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'Stop the BNP' protest- this Friday, Bath

Matt Banning | 19.05.2009 12:48 | Anti-racism

The BNP are being given a platform in a local debating hall - lets get organised and stop the BNP from speaking

SMASH THE FASCIST BNP!

FRIDAY 22ND MAY, 6PM, QUEENS SQUARE, BATH

This friday (22/05) sees the Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution play host to local fascist and BNP candidate Jeremy Wotherspoon. As a result, Bath Activist Network and other local groups are calling for the largest possible demonstration to oppose this. We are calling for everyone who is disgusted by the fascist policies of the BNP to meet at 6pm on Friday the 22nd in Queens square, Bath to oppose the spread of the fascist lies and hatred propogated by the BNP.
Bath Activist Network is an umbrella group and hope to make the protest as inclusive as possible, providing a space for people of all political backgrounds and tactical preference.
many of us in BAN hold a 'no platform' position. This means that we do not believe that the BNP should be given the chance to spread their hatred and lies. We believe in peoples right to say and do what they like, until those words of actions are designed to infringe on the freedom of somebody else to do the same. In the case of the BNP, their freedom of speech is used to spread racial hatred, encourage racial violence, deny the holocaust and preach for a society of racial division and white supremacy. Wherever the BNP gain a foothold, racially motivated attacks, vandalism and abuse skyrocket - this is what the nazi BNP hope to achieve with their 'freedom of speech'. We are not willing to sit back and allow this. We also want to spread the message that in these hard times of lying and corrupt politicians and greedy banks and bosses, a vote for the BNP is not a 'protest vote' - its is a vote for fascists, plain and simple. If we want to change
society for the better, we cannot rely on scumbags like the BNP, Labour or Tories, we must do it ourselves.
The last time the BNP held a meeting in bath, it ended in shambles, with the Bath Uni students passing a 'no platform' motion. Banned from the campus, the BNP tried to hold a 'secret' meeting in town which ended with Nick Griffin and 10 hangers on being chased from pub to pub before being allowed a five minute speech in an empty park!
It is vital that we continue this resistance to fascism and the BNP and hope you will join us on friday to continue this tradition and join together with people from all backgrounds to demand an end to the nazi BNP.

Please help to build this protest by passing this callout on and spreading information to friends and collegues.

For more information, please contact Bath Activist Network on

bathactivistnet@yahoo.co.uk, or by calling us on 07794774938

Matt Banning

Comments

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Unlikely

19.05.2009 14:26

Should - and it is very unlikely - that you lot ever succeed in 'smashing' the BNP, I only hope you will enjoy Britain as the Islamic state that it is destined to become. I see that some Muslims are already wearing T shirts stating as such. Whether they will ever get their wish is debatable, but nevertheless that is their clear intention. And of course you dimwits will have played your part in bringing that about. Try researching just what that will truly mean.

mike

To Mike -

19.05.2009 14:52

were this country en route to becoming an islamic state, rest assured I would oppose that as vehmently as I oppose the BNP, as to be honest, an Islamo-fascist state would probably not differ that much from life under the BNP. Harsh punishments for non-believers/supporters, re-introduction of the death penalty, stifling of freedom of expression/movement, authoritarian/dictatorial government - the list goes on. In fact, BNP and extremist muslims have so much in common, they should probably begin campaigning together.
Oh, and the idea that the diminutive band of political misfits and general odduns that constitute the BNP is the only thing standing between us and Shia law is ample proof of what a twisted hold the fash have on reality.

See you on friday, Mickey?

NO GODS< NO MASTERS< NO FASH! (A)

(A) Sab x

Awwww Mike

19.05.2009 16:35

Didnt you get enough love as a child?

Anti fascist

hmmm

19.05.2009 16:36

there seem to be quite a few fash trolls on here at the moment. presumably BNP leadership have sent their knuckle-dragging minions into the public domain to represent them on sites like this because of the elections coming up.

what a bunch of scumbags, but at least, as the fash above makes clear, at least they can sometimes be entertaining!!

lolwob

much mirth and amusement

19.05.2009 19:08

You mean any of you will be able to drag your sorry student asses out of your flea-ridden midden heaps by 7pm? Advice: grow up, work for a living rather than sponging off those who do, and recognise the real enemy. You lot make my day: 'anti-fascists' and the Sun 'newspaper' - one of a kind, which just about says it all really! Honestly, what fuckwits.

mike

Anti fascist laugh fest

19.05.2009 19:39

I recently visited the BNP website and in the search function I typed in "Nazi", this was the result:

DUNMOW: LYNNE TURPIN
SAFFON WALDEN: SUE CLAPP
STANSTED: GEORGE MARTIN
THAXTED: EDWARD LONG
BOCKING: CAROLE GLADWIN
BRAINTREE EASTERN: MATTHEW TAYLOR
BRAINTREE TOWN: PAUL HOOKS
HALSTEAD: LINDA HENRY
HEDINGHAM: RICHARD HIGBY
THREE FIELDS WITH GREAT NOTLEY: MICHAEL KEEBLE
WITHAM NORHERN: ROBERT RUNDELL
WITHAM SOUTHERN: RODNEY LEVERIDGE
BRENTWOOD HUTTON: CLIFFORD HOUGHTON
BRENTWOOD NORTH: CAROLYN ROSSITER
BRENTWOOD RURAL: SIDNEY CHANEY
BRENTWOOD SOUTH: KEVIN SWABY
CANVEY ISLAND EAST: LAURENCE MORGAN
CANVEY ISLAND WEST: JOHN MORGAN
HADLEIGH: PETER BARBER
SOUTH BENFLEET: MARK COOLING
THUNDERSLEY: LINDA ENGLAND
BROOMFIELD & WRITTLE: DANIEL WARDEN
CHELMER: VIKTOR UNDERWOOD
CHELMSFORD CENTRAL: JAY SLAVEN
CHELMSFORD NORTH: PAUL MAYLIN
CHELMSFORD WEST: CHRISTIN MITCHELL
GREAT BADDOW: JEMMA CUTTS
SOUTH WOODHAM FERRERS: VICTOR SCOTT
SPRINGFIELD: BERT CORBY
STOCK: CHARLOTTE DAVIS
ABBY: JOHN KEY
CONSTABLE: JAMES BUTLER
DRURY: GRAHAM CARTER
MAYPOLE: DANIEL HACK
MERSEA & TIPTREE: MICHAEL NEWBURY
MILE END & HIGHWOOD: BEN LEWIS
PARSONS HEATH & EAST GATES: GARY SAVERLL
STANWAY & PYEFLEETE: SHAUN CUMING
WIVENHOE ST ANDREW: SAMANTHA PATERSON
BUCKHURST HILL & LOUGHTON SOUTH: ALEX COPLAND
CHIGWELL & LOUGHTON BROADWAY: EDDY BUTLER
EPPING AND THEYDON BOIS: TONY FRANKLAND
LOUGHTON CENTRAL: ROD LAW
NORTH WEALD & NAZING: JULIAN LEPPERT
ONGAR RURAL: PETER TURPIN
WALTHAM ABBEY: PAT RICHARDSON
HARLOW NORTH: GEOFFREY WILLIAMS
HARLOW SOUTH EAST: THOMAS LEONARD RICHARDSON
HARLOW WEST (1): SCOTT LEE CATO
HARLOW WEST (2): PAUL RICHARD EVANS
HAYBRIDGE & TOLLESBURY: ADRIAN LITSCHER
MALDON: LEN BLAIN
SOUTHMINSTER: NEVILLE SAVEALL
RAYLEIGH NORTH: LISA BYRNE
RAYLEIGH SOUTH: DONNA-MARIE LOUGHRAN
ROCHFORD NORTH: HJOHN JOSEPH CURTIN
ROCHFORD SOUTH: EARL VICTOR STROBRIDGE
ROCHFORD WEST: SANDRA LYNN MATTHEWS
BRIGTLINGSEA: JIM TAYLOR
CLACTON EAST: KEITH FRANCIS BEAUMONT
CLACTON NORTH: LORAINE TERESA HENRY
CLACTON WEST: TRACEY CAROLE WORSLEY
FRINTON & WALTON: PAT HENRY
HARWICH: ANTHONY EVENNETT
TENDERING RURAL EAST: PETER HACK
TENDERING RURAL WEST: DEBBIE HACK
BILLERICAY & BURSTEAD (1): IRENE BATEMAN
BILLERICAY & BURSTEAD (2): MIKE BATEMAN
LAINDON PARK & FRYERNS (1): DAVE KING
LAINDON PARK & FRYERNS (2): LEN HEATHER
PITSEA (1): RAY PEIRCE
PITSEA (2): PHIL HOWELL
BASILDON WESTLEY HEIGHTS: GEOFF MCCARTHY
WICKFORD CROUCH (1): TONY GLADWIN
WICKFORD CROUCH (2): CHRIS ROBERTS

HERTFORDSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL
CHESHUNT CENTRAL: CAROLYN ISLES
FLAMSTEAD END AND TURNFORD: IAN JOHN SEEBY
GOFFS OAK AND BURY GREEN: WENDY JANE WARD
HODDESDON NORTH: WILLIAM JAMES DEWICK
HODDESDON SOUTH: RAMON PAUL JOHNS
WALTHAM CROSS: STEPHEN MCCOLE
BRIDGEWATER: SIMON DEACON
HEMEL HEMPSTEAD NORTH EAST: MARK FULLER
HEMEL HEMPSTEAD NORTH WEST: TINA ADAMS
KINGS LANGLEY: JANET DOROTHY PRICE
BISHOP’S STORTFORD WEST: RALPH RAYMOND BALLARD
WARE NORTH: BRIAN JOHN GILDERSLEVE
BOREHAMWOOD NORTH: JAMES SCOTT
HITCHIN NORTH: HERBERT BERNARD CLARK
LETCHWORTH NORTH WEST: BARRY GILLESPIE
THE COLNEYS: MARK ANTHONY GERRARD
BEDWELL: THOMAS WILLIAM GODFREY
BROADWATER: ARTHUR NOAH MEDLEY
CHELLS: CHERYL KATHLEEN PEERS
OLD STEVENAGE: REGINALD FRANK NORGAN
ST. NICHOLAS: MARK ANTHONY RALPH
SHEPHALL: TERENCE FREDERICK SAVAGE
ABBOTTS LANGLEY: SEAMUS PADRAIC DUNNE
OXHEY PARK: ROGER WARWICK HOLMES
SOUTH OXHEY: DEIRDRE ANNE GATES
MERIDEN TUDOR: DANNY SEABROOK
HATFIELD SOUTH: CHRISTOPHER DAVID FRANCIS

CENTRAL BEDFORDSHIRE COUNCIL
BIGGLESWADE: KEVIN AUSTIN
HOUGHTON REGIS: STEVEN BRIDGEMAN
NORTHFIELDS: SHELLEY ROSE

BEDFORD BOROUGH COUNCIL
CLAPHAM: ROBIN JOHNSTONE

SUFFOLK COUNTY COUNCIL
THEDWASTRE NORTH: JOHN JONES
HANTRY: DENNIS BOATER
BRIDGE: EWAN PRIDDY

NORFOLK COUNTY COUNCIL
GREAT YARMOUTH NORTH AND CENTRAL: DAVID RAND
SPROWSTON: JULIA HOWMAN
KING’S LYNN NORTH AND CENTRAL: DAVID FLEMING
GAYWOOD SOUTH: CHRISTINE KELLY
CLENCHWARTON AND KING’S LYNN SOUTH: MATTHEW GANT
GAYWOOD NORTH AND CENTRAL: EDITH CROWTHER
FREEBRIDGE LYNN: RONALD BARNES

EPPING FOREST DISTRICT COUNCIL (BY-ELECTION) WALTHAM ABBEY HONEY LANE: TONY FRANKLAND

Ha ha fucking ha!

Antifa

@ Mike

20.05.2009 12:13

I've yet to see anyone in a tshirt proclaiming britains slide into an islamic state.

Any evidence of this?

A few points

27.05.2009 16:28

1.You cannot present an argument against people who's views you find abhorent simply by denying them the right to speek.

2.You cannot stop fascists simply by banning them.

3.You cannot stop people voting for racist parties simply by stopping people hearing the views of those parties.

4.If you believe in democracy then you must believe that the way to stop fascists is to vote against them at the ballet box not simply by trying to ban them.

Dan Factor
mail e-mail: danfactor@lycos.com

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