Love Music Hate Racism

On the 29th October, Club NME Canterbury will be holding an event in support of East Kent LMHR with a great line up including: The Rascals, Shakes & Clarky Cat and DJs, starting from 8pm Entrance £5 or £3 concessions

Linda Smith was a great comedian but was also a committed and passionate anti-racist and anti-fascist. All at LMHR were saddened to hear of her recent death. Linda's partner Warren was at the Hackney Empire RAR show in July and we are delighted to be able to help promote a cancer-awareness show that he is organising in Linda's memory. Victoria Palace Theatre, London SW1 Sunday 28th October 2007 Doors 6.30 p.m. Concert 7.00 pm to 10.00 pm For tickets: Telephone the Victoria Palace box office 0870 1658787 £37.50 and £27.50

On October 27th Club NME in Exeter will be collaborating with LMHR to bring you the hot new acts, with headliners The Rascals, as well as providing LMHR/NME CD sleeves, posters, prize giveaways and signup sheets for people to get involved with LMHR.

Love Music Hate Racism Gig commemorating the Battle of Lewisham, with sets from DJs including the legendary Don Letts, N-type and Hijak, Ben UFO, HT, W.A.R. Martial, Lloydie B and live bands The China Dogs and New X super-group (The Moon, Public Enterprise and Cormac Heron) playing Reggae, Punk, Rock, Indie, Dubstep, Drum and Base, UKG & Grime. Celebrating Unity through music!

Protest in Birmingham against Holocaust denier, David Irving, on Friday 26th October Assemble 6pm at the ICC, Broad St, Central Birmingham. Birmingham UAF are organising a protest outside a meeting at which David Irving is due to speak. It is understood that the meeting will be held in a hotel in Broad St on Friday night. LMHR supporters are urged to join the protest.

***Sadly, the LMHR/NME CD is no longer available to download from nme.com, you may be able to find the odd copy of the magazine itself with covermount CD, or secondhand copies of the CD, on Ebay.***

By Andrew Smith. Though more commonly-namechecked bands like The Clash are often credited with the significant popular cultural fusion of reggae and punk in the late 1970s there is one band which should be far from overlooked ... Much of The Ruts' reggae-punk sound can be credited to the cutting, jagged guitar sound of Paul Fox ... His influence for those who have discovered his work is phenomenal and credit will always go to him for his anti-fascist work and his influence on the anti-racist cultural movement of the late 1970s.

By Olivia Fletcher, LMHR. "Scientist", James Watson's theory was last week splashed on the front cover of The Independent (Wednesday 17 October 2007) which read "Africans are less intelligent than Westerners, says DNA pioneer". Following a huge response from campaigners and other scientists opposing his views, Watson has since had meetings and lecture tours cancelled and suspended from his academic post.

Part one of the Love Music Hate Racism album comes free with this week's NME (17 - 23 October), with the second half available as a free download. The album sends out a strong message against the BNP and their attempts to target schools. The NME also has a major feature on Love Music Hate Racism and the bands behind the album, making it essential reading - get down to your local newsagents or supermarket and make sure you dont miss out on a copy. You can also buy the issue online

Unite Against Fascism welcomes the decision of the Science Museum and Bristol's Festival of Ideas to cancel the events scheduled around the Nobel Prize winner James Watson, the cancellation of the remainder of his book promotion tour next week and his suspension from his position at the Cold Harbour Reseach Laboratory. Watson used his position as a world famous, eminent scientist to express deeply abhorrent racist views which belong to white supremacists and neo-Nazis. His comments were rightly totally rejected by the length and breadth of the scientific community here in Britain and in the USA, as not having any scientific basis.

As one of three main speakers on the panel, LMHR would like to share tips and advice with young people on starting and running a campaign and will benefit greatly from the advice on how to identify, address and campaign on a range of issues.

On Saturday 20th October Carlisle LMHR will be holding an LMHR gig, featuring 6 acts and a DJ, in hope to also raise awareness of racism and send out a powerful message against it in Carlisle. The Event will take place at Brickyard, Fisher Steet, Carlisle

Rap to Punk to Reggae to Grime to Accoustic all at one gig - to say Love Music Hate Racism

Unite Against Fascism has learnt that Oxford Union debating society has invited Fascist BNP leader Nick Griffin and convicted Holocaust denier David Irving to a debate on 'Freedom of Speech' on 26 November. UAF understands they both have been confirmed for this 'debate'. Wherever fascists have a presence, violence and intimidation increases. Fascists stand against the principles of freedom of speech and as history shows, they destroy all opposition by physically annihilating entire people and ending all freedoms.

Download our CD, watch the videos... then get involved! Large or small, our list of ideas has a way for everyone to say "Love Music Hate Racism".

***Sadly, the LMHR/NME CD is no longer available to download from nme.com, you may be able to find the odd copy of the magazine itself with covermount CD, or secondhand copies of the CD, on Ebay.***

The good people at The Wunderbar in Midsomer Norton in Somerset are staging the town's first LMHR gig on October 13th, featuring top local talent Patchway Theft, The Volt and Cole Ford.

Billy Bragg returned to his old school, Barking Abbey, in the London Borough of Barking & Dagenham, as part of a LMHR event.