Stand Up To Racism International Conference 2020
From COVID-19 to Black Lives Matter – Confronting Trump & Johnson’s Racist Offensive
Saturday 17 & Sunday 18 October 2020
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Speakers announced so far include:
Jeremy Corbyn MP I Diane Abbott MP | Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP | Kate Osamor MP | Kevin Courtney, NEU joint General Secretary | Roger McKenzie, Unison Assistant General Secretary | Jacqueline Luqman (US), host and producer The Real News Network | Lowkey Rapper & Activist | Danny Haiphong (US), Black Agenda Report | Thanasis Kampagiannis (Greece), Anti fascist lawyer in Golden Dawn trial | Martvs Chagas (Brazil), PT’s National Secretary for Combating Racism | Petros Constantinou (Greece), KEEFA | Christine Buchholz (Germany), MP/ Aufstehen Gegen Rasismuss | Mahamadou Camara (France), Justice Campaigner | Baba Aye (Nigeria) | Shaka Hislop, former footballer & Show Racism The Red Card Honorary President | Eyewitness testimonies from victims of police violence including Andrew Boateng, Ryan Colaço, Neomi Bennett and Mina Agyepong | Anna Rothery, Lord Mayor of Liverpool | Louise Raw, Author | Talha Ahmad, Muslim Council of Britain, SUTR Vice-Chair | Omar Begg, Senior Policy Analyst, Muslim Engagement and Development (MEND) | Sabby Dhalu & Weyman Bennett, Stand Up To Racism | David Rosenberg, Julia Bard, David Landau, Jewish Socialists’ Group | Mohammed Kozbar, Chair Finsbury Park Mosque | Virgil Bitu, GR8 Movement | Ged Grebby, Show Racism The Red Card | Salma Yaqoob | Zita Holbourne, PCS Vice President | Wilf Sullivan, TUC Race Equality Officer | Daniel Kebede, NEU Senior Vice President | Khadija Mohammed EIS (Educational Institute Scotland) | Brendan Woodhouse, Seawatch/ FBU firefighter | Clare Moseley, Care4Calais | Lindsey German, Stop The War Coalition | Kate Hudson, CND | Fayrouz Kraish, medical scientist & Unite Scotland BAEM Committee | Argyri Erotokritou (Greece) Doctors’ Union | Ramsis Kilani (Germany) Student BLM activist | Victoria Showunmi, UCU executive & Black Workers Committee chair | Venda Premkumar, Redbridge NEU | Dinah Mulholland
PLENARIES (Live on SUTR & Youtube Channels)
Saturday 17 October 5pm
Black Lives Matter Vs Trump – A Decisive Moment in the Anti Racist Movement
Sunday 18 October 5pm
Covid19, economic crisis- why we say black lives matter
WORKSHOPS (Via Zoom Webinar – register for link)
Saturday 17 October 3pm to 4.15pm
Economic Crisis, Disproportionate BAME Deaths: Why we need Zero Covid
Scrap section 60 – End Stop & search BLM
Decolonise now – confronting Britain’s colonial legacy
Trump, Salvini & Le Pen – Unite Against Fascism & the racist right
Love music, football & culture – hate racism
Refugees welcome – end the hostile environment
Opposing Islamaphobia & The Prevent Agenda
The conference comes at a crucial and heightened moment, following intense months for the anti racist movement in the midst of the global Covid19 pandemic, where we have seen the shockingly disproportionate BAME deaths during the crisis.
We have seen, and of course been part of, the emergence of an inspiring and combative #BlackLivesMatter movement in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd.
Both have laid bare the deep institutionalised racism at the heart of society, and we have seen hundreds and thousands of people joining the anti racist movement actively.
The intensification in recent weeks of the scapegoating of refugees and migrants in the mainstream media and across the political establishment, and the horror of tragic and needless deaths as well as the fire that has ravaged Greece’s largest refugee camp in Lesvos, has also underlined the need for a mass anti racist movement that can oppose division.
The conference will take place over Saturday 17 October, and Sunday 18 October, with workshops running (online via Zoom) from 3pm on the Saturday, a major international angled rally on the Saturday at 5pm, and a major domestic angled rally taking place on the Sunday at 5pm.