UAF Protest vs EDL March – Pix-&-Vidz – 05 Mar 10

Dateline: Tate Britain to the Palace of Westminster, Millbank to Abingdon Street, London, UK, 12:45-17:00 Fri 05 Mar 10 – The far-right English Defence League rallies a white male extremist mob outside Tate Britain on Millbank, to march to the Palace of Westminster on Abingdon Street, in support of Dutch far-right politician Geert Wilders showing his anti-Islam film Fitna in the House of Lords, at the invitation of Baroness Cox and UK Independence Party leader Lord Pearson. So Unite Against Facism called a counter-demonstration which attracted a mix of women and men from varied ethnicities to oppose the rightist ravings of the racist boot boys – only to face harassment, restriction and arrests by the rozzers.

A1. Militant Anti-Racism

B1. SOAS Anti-Fash

B2. Black & White Unite & Fight

B3. Union of Goldsmiths' College Studs

B4. Red NUTistas from Newham

B5. Beautifully Backlit & Green

B6. Unionists, Student & Trade

B7. That UAF Banner in Full

B8. Rail, Maritime & Transport Workers' Union – Red & Green

C1. Sit Down in Abingdon Street

C2. ¡No Pasarán!

C3. "RACISTS NOT WELCOME" as Westminster Abbey Looks On

C4. Capturing the Moment

C4A. Steve Hedley, RMT London Transport Regional Organiser

C5. The Filth "Facilitating the Right to Peaceful Protest"

C6. Stand-off

C7. Tell It Like It Is, My Sisters

C8. "Like Packs of Dogs assaulting the glass fronts of Love-Me Avenue"

D1. EDL Jeering Mob Ignores Tate Britain's Chris Ofili [inset] Offering – Too Black?

D2. Plexiglas Cavalry Escort

D3. "Horny-handed sons of toil"

D4. Lost in Their Own Little England World

D5. Free Speech – To Curtail Freedom of Faith

D6. "BAN THE BURKHA" sez Masked Men

D7. A Certain WASPish Homogeneity

D8. "YOU wuz sposed t'bring der bannah polls", "Nah, YOU WUZ!"

D9. "All the animals come out ... sick, venal – someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets"

E1. Racists March – Multi-Ethnic Cops Lead The Way (upside MI5 HQ)

E2. Anti-Racists Fenced in by Cops

E3. Rozzers Shepherd Racists into Enclosure

F1. The Black, the Red & the Pink – United

F2. Horses, Judy-Cop, and a Preponderance of Paddywagons

F3. British Bulldog Backwardness – Swimming in the Shallow End of the Gene Pool

F4. Why Folk Mask Up: FIT Lensman – 25m @ x18 optical zoom

F5. Historically Bankrupt: God-Botherers' Building + Three Lions, Rampant Guardant

F6. A Promising Future – Election Meltdown

Vidz at YouTube
• UAF Protest vs EDL March – 1, 2, 3, etc.
» LINKs to follow shortly once editing and uploading is complete


Fast Track Publishing
Rather than prolong the publishing delay by writing an Action Report, I'm going to let the pix-&-vidz speak for themselves.


Left Media Coverage
• 'EDL march, Antifascists stage a counterdemo', Collecting Reports, Indymedia London
» reports – http://london.indymedia.org.uk/articles/4414
• 'EDL are going nowhere. London 2pm', Antifash, Indymedia UK
» thread – http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2010/03/447013.html
• 'Anti-racists confront fascist's supporters', John Millington, Morning Star online, Fri 05 Mar 10
» article – http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/index.php/news/content/view/full/87619

Mainstream Media Coverage
• 'Geert Wilders anti-Islam film gets House of Lords screening', by Sam Jones, guardian.co.uk, Fri 05 Mar 10
» article – http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/mar/05/geert-wilders-house-of-lords
» 15 photos – http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2010/mar/05/protest-islam
» streaming video, 08:29 – http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/video/2010/mar/05/english-defence-league-london
• '50 arrested in clashes outside Parliament', epolitix.com, Fri 05 Mar 10
» article – http://www.epolitix.com/latestnews/article-detail/newsarticle/50-arrested-in-clashes-outside-parliament


Website Links
» English Defence League – http://www.englishdefenceleague.org
» Unite Against Facism – http://www.uaf.org.uk

 

Whatever Next?
The Great COP-15 Cop-Out in December 2009 showed how the Powers That Be cannot even be prevailed upon to meet their own woefully low expectations in co-operating to halt the Catastrophic Climate Chaos Crisis into which they are plunging humanity and our ecosphere. So it's time to begin making ourselves ungovernable by their Parliamentary representative democracy, by developing our own Participatory direct democracy – through the People's Assemblies called for by the emergent Climate Justice International. And in doing so, we can help ensure Blair, Brown and their ilk won't be able to prosecute future overseas wars, and successfully marginalise racists and fascists.

Over three Election Meltdown Mobilisation gatherings, our numbers, reach and plans have grown from strength to strength. From co-creating a May Day Carnival in Parliament Square, fed by four convergent Carnival Parades, to taking up the call from the Climate Justice International to convene People's Assemblies in the Square and elsewhere, these are exciting times for those who would actively create a popular, truly democratic, and ecologically harmonious future for human civilisation and our biosphere. We're an Open Network collective, open to individuals and groups who'd like to collaborate face-to-face and online, to build a better world for all life on Earth – so YOU are invited, to help broaden out these initiatives, add in your own to the mix, and spread the word before the UK general election: there IS a 'System Change not Climate Change' alternative to the mainstream party's planet-wrecking austerity measures – because We Weave Our Destiny With Our Own Hands!

• Election Meltdown Mobilisation gathering #4
• EMM#4.1 – Saturday 13 March 2010, 15:00-18:00
• EMM#4.2 – Sunday 14 March 2010, 15:00-19:00
• Downstairs at The Foundry, Old Street tube (exit 3), 80 Great Eastern Street, London, EC2A 3JL‎
» Location: Map / Street View – http://tinyurl.com/Foundry-SVmap
» Phone Contact: 07 854 390 408
» Queries: email – election.meltdown@gmail.com
» Election Meltdown Mobilisation #4: Facebook Event – http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=335605841164 – click on 'Attending', then 'Invite people to come' and invite your friends to join us

“The English people believes itself to be free; it is gravely mistaken; it is free only during election of members of parliament; as soon as the members are elected, the people is enslaved; it is nothing. In the brief moment of its freedom, the English people makes such a use of that freedom that it deserves to lose it.” ~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau (French philosopher and writer whose novels inspired the leaders of the French Revolution, 1712-1778)

• May Day Carnival & People's Assembly
• Saturday 01 – Thursday 06 May 2010
• Facebook Events:
» 1. May Day Carnival & People's Assembly – http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=335415173924 – click on 'Attending', then 'Invite people to come' and invite your friends to join us, and finally choose a Horsefolk-of-the-Apocalypse-led Carnival Parade, and do the same:
» 2a. Red Horse Carnival Parade – http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=338167061775
» 2b. Silver Horse Carnival Parade – http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=315494162167
» 2c. Green Horse Carnival Parade – http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=363481372782
» 2d. Black Horse Carnival Parade – http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=340247816939
» 'A Mayday Tatlin Tower Hometree in Parliament Square (Banshees Remix)' – 3D animated visualisation of a space hijacking icon for a directly democratic People's Assembly; video, 1:20 – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5_qZvQm1-Y

“Real change comes about not because we vote for it, but because we fight for it, shout for it, work for it. Placing hopes and fears on who holds power, or who will gain power through voting, is wasting time which might be spent in creating alternatives, both for ourselves and for our communities.” ~ Chumbawamba, 1987

• Election Meltdown on t'InterWebs
» Election Meltdown website – http://meltdown.uk.net/election
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Up the Revolution,

Tim Dalinian Jones


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