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Racists and fascists organised in PEGIDA are coordinated anti-migrant, anti-refugee and anti-Muslim protests across Europe, including the UK, where ex-EDL leader Tommy Robinson is hoping to build up a street force that will have abetter fortunes than the EDL.  One PEGIDA leader has been publicly calling for refugees to be shot.

Refugees in Calais continue to face appalling treatment as this wee 1,000 face forced relocation as the French state sends in the bulldozers to demolish shelters.  Across Europe violent attacks on migrants, refugees and Muslims are escalating, fuelled by the racist scapegoating by mainstream politicans. 

This racism is not going unchallenged as people volunteer and send much needed supplies to refugees.  Yet we need a poltical movement to isolate the racists and open the door to refugees to relieve their suffering.

We also need action against the racist attacks on Muslims who continue to face demonisitaion, including through the government's PREVENT strategy.

Oxford Unite Against Fascism is supporting the Europe wide marches on UN anti-racism day on March 19th.  Last year more than 10,000 people joined the London demonstration.  This year we want to get more people on the streets to challenge the racist tide. Come to the mobilising rally below to build the demonstration.  Email back if you can spare an hour to leafelt a college or workplace.

We also need people to take posters for colleges, workplaces, community centres etc.  Please mail back if you would like to help build the rally and demonstration.

 

SUTRpostergraphicOxford Stand Up To Racism Public Meeting

Refugees Welcome Here.  No To Islamophobia, Anti-Semitism and Scapegoating Migrants.  Yes to diversity!

7 p.m. Thursday 25th Feb

Oxford Town Hall St Aldate's, Oxford, Oxfordshire OX1 1BX

#RefugeesWelcome
#BlackLivesMatter

Speakers:

  • Weyman Bennet (Unite Against Fascism)
  • Ifhat Shaheen (parent campaigner against Prevent)
  • John Tanner (Oxford City Labour Councillor)
  • Ruthi Brandt (Oxford City Green councillor)
  • Rhodes Must Fall Campaign;
  • Chair: Roger McKenzie -Assistant General Secretary of UNISON

    Supported by Oxford & District Trades Council, Unite Oxfam Branch SE/6084, Ruskin UCU, Oxfordshire UNISON Health Branch, Oxford Momentum, and Oxford Unite Against Fascism.

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nStand Up to Racism and Fascism - national demonstration

Assemble central London 12 noon Saturday 19th March.

Coach from Oxford £12/£6.  Book seats on Oxford transport online or ring 07503169657

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Book on to the transport from Oxford to Aylesbury online here

The racist and fascist English Defence League is coming to Aylesbury on 10th October. They want to stir up race hatred against Muslims, migrants and refugees. They believe Aylesbury is a soft touch for their racist views - we need to prove them wrong.

The EDL is a racist group dedicated to attacking Asian people and Muslims. Islamophobia – bigotry against Muslims – is as unacceptable as any other form of racism. Today they threaten Muslims, tomorrow it could be Jewish people, Hindus, Sikhs, black people, LGBT people, Travellers or East Europeans.

The EDL has also attacked trade unionists, bookshops, and people protesting against austerity. Their fascism can become a threat to us all if left unchecked.

Last time the EDL came to Aylesbury the town centre closed down in an atmosphere of fear and intimidation. In the last 5 years the EDL has been challenged in every town and city it has raised it’s head by local people and supporters uniting against their fascism. As a result the EDL has shrunk , and they can barely muster a few hundred on a good day.

But we can’t be complacent that the EDL will simply go away. They need to be countered wherever they raise their heads to stop them growing again.

NO to the racist scapegoating of Mulsims, migrants and refugees
NO to Islamophobia
DON'T let the racists divide us

Unite Against Fascism calls on all opposed to racism and fascism to join us in protesting against the EDL to tell them they are not welcome in Aylesbury. 

  • NO to the intimidation of Aylesbury's Muslim community
  • NO to Islamophobia
  • NO to racist scapegoating of migrants and refugees

Assemble  11.30 outside HSBC bank, Market Square Aylesbury.

Don't let the EDL march unchallenged this Saturday.

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UAF/LMHR: Auschwitz Educational Trip 13-17 November

UAF and Love Music Hate Racism are organising a trip to the Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz in Poland between the 13th and 17th November. We will be based in the historic city of Krakow which remains one of Central Europe’s gems and until the end of WW2 was one of the great Jewish centres in Europe.

The purpose of this trip is to develop a deeper understanding of the Holocaust and the Nazis and look at the threat of fascism today. The trip is open to everyone, but we are encouraging students, trade unionists and anti-racist activists in particular to attend. The cost of the trip is £200 or £160 for students/concessions. Please email info[at]uaf.org.uk for more information or if you can get your trade union branch to help sponsor the trip.

Tens of thousands marched through London last weekend to demand urgent action to help refugees in crisis across Europe and the Middle East. Dozens of solidarity protests took place across the country.

At the same time hundreds of fascists mobilised in Dover to spread their message of racist hate against refugees. The mass demonstration in London helped to push the the pro-refugee feeling to new heights, making the fascists efforts miniscule in comparison.  There can be no doubt the new mood will make it harder for mainstream politicians to use racist scapegoating of migrants to win support, which in turn makes it harder for the fascists to organise.

However David Cameron remains determined to limit UK support, refusing to take refugees already in Europe, and promising help for "up to" 20,000 refugees outside Europe over the next 5 years. At the same time his government remains under pressure from UKIP to use racist scapegoating.  We cannot be complacent as the right will try and reverse the mood to return to a climate of racist scapegoating, which in turn gives the fascists confidence to mobilise. 

We need to keep up the pressure to demand the British government acts open the doors to refugees as people of the UK are demanding, this will make it harder for the mainstream politicians to resort to racist scapegoating.  At the same time we must be prepared to mobilise wherever fascist groups raise their heads.

Stand Up To Racism and Fascism is calling on supporters of refugees and migrants to join a bloc on a national demonstration at the Tory party conference on 4th October to keep up the pressure and to carry the message to anti-austerity demonstrators that refugees are welcome here. Subsidised transport is running from Oxford but people need to book soon. Oxford Unite Agsinst Fascism calls on all anti-racists and anti-fascists to mobilise to keep up the pressure on the Tories to block the return to racist scapegoating of migrants that makes it easier for fascists to mobilise and grow. 

See this link to book seats on the transport from Oxfordshire https://goo.gl/s9Nvqx

National day of action, Called by Stand up to Racism, Unite Against Fascism, BARAC, Stop the War Coalition, Migrant Rights Network, Syria Solidarity Movement, War on Want, Peoples Assembly Against Austerity, Movement Against Xenophobia, Love Music Hate Racism, Black Out London and others. Supported by the Refugee Council and Amnesty International

The UN’s humanitarian agencies are on the verge of bankruptcy and unable to meet the basic needs of millions of people because of the size of the refugee crisis in the Middle East, Africa and Europe.

On Saturday Stand up to Racism organised an aid convoy to Calais. People on our convoy described the makeshift camps as “squalid”, “slums” and worse than refugee camps in Syria’s neighbouring countries.

This refugee crisis should not be left to kind hearted individuals and charities – it cannot meet the needs and scale of the crisis itself.

We must a strong message to David Cameron that the British government must do more to help refugees. The government is refusing to take refugees currently stranded in Europe, including those stuck in Calais only 100 miles away from Britain.

Here’s what you can do:

Tell David Cameron to act! Join us this Saturday 12 September in what is set to be the biggest demonstration in defence of refugee rights for two decades.

London protest - Assemble 12 noon Marble Arch, Park Lane. Facebook event

Oxford protest - assemble 12 noon Bonn Square, central Oxford.   Facebook event