Anti-Racism World Cup Belfast 2010

«Hello everyone, its finally here after everyones hard work the ARWC starts tomorrow.
The palestinian team are en route, some teams are already here ,the rest are arriving tomorrow, ready for a great weekend.
Friday at 7pm we are holding a welcome session at the DC followed by the talk on the life of International Brigader Charlie Donnelly.
At 9.30 Djs from FCUM radio kick of the Punk Football Disco.
First match involving the international teams is at 10am saturday morning come along and show your support, bring banners flags etc.
Then after the Palestinian team do a short talk at 1pm its FCUM vs Cliftonville at 3pm and another evening of music to follow with Dutch Ska band The Roosterz.
See you there! »
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Cliftonville FC v FC United of Manchester.

FC United have been invited to play a friendly at Cliftonville FC on Saturday 17 July 2010 with kick-off at 3pm.

Cliftonville are a fans-owned club based in Belfast, Northern Ireland and play in the IFA Premiership League, where they are currently mid-table.

Cliftonville is the oldest football club in Ireland, having been formed in 1879, which means they are celebrating their 130th anniversary this year. It is anticipated that Cliftonville will be organising social events around the game, probably on both the Friday and Saturday evenings.

Cliftonville have managed to secure sponsorship from Ladbrokes for this friendly between our two fans clubs. This enables them to fund the arrangements for the game, including the FC United team’s travel and accommodation. The winners of the match will be awarded the inaugural Ladbrokes Supporters’ Cup.

Cliftonville Chairman Gerard Lawlor was delighted to finalise arrangements for the fixture and looks forward to welcoming FC United to Belfast. He said: "We know all too well about the importance of a strong bond between the club committee, players and supporters. It’s the foundation upon which Cliftonville is built and we’re proud to be a fans-owned club, with people working voluntarily on a daily basis for the betterment of us all.

"The story of FC United is one which all football fans have followed and one which we at Cliftonville watched closely because of how similarly we operate. It’s wonderful that both of our clubs have come together to compete for the Ladbrokes Supporters’ Cup and I, like everyone at Solitude, am looking forward to not only the match but the entire occasion and the development of a relationship between our two clubs."

FC United General Manager, Andy Walsh said: "We’re delighted to accept Cliftonville’s invitation. We always enjoy the adventure of playing a Euro away and it’s an honour to play a friendly against a fellow fans-owned club. We’re looking forward to challenging ourselves against an Irish Premier League team."



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Cliftonville friendly moved to Donegal Celtic's ground


Our friendly against Cliftonville on Saturday 17th July has been moved to Donegal Celtic Park in West Belfast.

Cliftonville have been extremely fortunate and have secured funding from the Irish Football Association to develop a 3G pitch at their Solitude ground. This work is due to start immediately and won’t be completed in time for our friendly, so they have arranged for the game to take place at Donegal Celtic’s ground instead. Further details can be found on Cliftonville’s website http://www.cliftonvillefc.net/news_pitch_070610.html

A representative from Cliftonville said "We’re very sorry to have to make this change of venue and we’re grateful to Donegal Celtic for their help with this, because it’s vital that we get the new 3G pitch installed as soon as possible.

"We know it will be disappointing for some fans that we’re not able to play at Solitude but we’ll still do a social function there on the Friday night before the game, so people can pay a visit to our normal home ground."

Full details of match arrangements will be announced nearer the time.

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Please note - in case of any confusion, the match is still in Belfast, NOT in Co.Donegal.

Donegal Celtic Park is in West Belfast, about the same distance from the city centre as Cliftonville’s ground.

T-shirt dos Aston Villa antifascists...

Alguma rapaziada dos Aston Villa vai deslocar-se em forma de equipa ao Mundial Anti-racista que se vai realizar este ano em Belfast.
E já têm uma tshirt para o efeito!

«The Aston Villa Anti-Fascists are going to the Anti-Racism World Cup in Belfast next month. They’re not only going but they’re playing, which should be fun. We’re making them some t-shirts to play in. The finished shirts will be claret and blue, obviously.»
http://sabcat.com/news/?p=50

ARWC, Belfast - Programação.

Programa

Sexta, 16 Julho:

19h sessao de boas vindas
21h "Punk Football Disco" (ska, reggae, northern soul, 80´s indie)

Sábado, 17 Julho

10h começa o futebol, equipas de 6 têm que estar pre-registadas
14h ida a CLIFTONVILLE para o jogo com o FC Utd Manchester
19h30 encontro politico- social acerca das Brigadas Internacionais, homenagem a Charlie Donnelly
21h concerto com "THE ROOSTERZ" (ska da Holanda), seguido de festa com DJ.

Domingo, 18 Julho

11h continuaçao do Torneio de Futebol
tarde: sessÃo de Chill Out

www.theroosterz.nl
www.myspace.com/theroosterz

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Punk Football Disco @ Antiracism World Cup.

The Roosterz ( Ska, Reggae, Rocksteady...)
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Anti-Racism World Cup 2010

Anti Racism World Cup,
> c/o Kevin Hillick
> Sally Gardens Community Centre
> Belle Steele Road
> Belfast
> BT17 0PB
> antiracismworldcup@gmail.com

Launch of Anti-Racism World Cup 2010
Donegal Celtic FC 2pm March 23rd- All Welcome,

The Anti-Racism World Cup will take place again this year at Donegal Celtic FC in West Belfast from the 16th to the 18th of July. For the last three years teams have travelled from across the world to play against teams from various ethnic minority groups and from local communities in Belfast and across Ireland. Last year's tournament involved over 500 local people and 100 international guests and was a showcase for Anti-Racism against a backdrop of an upsurge of racist attacks in Belfast. This year we intend to bring more teams to Belfast, including for the first time a Palestinian youth team, and we intend to make the tournament the largest anti-racist event in Ireland in 2010.

Firstly we want to thank those organisations that gave us so much help and support in the run up to last years’ tournament. As I’m sure you already know it was a great success, not just in terms of the crowds taking part but also in terms of the impact locally. The Tournament and similar events, through bringing together people from different backgrounds, makes it harder for racists to fool people as to the real causes of the problems they face. Many of the young people from Belfast who play in the tournament are meeting and talking to political refugees for the very first time and it has had a lasting effect on many of them that they take back to their friends and families. Working class communities have enough REAL problems without phantom issues such as the colour of peoples' skin or the country they were born dividing us and diverting us from the real issues and who is responsible.

This year we have moved the Tournament forward from the usual date of the first weekend in August to coincide with the visit of FC United of Manchester (set up by supporters of Manchester Utd when the club was taken over by the Glazers) to Cliftonville. Supporters of FCUM have travelled over each year for the tournament and we wanted to keep up that link. Furthermore it was felt that others among the international guests would be keen to attend the match so overall we considered it a good idea to move the weekend.
On the Saturday afternoon we will be breaking earlier from the tournament and laying on coaches from DC to bring the teams to Cliftonville.

We hope your organisation would consider again supporting the ARWC in one or more of the following ways;

1) Attend our launch on 23rd March at Donegal Celtic at 2pm
2) To again promote the event through your organisation, email your members, run an advert in your newsletter
etc, maybe run an interview first on the launch?
3) Help us with ticket sales for the gig on the Saturday night?
4) Consider sending someone to our regular meetings
5) Become a sponsor of the ARWC and make a donation towards the costs of the Tournament.

Yours in Solidarity
Steve McCann
Chairperson – ARWC
More info phone 00353 86 406 1049


http://www.antiracismworldcup.com/

The real World Cup

Launch of Anti-Racism World Cup 2010

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Anti Racism World Cup,
> c/o Kevin Hillick
> Sally Gardens Community Centre
> Belle Steele Road
> Belfast
> BT17 0PB
> antiracismworldcup@gmail.com

Launch of Anti-Racism World Cup 2010
Donegal Celtic FC 2pm March 23rd- All Welcome,

The Anti-Racism World Cup will take place again this year at Donegal Celtic FC in West Belfast from the 16th to the 18th of July. For the last three years teams have travelled from across the world to play against teams from various ethnic minority groups and from local communities in Belfast and across Ireland. Last year's tournament involved over 500 local people and 100 international guests and was a showcase for Anti-Racism against a backdrop of an upsurge of racist attacks in Belfast. This year we intend to bring more teams to Belfast, including for the first time a Palestinian youth team, and we intend to make the tournament the largest anti-racist event in Ireland in 2010.

Firstly we want to thank those organisations that gave us so much help and support in the run up to last years’ tournament. As I’m sure you already know it was a great success, not just in terms of the crowds taking part but also in terms of the impact locally. The Tournament and similar events, through bringing together people from different backgrounds, makes it harder for racists to fool people as to the real causes of the problems they face. Many of the young people from Belfast who play in the tournament are meeting and talking to political refugees for the very first time and it has had a lasting effect on many of them that they take back to their friends and families. Working class communities have enough REAL problems without phantom issues such as the colour of peoples' skin or the country they were born dividing us and diverting us from the real issues and who is responsible.

This year we have moved the Tournament forward from the usual date of the first weekend in August to coincide with the visit of FC United of Manchester (set up by supporters of Manchester Utd when the club was taken over by the Glazers) to Cliftonville. Supporters of FCUM have travelled over each year for the tournament and we wanted to keep up that link. Furthermore it was felt that others among the international guests would be keen to attend the match so overall we considered it a good idea to move the weekend.
On the Saturday afternoon we will be breaking earlier from the tournament and laying on coaches from DC to bring the teams to Cliftonville.

We hope your organisation would consider again supporting the ARWC in one or more of the following ways;

1) Attend our launch on 23rd March at Donegal Celtic at 2pm
2) To again promote the event through your organisation, email your members, run an advert in your newsletter
etc, maybe run an interview first on the launch?
3) Help us with ticket sales for the gig on the Saturday night?
4) Consider sending someone to our regular meetings
5) Become a sponsor of the ARWC and make a donation towards the costs of the Tournament.

Yours in Solidarity
Steve McCann
Chairperson – ARWC
More info phone 00353 86 406 1049

http://www.antiracismworldcup.com/