{"id":8677,"date":"2009-05-21T17:08:40","date_gmt":"2009-05-21T17:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2009\/05\/21\/adf-announce-anti-bnp-tour\/"},"modified":"2009-05-21T17:08:40","modified_gmt":"2009-05-21T17:08:40","slug":"adf-announce-anti-bnp-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2009\/05\/21\/adf-announce-anti-bnp-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"ADF announce \u2018anti-BNP\u2019 tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>Three venue tour to play ahead of vital June European Elections<\/h3>\n<div><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"200\" hspace=\"10\" width=\"232\" align=\"right\" vspace=\"3\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/Image\/ArticleImages\/LoveMusicHateRacism_232x153.jpg\"\/>ACCLAIMED British band Asian Dub Foundation has announced a special three-date tour to counter the possible threat from the British National Party at next month\u2019s European Elections.<\/strong> <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The \u2018Beating Back the BNP\u2019 tour has been organised jointly with Love Music Hate Racism \u2013 a music-orientated campaign which was set up in 2002 in response to rising levels of racism and electoral successes for the BNP. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The tour, which will encompass three concerts, will begin in Derby on 23 May before moving to Manchester and Sheffield. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>A statement on the group\u2019s website said: \u201cOn June 4th there is a real chance that the right-wing racist British National Party may well win a seat in the European Parliament.\u201d<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u201cThis cannot be allowed to happen otherwise the forces of racism and intolerance will be given a huge boost in Britain, plus also an international platform with accompanying financial resources.\u201d<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div><strong>The \u2018Beating Back the BNP\u2019 tour will play at:<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div><strong>Derby<\/strong><strong> Assembly Rooms \u2013 23<sup>rd<\/sup> May<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div><strong>Manchester<\/strong><strong> Academy<\/strong><strong>: 24<sup>th<\/sup> May<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div><strong>Sheffield<\/strong><strong> Plug: 25<sup>th<\/sup> May<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div><strong>For more information log onto: <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.asiandubfoundation.com\/\">www.asiandubfoundation.com<\/a><\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three venue tour to play ahead of vital June European Elections ACCLAIMED British band Asian Dub Foundation has announced a special three-date tour to counter the possible threat from the British National Party at next month\u2019s European Elections. &#13; The \u2018Beating Back the BNP\u2019 tour has been organised jointly with Love Music Hate Racism \u2013 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}