National Demonstration
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
Click here to download our demo flyer (PDF, 845kb)
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:
