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Kilmarnock Saturday 19th June Counter protest against the SDL Assemble 9.30am Kilmarnock Cross Kilmarnock and Loudoun United Diversity March Assemble 11.15am to march off at 11.45– Howard Park, (McLelland Drive entrance) marching through Kilmarnock and returning to the Howard Park for a Rally at approx 1.15pm The Scottish Defence League’s (SDL) plans for a demonstration in Kilmarnock in defence of “free speech” need to be exposed for the sham that they are. It’s important that people are aware of the truth about the SDL. Far from being an organisation promoting tolerance and free speech, they are a group of hard core racists and islamophobes. The SDL are an off-shoot of the English Defence League (EDL) an organisation with links to the far right and fascist organisations. Wherever the EDL have held demonstrations violence, racisism and islamophobia has followed. The SDL is much smaller than its EDL counter part and is made up primarily of football casuals and thugs with links to the far right. Previous attempts by the SDL to hold demonstrations in Scotland have been spectacularly unsuccessful. These events in Edinburgh and Glasgow have characterised by very small numbers of SDL supporters being held in pubs by the police whilst in contrast thousands of anti-racists protesters, celebrating the diversity of Scotland’s communities have marched and demonstrated against them. The SDL follow in a long line of far right groups who throughout history have attempted to blame and scapegoat minority communities during periods of economic crisis. It is not the fault of any ethnic minority or religious group that there is high unemployment, poverty wages, poor housing and threats of billions of pounds of cuts to public services. Join the Demonstrations – Say No to the SDL |
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