In what’s become a biennial event, the Far Right and Left are having another Labour Weekend protest and counter-protest.
This’ll be the first notable outing of Kyle Chapman’s Nationalist Alliance, which will no doubt prove just to be the same old collection of skinheads and white supremacists. On the other side the plain anti-racists will no doubt be accompanied by the masked anti-bypass/GE/Bush/deodorant crowd who’ll help things get messy.
Apparently, the Nationalist Alliance are expecting to gather 100 people for what they hope will move them beyond the politicle sideshows of their past efforts. That won’t happen.
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poneke // 25 October, 2008 at 9:48 pm |
Bugger! I’ve missed this in past years and would have gone along today.
But we decided to have a picnic at Makara Beach instead. And it was so good I can’t even begin to describe it.
Hope you gave Kyle and co hell.
Richard // 27 October, 2008 at 11:37 am |
We’re having our out-in-the-sun outing today, we missed the good bits of Saturday.
I was keen to go to the protest and take some pictures but had more civilised vistors from Canterbury to entertain. While it was unfortunate the anti-racism protestors started the biffo (throwing bagels is rather amusing though) and were the ones arrested, it was good that the neo-nazis came off looking like a bunch of disaffected thugs – even if they did manage to behave themselves and leave the nazi regalia at home.