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BACK THE LOOBY AND ATTICA RECORDS CAMPAIGN AND SPREAD THE WORD ABOUT WHAT HAS HAPPENED

UPDATE..........

So the Looby campaign in support of dismissed BMI cabin crew Lisa Ashton member gathers pace.
All the main UK newspapers are running the story and now it is featured in the editorial of the Washington Times. As Lisa stated in the Washington Times interview  

“This was not a clash of civilizations but a labor dispute over a sexually discriminatory policy. "This is not a political statement or promotion of one belief over another," she said. "We're living in the 21st century here. Any woman told to walk behind a man will be outraged, don't you think?"

You may be wondering, as are Attica,  where are the “feminist groups” supporting Lisa, strangely quiet don’t you think?

For those of you who have not read the story you can find it on line at the following web addresses.

The Sunday Times

The Washington Times

Daily Mail

The Mirror

The Telegrapgh

BBC Radio One have now entered into the fray by stating that they would not play Looby’s Shame Shame Shame  as they would "have difficulty playing the record due to its political nature."

Despite Attica pointing out that the BBC actually had a duty to eliminate unlawful discrimination, as per their own “Gender Equality Scheme”  they then said, surprise surprise that they now did not think the song now was a “good fit” for Radio One. Listen to the track, does it sound like a perfect summer track to you? well it does to almost every other person who has heard it. So we are then left with the question “whats the real reason  BBC Radio One don’t want to play the track?”

We want to Shame Shame Shame BBC Radio One and we need your help. This of course keeps Lisa’s story in the press.

Please forward Lisa’s story and download the track. If we get enough downloads to chart, will the BBC play it then? if they don’t they will be left having to answer some difficult questions.

Maybe those who have accused Lisa of bringing the story to the press to promote the track can actually now see the reason for covering the track “ Shame Shame Shame”. The sole aim of this track is to bring to the attention of as many people as possible the discrimination that is still going on at BMI.

A British judge stated, in all seriousness in his ruling on Lisa’s case   that “It is not evident to the tribunal that women would regard the requirement to wear a particular item of clothing, the abaya, or walk behind male colleagues in the airport as anything more than part of the rules of a different culture with which they should comply when in that country. The tribunal does not accept, in the absence of any evidence to the effect, that women would regard the requirement to fly on the basis of the document as placing them under any disadvantage.”

Just absorb what a British Judge has said, and then think about the following comment on the Sunday Times website “If BMI had dimissed a black employee for refusing to walk behind white employees when they flew to pre-apartheid South Africa, would British unions and the Manchester government have argued that the black employee should accept South Africa's "different culture”

It is clear from the comments online that Lisa has virtually 100% support, including a good deal of Muslim supporters who are quite rightly outraged at BMI’s culturally illiterate manager’s demands on its female cabin crew

The demands seem to be based on nothing more than BMI’s racially stereotypical interpretation of their own perceived Islamic/Saudi rules, laws, customs and culture. BMI seem to be blissfully unaware of the irony that they have instructed the crew to remove their crucifix yet they don’t seem to have a problem operating to Saudi with the St. Georges’ cross emblazoned on the back of their aircraft the size of an Airbus 330 tailfin”. 

With your help we can make a difference.

Download the track here