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The Northern Green Gathering and the British National Party

Antifascist | 03.08.2006 14:23 | Anti-racism | Sheffield

Get your dates right or you'll be bedding down with some very strange bedfellows.

Since Hitler was reputedly a vegetarian, perhaps BNP leader Nick Griffin will stay on site for the Northern Green Gathering after the British National Party's annual 'Red, White, and Blue Festival' comes to an end later this month. That's right, the organizers of the Northern Green have chosen the same site on which the fascist BNP and their fellow Nazis are holding their yearly get-together. So, when you're paying into the Northern Green, remember that some of your cash is going straight into the pockets of the fascist-friendly scumbag who owns the site. And since the BNP are just as aware of the forthcoming event as the Northern Green organizers are of their predecessors, you might want to check under the toilet seats for razor-blades before sitting down. Alternatively, you could do something better with your weekend.

Antifascist

Additions

Event Location

03.08.2006 14:43

Dockber Laithe Farm
Dockber Laithe Farm

Northern Green Gathering
Dockber Laithe Farm
Clitheroe
Lancs
BB7 4LF

The site is just off the A59 near Sawley, Clitheroe, Lancashire.

The above is taken from thre NGG web site:  http://www.nggonline.org.uk/

The BNP site, www.bnp.org.uk/rwb06 has this info:

Tickets for the RWB 2006 are now on sale.

Saturday - Sunday 12th - 13th August, usual site at Sawley, Lancashire.

Look up the NGG post code on Google Maps and you get the attached location.

searcher


EF! gathering's better anyway

03.08.2006 23:59

Anyway, the Earth First! summer gathering is better to go to anyway, than the Northern Green, if you have to choose. And this year you get a mid-Wales seaside beautiful venue thrown into the bargain. All for less money, and all for trying to get together to change things for the better. And no fascists to boot (as it were).



The Earth First! Summer Gathering is the place where people involved in radical ecological direct action - or those who want to be involved - get together for five days of time and space to talk, walk, share skills, learn, play, rant, find out what's going on, find out what's next, live outside, strategise, hang out, incite, laugh and conspire.

The gathering is also a practical example of non-hierarchical low-impact living in action.

We are a diverse community with a wide range of approaches to our action, so there should be plenty to interest and inspire everyone whether you have been active for years or are completely new to it all.

greenie anti-fash
- Homepage: http://earthfirstgathering.org.uk


Or look at it this way

05.08.2006 12:45

You could equally say that the Green-friendly farmer is pocketing money from the BNP. Personally, we believe the landowner has sympathies only with his bank account, and is guilty of just not caring what goes on on his land. We hope that we can educate him while we are there.
While NGG would be much happier if the BNP weren't using the same site, and all disappeared in a puff of smoke, along with their poison, it is important to consider that NGG will be delivering an alternative into the area, providing the voice of reason, and demonstrating that respect for each other and the environment is the only way to sustainability, the only viable future.

Gael
- Homepage: http://www.nggonline.org.uk


Slating NGG will make no difference here

08.08.2006 15:31

I have spoken to said farmer about the range of events he holds on the land. Apart from the BNP gathering, the rest of the events are fluffy hippy gatherings and sound system parties. He really doesn't have any ties to any of them, he cares as little about NGG as he does about the bnp. Like Gael says, it's just about making some cash to him. If he was a bnp supporter/sympathiser, do you think he would allow most of the events on the site to be ones that tend to attract lots of antifascists?

It has been suggested to me that if NGG and the other events held there all withdrew, on this basis, then maybe he could be persuaded to stop hosting the BNP gathering. I think this is garbage. I suspect he'll just get some other events to come along - biker rallies, knitting festivals...anti fascist gatherings...and won't care what they are either, and be all the happier with the BNP gathering organisers for staying and not causing him any trouble.

Believe it or not, it is possible for people to not have any political views.

If you have a problem with the BNP gathering, go complain at them, not at NGG. Hold a demonstration outside, throw eggs at them, cause trouble for them. Then when they've all gone home stay for NGG and you will be most welcome.

stu


Comments

Display the following 74 comments

  1. razor portaloo massacre — josh
  2. No Coincidence — Antifascist
  3. Site-owner — Andrew
  4. Hitler The Modern Vegetarian — Tim
  5. news article from 2002 — Martin
  6. Essay on Hitler's reputed vegetarianism — Soggy Sosmix
  7. Who cares? — N.Holmes
  8. yea it matters — soggy sosmix
  9. collett/reynolds — SAD BNP
  10. Sad? — Julian Clary
  11. Normal? — Reg
  12. Sod Farmer Giles! — Yorkshire anti-racist
  13. So Nice... — I'm still going
  14. Its not consistent — Mary
  15. Fascism is an irrelevance to middle-class hippies — Jennings
  16. Saddening... — Northern Green Goer
  17. Economic sabotage anyone? — Freddie Fencecutter
  18. Fuck The Farmer — Black N Red
  19. Stu (additions) — Black N Red
  20. fao stu — Concerned Of Gipton
  21. Northern Greed — Ollie
  22. hysteria — green pixie
  23. EXCUSE ME — JOSH
  24. Drip, Drip... — Boycott the Northern Greed
  25. This is so typical... — xZx
  26. xZx — West Yorks antifascist
  27. xZx — antifascist
  28. Does antifascism have a bad rep? — xZx
  29. Whats going on? — Rudeboy
  30. "CUNT" — JOSH
  31. Military Exercises For Three Year Old Kids - An Insight Into A BNP Government — TT
  32. Antifascism's "bad reputation" — Ex-AFA
  33. 3 points on stuff that has come up in this thread — C.Y.
  34. Bad rep and undermining etc... — xZx
  35. Say No — Antifascist
  36. Stop using this thread to attack antifascists — ANTIFA member (personal capacity)
  37. Earth First! — Hippy
  38. ... — Ant
  39. Response to say no... — xZx
  40. FAO xZx — Antifascist
  41. Going? — Gone
  42. Pity the poor NGG — JJ
  43. Saddening... — Yorkshire RASH
  44. Cash — Ollie
  45. Traitors — Bradford anti-racist
  46. Bright idea? — Redbug
  47. Fuck the NGG — Angry
  48. Redbug — Arnie
  49. Accountability — Disgusted of Armley
  50. Saddened aswell.. — ex ngg organiser
  51. RWB — Joe
  52. 'Joe' — Auntie
  53. "Joe" — Antifascist
  54. ex ngg organiser — black & green hippy
  55. Scabs — FTBNP
  56. Northern Green Gathering — Green Man
  57. Betrayed by the NGG — Green anti-fascist
  58. An example of why no antiracist should be at the NGG (from Lancaster UAF blog) — Arnold
  59. Never Forget — Antifascist
  60. Stu — U.N.C.L.E.
  61. Nick Cass — AntiBNP
  62. Cass — Bramley Red
  63. Cash — StayAtHome :(
  64. Cash — Northern Green
  65. Politics — FAO Stu
  66. Ethical choices — Trendy Liberal
  67. Choices — ...
  68. I am not shit stirring — Nick Cass
  69. Nick Cass — Milky Bar Kid
  70. Sid Williamson — Ian Jones
  71. Nick Cass & The NGG — Disgusted with the NGG
  72. Just desserts — Sod the NGG!
  73. Nick Cass — Rudeboy
  74. Update — AntiBNP

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