Confronting The Rise In Racism: Stand Up to Racism National Conference

Tickets for Saturday's Confronting The Rise In Racism: Stand Up to Racism National Conference are now sold out. We've opened a waitlist on eventrbrite if you haven't been able to get a ticket bit.ly/SUTRConf Speakers include: Jeremy Corbyn MP, Labour Leader, Diane Abbott MP, Kate Osamor MP, Journalist Owen Jones, Sally Hunt UCU Gen Sec, Kevin Courtney NUT Gen Sec, Colette Levy, Hidden Child of Vichy France, Claude Moraes MEP, Maurice Wren, Refugee Council Chief Exec, Talha Almad Muslim Council of Britain, Clare Moseley Founder of Care4Calais, Shakira Martin NUS VP FE, Shelly Asquith NUS VP Welfare, Moazzam Begg, Dr Siema Iqbal MEND, David Rosenberg Cable St 80, Edie Friedman Jewish Council for Racial Equality, Harun Rashid Khan Muslim Council of Britain, Azad Ali MEND, Cllr Michelline Ngongo, The Light House Project, Roger Huddle RAR founding member, Petros Constantinou KEERFA, Judith Benda, Die Linke, Lucia Pradella lecturer, Caprice Turner BLM activist, Don Flynn, Migrants Rights Network, Weyman Bennett and Sabby Dhalu Stand up to Racism. A major national conference bringing together speakers, organisations and activists from anti-racist campaigns across Europe. The conference will examine the current struggle against racism in Britain and beyond such as the fight against Islamophobia and antisemitism, defending civil liberties and migrants rights and building solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement in the US. The humanitarian crisis in Europe will also be discussed with the intention of developing an action plan for activists and organisations who want to campaign for more to be done for refugees. Themes include: • From the US to Britain – Black Lives Matter • Prevent, the Extremism Bill and defending civil liberties • Brexit: Defend Migrant Rights & freedom of movement • Trump to UKIP – opposing right wing populism • Europe and the renewed threat of fascism & the far right • Refugees Welcome Here • Love Music Hate Racism • Austerity and the rise in racism