This website was set-up to publicise the Stop the Red, White and Blue campaign, a politically independent network of anti-fascists, dedicated to ideological opposition to, and direct action against the BNP’s Red, White and Blue (RWB) ‘festival’.
Promising “family fun,” RWB is an annual event for members and supporters of the British Nationl Party (BNP). Last year the event was held at Denby, near Codnor, in Derbyshire on land owned by former BNP Councillor, Alan Warner. They intend to repeat the event this year from Friday 15th - Sunday 17th August. The campaign intends to stop them.
The BNP is a far right nationalist party, and many of its senior members have been involved in racist violence. Its politics are divisive and designed to stir up hysteria around immigration.
The RWB festival is intended to draw new recruits into the party and consolidate these disgraceful politics. As such, those who oppose the BNP have begun a campaign to stop this year’s event from taking place.
In 2007, Amber Valley Council granted the organisers entertainment licenses in spite of widespread local protest. Anti-fascists did not mobilise in time to help stop the festival. We are determined that that will not happen this year.
In January, we held a conference attended by more than 100 people, where we set out our goals. The ‘Stop the Red, White and Blue’ campaign will
* draw together the thousands of people across the region who oppose the BNP into protest against the festival
* demand that local councils block permission for the event in recognition of this feeling
* calls on trade unions to, as far as possible, refuse to do any work that might facilitate the BNP event
At the meeting of Amber Valley Borough Council to hear the licence application for this year’s event, police expressed concern about the threat of a mobilisation against it and on this basis urged that any licence impose various new conditions, including the erection of a seven-foot high fence around the site and the installation of temporary security lighting. Unable to meet such requirements, the BNP withdrew their application for a licence and stormed out of the meeting, but remain adamant that they will go ahead regardless. If the event does go ahead we will call on local people, along with anti-fascists throughout the country, to join us in mass action against the festival. This is planned for Saturday 16th August.
Blog: http://nobnpfestival.wordpress.com/
Email: nobnpfestival@riseup.net
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Indymedia reports: http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/actions/2008/nobnpfestival/
