In opposition to Austerity, Cleaners Flash Mob, EDL & Falun Dafa: The principle occasion on Saturday sixteenth July 2016 was a well-attended march and rally towards austerity and racism following the Brexit referendum, however on the best way there I got here throughout a Falun Dafa march, and whereas folks had been marching manged to cowl a ‘Flash Mob’ by cleaners and a small protest by the far-right EDL.
Finish Austerity, No to Racism, Tories Out!
The Individuals’s Meeting and Stand Up To Racism had organised an emergency demonstration following the Brexit referendum towards austerity and racism and calling for the Tories to be defeated at a Common Election.
The protest assembled outdoors the BBC within the hope that they could for as soon as discover and report on a big protest in London, however as traditional they ignored it. It additionally confirmed large well-liked assist for then Labour Chief Jeremy Corbyn – who solely did not defeat Theresa Might the next 12 months due to sabotage by Labour get together officers and the correct wing of the get together.
Immigration had been a significant situation within the Brexit referendum, exploited by the Go away marketing campaign and this had resulted in an upsurge in racism and hate assaults. Brexit did lead to decreasing migration from the EU and since 2017 the variety of these born within the EU residing in Britain has slowly however barely declined. However this has been greater than matched by a rise of round 1,000,000 in these born in non-EU nations.
After all we’d like these individuals who fill many helpful jobs right here and pay taxes. We additionally want those that work within the shadow financial system, estimated in whole to be round 10% of the overall financial system. Though that is typically mentioned to be necessary in attracting undocumented migrants to the UK, our shadow financial system is considerably smaller than the common for developed nations, and at a degree round half that of Italy, Greece and Spain and a bit of under Germany and France in response to free-market ‘suppose tank’ the Institute for Financial Affairs.
The UK had been one of many leaders within the institution of the UN’s Common Declaration of Human Rights adopted in 1948, and within the European Conference on Human Rights (ECHR) adopted by the Council of Europe, signed in 1950 which got here into power in 1953, with a courtroom to implement it. Many felt that the Tory authorities’s proposal in 2022 to repeal the Human Rights Act 1998 and substitute it by a Invoice of Rights was reprehensible. Liz Truss’s one good factor was to cease its progress and in June 2023 Rishi Sunak’s Justice Secretary Alex Chalk confirmed it had been dropped.
As the top of the march left down Regent Avenue I rushed off to {photograph} a breakaway group from the march who had left to participate in a flash mob. Following that I trotted alongside Oxford Avenue to Park Lane the place I photographed a brief march by a number of EDL supporters earlier than speeding to the tube to make my technique to the Individuals’s Meeting and Stand Up To Racist rally in Parliament Sq..
The Hearth Brigades Union had introduced their fireplace engine to the sq. to offer a platform for the audio system on the rally chaired by rally chaired by Romayne Phoenix of the Individuals’s Meeting and Sabby Dhalu from Stand As much as Racism.
Islington councillor Michelline Safi Ngongo introduced a message of assist from Jeremy Corbyn. Different audio system included Inexperienced Celebration London Meeting member Caroline Russell, Weyman Bennett from Stand As much as Racism, Lindsey German of Cease the Battle, Sam Fairbairn the Nationwide Secretary of the Individuals’s Meeting, Zita Holbourne of BARAC and PCS, Rob Williams of the NSSN, NUS Vice President (Additional Schooling) Shakira Martin and Antonia Vivid from Motion for Justice who introduced an asylum seeker along with her to talk.
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Peoples Meeting/Stand As much as Racism rally
Finish Austerity, No to Racism, Tories Out
Falun Dafa march towards Chinese language repression – Regent St
Practitioners of Falun Dafa (also referred to as Falun Gong), a sophisticated Buddhist follow of ethical rectitude, meditation and train based by Mr Li Hongzhi in 1992, marched by London to protest the persevering with torture and repression they’ve expertise in China since 1999.
Extra at Falun Dafa march towards Chinese language repression
Cleaners Flash Mob at CBRE London HQ – Marylebone
When the Individuals’s Meeting / Stand Up To Racism march set off, a small group of placing cleaners from 100 Wooden St and supporters left to stage a flash mob protest on the close by HQ Places of work of CBRE in Henrietta Place. The United Voices of the World strike at Wooden St for the residing wage and reinstatement of sacked employees was then in its thirty eighth day.
Extra at Cleaners Flash Mob at CBRE London HQ
EDL march and rally – Hyde Park
Lower than 100 EDL supporters had turned up at Marble Arch to march a number of yards down Park Lane after which into Hyde Park for a rally. Just a few anti-fascists who had turned as much as oppose them had primarily left to affix the Individuals’s Meeting-Stand As much as Racism march by the point I arrived.
Extra at EDL march and rally
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