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Encyclopedia > The Oppressed

The Oppressed is a Welsh anti-fascist Oi! band that was formed in 1981 in Cardiff. Most of the musicians in the band's various lineups were skinheads. Throughout the band's career, the members (especially vocalist Roddy Moreno) openly expressed opposition to racism and fascism; in their lyrics, interviews, on-stage comments and other actions. In 1989, Moreno visited New York City and met many members of Skinheads Against Racial Prejudice (SHARP) members. On his return to the United Kingdom, he started promoting SHARP ideals to British skinheads.[1] [2] The band has also had ties to other anti-racist groups, such as Anti-Fascist Action. This article is about the country. ... Members of the Dutch Eindhoven Resistance with troops of the US 101st Airborne in Eindhoven in September 1944. ... Oi! is a working class street-level subgenre of punk rock that originated in the United Kingdom in the 1970s. ... This article is about the capital city of Wales. ... Skinheads, named for their close-cropped or shaven heads, are a working-class subculture that originated in the United Kingdom in the late 1960s, and then spread to other parts of the world. ... Racism is the prejudice that members of one race are intrinsically superior or inferior to members of other races. ... Fascism is an authoritarian political ideology (generally tied to a mass movement) that considers individual and other societal interests subordinate to the needs of the state, and seeks to forge a type of national unity, usually based on, but not limited to, ethnic, cultural, or racial attributes. ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... Skinheads Against Racial Prejudice (SHARP) are anti-racist skinheads who oppose neo-Nazis and other political racists, especially if those racists call themselves skinheads. ... Anti-Fascist Action (or AFA) is a British left-wing organisation founded in 1986. ...


The band's lead singer, Roddy Moreno, is a Cardiff City F.C. supporter. Cardiff City Association Football Club (Welsh: Clwb Pêl-droed Dinas Caerdydd) are a football team based in Cardiff, and are one of the three Welsh clubs competing in the Football League, currently playing in the Football League Championship. ...

Contents

Discography

EPs

  • Never Say Die (1983)
  • Victims / Work Together (1983)
  • Fuck Fascism (1995)
  • 5-4-3-2-1 (1996)
  • They Think Its All Over...It Is Now(1996)
  • Anti-Fascist Oi! (1996)
  • Best of The Oppressed Bonus 7 Inch (1996)
  • The Richard Allen Tribute Single (1997)
  • Strength In Unity (1997)
  • The Noise (1997)
  • Oppressed / Fatskins (1998)
  • Out on The Streets Again (1999)

LPs

  • Oi!Oi! Music(1984)
  • Fatal Blow(1985)
  • Dead & Buried(1988)
  • Dead & Buried / Fatal Blow Reissue(1996)
  • The Best of The Oppressed(1996)
  • Music For Hooligans(1996)
  • We Can Do Anything(1996)
  • Live (Llanrumney Youth Club 1984)(1997)
  • More Noize For The Boys(1998)

Footnotes

  1. ^ http://www.theoppressed.co.uk/home.html
  2. ^ http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/music/sites/oppressed/

External links

  • Official site
  • The Oppressed on All Music
  • Interview with Cardiff City fanzine

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Exodus 23:9 And a stranger shalt thou not oppress; for ye know (285 words)
Also thou shalt not oppress a stranger for ye know the heart of a stranger seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt
Bible in Basic English: Do not be hard on the man from a strange country who is living among you; for you have had experience of the feelings of one who is far from the land of his birth, because you yourselves were living in Egypt, in a strange land.
JPS Tanakh: And a stranger shalt thou not oppress; for ye know the heart of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
Isaiah 49:26 "I will feed your oppressors with their own flesh, And (503 words)
And I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh; and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine: and all flesh shall know that I, Jehovah, am thy Saviour, and thy Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.
And I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh; and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine: and all flesh shall know that I the LORD am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.
And I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh; and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine: and all flesh shall know that I the LORD am thy Savior and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.
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