Brighton: English Defence League to march near citys gay bars.

  For most people this is way too close for comfort.

There will be a group going up from Portsmouth UAF to protest against the English Defence League/March for England Fascists.
Tel:07954218281.

Report from Scott Roberts in Pinknews

LGBT businesses in Brighton are concerned at the prospect of an English Defence League (EDL) march taking place on their doorstep this Sunday.

The far-right, anti-Islamic group has chosen Brighton for its ‘March for England’ event.
More than 1,000 protesters are expected to descend on the city.

The assembly point for the march, which is due to start around 12.30pm on Sunday 21 April, is opposite several gay bars and adjacent to Brighton Pier.

Some gay venues and non-LGBT businesses on Brighton seafront fear they may have to close in order to avoid potential disruption.

Opponents of the march will gather to the west of the pier.
Both groups will be separated at all times by barriers and police officers.
Previous EDL demonstrations in Brighton have ended in scuffles and arrests.
Sussex Police Superintendent Steve Whitton said: “As always, our priority is public safety. It is vitally important that those attending the event work with us and comply with directions or other restrictions which we will need to give to keep people safe. This will help to ensure officers can focus their attention on the minority of those who may be intent on causing trouble.”

He added: “We have a duty to balance the rights of people to carry out a peaceful protest, whether in support of the march or opposed to it, allowing those to go about their normal business in the city, whilst always prioritising public safety through preventing crime and disorder.”

Stop the Nazis in Brighton.

 

Oppose March for England and fascism : Racists Not Welcome in Brighton 21 April

 from 11am – Near Brighton Pier

Brighton is a vibrant city where people of different
cultures, backgrounds, abilities and faiths come together. It has a positive and unique character which its residents enjoy and embrace.

Brighton people live here in the knowledge that they will be valued and that the things which make each individual different are celebrated here – not despised. We take pleasure and pride in being surrounded by humanity in all its exciting diversity.
Because of this it is very saddening to discover that the far right group March for England, a division of the violent and racist organisation the English Defence League, is to march in Brighton (in April 2013).
When groups like this come to Brighton it is because our multicultural city in all its diversity proves that their own doctrine of hate is wrong, and they want to damage our unity.
That is why we stand together: black, white and Asian; people of all faiths and of no faith; trade unionists; University,
students, whatever our sexuality.
And when someone tries to threaten our community we stand together even more firmly.
Supported by:
Brighton Trades Council
Brighton and Hove Unite Against Fascism
UCU- Brighton University
Brighton and Hove Unison
Unison Sussex Partnership
Brighton and Hove NUT.
University of Sussex Students Union
University of Brighton Students Union
Sussex Labour Representation Committee.
Brighton and Hove City Council BME Workers Forum.
Brighton Love Music Hate Racism
Caroline Lucas, Green MP Brighton Pavillion
Itch – King Blues
James Ledward –editor Gscene.
Jason Kitkat, Green Party Councillor, Leader of Brighton & Hove City Council
Ollie Sykes Green Party Councillor, Brunswick and Adelaide Ward
Les Hamilton Labour & Co-operative Councillor, South Portslade
Liz Wakefield, Green Party Councillor, Hanover & Elm Grove
Pete West Green City Councillor for St Peter’s & North Laine Ward
Warren Morgan Labour & Co-operative Councillor for East Brighton
Phélim Mac Cafferty Green Party Councillor for Brunswick and Adelaide
Alexandra Phillips Green Councillor for Goldsmid ward, Hove
Rob Jarrett Green Party Councillor for Goldsmid ward
Ian Davey Green Party councillor for St Peter’s & North Laine ward
Simon Burgess, Labour, former leader, Brighton and Hove council.

For  info about Portsmouth UAF transport arrangements call:07954218281

Demo against Golden Dawn Nazis outside Greek Embassy in London.

                                Major demonstration in Athens.

   

        Protesters rallied in memory of murdered Pakistani immigrant Shehzad Luqman

 From the BBC

Some 3,000 people have taken part in a demonstration in the Greek capital Athens to protest against the rise of the neo-fascist party Golden Dawn. 

The protest, which brought together Greeks and immigrants, was part of a day of anti-racism events.
Golden Dawn, exploiting public anger over the financial crisis, won 18 seats in parliament last June.
One of the most right-wing parties in Europe, it is accused of anti-immigrant attacks, but denies violent activity.

The coffin of a Pakistani immigrant murdered by suspected right-wing extremists was also put on display.
Shehzad Luqman, 27, was stabbed to death by two men who had been riding a motorcycle as he rode his bicycle to work in the Athens neighbourhood of Petralona in the early hours of Wednesday.
More than 80% of immigrants to the European Union enter via Greece.
Fear of the outsider
 
This was a day designed to show the other side of Greece, drowning out the racism of the minority, says the BBC's Mark Lowen in Athens.

Golden Dawn made headlines after winning seats in parliament this summer

Greek hospitality is well-known - but the financial crisis is changing the nation with elements lurching to the right and fearing both the future and the outsider, adds our correspondent.
Away from Athens, campaigners used a more artistic means of spreading the word: a children's play with a social message was staged, telling the story of a Greek family that meets Iranians and a Pakistani on holiday, and of initial fears subsiding as the group learns to live together.
The play's director, Vassilis Koukalani, told the BBC: "The play is about prejudice, about racism, about xenophobia and it shows how we can overcome these things with common sense, with a sense of humour, with a sense of justice above all."

Fascists attack gay activists in Russian city of Voronezh.

 

          Pro-gay activists were attacked in Russia today

 

By James Park, Pink News

Homophobic Russians have attacked gay activists in the city of Voronezh, the attacks have taken place following a protest against homophobic legislation in place in parts of the country and being considered in others.
Activists had announced that they would picket the city earlier in the week and several hundred anti-gay opponents gathered to counter the protest.
Videos seen by PinkNews show bottles, snowballs and other objects being thrown at the pro-gay protesters as well as fascists performing Nazi salutes outside an Adidas store. The videos later show police officers separating the protestors.
At least one pro-gay protestor needed medical assistance according to sources.
Last month, gay rights campaigners were attacked outside the Russian Parliament – a day after a leading football team was forced to deny it was both homophobic and xenophobic.

The protests last month and today were against a proposed new law banning “gay propaganda” that has been condemned by the European Parliament.
Russian courts in as many as nine regions currently punish the positive portrayal of gay people, in measures first adopted in 2006.
Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, said he did not see any reason why homosexuality should be banned legally in the country, and that it is not a big issue for many Russians.
St Petersburg passed a notorious anti-gay censorship law last year.

Opposition grows to Golden Dawn's Canada section being launched.

Hot on the heels of the Nazi Golden Dawn's launch of its New York section, they have now launched a section in  Montreal.The white supremacist website STORMFRONT has enthusiastically been promoting the Canadian section of the Greek Nazi organisation.Golden Dawn has come to further notoriety over the last week over the videos of their members assaulting immigrants in the flea market in Athens.

The new section has been operating since the beginning of September. It has been  ostensibly  collecting for the poor of Athens. Although they make no bones about the fact that anything collected will only go to white Greeks.
 As reported in National Post they are completely upfront about the racist nature of their organisation.

It reports:

“[Golden Dawn] is blatantly and proudly anti-immigrant,” says Phil Triadafilopoulos, an associate political science professor at the University of Toronto.
 “They combine the political ideology of extreme right-wing xenophobic parties with the ethos and tactics of a street militia.”
And when the group turns away non-Greeks, he says, Golden Dawn doesn’t care whether they are in the country legally or not. “They are anti-immigrant, period.”

Prof. Triadafilopoulos says that most Greeks have “deep misgivings” about Golden Dawn.
Yet the party is doing little to temper its image. Reports allege that members have begun patrolling downtown Athens, beating anyone who doesn’t appear to be a Greek.

There is however opposition growing to the presence of the support group in Montréal.



 Below is a petition currently circulating against: Golden Dawn in Canada.





  Here is a link to the petition.

Please  sign and circulate.

Sign here to stop Golden Dawn Nazi Organization in Montreal!

Why this is important

The existence of a Nazi Organization in Canada such as Golden Dawn, the Greek Neo-Nazi party, is against the Canadian Charter of Human Rights.

Their leader has written extensively on the goodness of the nazis and white supremacy, and ends a passage quoted on the site with a “HEIL HITLER”. Not to mention their goal of expelling gays, immigrants, addicts, the disabled, and those with mental illness from Greece, and creating a blood registry to ensure citizens’ “purity”. Or the brutal beatings of gays and immigrants, often with help from the cops.

L'existence d'une organisation nazie au Canada comme L'aube Doree, l'organization Naziste de Grece est contraire à la Charte Canadienne des droits de l'homme.

MORE INFO HERE / LIRE ICI POUR PLUS DE DETAILS:
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Posted September 23, 2012

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To be delivered to:

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Golden Dawn is a Nazi & Organization that has been allowed in the Greek Parliaments, Greek courts have declared them LEGAL even though their actions and beliefs break European Union Laws, they are now being investigated by the European Union. We demand that Canadian government prevents them from establishing any Nazi organization in any shape or form. It is hypocritical to allow them to practice racism and discrimination in the most immigrant friendly country in the world! PLEASE SIGN THIS PETITION!

 

Swiss Lawmakers decide against ban on Burka.

 AP

GENEVA (AP) — Swiss lawmakers have rejected a proposal to ban face-covering veils, such as the burqa worn by some Muslim women, in public spaces.

Parliament in Bern on Friday narrowly voted against the proposal made by the northern canton (state) of Aargau. Swiss news agency Sipa reported 87 lawmakers voted for and 93 voted against the measure.
Nationalist lawmakers had argued that the ban was necessary for public safety.

But opponents said the proposal was excessive because so few women wear burqas in Switzerland.
In 2009 voters in Switzerland backed a ban on the construction of new minarets. It was seen as a sign of strong anti-Islam sentiment in the country which is home to an estimated 400,000 Muslims.

Two demonstrators stabbed after anti-Nazi demonstration in Greece.

 photo: AFP.

On Saturday several hundred people marched on the outskirts of Athens to protest against the wave of racist violence unleashed by the Nazi Golden Dawn organisation. There have been a wave of assaults against immigrants and against market traders of African descent over the last few weeks. There has also been growing unease at the role of the police, who seem reluctant to intervene in assaults the Golden Dawn are quite clearly responsible for. After the demonstration on the outskirts of Athens near the suburb of Metamorfossi a group of men of Pakistani origin were hijacked.

 A man on a motorbike pulled out in front of them and at the same time a group of men  leapt out of a car  and proceeded to assault the two men , the two men were taken to hospital  both with stab wounds.One of them is said to be in a serious condition.

Last month an Iraqi man was stabbed to death by group of five  young men in Athens.as in the previous case the police seem reluctant to act against the perpetrators.

Protests against the surge in racist violence also took place in the port of Piraeus, next to Athens, and in another Athens suburb. 

Golden Dawn Nazi Rock video promoting their New York intervention.

The latest "musical " offering from the Nazis of Golden Dawn with the usual raspings about creating a new world order, Nazi culture hasn't moved on much since the days of Goebbels and co.

For those who know of  The Blood and Honour network this will be all too familiar ,The portentous sounding music with lower register vocals are now de rigueur for Nazi Rock.

They are using this to promote their "charity" drive, however the collections will only be administered to white Greeks.Hitler's Nazis took trucks of bread into poor rural areas and gave food to hungry pensioners in the early years.This is another clear lift from history that GD are using.

It's clear that this strategy is beginning to pay dividends for them..

Golden Dawn set up office in New York.

Apparently this has been going for some time.I would be very interested to know if there has been any opposition to this,after all New York is an Anti-Fascist city.

From:



Neofascist party Golden Dawn has inaugurated a branch in New York to promote its ideas and campaigns as part of a general drive to reach out to Greeks abroad, Kathimerini has learned.

The party’s NYC website calls on diaspora Greeks to donate food, clothing and medicine to the party’s charity drives, which are limited to Greeks only. The first collection of aid from the New York branch has already reached Greece and was recently distributed in Aspropyrgos, western Athens, party officials told Kathimerini. A similar drive took place in Melbourne and Montreal, they said.


“The unholy alliance of the bankers, the media, corrupt politicians and the educational system are vehemently attempting to extinguish all traces of Hellenism -- past, present and future -- through poverty, historical revisionism, media distortions and third world immigration,” the party said on its website. “Golden Dawn is the only party that truly recognizes the problem and has the solution,” it said.
 

Golden Dawn's Hitlerite Storm Battalions must be stopped.

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ATHENS (AFP) - Following its unprecedented election to parliament, Greece's neo-Nazi group Golden Dawn has been engaged in 'law and order' crackdowns and solidarity gestures that have boosted its popularity, alarming the state.
In recent weeks the once-fringe group has organised Greeks-only food handouts and blood donations, and has twice ousted migrant peddlers from street markets to the delight of local operators and the outrage of authorities.
Tightly regimented and dressed in black T-shirts stamped with the meander, an ancient Greek motif, Golden Dawn is also suspected of orchestrating a rising trend of racist violence against foreigners, legal or otherwise.
And it has sent squads of black-clad supporters to harass and intimidate political opponents at public events.
The government has already accused Golden Dawn of attempting to usurp the role of the police and warned that "storm battalions" would not be tolerated, a direct reference to the paramilitary gangs that helped Adolf Hitler's rise to power.
Public Order Minister Nikos Dendias earlier this month stripped the group's 18 lawmakers of their police guards after one of them was allegedly implicated in the smashing of immigrant trading stalls.
Golden Dawn retorted that it was fully entitled to help merchants and traders brought low by the crisis and accused the government of "taking the side of smugglers and illegal migrants."
The group's ratings have risen to over 10 percent in recent opinion polls.
"They seek to appear as the upholders of the law" to a nation groaning under a third year of austerity measures and decades of political corruption, criminologist Sophia Vidali told AFP.
"It's a strategy reminiscent of Italian neo-fascism in the '70s," she said. The self-styled nationalist party, which campaigned in June elections with pledges to "scour the country clean", has capitalised on the perception that undocumented migration has been allowed to run rampant.
It has benefited from judicial inertia and a suspiciously soft-handed response by police, who usually fail to arrest Golden Dawn members even when under direct attack by them.
And it has exploited anger towards Greece's political system which is blamed by most people for the country's economic ills.
"It's a new phenomenon that is very dangerous for the parliamentary system," said Yiannis Mavris, a political analyst whose polling institute Public Issue recently recorded the party's rating at "nearly double" its score at the last election, where it picked up over 425,000 votes.
Golden Dawn "is here to stay," Mavris said.
A former police unionist who is now a lawmaker recently warned the ruling coalition that planned pay cuts to police "would send 300,000 families directly to Golden Dawn."
And a former police minister last year revealed that Golden Dawn militants had carried out "joint actions and assisted Greek police."
Dimitris Psaras, a journalist investigating far-right groups, says Golden Dawn has links with German neo-Nazis.
"They are trying to appear as the only credible response to the system," he said, deploring the state's slow-paced response.
So far, the government has been forced to tread with caution as the party usually sends its lawmakers -- who can only be prosecuted by special permission from parliament -- to head street operations.
The Supreme Court has duly called on parliament to lift the immunity of three Golden Dawn lawmakers who were present at the market peddler crackdowns.
Three far-right militants -- one of them a former Golden Dawn political candidate -- are set to go to trial next week after seven deferrals, accused of stabbing Afghan migrants.
But Justice Minister Antonis Roupakiotis has warned that it will take more than legal action to stop the "inhuman" behaviour of Golden Dawn members.
"We are wrong if we believe that the Golden Dawn phenomenon can be addressed with legislation. We must seek the causes of this Nazi, fascist and inhuman behaviour by Golden Dawn members," said Roupakiotis.
Rights activists see little room for an anti-racist campaign of substance, as the conservative-led government is itself raising the tone against migrants.
Prime Minister Antonis Samaras has pledged to crack down on undocumented migration which he termed "an unarmed invasion" during the election campaign.

Marine Le Pen exploits crisis over Islamophobic film to attack Religious Freedoms of Muslims and Jews.

From AFP

PARIS — French far-right leader Marine Le Pen called Friday for a ban on the wearing of Muslim veils and Jewish skullcaps in public, adding to religious tensions sparked by cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.
In an interview with the newspaper Le Monde, Le Pen called for religious headwear to be banned "in stores, on public transport and on the streets."
Asked whether the ban should apply to the Jewish skullcap, known as the kippah or yarmulke, as well as Muslim headwear, she said: "It is obvious that if the veil is banned, the kippah is banned in public as well."
Le Pen, who shocked the French elite by winning almost 18 percent in the first round of this year's presidential vote, also repeated calls for bans on public prayers, kosher and halal foods in schools and foreign government financing of mosques in France.
President Francois Hollande denounced her comments, saying: "Everything that tears people apart, opposes them and divides them is inappropriate, and we must apply the rules, the only rules that we know, the rules of the Republic and secularism."
Jean-Francois Cope, who leads the right-wing UMP party of former president Nicolas Sarkozy, said Le Pen showed little understanding of France's much-vaunted secular traditions.
"Marine Le Pen wants to ban any signs of religion on the street, starting with the veil and the kippah. By doing this, she shows she understands nothing of secularism. Secularism is not the eradication of all religious expressions in society."
Richard Prasquier, who heads France's main Jewish council CRIF, said the statement showed there were "secular fanatics just as there are religious fanatics.
"Obviously, I am hostile to both," he said.
The main Muslim council CFCM said the far-right icon wanted to "set up a totalitarian regime in France."

Copyright © 2012 AFP. All rights reserved.

Portsmouth football club taking team off to Nigeria.

From Let's Kick Racism out of football.
League One side Portsmouth are teaming up with the Sodje Sports Foundation (SSF) to take an Academy team to Nigeria next week to compete in a new six-a-side tournament.

Six of the club’s second-year apprentices, led by Academy manager Andy Awford, have been invited by the SSF, a charity set-up by the famous footballing brothers, to take part in the Eko Football Festival in Lagos.

Pompey, who will be the only representatives from Europe, will leave on September 24 for six days with Soccerex, the Lagos authorities and Arik Air covering the cost of travel and accommodation.

Looking ahead to the trip, Awford said: “If we win the cup then great but I am not going for that reason. This is about our lads being given the opportunity to experience another culture and another country and all the benefits that go with that.

“There are affluent areas in that part of the world and we will see some underprivileged ones as well, so it will be a great experience for us all. We haven’t got a match on the Saturday so are not going to miss any games. It comes at a good time for our second-year apprentices.

“I would also like to stress that this club is not spending a penny – it is entirely funded by the hosts. For that we owe them a massive thanks, firstly for inviting us and then making it a possibility through funding. The Lagos state government has our thanks, along with others who have helped make this possible.”

Seyi Akinwunmi, Lagos State FA chairman, commented: “We at the Lagos State Football Association are extremely pleased that the Portsmouth FC Academy has accepted our invitation to participate at our Eko Football Festival 2012 Under 17 football tournament in Lagos. We are proud to be associated with a team with such rich developmental pedigree and look forward to their arrival.”

EDL Member may have helped facilitate murder of two policewomen in Manchester.

 From EDL News.

According to reports in the Daily Telegraph, an EDL supporter has been arrested in connection with the killing of two female police officers in a gun and grenade attack in Manchester eariler this week.
Pcs Nicola Hughes and Fiona Bone were alledegly lured to their deaths by Dale Cregan and Stephen Garvey has been arrested on suspicion of making the phone call.

They reported:

Stephen Garvey, 28, was arrested on Wednesday for conspiracy to murder the female police officers and is being questioned over making the hoax phone call which lured the women to their deaths.

Garvey, a Manchester City fan, lives on the Hattersley estate in Mottram, Greater Manchester, and lists himself as a fan of the English Defence League, the right-wing organisation, on his Facebook page.

Pictures have emerged of Garvey and friends making Hitler salutes.

National Demo against the EDL, Walthamstow 27th October

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Thursday 20 September 2012

National demo Walthamstow 27 October

There was a great feeling of solidarity on 1 September as the unity demonstration marched through the borough.

Unite Against Fascism (UAF) is calling a national demonstration in Walthamstow on 27 October in response to plans by the racist thugs of the English Defence League (EDL) to return to the London borough.
On 1 September 2012 the EDL attempted to stage a provocative march through Walthamstow, but only managed to mobilise 200 of its hard-core supporters.

In a magnificent display of unity over 4,000 people of every religion, race, age, sexuality and gender staged a unity demonstration that prevented the EDL rally.

Now the EDL’s leaders want to stage another demonstration and have said they will screen an incendiary anti-Muslim film at the rally.

Waltham Forest council announced that if the EDL march is not banned it will “call on our whole community to come out.”

UAF and ‘We Are Waltham Forest’ are calling for a huge show of unity from across the country.
Transport details will be available soon.

Picture: Kelvin Williams