RESISTING RACISM IN HOTELS The packed event at the friends meeting house in Manchester was introduced by, Meeting Chair, Dr Rhetta Moran, RAPAR (Refugee Asylum Participatory Action Research) The first…
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When will the right wise up about Channel crossings?
26 November 2021When the dinghy overturned in the Channel this week, it was harrowing news, but not surprising
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Cricket’s priorities are disturbing
12 November 2021The report commissioned by Yorkshire dismissed such slurs as “friendly banter,” a euphemism straight out of the dark side of the 1960s if ever there was one. Friendly banter? If that was friendly banter, what should we call the ball-tampering? Laterally-incentivised physical projectile cajolery?
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Rangers ban fans chanting anti-Oriental song
27 August 2021Song aimed at Celtic’s Kyogo Furuhashi perpetuates racist Asian stereotype Rangers Football Club has announced ‘indefinite bans’ for supporters, shown in a video circulating on social media, singing a racially-insensitive…
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OUTSIDE ELBIT FACTORY IN OLDHAM
15 June 2021People gathered for their regular protest outside the weapons factory- Elbit, to try to encourage the factory to change from making weapons of death to something else. The weapons and…
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“Grow Up!” Police tell racially abused woman
13 May 2021At a time when Racism is receiving attention after the conviction of PC Derek Chauvin for the killing of George Floyd, Manchester Police have told a black woman in Blackly…
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Ten Labour Antisemitism Smears Exposed – reblog
27 April 2021“Oddly, the last part of Mr Williamson’s statement, where he talks about ‘addressing the scourge of antisemitism’, doesn’t get quoted. This is called ‘clipping’ — extracting words from a longer speech in order to misrepresent it.”
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Chauvin found guilty even as cops kill another innocent
21 April 2021“in Columbus, around the time Cahill read out the Chauvin verdict, Ohio police gunned down a black teenage girl. Four shots. She died instantly.”
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Old colonials lash out at being exposed
7 April 2021Establishment figures – all of them white – smear MP after she challenges racism report’s positive treatment of slavery and colonialism, while racists pile onto her for speaking out Labour…
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School books doctored to favour Israel
3 April 2021The international publisher Pearson has paused further distribution of two textbooks used by UK secondary schools after a group of academics said in a report that they distorted the historical record and failed to offer…