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action, events

Saturday demo 13 moved to Friday 12th – assemble Marble Arch 1pm

9th June 2020 Janet Powe

Protests – Saturday 13 June 1pm Hyde Park – march to Trafalgar Square has now been moved to Friday

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Solidarity with US protesters – end police terrorism – the UK is not innocent – black lives matter UK future events

1st June 2020 Janet Powe

Solidarity with the US rebellion! Spread the resistance.

The Police are the outside agitators. The police are the instigators of violence. The rich are the real looters. Donald Trump is a thug and the UK is not innocent either. We have an illegitimate government led by a racist and elected on a pack of lies – a government that has promoted and imposed policies that have seen at least 63,000 people die. We have criminal racist government. End the hostile environment; Defund the police.

Justice for George Floyd and all those brutalised and murdered at the hands of the police in the US and UK.

It is extremely important that social distancing is enforced and respected at all protests. This government doesn’t care about the disproportionate number of black and minority ethnic people dying in this ongoing Covid pandemic. This is the same problem that confronts the protesters in the US, where people are having to risk their lives to protect lives. The protests below have been called by London BLM and are supported by BLMM. The BLM UK organisation that claims to be the “official” BLM group is not affiliated with any of the organisers.

“Black liberation by any means necessary!”
– Malclolm X

“A riot is the language of the unheard”
– Martin Luther King

Handsworth, Birmingham

Monday 1 June 8pm

Meet 8pm at Cannon Street Church, 300 Soho Road, B21 9NA

UK-wide black lives matter day of action -Wednesday 3 June 6pm

Organise a socially distanced protest in your locality, take a selfie and post to social media, come out at your front door and make some noise, make and display a placard message

Demo – Hyde Park

Wednesday 3 June

1pm

Birmingham – Victoria Square

Thursday 4th June

4pm

Demo – Parliament Square

Saturday 6 June

1 pm

Demo – US Embassy

Sunday 7 June

2pm

Please send in your forthcoming event details and reports from around the country to blacklivesmatterlondon@gmail.com – or go to our contact page to leave details.

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Justice for George Floyd! Protest London Sunday 31 May Trafalgar Square 1pm

30th May 2020 Janet Powe

#justice4George #justice4breonna – Solidarity with US uprisings against racist police terrorism is needed now more than ever as the US state steps up repression.

Strict social distancing applies –

With the Covid pandemic disproportionately impacting BAME communities, it is imperative that strict social distancing applies at this gathering.

American cities are occupied by militarised police and the National Guard, facing off against overwhelmingly peaceful protesters.

Journalists are being deliberately targeted by police to try and stop the world seeing the extent of their repression.

Shamefully, Democrat politicians have tried to blame protesters for the violence that the police have instigated by firing tear gas and rubber bullets at peaceful protesters.

Protesters have chosen to fight back against the repression. We must support them.

“A riot is the language of the unheard” – Martin Luther King.

Rebellion grows

The uprisings and protests are not the work of “outside agitators”, “foreign influencers” or “urban terrorists”. This is a lie that is preparing the ground for massive violence by the state to try and put down the rebellion.

These are all the same excuses used by the US authorities in the 1960s in response to righteous urban insurrections. The difference today is that the protesters are multiracial.

That really scares the authorities because it shows the potential to ally race and class in a united fight to eradicate racism.

Show your solidarity with the US uprisings against police racism and brutality.

Racism is a 400-year-old problem that will require a revolutionary challenge to the social system for change to come.

The murder of George Floyd follows the murder of Breonna Taylor in her own home by police and the lynching of Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia, and are just the latest examples of the reign of terror that black people live under in the US.