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NOVANEWS modernityblog  October 14, 2010 HOPE not hate has released an excellent video clip of the English Defence League leader, Stephen Yaxley-Lennon AKA 'Tommy Robinson'. This is taken from the events on Saturday, 9 October 2010 in Leicester. Yaxley-Lennon, a BNP member, is the short bloke in the green top, later on in the video you can see him acting macho and telling the police to "Fuck off". If you look closely you might see an EDLer giving the Nazi salute. * Some media is not displayed in this email and must be viewed on the website.

NOVANEWS Pat Finucan Centre 12/10/10 Declassified Documents Declassified official documents shed an interesting light on British government attitudes towards loyalist infiltration of the security forces and loyalist violence in the 1970s. The British Government has sought to portray its role here as that of the neutral broker, the peacekeeper caught between two warring factions. The secret memos and letters, marked UK Eyes Only, tell a different story. Literally hundreds of mostly Catholic civilians were murdered before the British Government even contemplated the possible extension of internment to loyalists. Clearly the very existence of internment meant that the north was not a democratic state governed by the rule of law. Added to this was the complete denial by the authorities of the ...

NOVANEWS Dear, Today our campaign to stop Rupert Murdoch taking 100% control of BSkyB had another breakthrough. UK media chiefs - from the BBC to the Daily Mail - have printed a joint letter telling Vince Cable to block the power grab. [1] Now we need to work together to show our MPs that it’s not just media chiefs against Murdoch getting more power. We need to make sure MPs tell Vince Cable that hundreds of their voters have been in touch speaking out against the BSkyB takeover. Thousands of us emailing our MPs this week is the last thing Murdoch’s lobbyists want to happen. Murdoch’s henchmen claim that ordinary voters won’t care if the deal is waved through. If we all contact our MPs now, we can prove that’s not true. Click here to email your MP in two minutes. Tell them you’re against M...

NOVANEWS MODERNITYBLOG October 12, 2010 I am reliably informed that English Defence League supporters believe that my posts are vicious anti-EDL rumours. Which is rather peculiar, as I thought they were quite reasonable. It is true that my posts only correlated freely available information from the Web, which show the linkage between BNPers, neo-Nazis and the English Defence League. All of this is documented in numerous photos and videos, and can not be denied. These are not rumours, just facts. A few things that we shouldn't forget: 1. The EDL *leadership* is stuffed full of BNPers, ex-BNPers, neo-Nazis and their allies. 2. The EDL always pick towns with high ethnic populations to hold their demonstrations. Their objective is to run amok, abuse and intimidate local people. Th...

NOVANEWS October 11, 2010 Adam Levick at CiF Watch has written a good piece on the English Defence League. I am cross posting it below, On the English Defence League (the “enemy of my enemy” is sometimes still just my enemy) by Adam Levick. "I know many people might be tempted by the English Defence League due to their opposition to radical Islam but, in reality, their venom is actually directed against Muslims, as a group – and they often engage in rhetoric suggesting that all Muslims are Jihadists. As such, EDL, it should be clear, is not an anti-totalitarian movement, but rather, a racist one. Radical Islam, there should be no doubt, represents the biggest threat to the progressive values I cherish – values such as individual liberty, tolerance, religious pluralism, democrac...

NOVANEWSWe received this today from the Ballymurphy Massacre Families “Representatives of the Ballymurphy Massacre families met Nuala O'Loan this weekend. She was Police Ombudsman 1999 – 2007 and now sits in the House of Lords as Baroness O’Loan of Kirkinriola in the County of Antrim. After a disappointing meeting with Owen Paterson. Secretary of State for Northern Ireland. On Thursday we got on with our campaign the very next day. We told Nuala of how our loved ones were murdered in August 1971. It was a good meeting where Nuala listened very intently. She was familiar with our campaign and search for truth. We shared with her evidence of the brutality and bloodshed and similarities with Bloody Sunday where the same Parachute Regiment murdered 14 innocent civilians.” Relatives of those ki...

NOVANEWS These articles are long but well worth the read considering Government denials at the time and the exposures of ill treatment of prisoners in current conflicts. In the late 1970’s, 80% of prisoners in Long Kesh prison Nr. Belfast were convicted solely on confession evidence. Hundreds of Northern Ireland 'terrorists' allege police torture The Guardian 11/10/10 See also at http://www.troopsoutmovement.com/latestnews.htm People convicted during the Troubles claim they suffered miscarriages of justice in non-jury Diplock courts Hundreds of men and women found guilty of terrorism offences in Northern Ireland during the Troubles are attempting to have their cases reopened, alleging that the confessions that led to their convictions were beaten out of them by police. The Criminal Cases R...

NOVANEWS I am writing you this letter to inform you about the national anti-racism and Islamophobia demonstration on the Nov 6.This demo is called by Unite Against Fascism. Backed by TUC and MCB, supported by most if not all anti-racism campaigns and organisations, all major trade unions, and a long list of people that you will find it attached to this letter. This demonstration will be a real test for our unity to oppose the growing racism and Islamophobia in UK, Europe and USA.This demonstration is planned to prevent racism from growing,and to set an example and a standard for international anti-fascist movements, which is clearly needed-judgingby the amount of calls for advice that UAF receives from Europe, USA and Australia. Unfortunate things are happening today that we cannot and...

NOVANEWS Declassified files from Northern Ireland Troubles placed online Belfast Telegraph 09/10/10 Declassified secret files on the early years of the Troubles have gone online for the first time. People will now be able to access the recently published records from home following an initiative launched at the Magee campus by the University of Ulster and the Public Record Office (PRO) of Northern Ireland this week. Staff from the university have worked with the PRO to make the records freely available on the University of Ulster’s Conflict Archive on the INternet (CAIN) website: cain.ulster.ac.uk/proni. The records cover a broad range of issues including security, politics and education. They comprise a selection of material for the period 1968-79 which is already in the public domain, ha...

NOVANEWS Brighton Magistrates rule that Stalls having a Collection Box do NOT. Require a Permit from the local Council. At a day long hearing at Brighton magistrates court, Tony Greenstein was found not guilty of collecting money contrary to s.5 of the Factories and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 1916. Brighton magistrates decided that because the Council's implementing regulations stipulate that each collector has to have their own collection box, Mr Greenstein could not be guilty of being a ‘collector’ under the Act. On most stalls there is usually just one collective tin.The Defence argued strongly that the effect of making stalls apply for a collection permit, when permits are only for one off events or at most a series of events, would be to make it more  difficult to run campaigns such...