[Infoshop] Fascist, Racist "Anti-Islamisation Congress" Plans to Meet Later This Mont

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LabourStart headline - Source: Regjeringen.no

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[Holden Caulfield]

Nick Griffin, leader of the British National Party, had been on the guest list but after German anti-fascists, with help from Searchlight, published his comments denying the Holocaust, his name was withdrawn just before Cologne city council and the German Interior Ministry condemned the congress.

fucking good,

however i wouldnt suggest that working with Searchlight is the best move for antifascists

[Djehuti]

-From the 19th to the 21st of September, racists and neofascists from all over europe are planning to hold a so called „Anti-Islamization-Congress“. Invited by the self constituted citizens' initiative „pro Köln“ up to 1000 right-wing extremists of different shade (from the classic Neonazi to rightist-conservatives) want to spread their propagandha against people with other origin ore religion under the smokescreen of a pretended critique on Islam.


„pro Köln“ is a extreme right-wing organization, who is operating for years with racist policy in cologne and even supraregional. Many functionaries and members of „pro Köln“ were in neonacistic Parties or groupings like the „NPD“, the „Republikaner“ and the „Deutsche Liga für Volk und Heimat“. Recently „pro Köln“ agitated against a new mosque in Cologne-Ehrenfeld and searched with a racist and ultra-right-wing propagandha for voters.
For the gathering in September representatives of ultra-right-wing Parties from Austria (FPÖ), Belgium (Vlaams Belang), Italy (Lega Nord), the USA (Robert Taft Group), Great Britain (British National Party), Spane and Hungary want to come. Furthermore the international known leader of the extreme right-wing Party „ Front National“ (FN), Jean Marie Le Pen, shall appear in Germany in cause of the congress. With their international baiting-conference „pro Köln“ has two ambitions. The collaboration of extreme right-wing organisations in whole europe should be enlarged. Also „pro Köln“ wants to start the hustings of the Nordrhein-Westfalen (NRW) local elections in 2009.


We will not tolerate such a international racist gathering and we will not allow, that „pro Köln/pro NRW“ is able to practise their racist propagandha in the local elections undisturbed. That's why we are calling to impede this conference!


We can only realize it, if as many people as possible block their venue on this days together and obstruct the passage of the rightists. In spite of all differencies of our political view, we all have this ambition. We will subtend our resoluteness against them and we will be incalculable because of our similarities and our diversity. With the tool of civil disobedience we will defy „pro Köln“ and their entourage.


Get participated on the mass-blockades around the venue!
No passing!




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[Djehuti]

Missed the other thread:
http://www.revleft.com/vb/infoshop-fascist-racist-t88922/index.html

[Holden Caulfield]

^ no worries i merged the threads thats all

[jaffe]

I will be there, any other revlefters going? see you in the blockades.

[Fietsketting]

I will be there, any other revlefters going? see you in the blockades.

Oh maybe we can meet up there, i'll be there too :laugh:

[Wanted Man]

fucking good,

however i wouldnt suggest that working with Searchlight is the best move for antifascists
Who are they?

In any case, to the people who are going: good luck and have fun.

[1968]

hope to see updates, reports, pictures and videos. :)

[Holden Caulfield]

Who are they?


searchlight?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Searchlight_(magazine)

[jaffe]

Oh maybe we can meet up there, i'll be there too :laugh:

great idea

[Djehuti]

Seems to be a very large and important antifa-event, good to know that comrades from the Netherlands will be joining up.

[Tower of Bebel]

From Belgium too, you know.

[Pirate turtle the 11th]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7627047.stm

[Sasha]

the main fascist raly is banned by the police after clashes, everbody who is/was there :tt1: :thumbup::tt1: :thumbup:

here some mainstream reports:
Police ban right-wing protest over mosque


Published Date: 21 September 2008
By Nicole Lange in Cologne
GERMAN police yesterday banned a right-wing nationalist group from staging a rally against a mosque in Cologne.
Police spokesman Burkhard Rick said the rally was cancelled because of the security risk posed to officers and other citizens.

The Pro-Cologne group had hoped to protest against plans to build a large mosque in the city's heavily immigrant Ehrenfeld district.

Rick says 3,000 officers were stationed in Cologne to maintain peace between two groups. Just 30 Pro-Cologne supporters had gathered at the site of the planned rally by mid-day yesterday but more than 5,000 counter demonstrators had gathered outside Cologne's famous cathedral for a peaceful counter-rally.

The demonstration was organised as part of a three-day conference decrying what protestors call the city's "Islamification".

Opening events on Friday were severely hampered when hundreds of largely peaceful protesters managed to prevent the group's leaders from holding a news conference in a municipal building.

Chancellor Angela Merkel's appointee for immigration affairs, Maria Boehmer, sharply condemned the nationalist gathering saying "there is no place" in Germany for "far-right groups that pose as grass roots movements, but aim only to discriminate against minorities".




The full article contains 202 words and appears in Scotland On Sunday newspaper.
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Last Updated: 20 September 2008 8:54 PM
Source: Scotland On Sunday


'Anti-Islamification congress' in Cologne leads to clashes

The far-right group Pro-Köln (For Cologne)'s two-day "Anti-Islamification Congress" began Saturday to oppose the construction of a large mosque in the city centre. Skirmishes between Pro-Köln and leftist opponents have led to arrests.
Demonstrators and counter-protesters clashed Friday at the start of an "anti-Islamification congress" in Cologne, where city fathers have approved plans for one of Europe's biggest mosques.

The two-day event is organised by members of the far-right group Pro-Koeln (For Cologne), who were pelted with stones and paint bombs hurled by about 100 leftist activists. Scuffles also broke out between the two groups, police said.

Counter-demonstrators carried signs with slogans including "Stop the Nazi Congress -- Stop Pro Koeln" and a few scuffled with the right-wing organisers. Six leftist protesters and a right-winger were taken into police custody.

Mayor Fritz Schramma, whose city council recently gave the green light for the construction in Cologne of what will be one of Europe's biggest mosques, had called on the city's inhabitants to show the far-right "the cold shoulder."

Cologne, in the west of Germany on the River Rhine, is famous for its Gothic double-steeple Roman Catholic cathedral -- a UNESCO world heritage site that survived Allied air raids during World War II.

Pro-Koeln hopes 1,500 people will attend the high point of the congress -- a rally in the city centre to oppose the mosque and an "immigrant invasion" of Europe. It is to start at midday (1000 GMT) Saturday.

Those attending the congress -- including far-right leaders from Belgium, Austria and Italy -- want to protect against "Islamification," Europe's "shared, thousand-year history" and "Western values and Christian traditions".

A spokeswoman for the German interior ministry criticised the event Friday, calling Pro Koeln an "extremist" group that aimed to undermine good relations between Muslims and non-Muslims.

"A sweeping condemnation of an entire world religion to which nearly 16 million people belong in the EU alone is extremely out of place," added the religion spokesman for the liberal Free Democrats' parliamentary group, Hans-Michael Goldmann.

Police said they expected several hundred activists to turn out and will be out in force with up to 3,000 officers at the venue.

But their numbers will likely be dwarfed by the 40,000 to 60,000 people Schramma hopes will gather for one of the 20 or so planned counter-demos that are also expected to attract supporters from other European countries.

Several hundred opponents of the congress formed a human chain around a mosque in solidarity with the Muslim minority, which numbers more than three million in Germany, or four percent of the population.

German citizens protest against anti-Islam congress in Cologne

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COLOGNE, Germany (AFP) — German police said tens of thousands of Cologne residents took to the streets Saturday in protest at an "anti-Islamisation" conference of European far-right leaders.
Carrying banners saying: "We are Cologne -- Get rid of the Nazis!," protesters gathered outside the city's cathedral to demonstrate against the congress organised by the local far-right group Pro-Koeln (For Cologne).
Pro-Koeln began two days of seminars Friday during which speakers denounced an influx of Muslims to Germany and the construction of one of Europe's largest mosques in the city.
Earlier Saturday, police banned a rally organised by far-right adherents in Cologne just as it was about to begin, following clashes with thousands of opponents.
Some 3,000 police, drafted in to control the protests and seal off part of the old city, used truncheons and water hoses to fend off violent "anti-fascist" leftist activists.
"It is a dictatorship!" said a Pro-Koeln member of the decision to ban the far-right rally.
Andreas Molzer, a member of the European Parliament and an Austrian far-right group who attended the congress, called the ban an "anti-democratic scandal."
Pro-Koeln had hoped 1,500 people would attend Saturday's rally in the city centre to oppose the mosque and an "immigrant invasion" of Europe.
Those attending the congress, including far-right leaders from Belgium, Austria and Italy, protested against "Islamification" and voiced support for Europe's "Western values and Christian traditions."
The counter-protest, called by trade unions, churches and anti-racist movements, saw thousands of students, families and local businessmen and women carry signs with slogans including "No to Racism" and "Cologne is rebelling!"
They disrupted the Pro-Koeln congress, ensuring less than 50 delegates were able to return to the meeting on Saturday morning.
Mayor Fritz Schramma, whose city council gave the green light for the construction of the huge mosque, slammed Pro-Koeln as "arsonists and racists" hiding under the cloak of a "citizens' movement" in a speech earlier Saturday.
Meanwhile, around 150 bars in Cologne stopped selling Pro-Koeln members the local Kolsch beer with some taxi and bus drivers also refusing to transport delegates to the congress.
One hotel even cancelled bookings made by "undesirables."
On Friday, several hundred opponents of the congress formed a human chain around a mosque in solidarity with the Muslim minority, which numbers more than three million in Germany, or four percent of the population.
Pro-Koeln has five elected local councillors and is chasing other official positions in the region.
Cologne, in the west of Germany on the River Rhine, is famous for its Gothic twin-spired Roman Catholic cathedral -- a UNESCO world heritage site that survived Allied air raids during World War II

[Sasha]

one dutch media source talks about heavy clashes with the police.
molotovs and streettiles being trown and 500 people detained
Autonomen gaan politie in Keulen te lijf

Gepubliceerd: zaterdag 20 september 2008 18:42 UTC
Laatst gewijzigd: zaterdag 20 september 2008 18:42 UTC

Keulen - In Keulen is het tot heftige confrontaties gekomen tussen de politie en links-autonome demonstranten. De activisten gingen de politie te lijf met molotov-cocktails en stoeptegels; zeker zes agenten raakten gewond. Ze bezetten ook spoorrails; honderden treinen liepen daardoor vertraging op. De politie nam uiteindelijk zo'n vijfhonderd activisten in hechtenis.
Aanleiding voor de rellen was een voor zaterdag geplande demonstratie van rechts-radicalen in Keulen, die de politie op het allerlaatste moment had verboden uit vrees voor botsingen met de linkse activisten. De rechts-extremisten wilden hun steun betuigen aan een kritische bijeenkomst over de islam.
Duizenden burgers waren in Keulen de straat op gegaan om blijk te geven van hun antipathie tegen de rechts-radicalen. Die protestmars verliep vreedzaam.

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