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Violence flared up at Sheffield City Hall as the BNP candidate arrived.

oi | 01.05.2003 22:07 | May Day 2003 | Anti-racism | Sheffield

Police protect nazi's outside Sheffield City Hall

Sheffield’s trollyd sound system crew began their Mayday protest in Barkers Pool at 6.30pm playing Not In Our Name by Saul Williams on a loop, after ten minutes we were directed to the town hall by two police men and told if we didn’t go we would be arrested, the danger being we might start a rave. We wheeled off to park up under the arched entrance of the town hall. The potential ravers (young skaters?) following, At 8pm a small posse of anti nazi league persons arrived with the intention of preventing the B.N.P candidates entering the Town Hall for vote counting. Word shot round saying we were in the wrong place, B.N.P arriving at City Hall, off we set to wait with our dancing smiling baton twirling entourage escorting us beats bouncing off the buildings either side. At 9pm two B.N.P candidates arrived who were immediately surrounded by protesters and forced away from the entrance to angry chants of “nazi scum.” The two policemen protecting them were very quickly reinforced by around fifty more in riot vans who immediately began shoving protesters away from the B.N.P and entrance to City Hall, trollyd crew were pushed over, two were grabbed and thrown against the wall, police angry and told one he was under arrest however was soon de arrested. As the police outnumbered the protestors trollyd posse decided to call it a day.
Fuck the police

www.burngreave.net/~trollyd

oi

Comments

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Toss Pot

02.05.2003 00:02

Twirling batons while fascists are winning seats! It's no wonder the fasch are becoming more relevant. Do you honestly think the majority of working class people in Yorkshire with real issues to worry about give a fuck about a bunch of dopey twats playing the same continuous crap music for ten minutes? I'd have fucking shot you myself.

Phil from IWCA


Phil the Toss Pot

02.05.2003 00:28

So what did you do Phil? Fuck all? Thought so.

mark


duh

02.05.2003 03:54

something tells me the baton-twirling was a reference to the cops?

heh

yerwhat?


where were the 'street fighting' heros

02.05.2003 08:47

so what happened to hard men of anti-facsism...it was left to dopey soundsystem twats to beat the facsits...did iwca have a dinner party on...or were they down the pub 'tellin' people how to beat the fash...
get of your lazy arses and sort it...stop talkin start doin

...phil maybe you should have shot yrslf and spare us from your whining bullshit

dopey soundsystem twat


where were the 'street fighting' heros

02.05.2003 08:48

so what happened to hard men of anti-facsism...it was left to dopey soundsystem twats to beat the facsits...did iwca have a dinner party on...or were they down the pub 'tellin' people how to beat the fash...
get of your lazy arses and sort it...stop talkin start doin

...phil maybe you should have shot yrslf and spare us from your whining bullshit

dopey soundsystem twat


where were the 'street fighting' heros

02.05.2003 08:48

so what happened to hard men of anti-facsism...it was left to dopey soundsystem twats to beat the facsits...did iwca have a dinner party on...or were they down the pub 'tellin' people how to beat the fash...
get of your lazy arses and sort it...stop talkin start doin

...phil maybe you should have shot yrslf and spare us from your whining bullshit

dopey soundsystem twat


Reply to TossPot Phil

02.05.2003 09:18

As a true working class sheffielder i am deeply saddened by TossPot Phils comments about the sound system which fired up the resistance to the fascist presence on Mayday..the comment "playing the same continuous crap music " ermm..that reminded me of the Thatcherite Criminal Justice Act outlawing the rave culture the line in the act referring to "repetitive beats"...also did TossPot Phil get threatened with arrest or even be arrested counteracting the bnp threat...?

mayday protester


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