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News archive - January 2004 THE LIBERTINES BACK LMHR The band many see as the UK's best, The Libertines, have giving their backing to Love Music Hate Racism. LMHR ran stalls at two of the band's three sellout gigs at the Forum in London before Xmas, receiving a lot of interest from Libertines fans and raising over £200 in the process. On the last night, joint lead singer Pete Doherty's only words from stage throughout the gig were "tonight we're doing 18 songs - as many songs as the BNP have council seats. It's all about Rock Against Racism!" Earlier, Pete told us "I don't think you have to be a particularly developed human being intellectually or spiritually to despise racism. It may be easy to complacent, but we need to encourage people to fight racism whether with words or actions. Count me in - I'll fight!", while co-singer Carl Barat said, "People don't necessarily realise there's still such a problem and that there's something rotten in the state of racism in this country. I support this cause and encourage everybody to do the same". The Libertines have pledged to play a benefit show for LMHR in the next few months. In addition, there will be a LMHR info and merchandise stall at every date of the band's forthcoming UK tour. If you'd like to get into one of these gigs for free in return for staffing the LMHR stall please email us at lmhr@postmark.net Love Music and Hate Racism in 2004 2004 could be a decisive year in the fight against racism, particularly the racist poison that is the Nazi BNP (British National Party). On Thursday 10 June there are two lots of elections being held - European and local council. The BNP claim they will stand a record 1,000 candidates in these elections - a worrying thought - and even worse, they are aiming to get a Euro MP which would gain them over £200,000, an nice office in Brussels and worst of all would give them some respectability. After a great first full year in 2003, we hope the LMHR movement can play its part in uniting everyone who opposed the racism and fascism of the BNP to defend our multicultural society. A new coalition called Unite! has been set up to bring together everyone in a common effort to stop the BNP this summer. To find out more, join, and get involved Click here . In the two weekends before June 10th, a number of LMHR and other anti-racist carnivals are going to be held. Plans for events in Stoke, Leeds and Newcastle are already in place with much more to come. It's also vital that everyone everywhere holds smaller LMHR gigs and clubnights - celebrating our multiracial music scene and keeping the issue of racism in the spotlight. LMHR will also be joining forces with the Respect! organisation, backed by the TUC and London mayor Ken Livingstone. Organise a gig, give out some info from a LMHR stall, do your bit to stop the BNP and fight racism in 2004! See the Gigs and Events section for lots of news of forthcoming LMHR events! LMHR BENEFIT ALBUM 'FEAR OF A BLACK KENNET' + LMHR T-SHIRTS! The wonderful Repeat Records have released a fantastic indie/punk compilation in support of LMHR, featuring the some of the UK's young bands including Miss Black America, Kinesis, King Adora, Antihero, oh and - Asian Dub Foundation. It got a great review in the NME among other places and is a steal at just £8+p&p. To order, email us at lmhr@postmark.net or call the ANL office on 020 7924 0333 More details here . We've also now got more of those exclusive limited-edition LMHR t-shirts you MUST have heard about! Available in skinny-fit small, medium, large and x-large in colours black, navy, white, grey, green or sky blue. Just £10 inc. p&p via the Anti Nazi League office - call 020 7924 0333 for phone orders, or send a cheque payable to 'ANL' to PO Box 2566, London, N4 1WJ. And don't forget you can your smart red-and-yellow LMHR metal badges from the same place for just 50p each (+ min. postage one first-class stamp or 29p). Here's the badge and the (click to enlarge) LMHR t-shirt design (logo is orange on all t-shirt colours):-
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