Just received this email which emanates from the searchlight front, hope not hate, about an iniative to lobby brum city council to get the latest english defence league/casuals united march banned by the home secretary.
Keep Birmingham Safe on Saturday 5th September
Stop planned invasion of Brum by Football hooligans, far right extremists and Islamophobes
Last week we got the Home Secretary to cancel a far-right Islamophobic march of hate in Luton. This week, I need you to help us get a very similar march cancelled here in the Midlands - this time on the streets of Birmingham. A whole host of far-right activists and football hooligans plan on invading the city on Saturday 5th of September - with the sole goal of intimidation and whipping up interfaith tension. We need to stop them.
We understand West Midlands Police are concerned about this march - not least because when the hooligans took to the streets last month there was widespread disorder and 19 arrests. Unfortunately the police are reluctant to apply to the Home Secretary for a ban unless they have the support of the local council.
And as of yet, Birmingham City Council aren't willing to step up and stop this dangerous march. We've set up a tool which lets you voice your deep concern to the Council - and it only takes a minute to send a message:
http://action.hopenothate.org.uk/birmingham
What makes this event even more explosive is that the hooligans have planned their event to coincide with the England vs Slovenia football match - so the town centre will be filled with football supporters. The hooligans are hoping for maximum chaos - that's why we've got to act.
Sending your message of concern will take you less than a minute - please help us stop this event now:
Getting the Luton march banned proved that we can make the authorities do the right thing. This time we're only running the campaign in the West Midlands - so we need you to take action, and then forward this email to all of your friends and family so that they can help as well. We can do this - but we all need to do everything that we can.
HOPE not hate
Searchlight
PO Box 1576
Ilford
IG5 0NG
Telephone 020 7681 8660
Stop planned invasion of Brum by Football hooligans, far right extremists and Islamophobes
Last week we got the Home Secretary to cancel a far-right Islamophobic march of hate in Luton. This week, I need you to help us get a very similar march cancelled here in the Midlands - this time on the streets of Birmingham. A whole host of far-right activists and football hooligans plan on invading the city on Saturday 5th of September - with the sole goal of intimidation and whipping up interfaith tension. We need to stop them.
We understand West Midlands Police are concerned about this march - not least because when the hooligans took to the streets last month there was widespread disorder and 19 arrests. Unfortunately the police are reluctant to apply to the Home Secretary for a ban unless they have the support of the local council.
And as of yet, Birmingham City Council aren't willing to step up and stop this dangerous march. We've set up a tool which lets you voice your deep concern to the Council - and it only takes a minute to send a message:
http://action.hopenothate.org.uk/birmingham What makes this event even more explosive is that the hooligans have planned their event to coincide with the England vs Slovenia football match - so the town centre will be filled with football supporters. The hooligans are hoping for maximum chaos - that's why we've got to act.
Sending your message of concern will take you less than a minute - please help us stop this event now:
Getting the Luton march banned proved that we can make the authorities do the right thing. This time we're only running the campaign in the West Midlands - so we need you to take action, and then forward this email to all of your friends and family so that they can help as well. We can do this - but we all need to do everything that we can.
HOPE not hate
Searchlight
PO Box 1576
Ilford
IG5 0NG
Telephone 020 7681 8660
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by act
31.08.2009 14:01
Nazi falls amidst a hail of fists and feet
Stomping out the rhythm of the cable street beat
With our boots on the scumbag's head
The only good nazi is one that's dead
ballz
A couple of points
04.09.2009 12:55
-I think there were actually 33 arrests resulting from the last EDL demo in town not 19. These arrests were mostly of people who chose to actually do something to stop the EDL not just beg to the council or wave placards.
-Last time the EDL visited brum there were also football matches on including Villa and Baggies at home, though this is fairly irrelevant as hardly any villa fans at all joined the EDL march, are you implying that football fans are racist or more prone to joining BNP front groups? Haven't you heard of Aston Villa Anti-fascists, the old Villa fanzine "Well Prepared", the Green Brigades? This seems like typical "hope not hate" snobbery to me.
-If we see the authorities cancelling these events as being a victory we better be ready to see socialist and anarchist events cancelled under a similar pretence of stopping extremism or preventing disturbances. The authorities would just as quickly clampdown on our right to protest as they would do the far-rights.
What you're calling for is a pyrrhic victory at best and a spineless compromise at worst.
Durruti