Join this Tuesday’s open online fringe meeting at Trade Union Congess 6pm, 15 September
Stand Up To Racism is organising an online fringe meeting at this years TUC Congress on Tuesday 15 September at 6pm. The event will be livestreamed via www.facebook.com/StandUTR and we will post the link in this event when the meeting is starting.
Click going, invite and share the meeting within you networks: Facebook event page here
This week the Trades Union Congress (TUC) representing more than 6 million people meets online.
It will discuss the huge crisis facing ordinary people as a second Covid-19 wave develops and the government moves to withdraw the furlough that has kept millions in work.
Covid-19 has hit black communities massively disproportionately. Meanwhile the #BlackLivesMatter movement has exposed the deep institutional racism at the heart of our society – where policing targets black communities and refugees and migrants are scapegoated.
Speakers include:
Kevin Courtney, National Education Union (NEU) general secretary
Matt Wrack, Fire Brigade Union (FBU) general secretary
Sarah Woolley, Bakers’ Food & Allied Workers’ Union (BFAWU) general secretary
Wilf Sullivan, TUC Race Equality Officer
Victoria Showunmi, University & College lecturers’ Union (UCU) Black Workers’ Committee chair & National Executive
Glen Hart, Rail, Maritime & Transport union (RMT) Black Workers’ Committee chair
Fayrouz Kraish, NHS worker & Unite Scotland Black And Ethnic Minorities (BAEM) Committee
Shaka Hislop, footballer
Ged Grebby, Show Racism The Red Card
Petros Constantinou, anti racist campaigner in Greece (KEERFA)
Weyman Bennett & Sabby Dhalu, Stand Up To Racism co convenors
plus US #BlackLivesMatter activist
With the dramatic growth of the Black Lives Matter movement and the massively disproportionate deaths amongst BAME communities and frontline workers there are crucial issues for trade unionists and anti racists to discuss.
This important online meeting during TUC Congress on Tuesday 15 September, 6pm, will highlight the important role trade unions can play in the fight against racism, to support the Black Lives Matter movement and to defend refugees and migrants.
Please join the event and help us build it.
The meeting will also be promoting the #RefugeesWelcome day of action organised by Care4Calais & Stand Up To Racism on Saturday 19 September.
The day will oppose government scapegoating of refugees, call for the UK to follow the German and French governments and take in refugees – especially unaccompanied children – following the disastrous fires at the Moria refugee camp on Lesvos, and opposing the targeting by far right groups of hotels housing refugees in Britain.