AUT: RE: Fwd: Statement over anti-fascism plenary

["Caygill, Matthew" <M.Caygill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Have the 'British organisers' got names?
Matthew Caygill

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From: Sebastian Budgen [mailto:sebastian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 19 October 2004 10:35
To: Aut-op-sy
Subject: AUT: Fwd: Statement over anti-fascism plenary


> Statement from British organisers of the ESF to Assembly of the Social
> Movements
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> ]FOLLOWING AN attempt to violently disrupt a meeting, which was
> discussing anti-fascism, at the ESF, the British delegation to its
> organising committee issued the following statement:
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> ]On Saturday evening a group, who have not participated in the ESF,
> stormed the stage of the anti-fascist plenary session of the ESF,
> punched the chair and stole his mobile phone.
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> [This behaviour is totally unacceptable and self evidently in total
> violation of the principles of the ESF.
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> [Violent attacks on the movement suppress freedom of speech and risk
> providing pretexts for other outside forces to intervene into the
> movement.
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> [This was all the more unacceptable as it was an entirely white group
> attacking a black and Jewish platform.
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> [The organisers knew of the call by the people claiming to be the
> Wombles, and others, for people to storm the ESF on Saturday evening
> and, having discussed this with a number of delegations, had agreed
> that this group would be admitted to the building and allowed to make
> their protest and explain their views.
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> [This is what happened and when the police arrived at the building
> they were asked not to intervene by the organisers of the ESF and they
> left the building.
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> Ends 198


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