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Protest against BNP parade and 'fun day' in Essex, Sat 24th April.

Essex Against Fascism | 19.04.2004 02:18 | Anti-racism | Cambridge | London

Stop the BNP! Anti-Fascists are gathering at 11am, Wickford Railway Station, near Basildon, South Essex. Sat 24th April. 20 minute drive from the M25, eastbound along the A127 towards Southend.

ASSEMBLE 11am. AT WICKFORD RAILWAY STATION, ESSEX
SAY NO TO FASCISM! SAY NO TO THE BNP!
No to a Nazi race hate festival in Essex!!!

The BNP are hoping to hold a parade in Wickford, South Essex, on Sat 24th April. They plan this parade to then go on to a fascist ‘family fun day’ at a private angler’s clubhouse and carp lake at Crowsheath, Downham, at the foot of the Hanningford Reservoir, between Basildon and Chelmsford.

The BNP have one councillor in the South Essex area, but their activity has a more sinister side than the ballot box. While the BNP now try to put on a respectable, ‘family image’, at their core still lays the same network of Hitler worshipping Nazi thugs from the days of John Tyndall.

The area in which they are holding this ‘fun day’ has a network of fascists in it with a nasty record, and are despised by the majority of decent local people. This was the area between Chelmsford and Basildon where the Nazi terror group Combat 18 chose to retreat to in the mid 1990’s, crazily dreaming of making it their “Aryan Homeland”!!! This was the area in which the local fascists responded to September 11th by throwing two petrol bombs at Muslim owned restaurant in Wickford, and by throwing bricks through the windows and daubing fascist graffiti on the walls of a local Mosque.

All this is part of the BNP’s fascistic dreams of precipitating a ‘race war’ and ‘ethnic cleansing’ in the UK, and is the unpalatable reality that lies beneath their current fad for smart suits and smooth rhetoric. All sorts of white power freaks and neo-Nazi psycho’s are travelling to this part of Essex. North American and European based Nazi websites are full of discussions about this supposed local community ‘St Georges Day Celebration’ and whether it has easy access from the airports! It is also rumoured that French Fascist leader Le Penn will be attempting to visit Britain that same weekend, but the location of his presence is not yet known.

At this Essex event, BNP speakers will promote their fascist and white supremacist ideology, while supporters will also be encouraged to practice sports such as archery and paintball armed combat! Oooo, plus bouncy castles, face painting, a disco and the sale of fascist literature and regalia. They also plan to mix heavy use of alcohol with messing about with fireworks. However, the local community and council are putting more and more pressure against this event so that there is a good chance it will be cancelled before the weekend.

Local people are planning a peaceful protest against this sick Nazi ideology polluting their community. But they need the help of every opponent of fascism and racism, every decent person in the area! Come and make a stand for peace, justice, harmony and equality! Come and make your stand against the BNP and their racist and fascist poison! Help disrupt the fascist fun day!

ASSEMBLE AT WICKFORD RAILWAY STATION. 11am.
SAY NO TO FASCISM! SAY NO TO THE BNP!

Essex Against Fascism


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Maps

19.04.2004 02:49


Here are some maps. The BNP will try and have its fascist fun day at the foot of the resrvoir above Wickford.

Red Essex !


Spoiling a funday... hmm

21.04.2004 21:14

Fair enough it's a BNP funday, but it may be more helpful to them than not if loads of wild eyed types shouting 'fascist' turn up, harassing them and their kids in front of the media.

I'm not saying don't do it, the more trouble they have in East Anglia the better afaic, but getting it wrong will turn them into martyrs and make the antifash look like bad guys.

Rob Ray


What really happened was this.......

03.11.2005 03:16

1. The Fun Day went ahead, 150 plus BNP in attendance.
2. A truck load of money was raised, loads of propaganda sold.
3. ‘Anti-human-fascist’ scum, abused ordinary people as they left Wickford Station leading to us getting even more support later. We met somewhere completely different all except a few security men to keep the subterfuge going. (The means trick to you, dumb arse)
4. You handed us an unbelievable media platform, a real gift, with some fantastic media coverage including local radio and five local papers. We could never have paid for something like that in a million years!
5. On the day the BNP out witted you at every turn.
6. The sun shone on what was one of the hottest April days on record.
7. You were made to look like utter cunts in front of everyone.
8. In the unlikely event that any of you would have found the balls to actually attack the site, we were ready, tooled-up and would have kicked the absolute fucking shit out you with no quarter given. We had a whole bunch of ‘faces’ waiting inside the main building away from the police and cameras.
9. It was private land with children present and so would have got away with it in court.
10. Apart from the frustration from some of our ‘gentlemen’ at not being able to fuck you up, our moral went through the roof with our little victory. Partly because it was such a great day, but mostly because we truly realised that you lot are every bit as predictable and fucking stupid as we first thought; now crawl away and stick that up your arse ‘Anti-fash’ scum.

James
mail e-mail: Jamesfr@hotmail.co.uk


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