Fri-Sun 10-12 August 2007
The Herdsman, 54 Widemarsh Street HEREFORD HR4 9HG.
The first LMHR gig in Herefordshire takes place the 2nd weekend in August. Local music fans and bands, alarmed at the presence of two BNP candidates in recent local elections as well as the BNP’s South African “webmaster” in the city, have put together a fantastic bill of talent aimed at both entertaining as well as rallying local people to the anti-fascist cause.
Tags: South West, West Midlands VENUE / VICTORIA PARK LONDON E9
TIME / NOON – 8PM, FRIDAY 10th AUGUST
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***UPDATE**** Get the fascist BNP off Facebook – four more companies withdraw support and hundreds sign petition – please add your support by Friday.
Unite Against Fascism’s petition has already received support from hundreds of people via its facebook group and email. The petition supports the call by Unite Against Fascism, LMHR, the National Union of Students and others for the web-based social networking group Facebook to remove user pages that promote the BNP, stating that it is in contravention of their terms and conditions.
This follows the decision by six major firms to withdraw their advertising from the site (First Direct, Vodafone, Virgin Media, the AA, Halifax and the Prudential). Virgin said it had to “protect its brand”.
The BNP’s pages include inciteful images and comments against the Muslim community, racist cartoons, anti-immigration statements and a link to their website which contains racist, Islamophobic, homophobic material and other fascist propaganda.
Despite the evidence of the BNP’s connections with terrorists and violent criminal, most recently shown by the jailing of a former BNP council candidate, Robert Cottage, for stockpiling explosive chemicals for use in a ?
Unite Against Fascism, LMHR and the National Union of Students are calling on the web-based social networking site Facebook to remove user pages that belong to the BNP, stating that it is in contravention of their terms and conditions. This follows the decision by Vodafone and First Direct to have adverts removed from the site which were posted on BNP group pages. These pages include inciteful images and comments against the Muslim community, racist cartoons, anti-immigration statements and a link to their website which contains racist, Islamophobic, homophobic material and other fascist propaganda.
Sign up to the petition by visiting the UAF website
