Indymedia York

After last nights anti-fash leafleting when Holgate, Acomb and Westfield were targeted, Leeman Road was today's target. Some 500 houses got leaflets, with a few incidents to report. Funniest was when someone emerged from a house to attack an anti-fascist because they mis-read the leaflet that had just landed on there doormat. After apologising and chatting, she joined in the leafleting trip. Coming to the end of the trip, a car appeared in the area, a turquoise Hyundi, reg P127 JWA, stopped mid way down a street, and then backed up slowly following a campaigner. With window down, the guy inside, later identified as Mr Dawson himself, asked if anyone was Unite Against Fascism leafleting. Nothing was admitted to and he eventually drove off. Then another person was stopped by Dawson (the local fuhrer) on foot and asked to explain themselves, which Dawson decided to record on some or other device. Eventually it was three women versus one BNP, and Dawson decided he'd best be off. One of the three is a black woman, to whom he refused to speak, and around whom he seemed somewhat flustered. There's worry that kids in the local school are getting told racist stuff by the kids of another BNP candidate, though the area is pretty solidly anti-BNP anyhow.