Anti racism network sends christmas greetings to racist estate agents

national | rights, freedoms and repression | news report

Monday December 13, 2004 15:35

by ali la pointe - fite dem back!

Homefinders, who have barred black and chinese people from applying, are sent "greetings"

Activists with the anti racism network in the north were last week circulating an email encouraging people to "share their feelings" with Mary Lloyd, Managing Director of Homefinders Belfast, the racist estate agency that barred black, chinese and other minority ethnic families from applying for homes. The email initiative came after Homefinders threatened to take a court order out against the ARN for picketing their offices last week. The message reads;

Sent: 09 December 2004 15:27
To: antiracism@burngreave.net
Subject: [Antiracism] Homefinders: make them pay for their racism

Please pass this message on:

Get in touch with Mary Lloyd, managing director of Homefinders Belfast, by phone, fax, and email.

Homefinders have barred people from Chinese, African and other minority ethnic communities from applying for homes.

Share with Ms Mary Lloyd your concern at the company's racist , illegal and immoral bar. And wish her a happy christmas, if you so wish;

May I recommend the "perma-fax" (tm) devised by the pat finucane centre. You need an old fashioned fax machine, 3 or 4 sheets of a4 paper and some sellotape.

Using the minumum of sellotape on the back (a la blue peter), stick the sheets of a4 together in a single file. Write your greeting on the front. Feed your message into the fax machine and dial the number. When the beginning of the message has fed through the machine sufficiently to do so, get another piece of sellotape and stick the beginning of the message to the end of the message before it disappears into the machine. Thus you have one single, circular and perpetual message repeating itself over and over, jamming their machine and using up their fax paper. It also makes sure the message gets through!

Send your Christmas greetings to:
Ms Mary Lloyd
Homefinders
Botanic House
5 Botanic Avenue
BELFAST
BT19 7QY
Tel 028 9031 5511
Fax 028 9023 6600
Email info@homefinders-ni.co.uk
Website www.homefinders-ni.co.uk