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Thread #128036 Message #2862488
Posted By: Emma B
12-Mar-10 - 07:06 AM
Thread Name: BS: Teacher members of BNP
Subject: RE: BS: Teacher members of BNP
If you want to do something constructive check out the Folk against Fascism site which has merchandizing with the FaF logo and a gallery
as well as blogs from British performers and other links and JOIN UP for newsletters about events in the UK
Sorry kat, but while support from across the Atlantic is appreciated this IS a UK issue
The BRITISH NATIONAL PARTY'S manifesto encourages its members to insinuate themselves into the folk and traditional customs of Britain.
This involves the appropriation of British folk music and culture as a means of spreading its peculiar brand of racism and intolerance
Folk Against Fascism WAS created to take a stand against the BNP's targeting of folk music, a stand against the appropriation of our culture.
The BNP's Activists and Organisers Handbook encourages its members to get involved paricularly in the English folk scene