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EDL Tower Hamlets Update

Table Top | 01.09.2011 23:37 | Anti-racism | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements

EDL Tower Hamlets Update





1. As of midnight on Thursday, EDL Bradford, Hull and Rochdale divisions are struggling to fill their coaches for Saturday (which sounds promising but the EDL turn-out could still be high), scroll down through their Facebook page to read the relevant comments...

 http://www.facebook.com/EDL.EnglishDefenceLeague.NS

2. EDL's Facebook is instructing their supporters to muster in Euston, from where it says they'll be escorted to Tower Hamlets by the police...

 http://www.facebook.com/notes/english-defence-league-edl/police-set-conditions-for-the-tower-hamlets-demonstration/253124138055445

Quote: "Please muster at the following public houses
 
The Euston Flyer, 83-87 Euston Road, London, NW1 2RA
 
O'Neills, 73-77, Euston Rd, London, NW1 2QS
 
At 2pm we will make our way to the demo point so if you are not at one of the above you won’t be going... Once we have gathered at the muster point we will then be escorted by police, in groups of 200-300, to Tower Hamlets and the site of the static demonstration. However, we have today received a warning from the police that until we reach the demonstration site, we will not be allowed to raise our flags or banners, and that anyone doing so will be removed from the area."
 
3. Can't say for sure if what the EDL say on Facebook is or isn't true and/or plans won't change, but anti-fascists should put scouts in Euston to report back to the main counter-protest in Whitechapel, also possible some EDL will muster elsewhere as well. Anti-fascist counter-protestors should stay alert, stay mobile and keep looking over your shoulders ALL the time - at the first sign of attempted kettling move briskly away from the police, and use cameras conspicuously to film police ID numbers and discourage police violence. Finally for anyone who thinks the march ban is restricting EDL's free speech 1/ they'll be marching from Euston to Tower Hamlets anyway so the "ban" is a joke, 2/ even on a static protest the EDL are still free (at least within race relations law) to say whatever they damn well like, so if certain people could stop whining about this that'd be appreciated ;)

Fuck Islamo-Fascism and Fuck the EDL

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