Cardiff v EDL Saturday June 5th [2]
[Bristol] Ian Bone | 30.05.2010 00:23
Could be interesting. Two groups of people that haven’t got out on the streets to fight the EDL yet are the West Indians and Somalis. Cardiff has well established communities of both and signs are some sections are mobilising for Saturday with talk of 80 taxi drivers turning up for example.Radicalism seems to have vanished from West Indian politics here since the street riots of the 70s and 80s so what happens in Cardiff will be hopefully be a return to the streets. All depends on whether they are able to act autonomously or walk into the pens with the UAF and bleat slogans. Anyway here’s an update from Adamski – keep ‘em coming mate:
‘The EDL are gonna try and invade Cardiff on Saturday 5th June and I don’t think local people are very happy about it. The counter-demonstration looks set to be massive
A group of TAXI DRIVERS turned up to the last planning meeting and spoke about the racism and abuse they often experience on a nightly basis. They said that over 80 drivers so far had said that they would be striking on Saturday 5th June (and they expect more to join the action) they explained that this wasn’t an act of fear – ‘we get racism every night’ but an act of defiance……………
Anti-fascists have also launched the Bluebirds vs. The Nazis group and over 5000 leaflets have been distributed among Cardiff City Fans with fantastic feedback on the streets.
Cardiff’s biggest REGGAE, SKA, ROOTS night have asked to be official sponsors of the demo and are bringing their SOUNDSYSTEM – Jah Rastafari!
Hell, there is even gonna be a bike bloc on the demo with CARDIFF CRITICAL MASS saying they are coming to cycle against racism and fascism. There is a proud tradition of anti-fascist cycling, hence we read in a report of a 1930s demonstration staged by Oxford based Redshirts against Moseley’s Blackshirts:
‘From the far end of the Broad there approached a din of shouting and chanting and a cacophony of bicycle bells. Down past Trinity and Blackwell’s, four abreast, rode a group of about twenty young men and women, sounding the bells on their handlebars in shrill chorus and singing at the top of their voices the Jewish anthem Hatikvah – Hebrew for “The Hope” – to the melody of a Moldavian folk song: “Cart and Ox”’
Taxis, bikes? We just need to get some buses, motorcycles and go-karts and we can rock n roll!
Smash racism, Saturday 5th June, Cardiff -
Come rain or shine it’s gonna be HEAVY
‘The EDL are gonna try and invade Cardiff on Saturday 5th June and I don’t think local people are very happy about it. The counter-demonstration looks set to be massive
A group of TAXI DRIVERS turned up to the last planning meeting and spoke about the racism and abuse they often experience on a nightly basis. They said that over 80 drivers so far had said that they would be striking on Saturday 5th June (and they expect more to join the action) they explained that this wasn’t an act of fear – ‘we get racism every night’ but an act of defiance……………
Anti-fascists have also launched the Bluebirds vs. The Nazis group and over 5000 leaflets have been distributed among Cardiff City Fans with fantastic feedback on the streets.
Cardiff’s biggest REGGAE, SKA, ROOTS night have asked to be official sponsors of the demo and are bringing their SOUNDSYSTEM – Jah Rastafari!
Hell, there is even gonna be a bike bloc on the demo with CARDIFF CRITICAL MASS saying they are coming to cycle against racism and fascism. There is a proud tradition of anti-fascist cycling, hence we read in a report of a 1930s demonstration staged by Oxford based Redshirts against Moseley’s Blackshirts:
‘From the far end of the Broad there approached a din of shouting and chanting and a cacophony of bicycle bells. Down past Trinity and Blackwell’s, four abreast, rode a group of about twenty young men and women, sounding the bells on their handlebars in shrill chorus and singing at the top of their voices the Jewish anthem Hatikvah – Hebrew for “The Hope” – to the melody of a Moldavian folk song: “Cart and Ox”’
Taxis, bikes? We just need to get some buses, motorcycles and go-karts and we can rock n roll!
Smash racism, Saturday 5th June, Cardiff -
Come rain or shine it’s gonna be HEAVY
[Bristol] Ian Bone
Original article on IMC Bristol:
http://bristol.indymedia.org/article/692514