Saturday 21 March 2015
Assemble 12pm
BBC Portland Place London W1A 1AA
(nearest tube Oxford Circus).
Rally Trafalgar Square.
No to Islamophobia #MuslimLivesMatter
From Ferguson to London #BlackLivesMatter
Stamp out anti-Semitism
Immigrants are welcome here!
#standuptoracism #m21
Diane Abbott MP • Owen Jones Writer and Journalist • Jerry Dammers Composer ‘Free Nelson Mandela’ / Founding member Artists Against Apartheid • Jeremy Corbyn MP • Claude Moraes MEP • George Galloway MP • Natalie Bennett Leader, The Green Party • Dr Marina Prentoulis Syriza London / Senior Lecturer at the University of East Anglia • Diana Holland Assistant General Secretary for Equalities, Unite the Union • Billy Hayes General Secretary CWU • Christine Blower General Secretary NUT • Ian Lawrence General Secretary NAPO • Mohammad Taj TUC General Council member • Jennifer Moses National Official (Equality and Training), NASUWT • Zita Holbourne PCS NEC • Colette Levy Hidden Child from Vichy France • Bishop John Rawsthorne Emeritus of Hallam Diocese • Bruce Kent VP Pax Christi • Talha Ahmad MCB National Council Member • Stephanie Lightfoot-Bennett Chair, United Friends and Families (UFFC) • Maurice Wren Chief executive, Refugee Council • Carole Duggan Mark Duggan Family Campaign • Omer El Hamdoon President Muslim Association of Britain • Janet Alder Justice for Christopher Alder • Canon Steven Saxby London Churches Social Action • Marcia Rigg UFFC Co-Chair / Sean Rigg Justice and Change Campaign • Aderonke Apata Manchester Migrant Solidarity • Maz Saleem Daughter of the late Mohammed Saleem • Malia Bouattia NUS Black Students’ Officer • Piers Telemaque NUS VP Society and Citizenship • Shreya Paudel NUS International Students’ Officer • Tommy Tomescu Alliance Against Romanian and Bulgarian Discrimination • Gethin Roberts Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners • Lindsey German Convenor, Stop the War Coalition • Dipu Ahad Newcastle Unites • Lee Jasper Black Activists Rising Against Cuts • Aaron Kiely NUS NEC • Hamja Ahsan Free Talha Ahsan • Shakira Martin President Lewisham College • Gerry Gable Searchlight • Sahaya James Student Assembly Against Austerity • Ismail Patel You Elect • Paul Mackney Greece Solidarity Campaign • Jo Cardwell Stand up to UKIP • Weyman Bennett and Sabby Dhalu Joint National Secretaries, Unite Against Fascism
Click here to download our demo flyer (PDF, 845kb) or our A4 poster (PDF, 970kb). Or save the images of the leaflet above so you can send to your friends via email. An e-flyer version of the leaflet is available here.
Click here to download our sign (PDF, 116kb) and take your own anti-racist selfie! Make it your Facebook profile and tweet @antiracismday for a Rt!
March Route
This racist tide will only be driven back by you and me standing up and confronting it. From Germany to Greece to Ferguson, people who want a society free from racism are saying no more. People are taking to the streets in large numbers to oppose the racist Pegida movement in Germany and the Neo-Nazi Golden Dawn in Greece, and to protest institutional racism and police violence against Black communities. People are outraged at the Islamophobic and anti-Semitic backlash after the Copenhagen and Paris attacks, and the mass media silence on the Chapel Hill shootings where three Muslim students were brutally shot dead, so many have mobilised under the slogan ‘Muslim Lives Matter’. Immigrant communities are fed up with being wrongly blamed for an economic crisis they did not create. On UN anti-racism day people across the world will be taking a stand. Will you be there?
Last year over 10,000 people from across Britain people took to the streets in London – students and trade unionists, people of all faiths and none, migrants, musicians, teachers, pensioners and parents. And together we showed unity in the face of racism. A huge demonstration this year, just a month before the General Election will send a powerful message to all politicians: