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- Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 16:27:11 GMT
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- subject: UK anti-racist news
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- from: ECN London
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- 15 December 1992
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- ANTI-RACIST NEWS:
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- -Five thousand people marched against racism in Glasgow on
- November 28th in a demonstration called by the Scottish Campaign
- Against Racism and Fascism (SCARF). At one point the demonstration
- was attacked by 20 fascists. 15 fascists and three anti-fascists were
- arrested.
-
- -Asian and African-Caribbean youth in Newcastle (north-east England)
- have formed a campaign after the racist murder of 66-year old Aziz
- Miah on 14 September. A week after Mr Miah was battered to death
- by a racist gang while on his way to a mosque, there was an angry
- demonstration from the estate where he lived to the police station. The
- Mr Miah Justice Campaign has now been formed, with a newsletter
- called Kal Ki Awazz (Voice of Tomorrow).
-
- contact: Mr Miah Justice Campaign, c/o 262 Westgate Road,
- Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE4.
-
- -in the West Midlands, police have been harassing the Ahmed family.
- In June the family were assaulted and racially abused in their own
- home by police who claimed they were investigating a complaint about
- noise. Three brothers were arrested and charged, and their 61-year old
- mother suffered a cut arm after being pushed by police. Later, she was
- also arrested when she went to the police station to enquire about her
- sons. A few weeks later, police again forced entry into the family
- home, and shook awake a four year old child to ask her where her
- father was.
-
- The Sandwell Action Committee Against Racist Police Harassment
- have been organising regular pickets of the court where the Ahmed
- brothers have been standing trial.
-
- contact: Sandwell Action Committee Against Racist Police
- Harassment, c/o Sandwell REC, High Street, West Bromwich.
-
- information from: Campaign against Racism and Fascism, BM Box
- 8784, London WC1N 3XX (CARF produce a magazine, which is
- probably the best regular UK anti-racist publication).
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