Upcoming events

Saturday 20th September 2008
Unity Carnival at Central Forest Park

Saturday 4th October 2008
Love Music Hate Racism (LMHR) Rally - City-wide event with guest speakers and acts to show a positive message that the Fascist BNP are not welcome and never will be! More info to follow.

Saturday 16th October 2008
Counter demonstration in response to the BNP's plans to hold their summer get together at Codnor in Derbyshire.

A very sorry state of affairs.

I received this in an e-mail this morning. The below message was sent to the Stoke - LoveMusicHateRacism facebook group (http://www.new.facebook.com/group.php?gid=15912298933).


Hi guys

Most of you may not know me...but I am an active member of the
campaign and also part of the steering group.

Just to share a personal story with you all. I've just returned from a
trip to the hospital where my brother is currently been checked over
by doctors. He was at work and was jumped and attacked by two racist
thugs early ours of this morning. He has suffered a broken nose and a
black eye, as well as marks on his neck where the attackers tried to
strangle him with a belt.

Why im telling you this? You are all members of this awesome campaign,
but how many of you are actively spreading the word and uniting people
through music and challenging racism. Just to make you all aware of
the challenges we face Stoke-on-Trent but also nationally. We need to
do more to help battle such aggressive form of racism but also
challenge any form of racism.

Please get involved in the events that are currently taking place,
firstly the carnival taking place in Central Forest Park on 20th
September but also the planned activities taking place across the City
that day to challenge racism and fascism.

Make you voice heard, and make it count!

I don't think I need to say any more on this subject, other than that, please, please, please get involved and help to prevent such attacks continue from happening to innocent members of our society.

Turns out blogging is quite fun afterall...

I thought that blogging was going to be boring, time-consuming and too difficult a challenge for me to over come. Not so. The more fun I have writing pointless and inane messages, the more *interesting* things you have to read! In theory, anyway...

Oxford Protest - November 2007

I had to put this up, it makes me laugh (that's supposed to be my serious, scary face!).

Oxford Protest - November 2007

The Guild of Students and the Jewish Society organised a coach to take students from The University of Birmingham to the Oxford Union to protest David Irving and Nick Griffin being invited to speak.

Oh, I'm supposed to be blogging regularly, am I...?!

Well, there I was, idly browsing some of the other Officers' blogs and they seem rather more comprehensive than my own. Not wanting to be outdone (and always in favour of a little healthy competition), I thought I would extend my 'blogging expertise' and type some interesting stuff, or at least attempt to.

My foot is still broken, so I am therefore still under house arrest in Sheffield. But that doesn't stop me! I'm currently compiling a questionnaire for the Religious Societies to fill in about their experience of Welcome Week. The NUS Religious Handbook* states that many welcome week fayres last year were held during the Jewish fesitval of Rosh Hashanah (New Year) and Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement) and that many this year will be falling on Eid-ul-Fitr, the Muslim festival at the end of Ramadan.

Here at UoB, Guild of Students, we are committed to ensuring that everyone has the same access to Guild facilities and that religious observance should not, and will not, be a barrier to participation.

If you have any questions, please contact me on arafo@guild.bham.ac.uk. I shall endeavour to find an answer for you! Tune in next week, for the next instalment of Railly's World!


* To view this, e-mail me, as I can't figure out how to attach it here...