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National Organising Conference
November 19, 2023 @ 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Taking place online and as a hybrid event with a physical location in central London (full details sent after registering)
All speakers who were confirmed before the event was rescheduled have been invited to confirm for the new date, Sunday 19 November.
More details to follow shortly.
The government are putting racism and scapegoating refugees at the centre their strategy – designed to distract from a cost of living crisis that they created.
Sunak’s ‘stop the boats’ and Braverman’s ‘invasion’ rhetoric has led to a resurgence of racist, far right and fascist mobilisations – mainly targeting refugees.
The government’s ‘anti-woke’ agenda is also being used by the far right to mobilise.
The Illegal Migration Act effectively ends the right to asylum, for those crossing the Channel there are no safe routes.
Braverman’s Rwanda Plan showed just how far government will go – with refugees potentially facing deportation to an unsafe destination.
The Nationality and Borders Act and the Windrush scandal exemplify how the hostile environment for refugees leads to racism against established migrants. Afro-Caribbean, African, Asian, Gypsy, Roma, Traveller and other communities have all been targeted.
Meanwhile, despite the huge international Black Lives Matter movement, the government denies the existence of institutional racism, from the police and justice system, to health, education and housing.
But cases like the strip searching of Child Q & others, the shooting of Chris Kaba and the disproportionate impact of Covid on BAME communities exposed the real picture.
Since the pandemic there has also been a rise of racism towards East and South East Asian communities and Islamophobia continues to blight Muslim communities.
Internationally we see the growth of the far right – alongside racism, Islamophobia and antisemitism.
But the scale of support for refugees and opposition to scapegoating prove that anti racists are the majority in Britain.
Join our conference to discuss how we mobilise that majority and oppose racism from government and a resurgent far right.
Model motion to support the conference and send delegates:
To download the motion go to: tinyurl.com/SUTR23mm
Keep in touch:
INSTA: standuptoracismuk
FACEBOOK: ‘Stand Up To Racism’
WEBSITE: www.standuptoracism.org.uk TWITTER/ X: @AntiRacismDay
EMAIL: info@standuptoracism.org.uk