hope that we can educate him while we are there.
While NGG would be much happier if the BNP weren't using the same site, and all disappeared in a puff of smoke, along with their poison, it is important to consider that NGG will be delivering an alternative into the area, providing the voice of reason, and demonstrating that respect for each other and the environment is the only way to sustainability, the only viable future.

Gael
Homepage: http://www.nggonline.org.uk

Slating NGG will make no difference here

08.08.2006 15:31

I have spoken to said farmer about the range of events he holds on the land. Apart from the BNP gathering, the rest of the events are fluffy hippy gatherings and sound system parties. He really doesn't have any ties to any of them, he cares as little about NGG as he does about the bnp. Like Gael says, it's just about making some cash to him. If he was a bnp supporter/sympathiser, do you think he would allow most of the events on the site to be ones that tend to attract lots of antifascists?

It has been suggested to me that if NGG and the other events held there all withdrew, on this basis, then maybe he could be persuaded to stop hosting the BNP gathering. I think this is garbage. I suspect he'll just get some other events to come along - biker rallies, knitting festivals...anti fascist gatherings...and won't care what they are either, and be all the happier with the BNP gathering organisers for staying and not causing him any trouble.

Believe it or not, it is possible for people to not have any political views.

If you have a problem with the BNP gathering, go complain at them, not at NGG. Hold a demonstration outside, throw eggs at them, cause trouble for them. Then when they've all gone home stay for NGG and you will be most welcome.

stu

Comments

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razor portaloo massacre — josh
No Coincidence — Antifascist
Site-owner — Andrew
Hitler The Modern Vegetarian — Tim
news article from 2002 — Martin
Essay on Hitler's reputed vegetarianism — Soggy Sosmix
Who cares? — N.Holmes
yea it matters — soggy sosmix
collett/reynolds — SAD BNP
Sad? — Julian Clary
Normal? — Reg
Sod Farmer Giles! — Yorkshire anti-racist
So Nice... — I'm still going
Its not consistent — Mary
Fascism is an irrelevance to middle-class hippies — Jennings
Saddening... — Northern Green Goer
Economic sabotage anyone? — Freddie Fencecutter
Fuck The Farmer — Black N Red
Stu (additions) — Black N Red
fao stu — Concerned Of Gipton
Northern Greed — Ollie
hysteria — green pixie
EXCUSE ME — JOSH
Drip, Drip... — Boycott the Northern Greed
This is so typical... — xZx
xZx — West Yorks antifascist
xZx — antifascist
Does antifascism have a bad rep? — xZx
Whats going on? — Rudeboy
"CUNT" — JOSH
Military Exercises For Three Year Old Kids - An Insight Into A BNP Government — TT
Antifascism's "bad reputation" — Ex-AFA
3 points on stuff that has come up in this thread — C.Y.
Bad rep and undermining etc... — xZx
Say No — Antifascist
Stop using this thread to attack antifascists — ANTIFA member (personal capacity)
Earth First! — Hippy
... — Ant
Response to say no... — xZx
FAO xZx — Antifascist
Going? — Gone
Pity the poor NGG — JJ
Saddening... — Yorkshire RASH
Cash — Ollie
Traitors — Bradford anti-racist
Bright idea? — Redbug
Fuck the NGG — Angry
Redbug — Arnie
Accountability — Disgusted of Armley
Saddened aswell.. — ex ngg organiser
RWB — Joe
'Joe' — Auntie
"Joe" — Antifascist
ex ngg organiser — black & green hippy
Scabs — FTBNP
Northern Green Gathering — Green Man
Betrayed by the NGG — Green anti-fascist
An example of why no antiracist should be at the NGG (from Lancaster UAF blog) — Arnold
Never Forget — Antifascist
Stu — U.N.C.L.E.
Nick Cass — AntiBNP
Cass — Bramley Red
Cash — StayAtHome :(
Cash — Northern Green
Politics — FAO Stu
Ethical choices — Trendy Liberal
Choices — ...
I am not shit stirring — Nick Cass
Nick Cass — Milky Bar Kid
Sid Williamson — Ian Jones
Nick Cass & The NGG — Disgusted with the NGG
Just desserts — Sod the NGG!
Nick Cass — Rudeboy
Update — AntiBNP

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