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12th annual protest against deaths in custody - Saturday 27 October

29-10-2010 18:14

9th annual march againt deaths in custody, 27 October 2007
UFFC Annual march against custody deaths and abuses

Saturday 30th October 2010

Assemble Trafalgar Square 12 noon.

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Dump Veolia Protest at the Natural History Museum, London 23 Oct 2010

29-10-2010 07:47

The Dump Veolia Campaign lead a demonstration outside the Natural History Museum on 23rd October 2010 to protest against Veolia's sponsorship of the Environment Wildlife Photographer of the Year Exhibition at the Natural History Museum.

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MI6 chief: We need intelligence operations to stop Iran developing nuclear weapo

29-10-2010 07:41

MI6 Chief Sir John Sawers delivers his 'Britain's Secret Frontline' speech
"Stopping nuclear proliferation cannot be addressed purely by conventional diplomacy. We need intelligence-led operations to make it more difficult for countries like Iran to develop nuclear weapons," Head of MI6 John Sawers said in the first public speech by a serving UK secret intelligence service chief.

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Campaign call for Co-operative Boycott of Israeli Goods

28-10-2010 21:33

Pro-Palestinian activists will be aware that the consumer Boycott Israeli Goods have been heavily involved with a campaign to get the Co-operative Group to cease all trade agreements with Agrexco, as the Co-operative are currently claiming that they do not to stock settlement goods in their food stores throughout the United Kingdom.

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Arson attack on info shop

28-10-2010 21:23

Neo-Nazis are suspected to be behind an arson attack on Berlin's oldest info shop. On the same night fascist graffiti was sprayed on several left wing projects in the same area.

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Home Office stop-and-search figures hide evidence of systematic discrimination

28-10-2010 15:38

A stop-and-search operation at the East Ham tube station
Massoud Shadjareh, the Chairman of the Islamic Human Rights Commission, said today that the Home Office’s latest figures on numbers of people stopped and searched under anti-terrorism legislation fail to give the full picture when it comes to Muslim concerns about the discriminatory use of the powers to target Muslims in particular.

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EDL demo in amsterdam restricted after AFA campaing

27-10-2010 23:03

update: the edl demo is banned by the mayor to the midle of nowhere in the western docklands after an good media campagne and grassroots organising by amsterdam afa.
its waiting now to see if they will accept but the mayor made it very clear that any EDL (or AFA for that matter) that demonstrators outside their designated area will be arrested (and in case of the edl "kicked back on the boat they came from", the mayors words)
AFA still puts out an alert too opose EDL actvity over the whole weekend (there is talk that the EDL will seek an court rulling too get their central demo location back) but is faced with an emergency "restraining" order. An UAF like protest is allowed in the center of town at the old synagoge at the feet of the remembrance statue for the 1941 general strikers.
Ajax tifosi and migrant youth have vowed to give the EDl canal swimming lessons if they show up in town mob-handed.

overal, already an succes, below an translation of our latest pressrelease

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Whose cops are more racist, America’s or the Brits'?

27-10-2010 22:51

In any global battle of the racists, the U.S. and Britain are always top contenders. A new study has some putting odds on merrily racist Old England (and Wales) for the honor of white supremacist society in-chief. “The figures would seem to indicate that Blacks in England and Wales are targeted by police with even more ferocity than their counterparts in New York City.” But the Big Apple takes a back seat to no one, when it comes to bigoted police behavior on the streets.

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London’s Gay Art Festival GFEST Held ‘SAME – SEX KISS’ In Trafalgar Square

26-10-2010 13:13

London’s Gay Art Festival GFEST 2010 ‘SAME – SEX KISS’ In Trafalgar Square
London’s gay art festival GFEST – Gaywise FESTival had a public art video & photo-shoot installation ‘The 15 Minutes of SAME-SEX Kiss’ in Trafalgar Square on Monday the 25 October 2010 at 11 am.

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BNP stand violent convicted criminal in Croxteth By-Election

24-10-2010 19:08

The British National Party’s candidate in the upcoming Croxteth council By-Election has a conviction for violently assaulting a political opponent during the European elections two years ago.

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UAF national Demo, Sat 6th November, Central London

24-10-2010 15:46

A national demonstration against racism and islamaphobia organised by Unite against fascism in Central london on Sat. 6th November.
Coaches available from Oxford.

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200 EDL in Gloucester Arms pub - London

24-10-2010 12:24

Approx 200 EDL have been spotted in the Gloucester arms pub off Gloucester Road.

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EDL, Chickens & Israel

23-10-2010 08:01

The EDL are a single issue group unable to respond to the political crisis in the UK.

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Southampton EDL Social/Fundraiser

22-10-2010 15:06

Southampton EDL Social/Fundraiser

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Islamist radicalisation at British universities

22-10-2010 13:25

Islamist radicalisation at British universities

A Quilliam Foundation report

Study highlights intimidation of women, Jewish, gay and Muslim students

London , UK – 22 October 2010

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Northern March Against Racism 2010

21-10-2010 15:14

Northern march poster
20th Novermber 2010
A March from stanhope street in Fenham through to the monumnet Newcastle where there will be a rally

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Czech Court Gives Record Sentence for Racial Crime

20-10-2010 15:17

A court in the northeastern Czech city of Ostrava Wednesday gave the country’s longest-ever sentence for a racial crime, finding four Czech neo-Nazi sympathizers guilty of setting fire to a Roma family’s house, in which a two-year-old girl suffered severe burns.

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BNP chooses Derbyshire for annual conference

20-10-2010 12:48

The British National Party (BNP) has confirmed it will hold its annual conference in South Derbyshire.

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Urgent: Okpara family due for deportation on Monday 25th October

20-10-2010 07:37

Mildred Okpara and her three young children have been refused asylum and ordered to return to Nigeria next Monday 25th October. The family are at grave risk from the Nigerian separatist group, MASSOB (the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra). Mildred's partner was abducted and murdered by this group, who also attacked her baby son. If she is forced to return to Nigeria she is convinced that she and her children will be targeted and killed by MASSOB who continue to commit atrocities in the region. She is also terrified that her father will find her and insist that his granddaughters undergo female genital mutilation, a practice which is widespread amongst the Igbo community of which the family is a member.

Please write to David Blunkett, Theresa May, Nick Clegg and Paul Scriven (details below) to prevent the family's deportation. A sample letter is provided, but please write your own if possible.

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Free Mohammed Hamid. Paintballing is not a crime!

20-10-2010 03:34

In 2008 Mohammed Hamid was convicted under the terrorism act having gone on a paintballing holiday which was to be filmed for TV. The police have claimed that paintballing is "terrorist training." The "evidence" provided in court included identical statements word for word given by two people and the police claiming that Mohammed was "holding a stick just like people in Iraq."