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Festival Against the Nazi's

Manchester Against Racism | 04.04.2004 20:16 | Anti-racism

Manchester’s multi-cultural best are coming together in late April to unite the city against racism and stop the rise of the fascist BNP.

The music and cultural sub-group of Manchester Against Racism / Unite against Fascism (MAR) has organised a week-long festival of events at venues across Manchester culminating in a performance by all-star urban artists on an open-air stage as the centre-piece of the Futuresonic04 festival.

The festival will cater for a wide range of tastes, with events ranging from a Blood & Fire reggae and dancehall night to an evening of Love Poetry Hate Racism at Stockport’s Blue Cat Café.

The aims of the festival are to promote the anti-racist cause and to mobilise people in the North West to use their vote in the local and European elections on the 10th June this year. A high voter turnout is critical in stopping the BNP from making electoral inroads in Manchester and the North West. Together we can defeat the BNP’s message of division and hatred.

The line-up of the Festival Against the Nazis confirmed so far is:

Chorlton Against Racism feat. Local Labels Garden Sticks & Slick Nine Records
Revise Café Bar – 7pm-11pm - Sunday 25th April
The fabulous live sounds of John Stammers, And the Adventures Of, and the Blowout DJs

Band night feat.
Desolation Angels, Caroline Alexander, Tomato Plant & Amberwood.
Plus guest DJ Clint Boon (Inspiral Carpets)
- Part 1: Night&Day Café - Tuesday 27th April
Band night feat.
The Obsession, The Band Carolgees & special guests tbc
- Part 2: Satan’s Hollow - Wednesday 28th April
£4 entry/£3 MAR members – www.desolationangels.co.uk / www.caroline-alexander.com / www.theobsession.co.uk

Blood And Fire Sound System – Band On The Wall - 9pm-2am - Wednesday 28th April
Live from Jamaica, Dancehall DJ Legend U Brown, plus selector Steve Barrow & Dom on dex & fx
Special Guest: Mikey Dom (Sons of Axis/Krispy)
£4 entry/£3 MAR members

Love Poetry Hate Racism – Blue Cat Café - 7:30pm - Thursday 29th April
Featuring Chloe Poems, Rosa Lugosi & live music from Keyboard Rebel
£2.50 entry/£1.50 concessions – www.manchesterpoetryfestival.co.uk

World Film & Music night – Arch Bar - 7pm-2am - Thursday 29th April
DJs – Handz Solo, Xango, Hamish & excepts from 4th World War and other inspiring Films from Beyond TV

Free outdoor May Day event – Exchange Square – 6-9pm - Saturday 1st May
Former N.A.S.T.Y. MC D Double E, Virus Syndicate, Metz & Trix. Part of Manchester Music Live. In association with Futuresonic04

Punk & Ska All-Dayer – Satan’s Hollow – 3-11pm - Sunday 2nd May

Full listings will be available at www.manchester-against-racism.com

For more information contact:

Rob Jackson
Music and culture coordinator, Manchester Against Racism / UAF.
Email

music@manchester-against-racism.com

robjackson@hotmail.com
Tel 07947 552962

More Details on the Grand Finale…
Unite and Love Music Hate Racism at Futuresonic04 / Manchester Music Live
Exchange Square – 6-9pm Saturday 1st May
With former N.A.S.T.Y. MC D Double E, Virus Syndicate, Metz & Trix.
Love Music Hate Racism and Unite have teamed up with Futuresonic to present a free live music event in the heart of Manchester’s city centre.
Drew Hemment, Director of Futuresonic, says “This event celebrates the new cutting edge in urban music. Futuresonic was established in 1995 to showcase the many forms of electronic music that have developed since 1970s Jamaican dub, from electronica to grime. Love Music Hate Racism and Unite are presenting a world class lineup as a part of Futuresonic04 that highlights the vibrant, diverse and creative traditions that the festival seeks to support.”

Manchester Against Racism
e-mail: info@manchester-against-racism.com
Homepage: http://www.manchester-against-racism.com

Comments

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Hang All The Nazi Scum Starting With Nick Griffen "BNP Leader"

06.04.2004 19:24

Respect to all Nazi haters, let's party and string the nazi's up by their balls.

Nazi Killer in London

Stop the BNP

07.04.2004 09:59

Unite Against Fascism:

http://www.uaf.org.uk

(we can't offer you the excitement of stringing anyone up, we leave the violence and threats to the fascists, we rely on numbers and argument, soft liberals eh?)

kurious

RIght Wing, Left Wing - Same Old Difference

07.04.2004 13:51

Considering the BNP are apparently Nationalist SOCIALISTS because there right wing like the Nazi's i accuse this site of supporting the far left antics of Stalin and the Soviet Union in the murdering of political enemies imagined and real in concentration camps.

My point is that the 'wing' system goes both ways. I would like to point out i do NOT support the BNP and i hate the right wing and there racist views. Similarly i despise the left wing just as badly for there twisting of opinion into things they quote as being facts.

Us Liberals are the future. We will storm to victory in the next election with are free soy for everyone deal. You just wait.

Serious Roy

Please don't feed the trolls

07.04.2004 16:37

"Serious Roy" is a wind-up merchant.

Spock

Hello...reality check!!!

08.04.2004 11:31

Whilst you are having a party in honour of a bunch of racist thugs who have no chance of gaining any real power, the fascists in government are already implementing tyranny under your noses. Or would you deny that we live at the mild end of a police state spectrum. Can you deny that biometric technology is a grave infringement of civil liberties. Do you feel free? As free as you felt twenty years ago under Thatcher?

I couldn't make a convincing case to suggest that the BNP were an intentional distraction. But whilst you are concentrating on these morons the magician is stealing your liberties from your pockets.

As for socialism, there is little difference between the pre-war National Socialists of Germany and the tide of SWP which seems to flood every political event.

Try to talk to them about The New World Order (openly announced by George Bush Snr on September 11th 1990) and you will be bombarded with accusations of being either a conspiracy theorist or, funnier still, an anti-semite!

Most SWP minions don't seem to have enough brain power to realise that they represent what they are supposedly fighting against. Those above presumably relish the prospect of power.

Tyrrany comes in many hues. Freedom, to the best of my knowledge is colourless and odourless.

Fagin

I DON'T Like The BNP. Thats DON'T.

08.04.2004 21:12

I don't like the BNP so i am hardly going to have a party on there behalf. My point was that you Racist BNP members with your outdated views, together with the Soviet Scum on the left are going to feel the wrath of us - the centre.

Kennedy is going to be next prime minister. No doubt.

Serious Roy

Why the debate?

12.04.2004 16:52

If the BNP were to win a seat in the European elections it would give them their biggist platform yet from which to spout their race hate propaganda. It would also be a big step in their bid to present themselves as a legitimate political party. Surely you agree that anything that sets out to try and prevent this from happening is a good thing.

I also think its very patronising to suggest that because we are attempting to stop the BNP we are somehow oblivious to the racist and often worryingly totalitarian policies of the current labour government.

As for there being little difference between the Nazi's and the SWP, please explain, because other than the word "socialist" i can't think of a single similarity.

Tony

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