Leafleting in Whitehaven

Several Maryport Against Racism members today travelled to Whitehaven, a town about 20 miles away, to help distribute leaflets about the fascist British National Party who have been active in the town.

The event was a great success with around 1000 leaflets distributed on the Kells and Woodhouse estates, areas that the BNP has recently leafleted. Campaigners got a good reaction from local people on the estate many of who said they had no idea what the BNP was really like.

A number of people also came from Cockermouth, Barrow and Millom to help with the leafleting. Most importantly the majority of these were people who had not been active in campaigning against racism or fascism before.

The turnout for the leafleting was brilliant and it meant we could leaflet the entire of Kells and most of Woodhouse in under two hours. Thanks to everyone who was involved.

Thanks as well to the TUC Northern Region for supplying some of the leaflets.

From this base activists in Whitehaven hope to launch more prominent anti-racist events in the town and build a long-term campaign against racism and the BNP in the town.

To download the leaflet distributed today click here.