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Support nurse Monisola Abiodun’s fight against discrimination and oppression
Manisola Abiodun sent BLMM this appeal to raise funds to fight a civil case against her employer. She is not able to name the employer, but suffice to say it is a major general hospital in north London. Please give generously.
I am a qualified nurse with 22 years of experience. My passion has always been in cancer nursing (Haematology) I have been subjected to many forms of discrimination. In fact, I don’t remember not ever been treated as ‘less than’ my white colleagues . Like many black nurses I got used to it (a way of protecting my feelings and to ensure that I am focused on what was important: Patients’ care).
In the last year, my current NHS hospital employer have subjected me to unimaginableunfair treatment and this has continued. I have chosen to take the matter up legally. In all honesty, my case is not unique, but I have chosen to stand against a huge institution like my place of employment because I am just sick of it.
I will gratefully appreciate your financial support to fight this case. I have both a civil case and employment law case. Your financial assistance to fight these cases is most appreciated and I thank you in advance.
Monisola Abiodun fighting virus of Covid and racism
As a BAME nurses in the NHS, significant numbers of us have been fighting the pandemic of discrimination, racism and all forms of unfair treatment and injustices for as long as we can remember. It is a virus that many of us have developed our own vaccination to combat.
Many of us have settled for unimaginable unfairness yet the entrenchment of discrimination within the NHS does not know when to stop. The Covid-19 pandemic has shed some light on some of the discrimination and racism in the NHS yet it appears that hospital Trusts are not taking note of this.
I am a senior nurse. Like many, I devote my time, love, energy and passion into nursing. I have been subjected to unfair treatment at my place of work. I have been at this for a year now. It is costing me a significant amount in legal fees.
I am seeking financial assistance for legal fees in order to be able to fight the injustices that I have been subjected to. No amount is too small. I thank you for your assistance in advance for supporting me to fight the discrimination and oppression that I have been subjected to.
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
Brighton BLM protest Saturday 11 July
Saturday 11 July, 12 noon, Brighton Palace Pier.
Wear PPE
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
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.
