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  SPLCenter.org: Neo-Nazis
Mark Cotterill, who spent much of his time in America trying to unite factions of the radical right, flew back to England on Nov. 7.
When Cotterill told officials that he would appeal, he was allowed to reenter the country and retain a lawyer.
Cotterill, who announced in November that he was restarting his group as the Overseas Friends of the British National Party, may be in a better position than ever to build a new organization.
www.splcenter.org /intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=80&printable=1   (416 words)

  
  Mark Cotterill - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mark Adrian Cotterill is the founder and current chairman of the England First Party, a minor political party operating in Lancashire, England.
As well as previously supporting the BNP, whilst living in America he campaigned for David Duke in his bid to be elected to the United States Congress in 1999 as well as having worked for Pat Buchanan's bid to be elected President of the United States in 2000.
Mark Cotterill, NF leader in Torquay, is in expansive mood.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mark_Cotterill   (368 words)

  
 SPLCenter.org: Hands Across the Water
Cotterill later indicated that one of the inspirations for the AFBNP was Noraid, the Irish Northern Aid Committee, which has reportedly raised millions of dollars from Irish-Americans for the Republican cause.
Cotterill and the AFBNP have enjoyed a series of political and financial successes, but it is not clear how long their activities will continue.
Whether or not Mark Cotterill and his group are allowed to continue operations, the American Friends of the British National Party is not an aberration on the political landscape.
www.splcenter.org /intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=177&printable=1   (3053 words)

  
 Man found guilty of sexual assault
Cotterill, a social worker formerly stationed in Wha Ti and Rae, was convicted of sexual assault.
Cotterill testified that the victim was coming on to him at the Gold Range and that both of them went back to his room to "spend some time alone."
Cotterill said she became angered when he would not give her the money, at which time she said she would tell the police that he raped her if he did not fork over the cash.
www.nnsl.com /frames/newspapers/2002-06/jun12_02crt.html   (465 words)

  
 us support for uk racists
Potok says that Cotterill has raised "a minimum of $85,000 (£58, 234)." The true, figure, however, would appear to be far higher than that.
Cotterill insists that as soon as he arrived in the U.S. he tried to register his activities, but was told he did not need to do so.
Potok, however, believes that Cotterill is breaking the law, and has written to the Department of Justice to raise the issue.
www.angelfire.com /journal2/yardy2001/uk_us_racism.htm   (1013 words)

  
 Building Blocks: April-May 2006: Partners in action: Student goes the distance for child protection   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Mark missed out on a place at UQ in Brisbane, but was offered a scholarship to undertake the James Cook University course, which involved travelling to Townsville to attend one-week residential study workshops twice a year.
However, Mark, a qualified social worker from the United Kingdom who moved to Australia three years ago, was keen to improve his limited knowledge of Queensland's child protection system, particularly Indigenous matters.
Mark is now sharing the knowledge he acquired - both inside and outside the lecture room - with his colleagues back in Caboolture.
www.childsafety.qld.gov.au /publications/buildingblocks/2006-04/partners3.html   (562 words)

  
 CNN.com - Transcripts
MARK POTOK, SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER: This party is in the thick of some very ugly things in England, and that is what Americans are paying for.
But one thing Mark Cotterill never did was register his activities with the American government.
MACVICAR: Just days after we visited Mark Cotterill, he sent out this e-mail, resigning as head of the American Friends of the BNP for what he said were "personal and political reasons." He did not elaborate.
edition.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0108/30/ip.00.html   (7036 words)

  
 Searchlight Magazine
Mark Cotterill, the British-born founder of the US support group for the British National Party, claimed he was resigning for "both personal and political" reasons.
Mark Potok, editor of the Intelligence Report, suggested to CNN that the AF-BNP did not register because it would have to reveal its donors' identities.
Cotterill is a clever political operator and very useful to the BNP.
www.searchlightmagazine.com /pages/StoryTemplatePrint.php?story=109   (1655 words)

  
 Articles
The American Friends of the BNP (AFBNP) was founded by Mark Cotterill, a former BNP southwest local organiser.
Cotterill, who now lives in the US, was first active in far-right politics as southwest organiser for the National Front.
As the BNP is itself responsible for setting up this group, via Cotterill, it may be in breach of the Foreign Agents Registration Act, passed in the United States in 1938.
www.s-light.demon.co.uk /presspack/bnp9.html   (672 words)

  
 CNN.com - U.S. support for UK extremists - August 31, 2001
Cotterill insists that as soon as he arrived in the U.S. he tried to register his activities, but was told he did not need to do so.
Potok, however, believes that Cotterill is breaking the law, and has written to the Department of Justice to raise the issue.
Cotterill will convene a smaller meeting of ten to twelve people that he knows, and dole out money to them.
archives.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/europe/08/31/britain.extremism   (1083 words)

  
 Tolerance.org
Cotterill’s actions appeared to violate both British and American law, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, which revealed the connection and called on the Justice Department to investigate.
In person, the 40-year-old Cotterill, is a pasty, 40-year-old clad in deck shoes, chinos and a polo shirt, who writes a newsletters in the chirpy, upbeat tone of a church social organizer.
According to a spokesman for the Department of Justice's, neither Mark Cotterill nor the American Friends party are registered under the act.
www.tolerance.org /news/article_print.jsp?id=255   (1177 words)

  
 Citadel 3 ; AG Allstars 1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Any nerves were settled early on when Mark Cotterill, playing upfront on his own scored in the opening exchanges.
Citadels simple football was creating chances early on, and Cotterill was unlucky not to score again when his run on goal was halted from behind by an Allstar defender.
Cotterill, Velvett and Henley, making his debut, should maybe all have done better with good chances.
www.citadelfc.f9.co.uk /2001-2002Reports/report1.htm   (370 words)

  
 The Real Scope Story
The Summer of '99, while at a Summer Camp at Old Swinford Hospital School, Mark Cotterill's obsessive use of the word Scope rubbed off onto his friends.
They planned through the night of how to sneak out of their building across the campus and then find a way into the other building without alerting any staff who had already told them that in no way were they allowing a raid.
Not long after, while Mark was staying at Richard's house they both proceeded to write an e-mail to Lee Fisher of Rather Large Badger's Life Story (with pictures).
www.fortunecity.com /bennyhills/gum/353/scopestory.htm   (679 words)

  
 Bernard O'Mahoney - Future Books - HATELAND - Articles - 17/06/99 - Britain's Right-wing racist who's squeezing BNP ...
Mark Cotterill learned the art of fund-raising from Torquay Conservatives until they expelled him.
Cotterill, who is able to live in America because his wife was born there, has big plans for the American Friends of the BNP.
In 1995, Cotterill moved to Washington and now has two part-time jobs, working for a doctor's surgery, and the far-Right magazine, Spotlight, not to be confused with the British anti-fascist publication Searchlight.
www.bernardomahoney.com /forthcb/ootdie/articles/brwrws.shtml   (934 words)

  
 Guardian | BNP splinter group fights byelection
England First is contesting a vacancy on Lancaster city council at the end of this month, which will be the first public test of the party that was set up in the summer of last year by former BNP member Mark Cotterill.
Mr Cotterill said the deaths of 19 cockle pickers in Morecambe Bay, mainly Chinese workers, was being raised on the doorstep but denied his party was capitalising on the issue of immigrant labour.
Mr Cotterill worked in the US for two years as chairman of the American Friends of the BNP before returning to this country and splitting from the party.
www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4857495-110687,00.html   (406 words)

  
 Mark Cotterill at AllExperts
Mark Adrian Cotterill is the founder and current chairman of the England First Party, a minor political party operating in Lancashire, England.
A former supporter of the British National Party, Cotterill had formed and ran the far right American Friends of the British National Party aka "AF(O)BNP" when he lived just outside Washington DC.
As well as previously supporting the BNP, whilst living in America he campaigned for David Duke in his bid to be elected to the United States Congress in 1999 as well as having worked for Pat Buchanan's bid to be elected President of the United States in 2000.
en.allexperts.com /e/m/ma/mark_cotterill.htm   (209 words)

  
 Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and Racism
As a consequence of the trial of its student leader Mark Collett, the BNP appointed Joseph Finnon to replace him in September.
Cotterill is the former BNP representative in the US.
In addition, Mark Peacock, a seventeen-year-old from Gateshead, was sentenced to two years detention in September for a racially motivated attack against a Jewish man and his daughter.
www.tau.ac.il /Anti-Semitism/asw2005/uk.htm   (3957 words)

  
 Stop the BNP
Coun Johnson said he had told Coun Cotterill three weeks ago of his plan to quit because he did not like the direction the party was taking, and had felt out of the loop.
He denied that Coun Cotterill was leaving because he did not see a future for the party on the council without Coun Johnson.
Both Coun Johnson and Coun Cotterill were elected in May 2006 and the party was immediately labelled racist after details of its manifesto, which had included banning non-white footabllers from the England squad, were revealed.
www.stopthebnp.org.uk /index.php?location=news&art=616   (315 words)

  
 Visit Wolverhampton - A Vibrant City
With preparations now well underway and entries already flooding in for this years Marathon, Half Marathon and Relay Challenge events due to be held on Sunday 3rd September, participants are busy perparing their training schedules.
Mark Cotterill, Manager of local running shop 'Up and Running', based in Worcester Street, Wolverhampton, is keen to help any runners who may need a hand or friendly advice to put their training schedules together.
Mark will be starting an intermediate group during June and anyone who would like to take part can contact Mark directly on 01902 421133.
www.wolverhamptoncity.co.uk /content.php?c=5&cp=news/view.php&content_id=192731027911497   (393 words)

  
 [CTRL] AFBNP
Further, Cotterill is not in the country legally as Mark Cotterill.
Cotterill has also been reportedly spending lavishly at his contributors' expense, including renting apartments and paying airfares for nationalist leaders at home and abroad.
Prior to this year's U.K. general election I revealed in the ELC that Griffin and Cotterill were planning to circumvent a new British law regulating foreign donations to British political parties by routing AF-BNP cash via Northern Ireland where, they believed, different regulations obtained.
www.mail-archive.com /ctrl@listserv.aol.com/msg75632.html   (2962 words)

  
 BBC News | Programmes | Under the skin of the BNP
Mark Cotterill set up the American Friends of the BNP in January 1999.
Mark Cotterill resigned from the American Friends in mysterious circumstances in August 2001.
Panorama has discovered that Nick Griffin was a guest speaker at the start of November at a private meeting organised by the CCC (Council of Conservative Citizens) in America.
news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/static/in_depth/programmes/2001/bnp_special/friends_abroad/american_friends.stm   (352 words)

  
 England First Party Information
They were formed in 2004 by Mark Cotterill who had been the founder and Chairman of "American Friends of the British National Party".
However, he began to disagree with the BNP politically, and so formed the EFP, after a spell in the White Nationalist Party.
Many critics of the EFP have identified them as a far-right party, many saying they are to the right of even the BNP.
www.bookrags.com /wiki/England_First_Party   (401 words)

  
 Broward-Palm Beach - News - White Greetings - browardpalmbeach.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Cotterill describes his complaints to New Times this way: "The United States was founded by people from Britain; we've lost it, and we've got to take it back.
According to ADL assistant director Brittanie Werbel in Washington, D.C., Cotterill was a shady character when he spewed racist diatribe in England; now that he's teamed with Alder, the two could be a ruthless tandem.
Indeed Cotterill has ties to David Duke, famed Internet hatemonger William Pierce, and Combat 18, a violent, neo-Nazi organization that includes convicted murderers among its members.
www.newtimesbpb.com /Issues/2001-06-21/news/news_2.html   (1060 words)

  
 Scrappy Races Rally 2006   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Mark Cotterill (Cot) has known Rob since they were kids.
His spends most of his time working on trucks but has a love of tractors, which he restores and sells.
He's often found rebuilding vintage farm vehicles with Mark and has been out to the US fixing tractors.
www.channel4.com /4car/ontv/scrappy_races_rally/2006/staffordshirebulls.html   (184 words)

  
 Council of Conservative Citizens - SourceWatch
Connections: Several mainstream figures have spoken at or attended CCC meetings, including Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, Senator Jesse Helms, and former governors Guy Hunt of Alabama and Kirk Fordice of Mississippi.
Extremist associations: David Duke, Mark Cotterill, Chris Temple.
Mark Pitcavage, The Council of Conservative Citizens "in the News".
www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Council_of_Conservative_Citizens   (348 words)

  
 The year in hate - World Affairs Board
Immigration and Naturalization Service officials investigated Cotterill in the wake of an Intelligence Report exposé that reported Cotterill had used his American Friends of the British National Party to raise some $85,000 for a British hate group - in contravention of a U.S. law that requires agents of foreign parties to register.
Though Cotterill married an American woman last spring, he will not be eligible for reentry for 10 years.
Mark Potok is editor of the Intelligence Report.
www.worldaffairsboard.com /showthread.php?t=121   (6051 words)

  
 [No title]
For two years, Mark Cotterill, a key official of the British National Party (BNP), orchestrated a major fundraising effort in the United States for the BNP ­ a far-right party that has been blamed by British authorities for instigating race riots in several English towns this summer, according to a press release from the SPLC.
Cotterill, co-founder and chairman of the American Friends of the British National Party (AFBNP), raised at least $85,000, according to a special issue of the Center¹s Intelligence Report.
Furthermore, Cotterill¹s resignation does "not relieve [him] from his obligation to file a registration statement for the period during which he was an agent of a foreign principal." 22 U.S.C.§ 612(a).
hatemonitor.csusb.edu /NewsHeadlines/august01_news_briefs.html   (16334 words)

  
 The State | 11/30/2006 | Update: Quinine Hill Park   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Forest Acres officials have unveiled a redevelopment plan for Quinine Hill Park, near Beltline Boulevard and known for its lackluster condition.
The city paid $4,000 to Grimball Cotterill & Associates, Columbia landscape architects, to develop the plan.
The main goal was to make the park more visible and safe, said Mark Cotterill, who worked on the plan.
www.miami.com /mld/state/news/local/states/south_carolina/16124711.htm   (207 words)

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