Sal Morawetz, Brighton & Hove Committee to Defend Asylum Seekers and Chair, Brighton & Hove Socialist Alliance Against the War
The Tories deliberately whipped up disgusting anti-Asylum feeling, culminating in the organisation of a demonstration of perhaps 200 local people when the government announced that an Induction Centre would be set up at the Grand Ocean Hotel in Saltdean, Brighton.
The BNP seized the opportunity to get in on the act with a leaflet around the immedi...
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Rate area. Local residents came together to form STAR (Saltdean Residents for Tolerance and Respect) with the full active backing of Brighton & Hove Committee to Defend Asylum Seekers and quickly got out a Seeker counter leaflet. Pro-active educational and pro-refugee actions were discussed. Hundreds of e-mails and phone calls came in expressing support, as well as offering sizeable donations. Almost immediately, we found that the BP were standing in the Rottingdean coastal ward of Brighton. Obviously the Please tick I enclose a cheque for £24*waged/Eounwaged for membership fee. I wish to pay by monthly bankers standing order (E2/50p* per month) L
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with the hotel in! households across a very wide area. ...
around the area. formal voting announcement in May. deanstar.org. Please print clearly
for asylum seekers, after all. may have made over the issue. - but not Nazi thugs Nazis have problems reading maps, as this ward does not include the part of Saltdean
Due to the fact that the local elections were being run as a postal ballot, we had Godward less than two and a half weeks from the announcements of candidates before the start of voting to get a new leaflet drawn up, printed and delivered to nearly 7,000
Over 5 sessions of early evening and weekend daytimes, more than 50 people, from socialist, anarchist, religious and trade union backgrounds, took time out of antiwar and election activities to help get out the leaflet, as well as provide security
As this is being written, plans are being discussed as to how we will deal with the candidate Renzo Lorenzo Ferrari, and any thugs who might be planning to attend the
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Asylum seekers are welcome in Brighton another.