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Monday, 11 May 2009
North East Anti-Fascist events during the Euro Election Campaign 2009
Check the UAF North East website, UAF North East on Facebook or contact UAF directly on uafnortheast@live.co.uk for further details.
Sat 16th May 12noon UAF Stall and leafleting at Newcastle Monument
Mon 18th to UAF and LMHR Stall at South Tyneside College – times tbc
Thurs 21st May
Sat 23rd May Anti Fascist leafleting:
Newcastle Grey’s Monument 12.00noon -
Blythe Market from 11.30pm - more info: nafn@gmx.com
Ashington Market from 11.30pm - more info: nafn@gmx.com
Thurs 21st May Love Music Hate Racism @ South Shields
7.00pm
Sun 24th & LMHR and UAF stalls at Evolution Music Festival
Mon 25th May Baltic square, Gateshead and Spillars Wharfe, Newcastle
Details from uafne@blueyonder.co.uk
Weds 27th Football Against Racism in Middlesboro - UAF Stall
More info PCS - 0191 222 0330
Thurs 28th By election in Middlesbrough
Last ten days Stalls and mass leafleting at major bus, Metro and train stations
Sat 30th May Stoke LMHR Festival
Transport will be organised from the North East to this national event. Donations needed to fund this.
Sat 30th May Transport to North West to help campaigning around Carlisle
Thursday June 4th Election Day
Sat 6th June LMHR @ Newcastle Grey’s Monument - times tbc
Donations:
To fund the campaign against the fascists we need your support. Make cheques payable to ‘North East Trade Union Solidarity Campaign’ and send to:
UAF North East c/o Unemployed Workers Centre,
4 Cloth market, Newcastle, NE1 1EE
Sat 16th May 12noon UAF Stall and leafleting at Newcastle Monument
Mon 18th to UAF and LMHR Stall at South Tyneside College – times tbc
Thurs 21st May
Sat 23rd May Anti Fascist leafleting:
Newcastle Grey’s Monument 12.00noon -
Blythe Market from 11.30pm - more info: nafn@gmx.com
Ashington Market from 11.30pm - more info: nafn@gmx.com
Thurs 21st May Love Music Hate Racism @ South Shields
7.00pm
Sun 24th & LMHR and UAF stalls at Evolution Music Festival
Mon 25th May Baltic square, Gateshead and Spillars Wharfe, Newcastle
Details from uafne@blueyonder.co.uk
Weds 27th Football Against Racism in Middlesboro - UAF Stall
More info PCS - 0191 222 0330
Thurs 28th By election in Middlesbrough
Last ten days Stalls and mass leafleting at major bus, Metro and train stations
Sat 30th May Stoke LMHR Festival
Transport will be organised from the North East to this national event. Donations needed to fund this.
Sat 30th May Transport to North West to help campaigning around Carlisle
Thursday June 4th Election Day
Sat 6th June LMHR @ Newcastle Grey’s Monument - times tbc
Donations:
To fund the campaign against the fascists we need your support. Make cheques payable to ‘North East Trade Union Solidarity Campaign’ and send to:
UAF North East c/o Unemployed Workers Centre,
4 Cloth market, Newcastle, NE1 1EE
Wednesday, 22 April 2009
County Durham Unite Against Fascism
We are setting up a broad based uaf group for the Co. Durham area, if anyone is interested in being involved could they please contact David Lowdon.
email: uafdurham@live.co.uk
tel. 07963 455289
I would be most grateful if you could forward this email to everyone on your list
cheers
Dave
email: uafdurham@live.co.uk
tel. 07963 455289
I would be most grateful if you could forward this email to everyone on your list
cheers
Dave
Thursday, 19 March 2009
SAMPLE LETTER
Hawthorn Primary School Email Address: admin@hawthorn.newcastle.sch.uk
Head teacher: Mrs Judy Cowgill
Chair of governors: Mr Andy Roberts
SAMPLE LETTER
Dear Mrs Judy Cowgill and Mr Andy Roberts
I wish to bring to your attention the recent arrest on the grounds of racial abuse of one of your schools governors, Ken Booth.
Ken Booth was arrested on Tuesday of this week having assaulted a local councillor who is Muslim and an active anti-fascist.
As you may know Ken Booth is the regional organiser of the fascist British National Party having joined them after spending years as a member of the National Front. This isn’t the first time that Ken Booth has been in the headlines for all the wrong reasons. In late 2007 Ken Booth compared Auschwitz to Disneyland.
I find it hard to believe that this man is a governor of a local primary school.
This man is clearly a holocaust denying racist with overt links to what is a fascist organisation, the BNP. I strongly believe that this man is unfit to be a governor of your school, he is a threat to the pupils and of course their welfare must be of paramount importance.
I would therefore ask that he be removed immediately from his position and that action is taken to distance the school from this despicable individual.
I look forward to hearing from you,
>your name<
Head teacher: Mrs Judy Cowgill
Chair of governors: Mr Andy Roberts
SAMPLE LETTER
Dear Mrs Judy Cowgill and Mr Andy Roberts
I wish to bring to your attention the recent arrest on the grounds of racial abuse of one of your schools governors, Ken Booth.
Ken Booth was arrested on Tuesday of this week having assaulted a local councillor who is Muslim and an active anti-fascist.
As you may know Ken Booth is the regional organiser of the fascist British National Party having joined them after spending years as a member of the National Front. This isn’t the first time that Ken Booth has been in the headlines for all the wrong reasons. In late 2007 Ken Booth compared Auschwitz to Disneyland.
I find it hard to believe that this man is a governor of a local primary school.
This man is clearly a holocaust denying racist with overt links to what is a fascist organisation, the BNP. I strongly believe that this man is unfit to be a governor of your school, he is a threat to the pupils and of course their welfare must be of paramount importance.
I would therefore ask that he be removed immediately from his position and that action is taken to distance the school from this despicable individual.
I look forward to hearing from you,
>your name<
Newcastle BNP organiser arrested over harassment claim
From the Northern Echo, Wednesday 18th March 2009<< Ken Booth, wearing a National Front rosette at an election count where he was the BNP candidate, nazis never change their spots...
The British National Party’s regional organiser in the North-East has been arrested on suspicion of racially aggravated harassment, The Northern Echo has learnt.
Ken Booth, who lives in Fenham, Newcastle, was arrested yesterday by Northumbria Police and bailed pending further inquiries.
Mr Booth’s arrest is understood to have followed a complaint made to police by a muslim councillor in the city.
The 54-year-old, who is standing in the European elections in the spring and has previously stood for Newcastle City Council, in Fenham, took over the role of regional organiser for the party from Kevin Scott in 2006.
He is expected to answer bail at a police station in the city in the middle of next month.
Mr Booth would not directly comment on his arrest when contacted by The Echo, but a spokesman for the party said it was an example of “politically correct Britain”.
He said: “The public can see what is happening and I am sure that in this particular instance we, as a party, have got nothing to fear. “People in the North-East are sick and tired of this politically correct nonsense.”
Mr Booth, who describes himself on the BNP website as the single parent of three boys and an elected parent governor, has stood for the party several times in local elections.
In January, he finished in third place in a by-election for the Fenham ward.
Last year, Mr Booth hit out at efforts to “destabilise” the BNP after his and the details of hundreds of other party members were leaked onto the internet.
A Northumbria Police spokeswoman said: “We can confirm a 54-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of racially aggravated harassment and has been bailed pending further inquiries.”
Acting Chief Inspector Sav Patsalos, of Northumbria police, added: “When any such incidents are brought to our attention they are treated very seriously and we take appropriate action.”
A spokesman for Newcastle City Council said: “It is a police matter and we are not prepared to comment.”
Fight is taken to the BNP in Sunderland
Saturday
On Saturday 14th March the BNP were out in force (all 6 of them!) in Sunderland at the Stadium of Light leafleting the Sunderland Vs Wigan match with leaflets for their euro election campaign.
Thousands of safc supporters walking to the match took the anti-fascist leaflets being given out in the thousands. Many supporters who had taken a BNP leaflet ripped them up in disgust and the road was littered with BNP leaflets shredded to pieces.
Supporters were glad to see anti-fascists taking the BNP on for the first time for years, many left their contact details for more info about the campaign.
Monday
Monday was the day the BNP were bringing their 'truth truck' to Sunderland to kick start their euro election campaign in style. 30 Anti-fascists gathered in the city centre and gave out over 1500 leaflets. The activists then march onto the area where the BNP were due to assemble but they were no where to be seen...
UAF 1 BNP 0
On Saturday 14th March the BNP were out in force (all 6 of them!) in Sunderland at the Stadium of Light leafleting the Sunderland Vs Wigan match with leaflets for their euro election campaign.
Thousands of safc supporters walking to the match took the anti-fascist leaflets being given out in the thousands. Many supporters who had taken a BNP leaflet ripped them up in disgust and the road was littered with BNP leaflets shredded to pieces.
Supporters were glad to see anti-fascists taking the BNP on for the first time for years, many left their contact details for more info about the campaign.
Monday
Monday was the day the BNP were bringing their 'truth truck' to Sunderland to kick start their euro election campaign in style. 30 Anti-fascists gathered in the city centre and gave out over 1500 leaflets. The activists then march onto the area where the BNP were due to assemble but they were no where to be seen...
UAF 1 BNP 0
Monday, 2 March 2009
Monday, 2 February 2009
Hope Not Hate
The Northern TUC is hosting Hope Not Hate 2009 as part of the mobilisation to take on the far right in the North East. Unite Against Fascism supports this campaign and will be working with it and other anti fascist initiatives in the North East to defeat the BNP and other fascist organisations.
Saturday, 31 January 2009
Newly confirmed to speak at the 2009 UAF National conference...
Newly confirmed to speak at the 2009 UAF National conference -
Frances O'Grady Deputy General Secretary TUC
Mark Serwotka General Secretary PCS
Megan Dobney SERTUC
Wes Streeting NUS
Ennio Odino Italian Partisan and survivor of Mauthausen concentration camp
UAF NATIONAL CONFERENCE 21st February 2009 - TUC Conference Centre, Congress House, Great Russell Street, London WC1 - 9:30am-4:30pm.
Other Speakers will include: Ken Livingstone, Glyn Ford MEP, Edie Freidman JCORE, Dr Abdul Bari MCB, Billy Hayes CWU, John McClure - Reverend and the makers, Weyman Bennett UAF, Sabby Dhalu UAF & NAAR, Martin Smith - Love Music Hate Rascism.
Last year’s Unite Against Fascism conference was extremely successful with over 500 people attending the event. This year’s conference will be an important event that will enable discussion on strategies that have been successful in defeating fascism and help us organise activity across the country to stop the BNP in these elections. There will be a number of practical workshop sessions dealing with ways of opposing fascists in the workplace and wider communities.
The conference will bring together sections of society that oppose fascism including trade unions, student unions, Muslim, Jewish, Christian and other faiths, black, Asian, lesbian, gay and disabled communities, we urge you to attend.
Tickets will cost £20 for Organisation delegates, £10 for inviduals, Student/Unwaged £5 - 100 free student places available on a first come first served basis.
Registration forms are being sent via post and email and online registration will be available shortly. For further information or to request registration forms please contact UAF on 0207 833 4916 or unite@ucu.org.uk
Frances O'Grady Deputy General Secretary TUC
Mark Serwotka General Secretary PCS
Megan Dobney SERTUC
Wes Streeting NUS
Ennio Odino Italian Partisan and survivor of Mauthausen concentration camp
UAF NATIONAL CONFERENCE 21st February 2009 - TUC Conference Centre, Congress House, Great Russell Street, London WC1 - 9:30am-4:30pm.
Other Speakers will include: Ken Livingstone, Glyn Ford MEP, Edie Freidman JCORE, Dr Abdul Bari MCB, Billy Hayes CWU, John McClure - Reverend and the makers, Weyman Bennett UAF, Sabby Dhalu UAF & NAAR, Martin Smith - Love Music Hate Rascism.
Last year’s Unite Against Fascism conference was extremely successful with over 500 people attending the event. This year’s conference will be an important event that will enable discussion on strategies that have been successful in defeating fascism and help us organise activity across the country to stop the BNP in these elections. There will be a number of practical workshop sessions dealing with ways of opposing fascists in the workplace and wider communities.
The conference will bring together sections of society that oppose fascism including trade unions, student unions, Muslim, Jewish, Christian and other faiths, black, Asian, lesbian, gay and disabled communities, we urge you to attend.
Tickets will cost £20 for Organisation delegates, £10 for inviduals, Student/Unwaged £5 - 100 free student places available on a first come first served basis.
Registration forms are being sent via post and email and online registration will be available shortly. For further information or to request registration forms please contact UAF on 0207 833 4916 or unite@ucu.org.uk
Friday, 30 January 2009
Fenham By-Election Results
By-election Results for Fenham Ward
McStravick (Lab) 1,025
Sarah Armstrong (Loc Con) 186
Ken Booth (BNP) 836
Mitzi Emery (Lib Dem) 1,049
McStravick (Lab) 1,025
Sarah Armstrong (Loc Con) 186
Ken Booth (BNP) 836
Mitzi Emery (Lib Dem) 1,049
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