Category Archives: action
All Black Lives UK London BLM protest – Sunday 19 July 2pm Marble Arch
NEXT LONDON PROTEST: SUNDAY 19TH JULY
Marble Arch, 2pm
The movement continues.
We will have speeches and spoken word performances at Marble Arch and Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens ?
#ABLUK #LDNBLM #BlackLivesMatter
End racist stop and search, scrap Section 60 – protest at Tottenham police station
There’s a protest at Tottenham police station on Saturday against stop and search
Called by Haringey Stand Up To Racism
End Stop & Search
Scrap Section 60
Ban the Taser
Peaceful Protest Saturday 11 July 12 noon – 1.30pm
outside Tottenham police station, High Road N17 9JA
Thanks to all who made last Saturday’s protest in Duckett’s Common a success. This week we take the campaign back to Tottenham Police Station on the High Road. Bring banners and placards – let’s keep up the momentum!
Black Lives Matter
This is a static, socially distanced protest. Wear a mask.
Please share and circulate to your networks.
Facebook event
Instagram here
Twitter here
Emergency protest against Cressida Dick visit on Friday 10 July,
There’s also an emergency protest tomorrow, Friday 10th against Met commissioner Cressida Dick’s visit to Tottenham.
4pm at Tottenham Hotspur Football aground, Tottenham High Road
BLM: Wales First Minister announces audit into landmarks with slavery links
From the South Wales Argus:
STREET names, statues, and building names across Wales are to be reviewed as part of plans to “challenge” controversial aspects of the nation’s history, including connections with the slave trade.
First minister Mark Drakeford has ordered an urgent “audit” of public landmarks, which will all be reviewed by a group with expert knowledge of the slave trade, the British Empire, and the history of black communities in Wales, a Welsh Government spokesperson said.
“This is not about rewriting the past – it is about reflecting it with the justice it deserves,” Mr Drakeford said in a statement.
The audit has been commissioned following the recent Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests, which have brought together activists and members of the public calling for an end to racial injustice and inequality. more
Picket Labour Party NEC over anti-black racism and in solidarity with BLM – Tuesday 7th July
*Reminder: Raise *your* voices*!
Labour Black Socialist & Allies
‘Black Members Matter!’
In Solidarity & Unity with BLM
Come and join our Labour NEC Picket against Institutional & Systematic Racism in the Labour Party
ARE YOU:
ANGRY about the Lack of Opposition to Anti Black Racism (BAME) in Labour Party & Treatment of Black Members?
FRUSTRATED about the Labour Party’s SILENCE on All forms of Racism including Afriphobia, Islamaphobia?
OUTRAGED about Racism in the leaked Labour Report?
WORRIED about a Whitewash Leaked Report Inquiry?
FURIOUS at Starmer’s Dismissal of the BLM Uprising, their demands and Global Historical Importance.
Root out anti-Black racism in Labour
This is OUR MOMENT to Make Our Voices Heard
AT: LABOUR PARTY NEC EQUALITIES MEETING
Labour HQ 105 Victoria St, Westminster, London SW1E 6QT
ON: Tuesday 7th July 2020
AT: 10 am
#BlackLabourMatterMatter #BlackLivesMatter #RootOutRacismInLabour
In Solidarity & Unity with BLM,
Sophia, Liz and Joyce.
If you are interested:
- Join our Socially Distanced Picket
- Wear Masks
- Bring Banners, Flags.
For more info contact Joyce Reid: Jasjr272001@yahoo.com
BLM London protest for Breonna Taylor and all the dead in the US and UK – 11th July US embassy
BLM protest and march for Breonna Taylor and all the innocent black people murdered by the police in the US and UK.
We are marching against institutional racism!!!
Assemble US embassy 2pm and march to Parliament Square.
North London says no to Tasers, scrap Section 60 stop and search
Three hundred people came to Turnpike Lane today to protest against the use of Tasers by police and draconian Section 60 stop and search laws.
The protest was organised by Haringey Stand Up To Racism and supported by local Black Lives Matter groups.
Speakers included deputy leader of Haringey Council Seema Chandwani, and Andrew Boateng who’s case was recently reported by the national media after he was stopped with his son and handcuffed while on a charity ride for a community-police relations charity.
The cases of two black men (Millard Scott and Jordan Walker-Brown) tasered by police in Tottenham have come to light in recent weeks.
This follows incidents in the North, particularly in Manchester where Desmond Ziggy Mombeyarara was tasered while holding his 5-year-old child.
A rising number of cases are being recorded as police use Tasers as an offensive weapon, and not for defence as originally intended.
Section 60 is increasingly being used by police to stop and search black youth without having to give a reason. Although most stops are still under PACE (Police and Criminal Evidence Act), the number is falling because of campaigning against it.
In response however, police are routinely turning to the more severe public order legislation that provides police with more draconian powers.
At the request of senior officers, entire boroughs – often several at the same time – can be put under section 60 and any individual stopped and searched.
These laws are being abused to widen the oppressive overpolicing of black communities – seen most recently in the ongoing unnecessary use of force to shut down block and street parties in London and elsewhere, while allowing sunbathers to congregate in huge numbers unmolested by the authorities.
