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Nick Griffin North West Unite Against Fascism NICK GRIFFIN MUST GO! Nazi BNP leader Nick Griffin with White Power Regional Conference flag. Sunday 24thNovember 2013 10.30am – 5.00pm, Unite the Union North West Regional Office, Jack Jones House, 2 Churchill Way, Liverpool L3 8EF Speakers include: Mohammad Taj (TUC President); Billy Hayes (General Secretary CWU); Avis Gilmore (North West TUC & North West Regional Secretary NUT); Theresa Griffin; Afzal Khan; Wajid Khan;Angeliki Stogia; Ray Hill (Searchlight); Sharon Hutchinson (Unite the union Regional Women’s & Equalities Officer); Pete Middleman (North West Regional Secretary PCS); Pura Ariza (North West Regional Secretary UCU);Dave Kitchen (NASUWT); Dr Dilder Chowdhury (Muslim Council of Britain); Glyn Ford (UAF European Officer & Former MEP); Weyman Bennett (UAF);Daniel Gillard (Manchester City Councillor) and others. To book places –£10 / £5 concessions –contact [email protected] or 0750 737 3609 SUPPORTED BY: NORTHWEST NORTH WEST North West Region North West Unite Against Fascism NICK GRIFFIN MUST GO! Get the fascists out of the North West! Unite Against Fascism launched the Nick Griffin Must Go campaign in 2011 –with the support of North West TUC and others –to stop the fascist BNP leader from being re-elected North West MEP at the 2014 European Elections. Nazi Nick only needs around 7.5% of the vote to keep his seat. Signatories to the 'Nick Griffin Must Go!' Local Government branch; Halton Tameside Councillors: Helen Bowden, Statement supporting the campaign UNISON Local Government Branch; St Leigh Drennan, Gillian Peet, Lynn Travis, include: Mohammad Taj (TUC President); Helens College UNISON; UNISON Denise Ward, Adam White, Alan Arlene McCarthy MEP; Brian Simpson University of Cumbria Branch; Anne Whitehead, Ellie Shember-Critchley; Cat MEP; Gerry Gable, Editor of Searchlight McCormack, Branch Secretary, St Helens Smith (Chair of Next Generation Magazine; Unite the union North West; College UNISON; Manchester NASUWT; Labour); Bolton Councillors: Rosa Kay, UCU North West Region; RMT North West Central & West Lancs CWU branch; PCS Lindsey Kell, Stephen Pickup, Noel & Wales; Peter Middleman NW Regional Highways Agency North West branch; Spencer; Preston Councillors: Carl Secretary PCS; Lancashire Council Of Peter Hain MP; Richard Howitt MEP; Crompton, BhikhuPatel, Drew Gale, Mosques; Jim Dobbin MP; Yvonne Louise Baldock [Chair, North West Dave Wilson; Lancaster City Councillors: Fovargue MP; Paul Goggins MP; Kate Regional Labour Party and Liverpool City Paul Aitchison, Janet Hall, Ian Pattison, Green MP; Andrew Gwynne MP; Mark Councillor]; Colin Lambert (Leader, CouncillorDavid Whitaker; Wigan Hendrick MP; Julie Hilling MP; Barbara Rochdale Council); Miles Parkinson Councillors: Karen Aldred, Kevin Keeley MP; Alison McGovern MP; Gordon (Leader Hyndburn Borough Council); Anderson, Nigel Ash, Keith Cunliffe, Marsden MP; Michael Meacher MP; Lisa Simon Blackburn (Leader, Blackpool Patricia Holland, Paul Kenny, Yvonne Nandy MP; Yasmin Qureshi MP; Jonathan Council); Julie Cooper (Leader, Burnley Klieve, Joanne Platt, Martyn Smethurst, Reynolds MP; Steve Rotheram MP; Derek Council); Glyn Ford [Labours National Carl Sweeney; Rochdale Councillors: Twigg MP; David Watts MP; Billy Hayes Policy Forum and former MEP]; Kieran Cecile Biant, Surinder Biant, Malcolm [General Secretary, Communication Quinn (Executive Leader, Tameside Boriss, Philip Burke, Neil Emmott, Pat Workers Union]; Kevin Courtney (Deputy Council); Peter Rankin [Leader, Preston Greenall, Liam O'Rourke, Linda General Secretary, NUT); Joe Anderson City Council]; Blackburn With Darwen Robinson, Martin Rodgers, Billy Sheerin, (Mayor of Liverpool); Tony Lloyd; Claude Borough Councillors: Mohammed Khan, Carol Wardle; Stockport Councillors: Moraes MEP; Alex Gordon; Craig Salim Mulla, Salim Sidat; Liverpool City Laura Booth, Paul Moss; Lancashire Johnston (Regional Organiser, RMT); Councillors: Joanne Calvert, Nick Crofts, County Councillor & Burnley Councillor Aaron Kiely (NUS Black Students' Officer); Jake Morrison, Nathalie Nicholas, Liam Marcus Johnstone, Burnley Councillor Ricky Tomlinson; Christopher Biggins; Robinson, Anna Rothery, Nick Small, Betsy Stringer, Lancashire County Dave Hopper (General Secretary, Stephanie Till, Hayley Todd, Jeremy Councillors: Sam Riches, Terry Burns, Durham Miners Association); Bolton TUC; Wolfson; Manchester City Councillors: Elizabeth Scott; Martin Timson Lancashire NUT; West Lancashire NUT; Afzal Khan, Aftab Ahmed, Rabnawaz (Merseyside Stop The War Coalition), Preston NUT; Wigan NUT; Lancashire TUC; Akbar, Ahmed Ali, Shaukat Ali, Mike Robert Pointer (Secretary, Barrow Liverpool TUC; Merseyside TUC; Amesbury, Peter Cookson, Bev Craig, Trades Union Council); Copeland Blackburn & District TUC; Lancashire FBU David Ellison, Paul Fairweather, Andrew Borough Councillors: Jackie Bowman, Brigade Committee; Unite the Union Fender, Grace Fletcher-Hackwood, Daniel John Bowman, Gillian Troughton; 0176 Burnley Branch; Unite the Union Gillard, Mark Hackett, John Hughes, Ian Salford City Councillor Howard Balkind; Greater Manchester IT branch 9827; Hyde, Harold Lyons, Eddy Newman, Chris Blackpool Councillors: Chris Maughan, Unite branch 0989 Wigan; Manchester Paul, Bernard Stone, Rita Tavernor, Mary Martin Mitchell, Mark Smith, Christine Community & Mental Health branch of Watson; Brendan Sweeney (Deputy Wright; Neil Mackey (Branch Political UNISON; TFGM UNISON branch; UNISON Leader, Barrow Borough Council); Barrow Officer, UNISONBlackpool Local Cheshire East branch; UNISON Blackpool Borough Councillor Anne Burns; Government Branch) and others. [email protected] 0750 737 3609.
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