NO
EDL IN CAMBRIDGE!
Cambridge
Unite Against Fascism
'We
are Cambridge unity statement
Trade unionists,
politicians, faith group and community leaders are signing up to a unity
statement, opposing the racist English Defence League and supporting
the multicultural We are Cambridge event in the city on
Saturday 9th July.
You can add your name by e-mail here cambridge.uaf@gmail.com
We the undersigned strongly oppose plans by the English Defence
League (EDL) a group linked to the Fascist British National
Party (BNP) to demonstrate in Cambridge on July 9th.
The EDL is a racist and Fascist group dedicated to attacking Asian people
and Muslims. EDL members have embarked on a violent campaign aimed at
those they see as "legitimate targets". These have included
in recent months attacks on Unite Against Fascism meetings in Brighton
and East London as well as intimidating staff and customers at a well
known Liverpool Community Bookshop. They have also threatened trade
unionists at May day events.The EDL are deeply Islamophobic bigoted
against Muslims which is as unacceptable as any other form
of racism. The EDL's aim is to divide us by making scapegoats
of one community, just as the Nazis did with the Jews in the 1930s and
the National Front attempted in the 1970s. Today they threaten Muslims.
Tomorrow it could be Jewish people, Hindus, Sikhs, black people, lesbians
and gay men, travellers or Eastern Europeans.
There
is no place for EDL racists or the BNP in Cambridges multiracial,
multicultural and multi-faith community. We need the utmost unity against
their poisonous aims.We also urge people to attend the We are
Cambridge multicultural demonstration to be held in the city centre
on July 9th.
Signatories
- more coming in every day
Richard Howitt
MEP, Councillor Lewis Herbert - Leader City Labour Group, Councillor
Adam Pogonowski - Leader of the Green Party on Cambridge City Council,
Kevin Courtney - Deputy General Secretary NUT, Mirza Baig -
Vice Chair Cambridge Muslim Council, Councillor Margaret Wright, Councillor
Gail Marchant-Daisley, Councillor Jeremy Benstead, Councillor Kevin
Price - Chair King's Hedges Labour Party, Councillor George Owers, Councillor
Zoe Moghadas, County Councillor Simon Sedgwick-Jell, County Councillor
Robert Dryden - Unite, City Councillor Kevin Blencowe -Deputy Leader
of the labour group, Councillor Mike Todd Jones, Councillor Carina O'Reilly,
Councillor Caroline Hart, County Councillor Tariq Sadiq, Bashir Malik
- Cambridge Muslim Council, Shaikh Abdul Mabud - Cambridge Islamic Academy,
Tom Woodcock - Cambridge Trade Union Council and Cambridgeshire NUT,
Martin Smith - National Officer Unite Against Fascism, Richard Rose
Cambridge Love Music Hate Racism and R*E*P*E*A*T Records, Seymour
Patrick - Xstream East Radio and Ten City Nation, Ron Singh and other
members of Kissmet, Ruth King, Qassim Idrissi, Christine Pettengell
- Cambridge Save Our Schools, Cambridge Ethnic Community Forum, Julia
Drummond - Cambridge Unison County Branch, Huw Jones school governor,
Paul Turnbull CWU Eastern No 4, Matt Kelly Cambridgeshire
NUT, Sue Birtles - Hertfordshire County Unison Rep and South Cambs Labour
party, Dan Cooper Unite Central Cambridge, Ian Allinson - Unite
EC Member, Robert Fox - CWU Eastern No.4 Branch, Daniel Zeichner - Chair
Cambridge Labour Party, Carol
Gerrard - PCS revenue branch president, Robert Evans - Chair Castle
Labour Party, Frank Wood Unite EC & London & Eastern Health
RISC Chair, Ian Wallace - PCS DWP Cambridgeshire, Ann Galpin - NUJ Cambridge
branch & TUC Disability Comt, Anne Packer PCS DWP Cambs,
Jill Eastlands UCU CRC Equalities Officer, Pete Monaghan
UCU CRC Branch Secretary, Mike Black PCS Cambridge, Andrew Osborne
Unite Cambridge & District Safety Officer, Strawberry Fair
Comt, Mamur Shaikh, Tony Burton Branch Chair Cambridge FBU, Pete
Gillard - Unite London and Eastern Region, Martin Harding Cambridge
FBU, Jo Green Unite Cambridge, Simon Baker - Gren Mind Gigs,
Thomas Pinney, Yusuf Timms FBU London Region, Miles Curtis Watson
Cambridge Union of School Students (pc), Howard Pheasant - Unite
Cambridge, Jamie Andrews - Cambridge CWU, Jeannie Booth, Aidy James
Stevens - Chasing Melfina, Jacob Morris, Anna Hector, Graham Askew,
Fallen (Band), Pam Stacey - Cambridge Medical Unite, Jon Duveen - NUT
Cambridgeshire, Martin Booth - Unison Cambridge Health Branch, Martin
Briggs, Daniel Perret - Unite University Branch, Keith Murray - Cambridge
Branch NUJ, Mark Evans - Cambridge Central Branch Unite, Tony McNeill
- Unite LE/2218, Sara Bennett - Unite Executive Comt, Martin Bainger
- Unison health Cambridge, Sofia Rose, Steven Macallister, Richard Johnson
- Unison Rep Cambridge University and Colleges Branch, Steven Pulseton,
Kerry Fairless - PCS regional chair Eastern England, Chris McCabe, Lorna
Mansbridge, Floyd Doyle - chair of ASLEF Black & Ethnic Minority
Representative Committee, and member of the TUC Race Relations Committee,
Owen Holland and Jacob Wills - 'Songs After Dark', Andy Yates - Cambridge
Aslef Branch (041), Graham Tranquada - President Bedford & District
Trades Council, Paul Moffat
- Eastern Regional Secretary Communications Workers Union, Fiona
Harangozo - Student, Richard Edwards - PCS Eastern Regional Secretary,
Chris Bird and Mina Boromond - Newseda.com, Patrick Schicker, Ms CC
Milligan, Mark Palmer, Neil Kirkham, Maria Wylie, Colin Greenland, Susanna
Clarke, Amy Gilligan - Cambridge University UCU, Emily Moody, Niki Smith
- Local Secretary NASUWT, Mark Steele Secretary ASLEF District Council
5, Rachel Edwards - PCS Group Organiser Dept. for Communities &
Local Government, Sam Omar - Jaffa Net Cafe, John Marais - Friends of
Arbury Library, Adrian Clarke - FBU Regional Secretary East Anglia,
Martin Booth & Cambridge Health Unison, Daniel Sly - Branch Organiser
Cambridge Unison County Branch, Asa Benstead - Unison Cambs County Branch,
Chris Free - The Users / The Sound of Pop Art, Bethan Rees NUT, Kim
Green - NUT, Joe Bishop - NUT, Rose Elgar - NUT, Drew Wilkins - NUT,
Louise Crook - NUT, Andy Cowan - Original Dope records, Laura Dumanski
- Information Adviser (Connexions), Kat Postlethwaite, Rob Turner -
Unison Cambridgeshire County Council, Marie Thompson, M Langren - CWU
Easterrn No 4, R Anstee - CWU Eastern No 4, DJ Powell - CWU Eastern
No 4, Tim Jennings - member of the Youth Parliament, Clive Peace - Cambridge
Defend Council Housing, Trish Wrightz, David Faulkner, Lucy Howson,
Steve Sweeney - Unison County Branch / Huntingdon and St Neots Trades
Council, Ruth Graham, Iman Ibn Tahaikt, Tom Stocks - Young At Heart
CSV, Lindsey Scott - Eastern CSV, Louise Gould - Cambridge CLP, Jordan
Evans, Colin Shaw - NUJ, James French, Mick Stanners, Kenny Fryde, Nick
Parker - Community Forum Cambridge Fans United, Tom Abraham, Rob Brooksbank,
Andrew Cock-Starkey, Caroline Yates, Matt Hodgkinson - Green Party,
Lorna Cox, L Valenzuela, Tim Knight-Hughes - Norwich UAF, Dr Ian Patterson
- Fellow, Tutor, Director of Studies in English, Librarian & Keeper
of the Old Library Queens' College, Jake Mancer, Adele Macdonald-Hewson,
MENTER [Black and Minority Ethnic Network for the East of England],
Elske Janssen - Long Road College, Christian Howes, Suzanne Morris,
Susie Biller - Kettle's Yard, Adam Paget, George Breakfast - singer
/ songwriter, Keith Sands, Mike Eden - Cambridge University Press, Jo
Wells - Cambridge Social Worker, Laura Morley, Veronica McDouall, Imran
Keshani, Stewart and Ann Hemsley, Nick Levine, Revd David Maher and
15 members of the congregation at The Church of the Good Shepherd, M
Landgraf - Dept of Zoology,