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Action against the Red, White and Blue

No BNP Festival | 27.02.2008 16:58 | Stop the BNP's Red White and Blue festival | Anti-racism

The BNP are planning to hold their Red, White and Blue festival in Denby, Derbyshire this year. A campaign to take action to prevent this going ahead has been started.

Last year supporters of the British Nationl Party (BNP) gathered at Denby, near Codnor, in Derbyshire for the party's Red, White and Blue (RWB) festival. Former BNP Councillor, Alan Warner, who hosted the event, has said that the festival will be back in Derbyshire again this year.

The BNP is a far right nationalist party, and many of its senior members have been involved in racist violence. Its politics are divisive and designed to stir up hysteria around immigration.

The RWB festival is intended to draw new recruits into the party and consolidate these disgraceful politics. As such, those who oppose the BNP have begun a campaign to stop this year's event from taking place.

In 2007, Amber Valley Council granted the organisers entertainment licenses in spite of widespread local protest. Anti-fascists did not mobilise in time to help stop the festival. We are determined that that will not happen this year.

The 'Stop the Red, White and Blue' campaign (1) will
* draw together the thousands of people across the region who oppose the BNP into protest against the festival
* demand that local councils block permission for the event in recognition of this feeling
* calls on trade unions to, as far as possible, refuse to do any work that might facilitate the BNP event

If the event does go ahead we will call on local people, along with anti-fascists throughout the country, to join us in mass action against the festival.

(1) The Stop the Red, White and Blue campaign is a politically independent network of anti-fascists, dedicated to ideological opposition to, and direct action against the BNP's Red, White and Blue festival.

No BNP Festival
e-mail: nobnpfestival@riseup.net
Homepage: http://nobnpfestival.wordpress.com/

Comments

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Will Fash realise theres 1race,planet threat is Mad Technology

27.02.2008 17:42

Will Fash realise theres 1race,planet threat is Mad Technology encouraged by powermad, not Johnny Foreigner

RWB needs to be banned& or billed for policing like Big Green festivals. Big Green is bankrupt due to yearly massive policing costs they were forced to take. Welsh Green Festi was banned, due to "health &safety",whilst establishment allow homicidal maniacs to organise more bloodbaths. Ban PC apartheid fascist RWB, BNP members have been found increasingly with bomb equipment in Yorkshire & Hull since London Nailbomber etc. They are linked to fascist radioactive killers, now allied with "communist" party under banner of "Eurasian" movement, a crazy kind of new Molotov-Ribbentrop deal.

Are they helping orchestrate a strategy of tension? like Griffins mates from Italy with Bologna bombing etc that killed hundreds & initially blamed on "reds".

If its allowed then people will come in numbers to have to deal with these twisted wastes of time & space.
At same we need to engage more in local politics with Libertarian Municipalism & green syndicalism otherwise vaccums are left.

Neo Makhnovista

The official route

27.02.2008 18:23

If you're going to get people to raise objections to the licence application, make sure that they do it right. I worked in a council licensing department and saw a lot of objections get rejected because they didn't base their complaints on the Licensing Objectives.

They are:

* the prevention of crime and disorder
* public safety
* the prevention of public nuisance
* the protection of children from harm

http://www.culture.gov.uk/what_we_do/Alcohol_entertainment/licensing_act_2003_explained/licensing_objectives.htm

They can also reject complaints if the complainant lives to far from the site on the basis that they won't be affected.

Lastly, any trouble caused by direct action at the festival could be used as evidence that next years festival will cause breach of the peace etc and so breach the licensing objectives.

MonkeyBot

fight on basic issues

27.02.2008 20:30

Perhaps the hundreds of protesters who will be milling about outside the event applied themselves to fighting the issues that are leading to a rise in the far right, fash,etc, such as the housing crisis, or the impending welfare reforms which will see millions face cuts, we may see a fall in support for such groups.for instance I' dont see any marches planned against the Welfare Reforms which will put many in the shit! and that includes the trade unionists in UAF...

concernedz

antifa

27.02.2008 23:07

my experience is that those who actually do take useful action on one topic (such as resisting fascism) tend to be active in many different campaigns.

there is a distinction in this life between those who act and those who do not. i am in solidarity with my brothers and sisters if they take action on any of our common issues.

if you see someone taking action on a particular issue i suggest that is your cue to take action on the issues you best understand, rather than to snipe from the sidelines. this way we can all keep an eye on each others back.

solidarity. an injury to one is an injury to all.

antifa

We'll get them

28.02.2008 19:56

The got away with hosting this festival last year because we had little time to organise. This time weve got months. This time we WILL stop them, any means necessary.

T.Square

Objections

10.06.2008 09:42

HI

I read about your campaign on the Times web site. First lt me say that I am not a BNP supporter... however I have two objections to what you are doing that I hope you will consider.

1) The BNP are a legal organisation who will be running (presumably) a legal event. Sure, you can protest about it, but what gives you the right to disprupt it?
2) The BNP get support because main stream political parties do not listen to the concerns of ordinary people. Maybe you should be putting your efforts there.

Andrew Brown

Stay Positive

20.06.2008 00:45

Waste of energy fighting against BNP - did it for years during 70's - they just go underground - better out in open. They're not worth a single second of our time & thoughts - there'll always be a few misguided and/or downright ignorant souls daft enough to support fascists. Fortunately, they're few & far between the more balanced & compassionate folk.

Why not organise a multi-cultural festival instead on same day? Myself & many friends (all artists musicians etc.) would be happy to help. A positive alternative will reach a bigger and more varied audience and also, will detract from the publicity which the BNP crave so much.

Hatred & anger is not the way forward, neither is banning free-speech - we each must stand-up for what we know and believe, rather than highlight idiotic stuff like the BNP.

Multiculturalism is THE global reality - it's time to get WITH
it.

Debdah
mail e-mail: k_deb@btinternet.com

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