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Celebrate Tower Hamlets - One Community Many Cultures
This Saturday - 3rd September
Despite the Home Secretary banning the English Defence League (EDL) from marching through Tower Hamlets, they are still being allowed a static demonstration. We do not know where the EDL static demonstration will be. However, in the wake of the riots in London, and the endorsement of the EDL by Anders Behring Breivik who was responsible for the shocking massacre in Norway this July, we believe it is unnaceptable that the EDL, with its history of violence and public disorder, should be allowed this demonstration. Tower Hamlets is a diverse and multicultural borough with the largest Muslim community in the country.
United East End and Unite Against Fascism are jointly organising a national demonstration against the English Defence League on 3 September which will feature speeches and music, with artists including multitalented fusion musician and producer Nitin Sawhney, leading radio DJ Nihal, Get Cape Wear Cape Fly and chart-topping rapper and MC Wretch 32.
The new assembly point is 11am, corner of Vallance Road and Whitechapel Road, London E1. Please note that Whitechapel tube is closed, as is the district line, so the nearest tube station is Bethnal Green on the Central Line.
Turnout crucial
It is crucial that we get the biggest possible turnout on the anti-racist demo to show the widest possible opposition to the EDL.
Last year 5,000 people turned out to reject the hatred of the EDL.
We want the biggest possible turnout on the demo to show that the vast majority of people don’t want the racists and fascists of the EDL in Tower Hamlets or anywhere else.
For more information including coaches from around the country please visit www.uaf.org.uk
Tell pubs: Dont host the EDL on Saturday 3rd September
The English Defence League wants to use two pubs as meeting points for their demo on Saturday 3 September
The EDL have been forced back to two pubs in Euston, after the RMT railworkers’ union stopped their plans to gather en masse at Liverpool Street station.
They now plan to assemble at the Euston Flyer, 83-87 Euston Rd and O’Neills, 73-77 Euston Rd, London before being taken to their demo site in Tower Hamlets in small groups by police.
Please complain to both pubs and urge them not to host the EDL. But be polite, as it’s not the fault of the pubs that the EDL want to drink there.
Use UAF's factsheet to explain why these pubs should not host the EDL
Contact O’Neills
Manager: Damian O’Meara – Tel: 0207 380 0464
Contact the Euston Flyer
Licensee: Alex Stupple – Tel: 020 7383 0856 Email:
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For latest updates: twitter.com/uaf
One Society Many Cultures / Unite Against Fascism
National Convention
Saturday 15th October
supported by SERTUC
TUC Conference Centre, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3LS
A national conference to bring together the broadest alliance to celebrate diversity, defend multiculturalism, and oppose Islamophobia and racism.
The shocking massacre in Norway in July has underlined the pressing need to bring together all those who wish to defend freedom of expression and diversity, and oppose fascism
Our hard won rights, including freedom of expression, speech, thought, conscience, religious and cultural expression and defending civil liberties, are the product of hundreds of years of struggle, creating a more civilised society in which each person is able to live their life as they wish and to the fullest expression of their talents.
These rights are under attack on many fronts, including the actions of Breivik, but also through legislation banning religious dress, the building of minarets, bans on kosher and halal butchers, inflammatory and inaccurate media scare stories suggesting that the tiny minority of Muslim residents in Europe threaten the introduction of 'sharia' law or 'creeping Islamification', and fascist attacks on places of worship, communities, meetings and cemeteries.
The response to those who sow division is that we are one society with many cultures, ideas, faiths and beliefs. Celebrate our diversity and organise to oppose racism, fascism and hatred.
Initally confirmed speakers include:
Jack Dromey MP
Helen Goodman MP
Peter Hain MP
Margaret Hodge MP
Claude Moraes MEP
Jean Lambert MEP
Farooq Murad, General Secretary - Muslim Council of Britain
Edie Friedman, Executive Director- Jewish Council for Racial Equality
Steve Hart, Political Director - Unite the Union
Bob Lambert, Co-Director - European Muslim Research Centre
Jody Macintyre, Journalist
Peter Oborne, Journalist
Sabby Dhalu, Secretary - One Society Many Cultures
Weyman Bennett, Joint National Secretary - Unite Against Fascism
Martin Smith, National Co-ordinator - Love Music Hate Racism
To register now please click here
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