THE LAST LOFT PARTY: Friday 24th Feb >8pm till late >Manchester School of Samba >Nucleus Roots >Dave Haslam >Ruffmouth >Granby Row >The Mekkits >The Knights >Regarding Frank >(plus poets and special guests) £5 donation, proceeds to LMHR Dress Warm! Please mail carlyjw@hotmail.com or call 07973 896516 for travel arrangements. This is an invitation only event.
Television Personalities Chris T-T Get Cape Wear Cape Fly Frank Turner The Dusty Soundsystem (with Piney Gir) Dave House + Guests TBC
Unite Against Fascism (UAF) is organising three major national days of action on the dates above to campaign against the BNP in the local elections. Leaflets to distribute on these days will be available at the UAF conference on Saturday 18 February, see details below. If you want to get involved in activities in your local area on these days, please contact the UAF office on 020 7833 4916 or 020 7837 4522.
Following last Saturday's tremendously successful UAF conference - the biggest anti-fascist conference for many many years UAF are now gearing up for a series of Days of Action against the BNP.
by Anindya Bhattacharyya Over 600 anti-fascist activists from around the country met in London on Saturday of last week for a lively and determined conference organised by Unite Against Fascism. The conference discussed stopping the British National Party (BNP) at the 4 May local elections. The conference saw a large turnout of young people and students, many of whom had got involved in Unite through the Love Music Hate Racism (LMHR) campaign against the BNP in schools and colleges. Dominique Walker, the sister of teenager Anthony Walker who was murdered by racists in Liverpool, gave a moving speech to the conference.
Music is a powerful force to bring young people of different race and religion together. The need to fight racism is a moral duty.
LMHR are hosting our own session as part of the UAF national conference. Join LMHR-supporting artists, industry professionals and other LMHR supporters like you from across the UK to hear ideas and advice on how to organise you own LMHR event, debate "Fighting racism with music" and much more, and sign up to be involved in helping organise major free outdoor LMHR festivals this summer!
There's still time - just - to register for tomorrow's UAF national conference in London. LMHR are hosting our own session as part of the UAF national conference. For details and to register (you mus register in advance to be sure of a place), go here. Read what leading artists and campaigners speaking at the conference are saying about the event...
16 February gig cancelled due to venue error - we'll be back on 16 March
Racism is a disease in this, our country, good 'old Britannia', but a disease i believe there IS a cure for. A disease, like any other that must be battled, researched and in the end conquered!
Award-winning writer and director Gurinder Chadha will be speaking at the UAF/LMHR national conference this weekend. Gurinder's films, including popular hits like Bend It Like Beckham, Bride and Prejudice and Bhaji on the Beach have all dealt with racism in British society and beyond, in a funny and accessible yet insistent way. She talks to us about how her involvement in LMHR's predecessor Rock Against Racism changed her life, and on the need to continue the fight against racism and fascism today.
Militant Entertainment release "Everybody’s Welcome to the Hooley" by Neck. Militant Entertainment is a new record label borne out of the Left Field stage at the Glastonbury Festival.
R*E*P*E*A*T Fanzine and Love Music Hate Racism are proud to present... Free love and the good plant/ The Males/ The Hope/ Hamfatter
Plymouth College of Art and Design Ethnic Minority Student Achievement Grant and Love Music Hate Racism Present "Who Shot the Sheriff?" fim screening.
All at Love Music Hate Racism regret the outcome of the Nick Griffin and Mark Collett court case. The BNP is a racist party, which has been described as a Nazi organisation by the Standards Board of England and Wales only last year.
... the right to freedom of speech equates to neither an obligation to offend nor a duty to be insensitive.
“Rock Against Racism: We Want Rebel Music” kicked off last week in true Love Music Hate Racism tradition by mixing up genres and crossing music boundaries. RAR/LMHR DJs started off the night by spinning the best in “Rebel Music” be it reggae, soul, rock n roll or punk...
In my opinion it is a very natural, but still basic and primitive reaction, to feel threatened or detached from anyone or anything that is superficially different to you. To educate and inform people living in a multicultural society of the importance of coexistence is key. But when supposedly 'well educated' people can form racist political parties, this can not be excused as ignorance - this is hate.
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