STARTING AT RED ROAD FLATS, 63 PETERSHILL DRIVE, SPRINGBURN GLASGOW
PLEASE BRING BANNERS AND FLOWERS
ALL WELCOME
(For more photographs by Duncan Brown of the Red Road vigil please click here)
Please join residents of the Red Road flats, Charities, churches, faith groups, Quaker groups and trade unions at 11 am on Saturday 13th March from the Red Road flats in Springburn, Glasgow to a rally in George Square.
The march, organised by Red road Residents, the Glasgow Campaign to Welcome Refugees and the Unity Centre, will begin at the exact spot of upturned grass where a family of three asylum seekers, the Serykh family, fell to their deaths on Sunday 7 March.
The purpose of the march and rally is to:
a) Remember the Serykh family and call for an immediate end to any further enforced removals of refugee families in the Red road area by the UK Borders Agency (UKBA) ;
and b) Call for the immediate return of Stephanie Ovranah and her twin six year old sons, Joshua and Joel, to their friends, neighbours and local church in Glasgow’s Cranhill where they have lived for past five five years. (The family were detained at Brand Street reporting centre without warning last Friday with the children still in their school uniforms. They are currently in Yarl’s Wood Detention Centre and the children are understood to be terrified of being returned to Africa which they do not know or remember).
Public Meeting – Immediately following the PCS Strike Rally in Glasgow
1pm approx
Brunswick Cellars
239 Sauchiehall Street
Glasgow
Speakers;
Tommy Sheridan (Co-Convenor Solidarity and STUSC candidate)
Derek Thompson (Chair of the PCS Scottish Committee in a personal capacity)
Plus a speaker from UNISON
Dumfries TUC Statement
MARCH & RALLY AGAINST THE SDL IN LOCKERBIE – SATURDAY 27th MARCH
A tiny number of SDL were surrounded by police and anti fascist demonstraotors in Edinburgh on Feb 20th pic by Duncan Brown
Dumfries TUC has received the following information from Unite Against Fascism: “After the Edinburgh demo the SDL have turned their attention to Lockerbie.
This is on the Casuals United website:After the fiasco of the police abusing their powers and arresting and or/turning back innocent people trying to attend the Edinburgh demo, the Scottish Defence League will be holding a respectful vigil at Lockerbie on March 27th 2010. Details of coaches/transport from your regional organisers or via the Inner Circle. This is also a protest against the Traitor Kenny MacAskill who deny the SDL free speech and defended the release of the vermin responsible for the Lockerbie outrage.Kenny MacAskill told an emergency session of the Scottish parliament that it had been his “own decision” to free Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, adding that he stood by “the laws and values of Scotland”. “my arse”
The SDL seeks to promote Islamophobia – bigotry against Muslims just as Hitler's Nazis did by targeting Jews in the 1930s. Today the SDL threatens Muslims; tomorrow it could be Jews, Hindus, Sikhs, black people, lesbians & gay men, travellers or Eastern Europeans. They have chosen Lockerbie for their latest gathering of racist thugs on the pretext of a protest against the Justice Minister’s decision to release Ali Basset al-Megrahi on compassionate grounds.
Whatever your views on that decision, the racist bigotry of the SDL has no place in Dumfries & Galloway. Dumfries TUC is outraged that the SDL should target Dumfries & Galloway for their latest attempt at racist intimidation. We are determined to oppose the racist thugs of the SDL in Lockerbie on March 27th. We are appealing to all political, religious and community organisations in the South West and elsewhere in Scotland and England to join us in a March and Rally in Lockerbie on that Saturday. We will proclaim that Scotland is united in rejecting racism and fascism as was shown in the recent rallies against the SDL in Glasgow and Edinburgh.
Nazis Not Welcome in Edinburgh
DEMONSTRATE - NO RACISM IN EDINBURGH NIE!!! NAZISTOM W EDYNBURGO
SATURDAY 20 FEBRUARY SOBOTA 20 LUTY 11.30am, Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh
NO to racism, Fascism and Islamophobia
YES to a multicultural, multireligious, united Scotland
Alistair Hulett died suddenly last week after a short illness.
He was an acclaimed songwriter, guitarist and singer, and a committed socialist, anti-war campaigner and community activist.His songs demonstrate not only his passionate loathing of a system that kills and maims its way to profit but also his delight at the resistance that springs up in response.
One of his best known songs, recorded by June Tabor, Roy Bailey and Andy Irvine, is “He Fades Away”, about a former blue asbestos miner who is dying of asbestosis.In “Don’t Sign Up for War”, Alistair celebrated the anti-war stand of the Scottish revolutionary John Maclean with the lines “Betray your country. Serve your class. Don’t sign up for war my friend. Don’t sign up for war.”
The Appeal Court in Edinburgh ruled today that Mohammed Atif Siddique, jailed for eight years for "terrorism" offences, had suffered a "miscarriage of justice" and that it was "minded to quash" his conviction. The Crown now has an opportunity to decide whether to launch a fresh prosecution against Atif Siddique, who has already served 4 years of his sentence. There will be a further hearing on Tuesday 9 February. Atif Siddique was refused bail pending that hearing.
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DEMONSTRATE - NO RACISM IN EDINBURGH
