[Antiracism] UK Conf on Islamophobia

[Nick Camerota]

From: Western Mass. International Action Center <wmassiac at hotmail.com>
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[REMINDER: 37th National Day of Mourning in Plymouth (Nov. 23); for more 
info, please access
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UPDATE: STRUGGLE AGAINST ANTI-ARAB RACISM & ISLAMOPHOBIA
On November 19, over 650 people attended an anti-racist conference at Camden 
Centre, sponsored by the UK Stop the War Coalition's People's Assembly, to 
advance the struggle against the demonisation of Muslims.

Delegates heard a diverse array of speakers, including a number of MPs, 
leading scientists, playwrights, anti-war activists, community leaders and 
journalists -- all united in their condemnation of attempts by politicians 
and the media to make Islamophobia the 'last respectable form of racism.'
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FOR PODCASTS of presentations @ this conference, access these links:
P1: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=5BB5E5ECC759B707
P2: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=5BB5E5ECC759B707&page=2
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Among the resolutions passed unanimously by the Assembly was a statement 
affirming the group's
solidarity with all the Muslim peoples in Britain facing official and 
unofficial legal, political and physical assaults in a climate of 
Islamophobic hysteria. The Assembly recognised such attacks as essentially 
racist and driven by the same political agenda that has inspired the 
disastrous "war on terror" which has laid waste Iraq and Afghanistan and 
presently threatens Iran and elsewhere.

The Assembly called on the British people to:
- Oppose all racist violence and rhetoric directed against Muslims.
- Reject legislation directed against free cultural and religious expression 
and any legislation seeking to abridge the civil liberties of all citizens.
- Support the right of Muslims, like any other people to dress, follow their 
culture and worship as they please, within the limits of the present law.
- Demand that the government break completely with the foreign policy of the 
US administration and withdraw its occupying troops from Iraq and 
Afghanistan.
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