London Anti-racism Newswire Archive

15-04-2007 16:38

Islamo fascism is still fascism !

This is for the ones who survived the Islamic Revolution in Iran 1979 ....

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15-04-2007 11:16

Is the Met assisting hate propaganda?

AWAAZ - South Asia Watch, a group formed mainly by young educated British Asians, condemns what it believes to be an attempt by London's Metropolitan Police to lend authority to dubious claims being made by Hindu fundamentalist groups in Britain. "These claims mainly centre around the allegation that Muslim students on university campuses are engaging in 'aggressive conversions' or 'forcible conversions' of Hindu and Sikh girls".
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05-04-2007 11:15

Coward Of Oz Bans Bilal Philips And Yvonne Ridley

Ridley, who was a senior reporter for Britian's Sunday Express, converted to Islam three years after she was captured by the Taliban while on an undercover assignment for the newspaper in 2001. Read more >>

02-04-2007 14:37 | 1 addition

Blockading Agrexco UK Is Legal Say Met Police

Agrexco UK Valentines Blockade Case Dropped by Met Police

Israeli War Criminals Cornered as Blockade of Israeli export company is deemed legal by Met police.

2 April 2007 Read more >>

02-04-2007 10:20 | 4 additions

Stop new Gatwick detention centre being built-demo on the 21st of April

Call out for a demo and an action day on Saturday on the 21st of April 2007 against the Gatwick detention centre being built. Read more >>

24-03-2007 16:59

Anti-slavery march demands reparations for slave trade

This afternoon a group of around thirty anti-slavery protesters marched through Oval en route to Brixton demanding an official apology from the British Government. Read more >>

22-03-2007 01:51

Remembrance and Resistance

3 Nights at Ramparts on Colonialism, Racism & the fight for Justice
RampART Creative Social Centre
7a Rampart Street, off Commercial Road, LONDON, E2
Nearest Tube Whitechapel, Aldgate East, Shadwell
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20-03-2007 18:28

Vigil outside FA HQ against the Israel/England Euro 2008 Qualifier

Boycott Israeli Goods Campaign Press Release
www.bigcampaign.org

Kick Apartheid Out of Football

Vigil outside FA HQ against the Israel/England Euro 2008 Qualifier
Soho Square 24th March 2007, 1pm

Contact

boycott@palestinecampign.org
Tel 02077006192, 07845039980 Read more >>

20-03-2007 12:14

3 nights at RampARTs on Colonialism, Racism & the fight for Justice

Anti-Racist/Confronting Colonialism Residency at RampART Creative Social Centre - Thurs 22nd, Fri 23rd & Sat 24th March
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13-03-2007 00:12

Kurdish Demonstrators Arrested at the Syrian Embassy in London

Some 100 Syrian Kurds from across the country held a protest today at the Syrian embassy in London to commemorate the so-called Qamishly uprising in 2004, where tens of Kurdish rioters were killed and thousands arrested by the Syrian police and army. The demo was restricted and 'penned in', but four angry protesters managed to break off and get to the embassy. All four, two of whom are said to be asylum seekers, were violently arrested and taken to Belgrave police station. Read more >>

28-02-2007 13:38

Solidarity with Indigenous Resistance, action at Canada House

To celebrate exactly one year of land reclamation (Six Nations, Ontario, Canada) a delegation visited Canada House, Trafalgar Square, London today (28/02/07) to present demands and show support for the sovereignty struggle in Ontario. Read more >>

25-02-2007 13:11

Reminder: Emergency demo against deportations to DRC Mon. 26th 1-3pm

STOP DEPORTATIONS TO DRC - CONGO IS NOT SAFE

Emergency protest Monday 26 February 1-3pm.
Home Office
2 Marsham Street
London SW1P 4DF
(nearest tubes St James Park and Westminster) Read more >>

24-02-2007 00:18

Fascists NOT WELCOME in Reading - or anywhere else! Demo report.

On Monday 19th February, the local Reading press reported that BNP leader Nick Griffin, was gonna pay our town a visit on the Wednesday. The BNP's regional organiser reckons they've got "a lot of members (in Reading) but no organiser" and that if they could be organised, they could field candidates in the local elections, maybe up to 4. Read more >>

23-02-2007 16:43

What do Oligarch Cherney, Lord Pearson of Rannoch and the UKIP have in common?

Further to my last posting

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/02/362998.html I wanted to draw your attention to these articles on UKIP...

http://www.itv.com/news/index_f819d6a8061d27e471bc9c5c637caa01.html

and this

http://uk.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUKL233341920070223

... this is madness! Criminal oligarch Cherney meeting with a senior member of the House of Lords to provide money for UKIP... why else would a Lord meet with a dubious Russian oligarch. How can this have gone unnoticed??? Read more >>

22-02-2007 12:21

Emergency demo Monday re deportations to DRCongo

At yesterday's meeting of the LSE Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism! society at which a representative of the Congo Support Project spoke, it was agreed that we would organise an emergency demo on Monday to protest against the deportations planned for Monday evening. Police permission under SOCPA has now been granted. Please distribute information widely and come to event. Read more >>

21-02-2007 02:42

De Menezes Murderer/Patsy Rewarded

Surveillance video proved the police to be lying about the incident. It appears that this officer was rewarded for covering for the real shooter, who may have worked for an intelligence service, and murdered the electrician who saw something he should not have. You do not empty a clip into someone's head at point-blank range. Read more >>

19-02-2007 15:25 | 1 addition

Anti-BNP demo, Wednesday 21st February, Reading

Nick Griffin is coming to Reading on Wednesday to sir up racial hatred, and to try to organise the BNP. Read more >>

12-02-2007 12:24

2 short videos of noisy No Borders Demo 10th Feb - Heathrow

These are 2 video short clips of samba band and general demoing outside of Harmondsworth detention centre at the weekend. No borders! Close the centres!

Previous stuff:
Stop Deportations to Iraqi Kurdistan - including photo of defiant inmate at a distance!

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/02/361861.html
More photos:

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/02/361996.html
More photos: Nottingham against detention centres & deportations - Harmondsworth, Heathrow

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/02/362059.html Read more >>

11-02-2007 00:26 | 1 addition

More from Harmondsworth 10/2

Around 250 people assembled outside Harmondsworth today, a mix of refugees, asylum seekers and their supporters. Some had travelled by coach from as far away as Manchester, Leeds and Bradford. Some played Samba. Some wanted to give long speeches and pump their ego's for the Labour leadership race. Read more >>

02-02-2007 19:07

Blatant discrimination? Children, Asylum and Hillingdon Home Office apparatchiks

How the Home Office's planned 'reforms' for children who claim asylum alone is already being implemented by the London Borough of Hillingdon. Read more >>