Here is a full list of all the published names of those supporting the We are Bradford event against the racist English Defence League on Saturday 28 August.
We would like to thank all those named below. We would also like to thank the many, many others who also sent in their names. Sorry we couldn’t publish them all.
We’re backing ‘We are Bradford’
David Ward MP Bradford East, Diane Abbott MP, Labour Party leadership contender, John McDonnell MP (pic: right), Peter Hain MP, Jeremy Corbyn MP, Cllr Mohammed Jamil deputy lord mayor, Bradford, Cllr Naveeda Ikram Bradford council, Cllr Abid Hussain Bradford council, Cllr Sajawal Hussain Bradford council, Cllr Qasim Khan Bradford council, Cllr Rizwan Malik Bradford council, Cllr Martin John Love Bradford council, Cllr Hawarun Hussain Bradford council, Balu Lad chair, Bradford’s South Asian Forum, Morris Beckman veteran antifascist and founder of the 43 Group, Edie Friedman executive director, Jewish Council for Racial Equality, Karen Reissmann Unison health executive member (pc), Aaron Porter president, National Union of Students, Mecca2Medina hip-hop artists, Benjamin Zephaniah poet, Jeremy Dear general secretary NUJ, Bradford NUT, Kevin Courtney deputy general secretary, NUT, Michael Mansfield QC, Julian Bond director, Christian Muslim Forum, Imran Khan civil rights lawyer, Michael Rosen writer, broadcaster and professor of children’s literature, Chris Brereton finance manager, Kala Sangam (South Asian arts organisation, Bradford), Umit Yildiz UCU black members standing committee and Bradford College, Simon Midgley CWU area delivery rep, Bradford, Mark Thomas comedian and activist, 1990 Trust, Gill George executive council, Unite the union, Zita Holbourne PCS national executive committee and joint chair, Black Activists Rising Against Cuts (Barac),
Sue Bond vice-president, PCS, Jane Loftus vice-president CWU, Aki Nawaz hip-hop artist, Fun-Da-Mental and Nation Records, Tony Kearns senior deputy general secretary, Communication Workers Union, Andy Dark assistant general secretary, Fire Brigades Union, Communication Workers Union, the Public and Commercial Services union, Transport Salaried Staffs’ Association, University and College Union, Ken Loach film director, Red Saunders founder Rock Against Racism 1976-82, Deall Sharma former president, Bradford Hindu cultural society, Khadim Hussain president, Bradford Council for Mosques, Tony Niland, former Bradford councillor, Kashmir Singh Rajput board of Sikh Gurduwaras, Bradford, Community Action Party Wigan, Steve Ryan PCS Wales committee, Haseeb Sheikh Muslim Defence League (MDL) – United we stand, divided we fall, Sam O’Brien communications officer, Rochdale Unison Local Government (pc), Martin Lynch joint secretary Dudley NUT, Jason Hill, Midland region vice-chair, Musicians’ Union, Pura Ariza branch secretary, UCU Manchester Met University (pc), Loz Kaye governor, Pirate Party UK, Sam Clements Herts Labour Party, Mark Rough Bradford-based comedian, Million Women Rise, Janice Connolly artistic director, Barbara Nice Ltd and Women and Theatre, Rev Carole Elphick minister, United Reformed Church, Richard Seymour writer, Sarah Burton NUS LGBT committee, David Niven branch secretary, RPA Carlisle PCS, Adam Collins secretary Leeds Right to Work Campaign, Baby J hip-hop producer, Abdul ‘Simply-H’ Hasib DJ/producer, Justin Sullivan lead singer, New Model Army, Joolz Denby Bradford-based musician, Eugene Bruce grime artist, Jkas hip-hop artist, Truthful Movement hip-hop artists, Jim Malone Fire Brigades Union, regional organiser Scotland, Mumzy Stranger hip hop artist, Joolz Denby Bradford-based artist, writer and performance poet, The Agitator musician, Where’s Huey? muusicians, Future Pilot AKA (Sushil K Dade) musician and producer, PCS Yorkshire and Humber region, Beth Evans NUS LGBT Committee (pc), James Rodgers PCS BIS GEC, Andrew Smith Lewisham Pensioners Forum, Andy Reid PCS national executive committee, Arshad Ali chair, Respect Party, Bradford, Martin Smith national coordinator, Love Music Hate Racism, Mike Thompson chair, Leicester 0168M Unite branch, Steve Hedley RMT London Transport regional organiser, Lowkey hip-hop artist and poet (pic left), Paul Mackney former general secretary NATFHE/UCU, Dave Renton author and historian, Keith Flett chair Haringey TUC, Marianne Owens vice-chair PCS Wales,
Sean Vernell UCU national executive committee, Robert Barron president GMB @ PCS (pc), Saira Azam member of the UK Youth Parliament for north-west Norfolk, Clare Solomon president, University of London Union, Neal Frankland Wakefield District Green Party, James Eaden UCU national executive committee, Anindya Bhattacharyya writer and activist, Emily Bishop consultant, Women’s Refugee Commission, Sally Kincaid divisional secretary, Wakefield and District NUT, Professor Malcolm Povey University of Leeds UCU president, Steve Johnston president, Leeds NUT, Frank Parnham PCS rep, Barnsley and Rotherham branch, Frank Ormston TSSA rep, Network Rail (pc), Tony Stanley Leeds Racial Equality Council, Taj Salam Unite the Union, Dave Gibson branch secretary, Barnsley College UCU and UCU national executive, John Hemingway NASUWT Birmingham, Dick Pole GMB NW London branch president, Roger Keely Kirklees NUT, Paul Hodgkinson vice-chair of governors, Nab Wood school, Bradford (pc), Mark Bergfeld NUS national executive committee (pc), Sam Browse PGR councillor, Sheffield Student Union, Matt Saywell GMB Holborn branch secretary (pc), Barnaby Raine School Students Against War, David Kersey communications officer, Coventry Unison (pc), Sasha Simic Usdaw shop steward, Central Books (pc), Hanif Leylabi NUS LGBT committee, David Crouch, NUJ FoC, Financial Times (pc), Claudia Campbell chair black members’ group Birmingham Unison, Rev. Chris Howson City Mission priest, MS Kahn member, Council for Mosques, Rachel Yosef member, Bradford Synagogue Council, Abdul Nasir IslamBradford, Elizabeth Lawrence UCU regional secretary and NEC member, Geraint Evans branch secretary Bradford UCU ACE, John Campbell chair, Yorkshire and Humber UAF and Unison NEC member, Bill Greenshields NUT past president, Rev. Lynn Britten, Little Lane church,
Kanja Sesay NUS Black students’ officer and ex Bradford University student union communications officer, Abdul Basit Ali Black and ethnic minority students officer, Bradford University students’ union, Ratna Lachman JUST West Yorkshire, Rev. Clare MacLaren vicar, St Martin and St Barnabas church, Heaton, Liz Firth Communities Organised for the Common Good of Bradford, Ashiq Hussain chair, We are Bradford, Sarah Cartin vice-chair CND (pers cap) and former Bradford University student union officer, Hildah Mpofu, Rezza Faissaly, Richard Hargreaves, Nerimaz, M Pearse Bradford Immigration and Asylum Support and Advice Network, Will Sutcliffe Bradford Ecumenical Asylum Concern, Bruce Gulland, Bradford ESOL lecturer, Dennis White Bradford NUT, Lindsey Johnson Bradford Education Business Partnership, Stephen Paul Drake BYDP youth support worker, PM de Villiers Bradford Cathedral, Zaffar Hussain probation officer, Helen Forbes ACE UCU Bradford College, S Ahmed Family Action, Naeem Amza finance officer, Girlington Advice Centre, Sumara Sultan MPAC UK, A Mohmin MBU, Mary Dawson Bradford Community Broadcasting, Yorkshire CND Weyman Bennett joint secretary Unite Against Fascism, Merseyside Stop The War Coalition, Harold Shalet PCS (Ret’d) HSE HQ branch, Merseyside Love Music Hate Racism, Paul Holborow secretary Anti Nazi League (1970s), dan le sac Vs Scroobius Pip hip-hop duo, Socialist Workers Party, Bindz Patel president, Goldsmiths University Students union, James Haywood communications officer, Goldsmiths University Students union, Maddy Abbas Leeds Coalition Against war, Ruqayyah Collector (pic: above right), China Miéville author, The Peace Artistes Bradford street band, Steph Owens TSSA national executive committee (pc), Paul Williams PCS DfT group president, Aumayra Saleem MPACUK, Alf Filer Harrow College UCU, Foisal Uddin Muslim Defence League, Rima Amin FE womens representative, NUS Black Students Campaign, Martin Cornish senior steward, Camden Unison, The Carers Resource, Cllr Michael Lavalette, Preston City Council, Dave Gibson Barnsley UCU branch secretary and national executive committee member, Jehanzeb Khan antiracism campaigns officer, Warwick Students Union, Kieran Crowe assistant secretary, Barnet Trades Council (pc), Dave Owens PCS North West region DWP vice-chair and DWP GEC (pc), Joel Anderson branch secretary, CSSD UCU Branch, James Warner secretary, Dudley Trades Union Council, Refugee Workers Cultural Association, David Hughes president Birmingham Trades Union Council, Ian Johnston CWU unit rep (pc), Geoff Lange secretary PCS Portsmouth Area Branch, Maham Hashmi mature student rep, NUS Black Students Campaign, Lev Taylor NUS LGBT Campaign (pc), Jo Johnson associate president, Leeds Met Students’ Union, Musleh Uddin Khairat Foundation, Tom Goode Green Party, Balwindar Singh Rana West London UAF, Hector Wesley PCS national executive committee, South London Islamic Centre, Louise Christian civil rights lawyer (pic left), Chris Ratcliffe Hebden Bridge Web, Matt Foot civil rights lawyer, Nick Grant NUT national executive committee, Dave Toomer NUJ national executive member for North West England, Vicki Baars NUS LGBT Campaign, Saiqa Sharif youth worker, Just West Yorkshire, Joanna Gilmore UCU executive member, University of Manchester, Dave Webb Yorkshire CND convenor, Rachel Edwards CLG and Government Office group organiser, PCS, Chris Morley NUJ Northern and Midlands organiser, Terry Sullivan NUT school rep, Tower Hamlets, Andy Pettit chair, Coventry Stop the War Coalition (pc), Dean Bracher Birmingham Animal Rights Collective, Roger Smith honorary life member UCU, Richard Miles branch secretary, Leeds College of Art UCU, Phil Turner NUJ FoC, Rotherham Advertiser, Rusty Ebrahim Hackney Unison shop steward, Paul Brandon Unite rep, Holloway bus garage, Jock Morris chair, Glasgow Campaign to Welcome Refugees, Dave Wilson vice-chair HMRC, PCS North West regional committee, Anatolian Peoples Cultural Centre – London, Elane Heffernan convenor, Hands Off My Workmate (pc), Chris Rafferty, Sefton Unison, James Bartholomeusz, Fabian Society, Taj Mahal Curry Cabaret Club, Young Kof hip-hop artist, Ian Stevenson regional secretary, Yorkshire and Humber NUT, Kevin Deegan North Staffordshire Campaign Against Racism and Fascism (NorSCARF), Edward McNally, School Students Against War, George Arthur trades council delegates convenor, Barnsley NUT, Manjit Gill vice-chair E-Mix equality group, TSSA, Hsiao-Hung Pai journalist and author, Andrew Baisley, Camden NUT branch secretary, Michelle Smith union organiser, Unite the union North West region, Ian Lawther HMRC group executive member, PCS. Plus hundreds of individual supporters

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