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News archive - January 2005

ARTISTS AND ACTIVISTS SAY: COME TO LONDON THIS WEEKEND FOR THE UNITE/LMHR CONFERENCE
January 30, 2005, 05:00 PM

We're calling on everyone who's been involved with LMHR or would like to be in future to come along to this important conference on Saturday 26 February. LMHR-supporting artists and activists will be coming together to talk about the best ways to use music to stop racism and the Nazis in 2005.

Speakers including MOBO Award-winning singer/rapper Estelle, actor and rapper Asher D, Damo from top indie band Metro Riots, Geoff Martin of Ethical Threads and organiser of the Leftfield stage at Glastonbury, Lisa Moorish - singer with Kill City, and Martin Smith author of 'John Coltrane: Jazz Racism and Resistance' will be coming together with LMHR-supporting musicians and activists from around the country to talk about the best ways to use music to stop racism and the Nazis in 2005.

The conference will be the launchpad for the campaign to stop the BNP in May's General Election. It will also be the place where plans for our May Day Trafalgar Square concert, our mega gig to stop BNP leader Nick Griffin in Keighley, Yorkshire, and our Glastonbury Festival nights among others will be finalised.

For full details and to register please go to http://www.lmhr.org.uk/events/archives/000279.html#more

LOVE MUSIC AND HATE RACISM IN 2005- WHAT'S COMING UP
January 29, 2005, 04:58 PM

A Bigger and Better LMHR in 2005

Following last year's successes many more organisations, national and local, have been approaching us to work together on LMHR events this year.
Events definitely in the pipeline include...
- A major free outdoor concert in Trafalgar Square on May 1st
- two more massive fundraising gigs in London, and large fundraisers in Leeds and Manchester
- LMHR again playing a big part in the Leftfield tent at Glastonbury (more than double the size this year - capacity 5,000!)
- a national University tour
- major outdoor LMHR carnivals in Swansea, Durham, Sunderland, Stoke

Get involved!

NEVER AGAIN: REMEMBER THE HOLOCAUST
January 27, 2005, 03:08 PM

As we commemorate the victims of Hitler's Nazis on Holocaust Memorial Day, we should also be determined that the Nazis of today will be stopped from growing into a force that could repeat the horrors of Auschwitz.

Never Again.

http://www.uaf.org.uk
http://www.anl.org.uk/links.htm

GIGS FOR FEB AND MARCH ADDED TO GIGS AND EVENTS SECTION
January 20, 2005, 05:04 PM

Does exactly what is say in the title!

For news of LMHR gigs coming up in London and Glasgow and more go to the Gigs and Events section

HARRY'S NAZI UNIFORM INSULT
January 13, 2005, 05:15 PM

The photo capturing Prince Harry dressed in Nazi garb at a party has rightly upset many people ... we say Harry's ignorance shows how important it is to remember the Nazis' Holocaust and to fight to stop today's Nazis such as the BNP thru campaigns like LMHR.

Here's what Unite and the Anti Nazi League had to say:-

UNITE AGAINST FASCISM PRESS RELEASE
Prince Harry and Nazi UniformPrince Harry’s decision to wear a nazi uniform at a fancy dress party was grossly irresponsible. 27 January will be Holocaust Memorial Day and we will be marking the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the nazi concentration camp, where more than 1 million Jews were murdered. Prince Harry’s actions are an insult to the 15 million Jews, Slavs, Gypsies, black and disabled people that were killed as a result of the nazi’s murderous policies. After the Second World War, the whole world said never again. Across Europe the far right are polling high votes. Prince Harry’s actions are a worrying sign that racism and fascism is becoming more acceptable. Britain has not been immune to growth of the far right – far from it. The fascist BNP has already announced that they will be standing in 100 constituencies. Last year the BNP received the highest votes EVER for a fascist party in Britain. When fascists are polling higher results than ever before, members of the monarchy should be distancing themselves from it and condemning it, not wearing their uniform.

ANTI NAZI LEAGUE PRESS RELEASE
Prince Harry has made a big mistake in dressing up in Nazi regalia. To do so is grossly insensitive to the many millions of people whose family members were slaughtered in the Nazis Holocaust.

Moreover, Harrys’ actions are highly irresponsible in a world where fascism and Nazi parties are still very much alive. In Europe today the likes of Jean Marie le Pen in France, Mussolini’s granddaughter Alessandra in Italy, and Nick Griffin’s British National Party in the UK have taken up the legacy of Hitler’s Nazis.

The ignorance of these matters displayed by Prince Harry makes it clear that a lot of work needs to be done to educate a new generation of people about the horrors of fascism – both in terms of what happened in Hitler’s Germany and elsewhere, but also the threat of murderous Nazi ideas and groups returning to the political arena in the here and now.

The systematic industrial murder of millions in the Nazis' concentration camps - to be commemorated on Holocaust Memorial Day on January 27 - should never be forgotten or made light of.

Never Again.

Anti Nazi League

LOVE MUSIC HATE RACISM - 2004 REVIEW
January 04, 2005, 04:03 PM

LMHR in 2004
2004 was a busy and largely successful year in the struggle to stop the Nazi BNP. Love Music Hate Racism supported national and local anti-Nazi campaigns led by Unite Against Fascism with a whole series of major gigs, club nights and outdoor carnivals.

To name but a few highlights...

- The Libertines and The Buzzcocks playing an amazing LMHR benefit at the London Astoria in March
- Futureheads and Wu Tang Clan's GZA wowing the Sunderland Carnival in May
- great shows through the year from Skitz & Rodney P, Lady Sovereign, Asher D, Skeme & Big P and the cream of the UK's "urban" music talent
- Art Brut, The Others, MC Navigator and many more touring round London with a sound system on the back of truck just before the Euro and local elections in June
- LMHR in the Leftfield @ Glastonbury in July
- Kasabian headlining the Stoke LMHR Carnival in September
- Babyshambles, Billy Bragg and many more at the European Social Forum in October

(phew!)

... the campaign went from strength to strength in 2004, bringing together tens of thousands of people in the flesh at our events and many many more beyond that via word of mouth and ours and Unite's literature, with remarkable support from scores of artists from across the musical spectrum.

With a probably General Election due in May this year, and the BNP planning to stand many candidates again, and with more local elections across the country next year, we want to make sure LMHR gets bigger and better this year so that come 2007 the Nazis are history once more.

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