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Anti-deportation rally for all the family Sat 25th

Steve | 24-09-2010 09:07 | Anti-racism | Migration | Sheffield

There is an anti-deportation rally outside Sheffield Town Hall on Saturday 25th September from 12.30pm to 1.30pm to support the Okpara family from Nigeria who are faced with deportation.

The organisers are encouraging families to come and show their support. There will be music and activities for children. Lib Dem Council leader is supporting the campaign and will be speaking at the rally.

BNP members finding favour with sonic rock sympathisers

The sad story of those who turn a blind eye to BNP members in their midst

English Defence League leaders accused of stealing money by EDL members

The English Defence League leadership have been accused of stealing money by the rank and file members of the English Defence League [EDL]. At a meeting held by EDL members the leadership were accused of stealing money. The leadershipe are now saying that they will stop selling the EDL merchandise, clothing and so on following the accusations of theft and misusing EDL monies.

"United Against Nuclear Iran": America's war propaganda mouthpiece

Those who regularly follow the developments of Iran might have come across to the website of "United Against Nuclear Iran", a "non-partisan, non-profit advocacy organization" that seeks to "prevent Iran from fulfilling its ambition to become a regional super-power possessing nuclear weapons"

UANI has compiled an elaborate list of the foreign companies and firms which do business with Iran and calls on its readers and visitors to send condemnatory letters and complaints to these companies so as to persuade them to withdraw their capitals and resources from Iran and stop doing business with a country which the United States and its European allies consider to be an emerging nuclear threat in the Middle East.

In a nutshell, UANI's objective is to impair the Iranian nation. They already know that Iran does not seek nuclear weapons. UANI's seeks a weak, demoralized and unstable Iran without an active role in the international community. UANI is not United Against Nuclear Iran, it is United Against the Nation of Iran.

English Defence League sing "Aint no black in the union jack" at EDL protest

The notorious racist and Islamophobic English Defence League were shouting "Aint no Black in the Union Jack" at an EDL protest. The EDL have rioted across the country. Their protests have been attended by the National Front, Combat 18, the BNP, Blood and Honour, Nationalist anarchists and lone racists. They have attacked Muslim women, attacked Mosques & Temples.

Why we love to hate conspiracy theories: 9/11 Truth as threat to intelligentsia

Especially left and liberal professionals and service intellectuals but also right-wing members of the intelligentsia vehemently attack and ridicule “conspiracy theories” such as the present 911 Truth movement.

Why? It’s as though power did not covertly orchestrate its predation of us? Is that not the modus operandi of power?

US and its allies should look at their own nuclearpolicy before criticizing Iran

For years, the United States and its allies have accused Iran of being a major nuclear threat because it has violated the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Ironically, the real violators of the NNPT are the same nations accusing Iran. The U.S. and its allies have never been able to confirm their accusations with concrete proof since they are based entirely on suspicion. While the media continues to attack Iran, illegal nuclear activities made by the West remain widely unknown to the public.

Who pays for the loss of life in Iran?

Since the victory of Iran's Islamic Revolution in 1979 which toppled the U.S.-backed regime of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Iran has been facing with devastating and agonizing financial sanctions of the United States and its European allies. The most inequitable and unreasonable sanctions against Iran were those which would were endorsed in 1995 and disallowed the aviation companies around the world to sell aircrafts and repair parts to the Iranian airlines directly. Iran has experienced several deadly air accidents in which hundreds of innocent civilians lost their lives. The United States has failed to dictate its political will to Iran and resorts to this failure as a pretext for punishing its people.

Pentagon's Half-Billion-Dollar PR Budget to Sell Afghan War

$547 million. That’s the Pentagon’s P.R. budget. They’re using it to spread mistruths and misplaced hope in ‘progress’ with one goal in mind: to extend the brutal, costly Afghanistan War.

General Petraeus' media blitz is only the tip of the iceberg in the Pentagon's effort to sell war to the American people. The Defense Department has a budget of more than $500 million for public relations efforts directed at U.S. citizens, a slice of a much larger information operations effort to influence public opinion. But no matter how much they spend on P.R. and information operations, the facts on the ground show that the Afghanistan War isn't making us safer, and it's not worth the costs.

Join us as we fight back against the spin.

More info:

http://facebook.com/RethinkAfghanistan

US author: I've come to appreciate Iran

What my first trip to Iran in 2007 taught me is this: From the school children to the police officers to the college students to laborers to the Revolutionary Guard, no one in Iran obviously has been taught to hate Americans and no one was preparing the Iranian people to go to war with Americans. If the government is teaching children to hate Americans, some of that would pick up; but it wasn't like that at all. I got mobbed in Shiraz by 80 elementary school children -- surrounding me so I couldn't move, yelling, "We love you; we love America, Welcome." Just because they found that we were American.

“Sacred” Ground Zero

If American whites practiced what many of them preach to Muslims, they would ban themselves from building cultural institutions of any kind in much of the United States, since so many places are sites of depraved atrocities and mass killings of people of color by whites. Or, are only white folks’ “sensitivities” to be respected? Where is “hallowed ground” for descendants of Black slaves and Native Americans?

EDL Racists

'Malatesta' | 26-08-2010 12:44 | Anti-racism | Sheffield | World

Only 2 days until Bradford and the EDL are still pretending they aren't racist.

How does poking fun at Iranian culture helps America lube the wheels of war?

n the modern era, humor has worked again and again to dehumanize target countries as a standard part of war propaganda. In a democracy, where support of the population at large is supposedly a prerequisite for attacking another country, jokes are a common means of dehumanizing, demonizing and generally placing the population of the targets of the attack into the category of Other. Empathy plummets; and civilians in the aggressor state find it increasingly difficult to put themselves in the (Islam-approved) shoes of those on the receiving ends of the bombs. Most troubling is that liberals and progressives – those you might expect, ostensibly, to oppose a U.S. attack on Iran – are just as likely to laugh the country to war as hawks.

“Countdown to Zero” — or to War on Iran?

Countdown to Zero is now playing in a theater near you, at least if you live in a very “blue state” or a “blue neighborhood,” for example, Cambridge, MA, my hometown, or San Francisco. The movie is aimed squarely at the antiwar, anti-nuclear pro-Obama audience, which dwells therein and is all too susceptible to the “humanitarian” streak of imperialism. It is a very shrewd propaganda flick, as Darwin Bond-Graham demonstrated in his superb review, a film which in fact helps to pry open a little bit further the door to a war on Iran.

Bradford Bother

BRADFORD by 'Malatesta' | 22-08-2010 09:06 | Anti-racism | Sheffield | World

Despite the ban on any EDL march in Bradford, those little rascals are still going to turn up.

Bradford EDL organiser revealed. Stop the EDL in Bradford!

The English Defence League are the racist football thugs that by now everyone has heard of. They have attacked mosques, put pigs heads on mosques, attacked Muslims women & pulled off their hijabs. They have smashed up shops, cars, homes & rampaged through Luton, Bolton, Stoke, Dudley, Aylesbury, causing trouble. They now plan to riot in Bradford in Yorkshire on the 28th August.

The EDL: Street fighting for the establishment

Reposter | 19-08-2010 12:27 | Anti-racism | Sheffield

Interesting article that seems to make a better stab than most at what the EDL are all about. Originally posted in Ceasefire:

http://ceasefiremagazine.co.uk/2010/08/diary-of-a-domestic-extremist-the-edl-street-fighting-for-the-establishment/

English Defence League [EDL] pre Bradford meet & party Sat 7th August in Seaham

The English Defence League are an Islamophobic and racist organisation whose leadership and foot soldiers have links to the BNP, Combat 18, Blood and Honour, White Pride, English Shieldwall, English Nationalist Alliance and UKIP. The EDL have rioted in Stoke, Luton, Bolton, Dudley etc. They have been photographed and filmed giving Nazi salutes and with swastika flags. They are planning yet another riot in Bradford on the 28th August described by them as "the big one" [partly because the UAF have stirred it up as the "big one"]. This Saturday 7th August the EDL or "North East Infidels" are meeting at the Red Star Seaham for a pre Bradford meeting & an EDL party.

Planned EDL Counter Protest in Bradford fails to raise eyebrows

Later this month English Defence League supporters hope to parade their hatred through the streets of Bradford but there is a massive campaign underway to legally stop them. But if the EDL do end up coming, should we really allow a counter protest?

Manchester Antifascist Alliance (MAFA) news, events and actions.

MAFA continues the fight against fascism through the summer and beyond.

Sheffield Anti-racism Newswire Archive

Anti-deportation rally for all the family Sat 25th

BNP members finding favour with sonic rock sympathisers

English Defence League leaders accused of stealing money by EDL members

"United Against Nuclear Iran": America's war propaganda mouthpiece

English Defence League sing "Aint no black in the union jack" at EDL protest

Why we love to hate conspiracy theories: 9/11 Truth as threat to intelligentsia

US and its allies should look at their own nuclearpolicy before criticizing Iran

Who pays for the loss of life in Iran?

Pentagon's Half-Billion-Dollar PR Budget to Sell Afghan War

US author: I've come to appreciate Iran

“Sacred” Ground Zero

EDL Racists

How does poking fun at Iranian culture helps America lube the wheels of war?

“Countdown to Zero” — or to War on Iran?

Bradford Bother

Bradford EDL organiser revealed. Stop the EDL in Bradford!

The EDL: Street fighting for the establishment

English Defence League [EDL] pre Bradford meet & party Sat 7th August in Seaham

Planned EDL Counter Protest in Bradford fails to raise eyebrows

Manchester Antifascist Alliance (MAFA) news, events and actions.

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