Skip to content or view mobile version

Home | Mobile | Editorial | Mission | Privacy | About | Contact | Help | Security | Support

A network of individuals, independent and alternative media activists and organisations, offering grassroots, non-corporate, non-commercial coverage of important social and political issues.

Red White & Blue festival - Licence Refused

lumsk | 10.06.2008 23:12 | Stop the BNP's Red White and Blue festival | Anti-racism

Amber Valley Council refuse red white & Blue festival licence

Anti-fascist protestors turned up tonight at Ripley, on the Derbyshire/Nottinghamshire border, to oppose the granting of the licence for the Red White & Blue festival in August 2008.
Despite very heavy policing, the police inside stated their case overwhelmingly AGAINST the granting of the licence siting the very valid reasons that they feared a massive confrontation between fascists & anti-fascists during the 'festival'. Cops also said that they would only allow the licence if the bnp erected 10 foot, solid metal fences, (such as those seen @Glastonbury), with floodlights, plus badged security personnel per 100 attendees.
Alan Warners gorilla-like personal security guard, 'sweaty' Clarke, then went on to accuse the police present at the hearing to be pro left wing & in the pay of anti-fascists, (!)(a surprise to the anti-fascist demo outside who were being penned in by Derbyshires finest, the apparently new left-lovin' local force & the attending 'anarchists in training' fit team who were busy following antifa activists around...).
Shortly afterwards, the bnp announced that their tails were now so far up their arses that they'd have to leave the meeting before hearing the full decision & that Alan, 'it's my party and I'll cry if I want to', Warner, would have the festival anyway.

bnp supporters who turned up tonight outside the hearing, all 5 of them, had in their company, Nina Brown, Broxtowe bnp/Voice of Change parish councillor who interestingly, when asked where Sadie Graham was, told us that Sadie, former darling of the bnp, was now 'one of us'. What can she mean? Surely she wasn't opposed to the red white & blue was she?

Licence denied!

Yet another victory.

And yes Alan, we have got your flag, in case you wondered where it was.....

By the way, there won't always be a riot van parked outside your house like there was tonight....... We'll see you in August! ....If not before.....

lumsk

Comments

Display the following 19 comments

  1. good news — Cnoncerned of gipton
  2. OO AH Antifa! — Rudeboy
  3. Well done! — Ruby
  4. Well said Rudeboy! — Danski
  5. Plan B — Davos
  6. Will they try for a different site? — MonkeyBot 5000
  7. appeal — jonny
  8. Derby police inspector ignoring nazi deaththreats,congrats2denby&protesters — Green Syndicalist
  9. Stopping criminally insanse Hitler supporters a festival is good, lots of green — Green Syndicalist
  10. Re: appeal — MonkeyBot 5000
  11. Good News — I Hate the Fash
  12. Antifa Ammo Dump — Antifascist
  13. Free speech — Free speech
  14. '' Free Speech '' — Cnoncerned of gipton
  15. we won — green mac
  16. BNP SECURITY THUGS POST INTERNET THREATS ON ANTI-RACIST BLOG. — RACISM & FASCISM SUCKS!
  17. Can still go ahead? — Fly Posters
  18. Not a free speech issue. — MonkeyBot 5000
  19. Probably not cancelled? — NaziKicker
Upcoming Coverage
View and post events
Upcoming Events UK
24th October, London: 2015 London Anarchist Bookfair
2nd - 8th November: Wrexham, Wales, UK & Everywhere: Week of Action Against the North Wales Prison & the Prison Industrial Complex. Cymraeg: Wythnos o Weithredu yn Erbyn Carchar Gogledd Cymru

Ongoing UK
Every Tuesday 6pm-8pm, Yorkshire: Demo/vigil at NSA/NRO Menwith Hill US Spy Base More info: CAAB.

Every Tuesday, UK & worldwide: Counter Terror Tuesdays. Call the US Embassy nearest to you to protest Obama's Terror Tuesdays. More info here

Every day, London: Vigil for Julian Assange outside Ecuadorian Embassy

Parliament Sq Protest: see topic page
Ongoing Global
Rossport, Ireland: see topic page
Israel-Palestine: Israel Indymedia | Palestine Indymedia
Oaxaca: Chiapas Indymedia
Regions
All Regions
Birmingham
Cambridge
Liverpool
London
Oxford
Sheffield
South Coast
Wales
World
Other Local IMCs
Bristol/South West
Nottingham
Scotland
Social Media
You can follow @ukindymedia on indy.im and Twitter. We are working on a Twitter policy. We do not use Facebook, and advise you not to either.
Support Us
We need help paying the bills for hosting this site, please consider supporting us financially.
Other Media Projects
Schnews
Dissident Island Radio
Corporate Watch
Media Lens
VisionOnTV
Earth First! Action Update
Earth First! Action Reports
Topics
All Topics
Afghanistan
Analysis
Animal Liberation
Anti-Nuclear
Anti-militarism
Anti-racism
Bio-technology
Climate Chaos
Culture
Ecology
Education
Energy Crisis
Fracking
Free Spaces
Gender
Globalisation
Health
History
Indymedia
Iraq
Migration
Ocean Defence
Other Press
Palestine
Policing
Public sector cuts
Repression
Social Struggles
Technology
Terror War
Workers' Movements
Zapatista
Major Reports
NATO 2014
G8 2013
Workfare
2011 Census Resistance
Occupy Everywhere
August Riots
Dale Farm
J30 Strike
Flotilla to Gaza
Mayday 2010
Tar Sands
G20 London Summit
University Occupations for Gaza
Guantanamo
Indymedia Server Seizure
COP15 Climate Summit 2009
Carmel Agrexco
G8 Japan 2008
SHAC
Stop Sequani
Stop RWB
Climate Camp 2008
Oaxaca Uprising
Rossport Solidarity
Smash EDO
SOCPA
Past Major Reports
Encrypted Page
You are viewing this page using an encrypted connection. If you bookmark this page or send its address in an email you might want to use the un-encrypted address of this page.
If you recieved a warning about an untrusted root certificate please install the CAcert root certificate, for more information see the security page.

Global IMC Network


www.indymedia.org

Projects
print
radio
satellite tv
video

Africa

Europe
antwerpen
armenia
athens
austria
barcelona
belarus
belgium
belgrade
brussels
bulgaria
calabria
croatia
cyprus
emilia-romagna
estrecho / madiaq
galiza
germany
grenoble
hungary
ireland
istanbul
italy
la plana
liege
liguria
lille
linksunten
lombardia
madrid
malta
marseille
nantes
napoli
netherlands
northern england
nottingham imc
paris/île-de-france
patras
piemonte
poland
portugal
roma
romania
russia
sardegna
scotland
sverige
switzerland
torun
toscana
ukraine
united kingdom
valencia

Latin America
argentina
bolivia
chiapas
chile
chile sur
cmi brasil
cmi sucre
colombia
ecuador
mexico
peru
puerto rico
qollasuyu
rosario
santiago
tijuana
uruguay
valparaiso
venezuela

Oceania
aotearoa
brisbane
burma
darwin
jakarta
manila
melbourne
perth
qc
sydney

South Asia
india


United States
arizona
arkansas
asheville
atlanta
Austin
binghamton
boston
buffalo
chicago
cleveland
colorado
columbus
dc
hawaii
houston
hudson mohawk
kansas city
la
madison
maine
miami
michigan
milwaukee
minneapolis/st. paul
new hampshire
new jersey
new mexico
new orleans
north carolina
north texas
nyc
oklahoma
philadelphia
pittsburgh
portland
richmond
rochester
rogue valley
saint louis
san diego
san francisco
san francisco bay area
santa barbara
santa cruz, ca
sarasota
seattle
tampa bay
united states
urbana-champaign
vermont
western mass
worcester

West Asia
Armenia
Beirut
Israel
Palestine

Topics
biotech

Process
fbi/legal updates
mailing lists
process & imc docs
tech