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Wednesday Dec 06, 2006

My first protest..

Just a quick blog to keep on top of recent events.

Firstly I must say how proud I am of how well our Fundraising Club night at Fabric went off! In the end I didn't attend because the club had a but of a strict insurance policy in regard to under 18's, however, I have been reliably informed that the night went off without a hitch with plenty of enthusiastic new supporters signing up. It looks like an absolutely stunning night from the pictures too.. there are plenty of those and a proper report here.

We have also been building for an event coming up this weekend. The BNP have called a protest on Saturday in our local group's area, so we have called a counter protest on the same day, in the same location a few hours earlier.. I have never really participated in anything like this before and am quite apprehensive.. The only times I have ever seen any type of protest illustrated in the media it's been for negative reasons and I'm not really sure what it's going to involve. It will of course be completely peaceful (on our part at least) and the aim is simply to show an objection to the BNP's activity in our area, and not to physically interfere with their activities at all. We spent quite a while on publicising it on Saturday, leafleting the town centre. Were expecting a pretty large turnout with a lot of groups coming in from surrounding areas to show their support and hopefully many locals too. We've actually been informed that the BNP will have about 60 supporters at most and we'll have significantly more – not bad considering we only found out and started organising it about 2 weeks ago! I'll let you know how it goes...

Posted by Carolynn ( 8:49 PM )
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