Neo-Nazi National Socialist Movement plans rally at N.J. Statehouse, two-day conference (New Jersey, US)
February 03, 2011
TRENTON — A neo-Nazi organization whose events have attracted sometimes violent counterprotests will hold a rally in front of the Statehouse on April 16, said the group’s New Jersey representative, Jason Hiecke.
The National Socialist Movement will hold a two-day conference in the area, including a rally of 75 to 150 people on the second day, Hiecke said. The State Police said the group has been issued an event permit.
Organizations such as the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Anti-Defamation League describe the Detroit-based NSM as the nation’s largest neo-Nazi group and say it promotes an anti-Semitic and racist ideology through rallies, a website and other online activities.
Teenagers racially abused on Knaresborough to York Train (UK)
February 3, 2011
British Transport Police (BTP) investigators are appealing for witnesses after two teenage girls who were on an exchange programme from Hong Kong, were racially abused by a group of men onboard a train at the weekend.
PC Harry Thompson, the investigating officer, said the incident happened onboard the 9.14pm Knaresborough to York service on Saturday, 29 January and caused the girls great distress.
“A group of between 6-8 men boarded the service at Knaresborough and began singing songs. They then began saying racist comments towards two Chinese girls who were on the service at the time”
Defend our communities – drive the EDL out of Luton
February 2, 2011
On the 5th February, the fascists of the English Defence League are going to try to take control of the streets of Luton. The EDL is a dangerous threat to the workers, minorities, women and youth of this country, with previous demonstrations of theirs seeing attacks on Mosques, Hindu temples, Gay districts, Asian and black people, and anti-fascist activists.
Luton was the birth-place of the EDL, so this demo is going to be highly symbolic and very important to their own members. On their first ever appearance in Luton they smashed windows of Muslim-owned businesses, and attacked an Asian man in the street. While they claim to only oppose ‘Islamic Extremism,’ I doubt they quizzed this guy on his political and theological beliefs before beating him up.
Landowner and BNP donor facing court on dog charge
February 03, 2011
A landowner who was one of the biggest individual cash donors to the British National Party is facing court action accused of failing to keep his dog under control after it is alleged to have bitten a woman.
Charles Wentworth, 53, who lives at Friston Hall, near Aldeburgh, had his case listed before magistrates in Lowestoft on Monday following the incident on November 17 last year. It was reported to police that Hannah Burns, a 47-year-old woman from the local area, was bitten on the thigh by a Doberman dog on a footpath between Benhall and Friston.
Mr Wentworth, who also owns Friston Village Hall and the village green, is accused of “being the owner of a dog which was dangerous and was not kept under proper control”.
Anti-Gay Hate Group AFA Starts Boycott Of Home Depot For GLAAD Support
AFA, the anti-gay hate group “American Family Association” announced it is starting yet another boycott, this time of retailer The Home Depot, claiming “The Home Depot promotes the homosexual agenda,” by matching employee donations to GLAAD, The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation. Wrongly stating “GLAAD is heavily involved in promoting same-sex marriage,” AFA states The Home Depot is “deliberately exposing small children to lascivious displays of sexual conduct by homosexuals and cross-dressers.”
The Manchester protest against Aaron Porter was not anti-Semitic!
The unsubtantiated claims of anti-semitic abuse directed towards Aaron Porter in the press masks the real story - that of the growing gulf between students and their "leaders".
Many people reading the news coverage of the TUC, UCU and NUS-organised demonstration in Manchester on 29 January must have felt disgusted with the student movement in this country. First students desecrated the Cenotaph in London last December (sic), and now they have apparently shouted vile racist abuse at NUS president Aaron Porter. The ‘story’ seems to have begun with an article on Daily Mail online, which refers briefly to a photographer, who apparently overheard a chant of ‘Tory Jew’ directed at the student leader. From that they constructed a headline reading ‘student leader faces barrage of anti-Jewish abuse at rally’. Then a story on the Telegraph website mentions unnamed ‘witnesses’ who heard the same ‘anti-Semitic insults’, and they add that other protesters responded with ‘no to racism, no to racism’. From there it goes viral with several online media outlets ‘reporting’ chants of ‘Tory Jew scum’ and ‘vile racist abuse’.
Motorist to pay up for racial abuse of warden (Bolton UK)
A MOTORIST who screamed racist abuse at a traffic warden will have to pay a hefty financial penalty.
Irfan Younis, aged 31, of Halton Street, Tonge Fold, has been ordered to pay £800 in costs after unleashing a torrent of abuse on a white female enforcement officer in Manchester Road, Bury, in June last year.
After receiving a penalty charge notice for parking in a pay and display spot without a ticket, Younis drove his car past the woman and shouted prolonged abusive comments at her, including racist remarks.
Police deal with hundreds of racial attacks on Tyneside (UK)
Victim of racist abuse
Northumbria Police received hundreds of reports of racial incidents in 2010
Smoke bombs through their letterboxes, bricks through their windows and even death threats - this is the reality for victims of racist abuse.
A BBC Newcastle investigation has uncovered a series of violent racist attacks on a Tyneside council estate.
Two families have told us about a hate campaign by gangs in the area which has left them feeling like prisoners in their own homes.
Northumbria Police say racism shouldn't be tolerated and is "not acceptable."
Muslim dignitaries pay their respects at Auschwitz
OSWIECIM, Poland (AP) — In a bid to fight anti-Semitism and bridge cultural rifts, a large delegation of Muslim dignitaries visited Auschwitz on Tuesday to pay tribute to the millions of Jews and others who were systematically killed in the Holocaust.
The group of some 150 people included representatives from Morocco, Jordan, Turkey and Iraq, as well as rabbis, Holocaust survivors and Christian representatives. Several European dignitaries also were part of the group, including the former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder.
"Muslims have to stand up with Jewish friends because in Europe, anti-Semitism is rising — and where there is anti-Semitism, Islamophobia is not far away," said British Mufti Abduljalil Sajid.
mark Kennedy was invited to Germany to infiltrate the anti-fascist movement
spook watch, 27.01.2011 11:21
The Guardian have run a story, based on a spiegel.de article, which "Kennedy's involvement in criminal activity during his time in Germany highlights concerns that he was working as an agent provocateur and not just an observer of the activists." An extract of the article in the Guardian follows.
Germany's federal police chief, J�rg Ziercke, was forced to admit to MPs at the Bundestag that not only had Kennedy had a long-term lover in Berlin ? in direct violation of a law forbidding police officers to have sexual relationships while undercover ? but that he had been invited to Germany by the authorities to infiltrate the anti-fascist movement.
Ziercke also revealed that Kennedy, the Metropolitan police officer at the centre of a controversy over the infiltration of peaceful environmental groups across Europe, worked for three German states during at least five visits to the country between 2004 and 2009.
He said the agent committed at least two crimes, but the cases against him were dropped at the behest of German authorities who knew Kennedy's true identity.
Kennedy first broke the law during protests at Heiligendamm, the town near Rostock where the G8 meetings took place in 2007. He later committed arson, Der Spiegel said, during a demonstration in Berlin at which he set fire to containers.
New Antifa group in Brighton (East Sussex UK)
We are an independent group, based in Brighton, that formed as a response to increased nationalist and fascist activity during 2010. We are willing to confront any fascist/racist activities in our area, by encouraging mass direct action amongst other methods. We are not aligned with any political party, nor do we co-operate with any, we also don’t work with the police. The state cannot be relied upon to oppose fascism, and will tolerate or encourage fascist groups when it suits its purposes. We try to organise as a non-hierarchical group.
No Magic Wand for this Cinderella
By MyraLana:
They clean your house, but can never leave it; cook your food, but can never eat it; raise your children, yet can never speak to their own; and live under your roof, but can never call it a home. However, such unfair living conditions can be considered minor, and represent only a small part of the harsh reality migrant domestic workers in Lebanon have to face every day. Migrant domestic workers are dying at a rate of more than one per week, reported the Human Rights Watch. This alarming one-digit number has been gone unnoticed, or maybe purposely ignored not only by the Ministry of Labor and the Ministry of Justice, but also by the Lebanese society. High rates of suicide among these women and running away from households highlight the need to further investigate the underlying causes for ill treatment of employers and the neglect by Lebanese laws in protecting their rights.
Anti-Racist Canada: Split in Blood & Honour (Aryan Guard) Faction
Source & complete article: ANTI-RACIST Canada
We've been pretty quiet about Blood & Honour (Aryan Guard) for the last several weeks. They still seem to be planning a public march on March 19 of this year and are bragging about the possibility of a number of boneheads from Ontario and Quebec making the journey to attend. However, the public posturing might be masking a deep divide within the group that has resulted in yet another split.
Things appear to have reached a breaking point over the issues of drugs and a past relationship with a First Nations woman (and a child that resulted from the relationship), resulting in a final blow-up between Lee Ebel and Jessie Lajoie. The other members of the racist gang split in their support of the two men. On those who sided with Lee were Kyle McKee, Natalie Serafini, Shannon Butt, Jordan Dowe, Mike Gaio, and Karine Raymond. On Jessie's side are John Marleau, Brent Goldring, and Courtney Bauming.
Undercover cop caught with his pants down again
Undercover Met cop Mark Kennedy has been caught with his pants down again, this time on behalf of the German authorities, after he infiltrated militant 'anti-fascist' groups intent on violence against political opponents and had sex with a female activist in order to gain confidence and information.
Germany's federal police chief, Jorg Ziercke, has been forced to admit to German MPs that Kennedy had been invited to Germany by the authorities to infiltrate militant' anti-fascist' groups who regularly use violence against political opponents and uniformed police officers.
Upcoming event: UNITED Conference in Bratislava (SK), 16-21 May 2011
Dear colleagues and friends,
Please find below the information and nomination form for our next UNITED Conference,
'From Theory to Practice: Creative Action Towards Social Change'
16-21 May 2011, in Bratislava (SK)
Conference prepared by:
* Enough (SK)
* People Against Racism (SK)
* Austrian Students Union Klagenfurt (A)
* Finnish Youth Cooperation Allianssi (FIN)
* Folkesagen - Worthy Life for Asylum Seekers (DK)
* Young Mountaineers - Mladi Planinari (MK)
* UNITED for Intercultural Action
With the financial support of:
* European Youth Foundation of the Council of Europe
* Open Society Foundation - Slovakia
* Minority Rights Group Europe
All information and the e-nomination form can be found below, and on our website.
19th January Solidarity action in Copenhagen
Today morning, January 19th 2011, a banner with the text “Stop Neonazi Violence in Russia” was put in the centre of Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark.
January 19th is the Day of Remembering Victims of Neonazi Violence in Russia, memoring the murders of Stanislav Markelov and Anastasia Baburuva in central Moscow two years ago.
Antifascist lawyer Stanislav Markelov and anarchist journalist Anastasia Baburova were murdered in broad daylight, shot in the head by Neonazi Nikita Tikhonov who was active member of the nationalist organisation “Russkiy Obraz”.
The case of Stanislav and Anastasia brought great international attention but still Neonazi terror in Russia continues.
We call for international solidarity with Russian antifascist movement and fight against Neonazism!
Antifascists of Copenhagen