International Day of Non-Violence...with violence.

The International Day of Non-Violence is marked on 2 October, the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi, leader of the Indian independence movement and pioneer of the philosophy and strategy of non-violence.

The International Day is an occasion to "disseminate the message of non-violence, including

through education and public awareness". The resolution reaffirms "the universal relevance of the principle of non-violence" and the desire "to secure a culture of peace, tolerance, understanding and non-violence".

"There are many causes that I am prepared to die for but no causes that I am prepared to kill for."

(Mahatma Gandhi

The Story of My Experiments with Truth, 1927)

A very different thought than the Golden Dawn Party ideas.

A few weeks ago, about 40 burly men, led by Giorgos Germenis, a lawmaker with the right-wing Party, marched through a night market in the town of Rafina demanding that dark-skinned merchants showed permits.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhJntEn4ddA&feature=player_embedded

Golden Dawn’s tactics are similar to ones it used before parliamentary elections in June. Preying on fears that immigrants are worsening crime rates and economic hardship, the group has been stepping up attacks against immigrants, many of whom are legal citizens, with the police frequently standing by.

The group recently opened an office in New York and an outpost in Australia as a mechanism to promote hatred. 

Racism and football...

The Chelsea captain and former England captain John Terry has received a fine of 220,000 pounds and a four game ban after being found guilty of racially abusing Queens Park Rangers defender Anton Ferdinand.

A statement from the Football Association said that Terry had been charged with "using abusive and/or insulting words and/or behaviour towards Queens Park Rangers' Anton Ferdinand and which included a reference to colour and/or race", contrary to FA rules.

A few months ago, Luis Suarez was banned for eight matches and fined £40,000 after being found guilty of misconduct, regarding "using insulting words towards" Patrice Evra of Manchester United.

English football (and other countries as well) continues to troubled by the scourge of racism. And that was what a Parliamentary reported a few weeks ago. 

Greek neo-Nazi party sets up New York office

The Greek neo-Nazi Golden Dawn Party reportedly set up an office in New York City in a bid to bolster its support among expatriate Greek communities.

The populist ultranationalist party has been collecting food and medicine at drives in New York for Greeks left destitute by the country’s massive financial crisis and recently distributed the aid in Athens, according to the Kathimerini daily.

The website of the Golden Dawn New York branch, which features the party’s black swastika-like symbol across a dark New York skyline, promises the aid will be donated “only to Greek people.”

Anti-Semitic, a Hate Crime

WINNIPEG police are asking for the public’s help in tracking down the perpetrators of anti-Semitic posters that were put up around the downtown a few days ago.

The posters, which are headlined with a reference to Hitler, accuse Mayor Sam Katz of funnelling hundreds of millions of dollars into the pockets of a dozen business people, all but two of whom are Jewish, since he was elected in 2004.

The messages are not signed and there is no reference to any individual or group who might be behind them.

Sadly, such incidents do also happen in Europe. For example, ninety incidents of anti-Semitic nature were recorded in Berlin during the first three months of 2012. The Secretary of State Bernard Kromer announced in Parliament that one third of those incidents had been classified as violent.

Antisemitic incidents map 2012: 

Assault on Montenegrin Gay Activists Condemned

Civil society activists and officials have condemned the beating up of three men - two of whom took part in making a video promoting gay rights in Montenegro.  

Danilo Marunovic, director of the video, Todor Vujosevic, an actor in it, and their friend, Mirko Boskovic, a journalist at Montenegro's public broadcaster, RTCG, were attacked on the night between Sunday and Monday, allegedly by fans of a sports club. The video was produced in November 2011 as part of a project of two local NGOs, the Centre for Civic Education, CGO, and LGBT Forum Progress. The video advocated increased tolerance for the LGBT community in Montenegro, showing two men kissing each other while watching a football match. One was Vujosevic. 

The three were reportedly attacked by fans of the Podgorica sports club Buducnost in the centre of capital and received minor injuries. CGO and the LGBT Forum Progress condemned the attack, saying that it was clear that the motive for the act was hatred, and the three men's only crime was contributing to a culture of tolerance. LGBT Progress filed a criminal complaint against four unnamed fans for the attack and against one alleged accomplice, whose identity is also known. Vijesti Television stated that one of its sport journalists, Dijana Drobnjak, was in the company of the attackers. She has been suspended from her duties pending an investigation. 

The NGO Human Rights Action said that the fan club, called Varvari, should be banned if it was proven that it contributed to the incident. 

Officials also condemned the attack. "We strongly condemn this act of vandalism … and expect the authorities to resolve the case quickly and efficiently and punish the perpetrators in line with the law,” Jovan Kojicic, the government's chief advisor on human rights and anti-discrimination, said.

11/09/2012 -Balkan Insight

White Terror

In 'White Terror' is possible to see as Nazism is spreading all around Europe and  Spain.

There has been a significant change in the far-right movement: while veterans have retired, are too old or have died, the new ideologues are emerging throughout Europe and are expanding their ideas.

They don’t need to shave his heads because they have created corporations, distribution companies, music clubs, magazines, websites, etc.

The propagators of Hate have found the best tool to spread their ideas: the Internet. 

Two sportists banished from Olympic Games

Firstly, Greek triple jumper Voula Papachristou was banished from the Olympic Games after making racist comments and expressing right-wing sentiments on Twitter.

And just a few days ago, a Swiss soccer player was expelled from the Olympics for his threatening and racist message on Twitter about South Koreans. Michel Morganella posted the message after playing in the 2-1 loss against South Korea on Sunday. 

This is not the kind of message from a competition like Olympic Games...racism, xenophobia and intolerance must be eradicated from all areas including sport or Internet.