{"id":1029,"date":"2008-02-07T03:24:22","date_gmt":"2008-02-06T17:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=1029"},"modified":"2008-02-08T16:56:46","modified_gmt":"2008-02-08T06:56:46","slug":"starlight-childrens-foundation-endorses-use-of-neo-nazi-linked-pub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=1029","title":{"rendered":"Starlight Childrens&#8217; Foundation Endorses Use Of Neo-Nazi Linked Pub \/\/ More deaths in Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<div align = \"center\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2115\/2234093293_5e8e5d1d5a.jpg?v=0\"><\/div>\n<\/ul>\n<p>STARLIGHT CHILDRENS&#8217; FOUNDATION ENDORSES USE OF NEO-NAZI LINKED PUB<br \/>\nMonday, February 4th, 2008<br \/>\nFOR IMMEDIATE USE<\/p>\n<p>Australasian anti-fascist campaigners Fight Dem Back! (FDB!) notes with concern that on Saturday, February 9th, 2008, a benefit gig for the Starlight Childrens&#8217; Foundation is being held at The Birmingham Hotel in Fitzroy, Melbourne. FDB! understands that the Foundation is a worthy charity dedicated to brightening the lives of seriously ill and hospitalised children and their families. Unfortunately, the venue for the gig, The Birmingham Hotel, is currently the subject of a community boycott, and has been since its role as a venue for neo-Nazi groups was revealed in September 2006.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, September 23rd, 2006, neo-Nazis from around Australia and the world came to Melbourne for the annual Ian Stuart Donaldson memorial gig. Ian Stuart, who died in a car crash in 1993, was the lead singer for neo-Nazi band Skrewdriver. The gig was organised by the local branch of Blood &#038; Honour &#8211; a global neo-Nazi network banned in Germany and considered a terrorist organisation by British and Belgian authorities &#8211; and the Southern Cross Hammerskins (SCHS), the local branch of another international neo-Nazi skinhead network. These two networks are responsible for numerous murders, bombings, arsons and assaults around the world. On the night of the gig itself, a local woman was assaulted by a group of neo-Nazis in attendance.<\/p>\n<p>As a result of subsequent investigations, FDB! discovered that this was not the first time that The Birmingham Hotel had granted these groups permission to hold events at the venue. In 2002, for example, a gig was organised to celebrate Hitler&#8217;s birthday. And in 2005 and for a number of years prior, The Birmingham Hotel has been the regular host for other ISD memorial gigs. Collingwood police subsequently stated that it was well known that skinheads and neo-Nazis frequented at the Birmingham. <\/p>\n<p>(In 2007, as a result of public protest and adverse publicity, the venue for the gig was changed to the Melbourne Croatia Social Centre in Sunshine.)<\/p>\n<p>FDB! spokesperson Cam Smith has urged the Starlight Childrens&#8217; Foundation to reconsider any decision to raise funds through The Birmingham. &#8220;The Starlight Childrens&#8217; Foundation&#8217;s work with seriously ill children is to be admired, but not to put too fine a point on it, we would hate to see their reputation tarnished by association with those whose attitudes to same are that they should be euthanised,&#8221; said Smith.<\/p>\n<p>======<\/p>\n<p><strong>Links<\/strong> :<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.starlight.org.au\">Starlight Childrens&#8217; Foundation<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fightdemback.org\">Fight Dem Back!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Starlight Childrens\u2019 Foundation<br \/>\nVictorian Office<\/p>\n<p>128 Jolimont Road, EAST MELBOURNE VIC 3002<br \/>\nPostal Address: PO Box 276, East Melbourne 8002<br \/>\nPhone: (03) 9663 3300<br \/>\nFacsimile: (03) 9663 2800<br \/>\nEmail Address: vic@starlight.org.au<\/p>\n<ul>\n<div align = \"center\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/img\/0,1020,1088104,00.jpg\"><\/div>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/international\/germany\/0,1518,533502,00.html\">Police Find Neo-Nazi Graffiti on Burnt-Out Building<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Spiegel Online<\/strong><br \/>\nFebruary 6, 2008<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>German police investigating eyewitness claims that Sunday&#8217;s blaze in Ludwigshafen was caused by arson have found neo-Nazi graffiti daubed on the building where nine Turkish immigrants died. Turkish media are reporting that the occupants had received xenophobic threats.<\/p>\n<p>German police said on Wednesday they had found neo-Nazi symbols daubed next to the entrance to a Turkish cultural center on the ground floor of the Ludwigshafen building where nine Turkish immigrants, including five children, died in a fire on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The word &#8220;Hass,&#8221; German for hatred, had been smeared twice next to the door, with the last two letters written in the style of the Germanic runes of Hitler&#8217;s SS organization&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Turkish media are speculating that the fire was laid by German neo-Nazis. If the suspicion is confirmed, Germany will have to brace itself for the same international condemnation that followed the 1993 killing of five Turkish women and girls in a fire in Solingen, western Germany, which was set by German youths.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reports of Far-Right Threats<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Turkish newspaper Zaman reported on Wednesday that the Kaplan family living in the century-old apartment block had been threatened by young German right-wing extremists after they moved into the building&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Previously&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/europe\/925009.stm\">Germany bans neo-Nazi group<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>BBC<\/strong><br \/>\nSeptember 14, 2000<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The German Government has banned the German branch of an international white supremacist group called Blood and Honour. The German Interior Minister, Otto Schily, said the group was spreading Nazi messages. He said some of those arrested after a recent spate of attacks on foreigners in Germany had been inspired by music played at concerts organised by the group. But he said there was no evidence directly implicating Blood and Honour in the attacks&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STARLIGHT CHILDRENS&#8217; FOUNDATION ENDORSES USE OF NEO-NAZI LINKED PUB Monday, February 4th, 2008 FOR IMMEDIATE USE Australasian anti-fascist campaigners Fight Dem Back! 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