Love Music Hate Racism

Local people – including members of trade unions, community, faith and youth groups – will be coming together on Saturday 26th July to leaflet and talk with other people in the communities most affected by the threat of racism and fascism facing our city. Everybody concerned about this problem is urged to join us on the 26th.

We have been informed that the BNP is holding a public meeting in Southey in Sheffield on Wednesday 16th July at 7pm. We urge supporters of the campaign to stop the BNP to join our peaceful protest. Please assemble at 6pm on Herries Road South opposite Hillsborough football stadium at the junction of Rawson Spring Road. If you are unable to make the protest please ring Southey Social Club direct to complain on Tel: 0114 232 6370

Rebel music: RAR to LMHR Special Forum and Gig in Central London In the wake of the 100,000 strong LMHR carnival, we will be hosting a round table discussion of activists and musicians to discuss the role of music in the movement against racism and fascism at this annual event. The debate will include contributions from; Jon McClure, Lowkey, Roger Huddle (RAR) and others. The discussion will be followed by an exciting gig featuring a number of fantastic artists including; Mecca2Medina, Decypher Collective, Sean Taylor and DJ Rugrat.

Meeting will take place on Thursday June 12th The meeting will take place at 7.30pm at the Hare and Squirrel, New Union Street, Coventry. All Welcome.

LMHR supporters from across the country will be gathering in central London on 1st March at Unite Against Fascism's national conference. Artists including Dirty Pretty Things and Natty will be taking part in a LMHR Q&A, in a session devoted to organising the 27th April Victoria Park Carnival. If you want to hear more about Carnival 08, pick up flyers and posters to promote the event where you live, and meet up with other people from your area who are involved in LMHR, the Conference is the place to be. Click here for more details, and to register to come. ; ; Drew McConnell (Babyshambles), Sam Duckworth (Get Cape Wear Cape Fly), and Snakeyman at last year's conference.

In recent months we've had loads of emails and calls from people wanting to get involved in LMHR in the North East. From Durham to Newcastle, Sunderland to Darlington there are loads of musicians, music fans, organisations and people who want We thought it might be an idea to try to introduce those of you who don't already know each other so you can support one another's events and activities, so ... On Saturday 13th January at 2pm, we're holding a LMHR get-together at Northumbria University Students Union - 2 Sandyford Road Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 8SB.

This Sunday, September 9th, will see a very special joint LMHR/UAF event, taking place as part of the social events for this year's Trades Union Congress. The event will feature Get Cape Wear Cape Fly playing live, as well as Specials legend Jerry Dammers DJing, and another liver performance from the excellent Nu-MCs. Trade union leaders and campaigners will be speaking briefly between the acts to outline the UAF & LMHR campaigns to stop the fascist BNP around next year's Greater London Assembly and local council elections. The event is taking place at Brighton's Revenge club. Entry is free to TUC delegates, or by donation to everyone else.

LOVE MUSIC HATE RACISM ARE HOLIDING TWO DEBATES AT THIS YEARS SKY FEST: 'GUNS AND KNIVES - WHAT'S GOING ON?' 'MULTICULTURALISM' SPEAKERS INCLUDE - LMHR, UAF, DAVID OKORO (ANTHONY WALKER FOUNDATION), BIGGAFISH, SNAKEYMAN, HASSAN MAHAMDALLIE (ARTS COUNCIL), YOUTH BOARD more tbc

Following a meeting at 7pm on "1977 when Babylon burned: punk, politics and resistance" with speakers Chris Salewicz, Drew McConnell, and Paul Sillett, there'll be an excellent LMHR gig with the legendary Don Letts DJing, jazz-rap maestros The Tribunes, muslim hip-hop from Poetic Pilgrimage, and the rap-soul party vibes of Messengers (formerly Nu-MCs).

Stop the BNP in the Black Country! Leafletting and rally in Dudley. Saturday 28th April 2007, Gilbert Claughton Centre/Dudley Labour Club.

Gig flyer below. Debate on “How can we Stop Racism Fascism?” at Nottingham Uni SU, 12 noon, 22/3/07 - room tbc. Speakers from LMHR/UAF/Amicus/NUS/local campaigners & politicians.

Get involved with organising LMHR events in the West Midlands! Next Meeting: Wednesday 21 March 2007 @ 7.30 p.m. Carrs Lane Church Centre, Birmingham, B4 7SX.

Saturday 3 March 2007, 8pm-late Students Union, Essex University, Colchester. Supported by Amicus the trade union & Essex UAF. THREE Rooms of top music! Sub Zero level Crissy Criss (BBC 1Xtra) Joe Driscoll Rampage (BBC 1Xtra) Lupen Crook & The Murder Birds Kid Harpoon The Thirst Ian Punter 7th Wave Level 2 The Priscillas Nu-MCs ft. Serocee Artcha Curly Circus G-Range & Mr. Soundz Fuzz Face The Amber Plan X-Ray Café Mondo Adelaide Mackenzie Sean Taylor BillyH Soprano Maxwell Golden Plus, from 6pm-7.30pm [...]

Friday 23 February 2007 University of Durham Students Union. - Debate “How do we stop racism and fascism?” + film screening 6pm-7.30pm - LMHR Gig from 8.00pm Supported by the Amicus trade union.

On Saturday 17th February, UAF and LMHR are holding an important national conference. The British National Party (BNP) is receiving the highest levels of support for a fascist party in British history. In recent years its vote has increased in a context of rising racism, Islamophobia and attacks on multiculturalism. At the same time there has been much resistance from UAF marches and rallies to the hundreds of LMHR gigs and events up and down the country. We urge everyone from across the UK who wants to get involved in the fight against racism and fascism this year to come down to London on Feb 17th to listen, debate and link up with other anti-fascists. Click below for full details.

Essex Love Music Hate Racism meeting 7pm Wed 7th Feb Students Union Bar Essex University Wivenhoe Campus Colchester All welcome - esp. anyone intesreted in helping out with the campaign, assisting at gigs, putting on your own event etc!

The first central London RAR gig took place almost 30 years ago to the day at the Royal College of Art. We now face an even greater fascist threat than the National Front were at that time - the BNP have 49 councillors nationwide and got 800,000 votes nationwide in recent elections. Racism and Islamophobia are rife. So it's a good time to remember how we beat the Nazis last time and discuss how we can organise to do the same today. On Wednesday, the Royal College of Arts and hosting a screening of the RAR/LMHR DVD by Alan Miles "Who Shot the Sheriff?" with the director himself, Specials legend Jerry Dammers and an LMHR speaker doing a Q&A afterwards. That'll be followed by a DJ set from Jerry Dammers celebrating Jamaican music of the last 30 years and more.

Muslims in Britain are at the sharp end of racism right now. Since 11 September 2001 Islamophobia has become the most visible – and “respectable” – form of racism in the Western world. The fascist BNP declared May's local elections to be "a referendum on Islam". As anti-racists in the UK have done many times in response to anti-Semitism or racism against British black and Asian people, we must reject the racist myths about Islam and stand shoulder-to-shoulder Muslim and non-Muslim to defeat racism and Islamophobia. We are proud to announce the first Love Music Hate Islamophobia event, Muslim and non-Muslim musicians performing together, as well as a debate on the issue of Islamophobia and how we can fight it. Performers and panellists include Mecca 2 Medina, UK Apache and Sadiq Khan MP.

Leicester & Leicestershire Racial Equality Council in association with Love Music Hate Racism (LMHR) present, as part of Black History Month, a special screening of ... "Who Shot the Sheriff?" - the Rock Against Racism documentary film 6.30pm, Thursday 9th November, African Caribbean Centre, Highfields, Leicester Guest speakers include Iris Lightfoote (LREC Director), Donna Guthrie (Unite Against Fascism - 'UAF'), plus local campaigners and LMHR musicians. Introduced by Lee Billingham from LMHR.

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!