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SPECIAL ELECTION EDITION
April 2010 / 5770
Five things YOU can do now |
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Edie Friedman and Vivian Wineman, President of the Board of Deputies at the Sanctuary Pledge campaign launch
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Why we urgently need your support
In the forthcoming elections, racist political groups stand a chance of making really significant gains. This is a danger we cannot afford to ignore. So, along with the Board of Deputies and other Jewish organisations, we are calling on all our supporters to get involved now.
What JCORE is doing
We are working with two national campaigns.
Hope Not Hate is challenging the BNP vote in seats around the UK. In East London, they are focusing on Barking and Dagenham, where Nick Griffin, leader of the BNP, is standing as MP for Barking; and where the BNP may well gain control of the council - they already have 12 seats and are the second largest party.
The second is the Sanctuary Pledge which Vivian Wineman and I helped launch recently (see picture above). This asks you to get your prospective parliamentary candidate - at hustings or on your doorstep - to sign up to a set of promises about asylum. They include safeguarding the right to sanctuary, campaigning responsibly on race and asylum, and helping to end child detention.
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