Smash BNP National Demo Glasgow
edinburgh afa | 20.07.2012 11:02 | Anti-racism | Social Struggles
On Saturday 28 July, the BNP will descend on Glasgow city centre for what leader Nick Griffin is calling the "biggest nationalist demonstration ever in Glasgow".
On Saturday 28 July, the BNP will descend on Glasgow city centre for what leader Nick Griffin is calling the "biggest nationalist demonstration ever in Glasgow". It follows their failed attempts - alongside their fascist chums in the Scottish Defence League - to carry out activity on Buchanan Street over two Saturdays in July so far. On both occasions, passers by and local anti-fascists have united to show their opposition to the BNP and SDL - and they were soon sent packing. Saturday 28th must be a huge show of force against the fascists - they shall not pass!
*MEET BY THE BLUE POLICE BOX/ALL SAINTS, BUCHANAN ST.
*MEET BY THE BLUE POLICE BOX/ALL SAINTS, BUCHANAN ST.
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You will all get arrested morons!
20.07.2012 11:59
anti-fascists are the real fascists!
@anti-fascists are the real fascists!
20.07.2012 12:57
AF
Shakes head
20.07.2012 13:09
Now some fools are about to make the same mistake in Scotland, the BNP will be lucky to get 100 supporters to the city, imagine if all that happened was the people of Glasgow ignored them and just got on with their lives, imagine if the police concentrated on other more important things, imagine if the Black and Asian community stood by and laughed at the BNP as they marched by.
In the German city of Hamburg a student group organised a laughing protest against local Neo-Nazis, people were encouraged to point and laugh at them when they marched by, it was totally humiliating, men, woman, children, Turkish people, White, Black, Chinese, even the Police all pointing and laughing at the flags, the boots, the silly T shirts. Support for the Nazis fell like a stone (who wants to be laughed at for five solid hours ? ) and they have never marched again.
Ignore the BNP, Laugh at the BNP just don;t give them the confrontation they are so desperately seeking.
Learn the lesson
@learn the lesson
20.07.2012 13:18
Now please spare us your "lessons". You obviously live in some alternative reality.
Brighton 161
@Learn the lesson
20.07.2012 13:34
AF
AFter thought...
20.07.2012 20:56
"Electricity company", oh come on, Nuclear Death you mean.
Energy De France.
Learn the lesson -
20.07.2012 21:17
A1 - Well for a start I learned they're not called the EDF
Q2 - "The ONLY reason their dog and pony show got any publicity was because people organised against it"?
A2 - The EDL have had many hours of prime-time TV coverage and hundreds of pages of mainstream newspaper coverage, in some cases resulting from demos against which there was no counter-protest, and despite their not ever being a very large organisation, so your analysis is totally incorrect
Q3 - "Imagine if the Black and Asian community stood by and laughed at the BNP as they marched by"?
A3 - That would be an example of people organising against them ;)
If, as you say "in the German city of Hamburg a student group organised a laughing protest against local Neo-Nazis... and they have never marched again" that's superb - a very good example of how to organise inclusive anti-fascist protests. Your call to (quote) "Ignore the BNP, Laugh at the BNP" is totally self-contradictory (laughing at them is not ignoring them). I think the one good point you were trying to make is that ridicule might be more constructive than violence, and, given the option, I'd agree. If however the BNP decide to physically attack those people who laugh at them (or anyone else for that matter) then fighting back would be an option
Case
Don't be conned by media lies about the BNP
21.07.2012 09:40
The media thrive on sensationalism and that is why they write stories about the BNP describing them as Hitler loving nazis because stories like that sell newspapers. In reality the BNP are normal political party concerned about a wide range of issues.
The media lie to you about everything including the BNP
hitler fan
21.07.2012 15:23
Not conned
When the SDL last gathered in Glasgow
21.07.2012 17:01
Nicks knacks
What really happened in Hamburg...
21.07.2012 18:03
anti
Don't be conned by BNP lies about the BNP
21.07.2012 21:04
LD
watch they joiners
22.07.2012 12:53
b and q
Hamburg Lesson
22.07.2012 15:18
Uriel
@Learn The Lesson
27.07.2012 19:59
The EDL organised their demonstration to be on the same day as Bristol Pride, to highlight their strong connections with the LGBT community (and proceeding to attack an elderly woman, a trans woman, and hurl abuse at many others).
Bristol Pride quite rightly stood their ground. This is why there was a huge police presence. It was because of the EDL.
Sarah