When Respect North East was launched at a 100 strong rally in Newcastle's Royal Station hotel on 27th March, we elected a steering group of sixteen which has been organising the campaign.
The candidates have been leading from the front. Prize winning journalist Yvonne Ridley has been able to use her media contacts to raise our profile.
She has also been building political support among Moslem communities Teesside in the south of the constituency. Yvonne was usefully photographed crowd of antifascists shouting at the Naconal Front and their protectors at a Newcasde demonstration -a picture which appeared in three local papers
Dave Stewart, already well known as a
trades councillor in Berwick, has established weekly meetings, leafletting and visits to other towns on the Northumberland coast. Yunus Bakhsh, executive UNISON is busy gathering trade union supOn bank holiday weekend Newcastle's traditional May Day march through the city followed by speeches and beer in the park, the neighbouring Festival Green and that on other 'Respect', the TUC's anti racist festival in Sunderland, all provided opportunities in a for mass leafletting.
Our election address will go out to all 1.2 police million homes in the region. A program of
leafletting big workplaces and metro stations gets underway this week, as well as fund raising events to raise the rest of our ambitious target of £30,000!
elections on June 10th. KHAN. member of
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Socialist years ago Resistance spoke to member AMIR
The People's Justice Party Wak nationally. who returned a lot of Labour members of parliament to the House of Commons and councillors into the council. In return they
We were formed as a party in 1997, there was not just one reason, but when Labour was in opposition it promised it would look into the question of Kashmir, then they comThere is mass unemployment among the Muslim community. In the Birmingham inner city eighty percent of the Muslim community
unemployed, there is bad housing, party. appalling conditions in which they have to live. Labour have done nothing for the peoesistance clalst resistance May 2004 3
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