All-female indie quirk-rockers, The Mentalists release their first Single ‘don’t know what to do with you’ on Militant Entertainment – a new independent label set up to raise awareness of the Love Music Hate Racism campaign. The band - who have supported Love Music Hate Racism in schools and at many LMHR events over the [...]
12 noon - 4pm, Saturday 28th October 2006. Barking College, Rush Green Campus Dagenham Road Romford RM7 0XU As part of the National Black History Month, Barking College will be holding a ‘Celebrate and Educate for Black History’ event on Saturday 28th October 2006. The GMB London Region Race committee and Love Music Hate Racism (LMHR) will be the co-hosts, and the event is supported by the South East Region of the TUC (SERTUC) as well as theT&GWU, CWU, NUT, and Unite Against Fascism.
12noon-2pm, Thursday 19th October. Barking College Rush Green campus, Dagenham. SORRY - BARKING COLLEGE STUDENTS ONLY! Speeches and performances from: Rodney P, Metro Riots, OT Crew, David Okoro (Anthony Walker Foundation)
Our major fundraising event for the year will be taking place at London's top club, Fabric, on Thursday 30th November 2006, from 8pm-3am. Babyshambles' Drew McConnell has teamed up with LMHR to 'curate' one of the best live music line-ups you're likely to see this year - of indie/rock, grime, hip-hop and drum'n'bass. Confirmed 100% to play are: BABYSHAMBLES, AKALA, THE VIEW, MYSTERY JETS, JAMMER, METRO RIOTS, N.A.S.T.Y., ANDY C, DYNAMITE MC, FIONN REGAN, HEARTLESS CREW, NU-MCs and many more. Click the title above for full details and to book tickets.
October is of course designated Black History Month (BHM). We are delighted announce two BHM events at Barking College later this month - in the borough where the fascist BNP have 12 local councillors. The events are organised by Barking College, the GMB union and LMHR to celebrate both Black History and also our shared black and white people's history of fighting racism. The events will bring together educators and students, trade union members, music artists, celebrities and politicians and of course campaigners and local community groups in one place for the first time since the election of the BNP councillors in Barking & Dagenham in May. Read on for full details.
A very Special Love Sheffield Music Hate Racism night with Jerry Dammers the driving force behind two tone records, The Specials, and the ska revival of '79, and the screening of the classic film 'Who Shot The Sheriff', on Thursday 2nd November at Bass Bar (DQ-The Late Bar)
“The BNP now has 14 councillors in London, and have gained ground on the back of a rise in racism. In the recent, council elections, the BNP declared that this was a “referendum on Islam”, and they are dividing communities with vicious, racist lies.
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By Josh Fenton-Glynn and Marie Xenos On Thursday 28th of September police raided two houses finding in one a rocket launcher and in another the largest quantity of chemical weapons of their type found in any raid in this country. Both houses had extremist literature. These were not Muslim terrorists which the press would so readily have you believe. These two men were supporters of the Nazi British National Party. One man had stood as a candidate for the BNP in the last elections.
By Thisislancashire.co.uk A DELEGATION of young people from Lowton and Golborne Youth Club visited a Bolton mosque to make a donation towards victims of the Pakistani earthquake disaster. The youth group raised the money by holding a Love Music/Hate Racism dance music night at Lowton Civic Hall in September.
On the 4 October 1936, the people of the East End of London prevented Oswald Mosley and his British Union of Fascists from marching through Cable Street in Stepney, then a mainly Jewish area. This happened just three months after the start of the Spanish Civil War when people from all over the world went to Spain to fight General Franco and his fascists in a prelude to the Second World War. In Spain and in the East End the same slogan was used: NO PASARAN! THEY SHALL NOT PASS!
Love Music Hate Racism is delighted to be hosting a workshop at the West Midlands Unite Against Fascism conference this weekend. At the conference we will be setting up a West Midlands Love Music Hate Racism group/network. If you are an anti-racist music fan, musician, promoter, or if you just want to help in any way you can to promote the Love Music Hate Racism message across the West Midlands, now is your chance! Come along to our session at this weekend's conference to find out more about Love Music Hate Racism and how you can get involved. Bring your ideas, your colleagues and your mates!
CLEVELAND WATKISS: SOLO VOICE The Albany, Friday 6 October, 8pm Three time winner of the Best Vocalist award from Wire/Guardian Jazz Awards, Cleveland creates material in the moment, purely from his vocal chords. Tickets £9, £6 concs, £4 Cheap as Chips rate for under 25s
‘Love Sheffield Music Hate Racism’ Album Launch Party!!!!!! Thursday 5th October @ THE HUBS, HALLAM UNION, SHEFFIELD “Ignorance and misunderstanding are the underlying causes of racism. Music cuts through all that crap so we can judge a human being by the quality of their soul and musicality which are so much more important than the color of there skin or their nationality” Sheffield-based Mercury Prize nominee Richard Hawley, June 2006. Buy the CD here!! >> http://www.lmhrsheffield.co.uk/
On the 4 October 1936, the people of the East End of London prevented Oswald Mosley and his British Union of Fascists from marching through Cable Street in Stepney, then a mainly Jewish area. This happened just three months after the start of the Spanish Civil War when people from all over the world went to Spain to fight General Franco and his fascists in a prelude to the Second World War. In Spain and in the East End the same slogan was used: NO PASARAN! THEY SHALL NOT PASS!
On Saturday 30th of September Barking and Dagenham Love Music Hate Racism organised our most successful event yet. The event was attended by around 500 people and was headlined by band of the moment Dirty Pretty Things along with top grime crew Roll Deep. The event sent out a clear message that people in Barking and Dagenham are ready and willing to stand up to the BNP and racism in their area.
‘Love Sheffield Music Hate Racism’ Album Launch Party!!!!!! Thursday 5th October @ THE HUBS, HALLAM UNION, SHEFFIELD Buy the CD here!! >> http://www.lmhrsheffield.co.uk/ See our Events page for more info on the CD and the launch gig.
The Selectiv, Zetan Spore, Obedientbone, Trimorphous and more, plus DJs - Plus speakers from local equality and anti fascist groups. Concentrating on south-west talent for this all-day event, LMHRExeter bring us such acts as Zetan Spore, a must-see live outfit from West Cornwall whose psychedelic trance with didgeridoo-fuelled tribal breaks met an incredible reception at [...]
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