The day the EDL came to town
September 30, 2012 at 4:03 pm
(This post was last modified: September 30, 2012 at 4:04 pm by Cyberman.)
Yesterday was far from the typical Saturday in our little market town, as the far-right English Defence League staged a demonstration in the town centre. So far there have been twenty-eight arrests.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bir...m-19773187
Further reportage here, including videos:
http://www.itv.com/news/central/story/20...l-protest/
http://www.birminghammail.net/news/top-s...-31932615/
(The video at the end of that second link is on auto-play, so watch out for that.)
We live only a few minutes away and we could hear it all from here. The entire town was locked off to contain the rioters.
They were opposed by a counter-demonstration at the other end of the town, next to our shiny and very expensive Art Gallery, by the Unite Against Fascism (UAF) and We Are Walsall campaign groups. For some reason, the only news coverage of the second demo seems to be here:
http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/art.php?id=29675
Incidentally and completely off-topic, on the right (!) of the street shown in the videos where the EDL were contained, Leicester Street, is a side entrance to our Town Hall. Before it was refurbished, it was used as a filming location in early series of the BBC cop show Dalziel and Pascoe, as the police station exterior.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bir...m-19773187
Further reportage here, including videos:
http://www.itv.com/news/central/story/20...l-protest/
http://www.birminghammail.net/news/top-s...-31932615/
(The video at the end of that second link is on auto-play, so watch out for that.)
We live only a few minutes away and we could hear it all from here. The entire town was locked off to contain the rioters.
They were opposed by a counter-demonstration at the other end of the town, next to our shiny and very expensive Art Gallery, by the Unite Against Fascism (UAF) and We Are Walsall campaign groups. For some reason, the only news coverage of the second demo seems to be here:
http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/art.php?id=29675
Incidentally and completely off-topic, on the right (!) of the street shown in the videos where the EDL were contained, Leicester Street, is a side entrance to our Town Hall. Before it was refurbished, it was used as a filming location in early series of the BBC cop show Dalziel and Pascoe, as the police station exterior.
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