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5. February 2011 | 11:01EDL leader ‘under threat’ at rally
The founder of the English Defence League said he has been warned his life is in danger if he leads an inflammatory protest in Luton on Saturday. Stephen Lennon, 28, claimed he has been issued a so-called Osman warning by Bedfordshire Police and is under police protection. (News Source: Pendle Today - 14:04:18)
Massive police presence for protest
Thousands of English Defence League (EDL) supporters will descend on the town that spawned the movement for a protest on Saturday. The group will gather in Luton, where counter-demonstrations have been organised by Unite Against Fascism (UAF) and sections of the town’s Muslim community. (News Source: Derbyshire Times - 04:18:00)
Massive police presence for protest
Thousands of English Defence League (EDL) supporters will descend on the town that spawned the movement for a protest on Saturday. (News Source: Shropshire Star - 04:16:04)
Massive police op as far-right group descends on town
Thousands of English Defence League (EDL) supporters will descend on the town that spawned the far-right movement for an inflammatory protest on Saturday. (News Source: Bury Free Press - 07:41:24)
Luton braced for violence in far-right’s ‘homecoming’ march
It is being billed as a triumphant homecoming. Yet Luton, the designated home town of the far-right English Defence League, doesn’t see it quite like that. With an estimated 12,000 EDL supporters and their opponents heading to Bedfordshire for a mass protest march tomorrow, police in the town are mounting their largest operation to try to prevent violence. (News Source: Independent - 00:47:36)
MP calls for EDL protest ban
A local MP has joined anti-racist activists and faith representatives to call for a ban on a planned demonstration in Luton by the English Defence League (EDL). (News Source: Derbyshire Times - 19:48:00)
Educating the English Defence League
When members and supporters of the English Defence League demonstrate in Luton on Saturday they will display their genuine but misplaced fears about Islam as a source of violence, extremism and disloyalty to the UK. Sadly, and merely because they wear distinctive “Islamic” clothing, some of Luton’s most loyal and effective opponents of terrorism, extremism and subversion will be targets of EDL … (News Source: The New Statesman - 02:18:50)
March prompts town road closures
Roads in the centre of Luton are closed to traffic in preparation for demonstrations by the English Defence League and Unite Against Fascism. (News Source: BBC News - 09:44:44)
Unite to stop the racists in Luton
Anti-racists are determined to stage a united and defiant show of strength against the racist English Defence League (EDL) in Luton this Saturday 5 February. (News Source: Socialist Worker - 17:26:47)
Maybe we are a bunch of Little Britons
An EDL supporter shows off his tattoo. Photo: Getty Images. What could be responsible? Is it because we’re an island nation, fearful of ‘contamination’ or ‘invasion’ from overseas, without the free flow of people provided by a land border? (News Source: The New Statesman - 13:04:40)
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