JOIN THE MASS VIGIL
Thursday 6 June
This is the date that every antiracist must come out and mobilise for
#Justice4ShekuBayoh
Kadi Johnson: 'my brother Sheku is Scotland's George Floyd'
@AamerAnwar
: 'the most important anti-racist battle Scotland has seen'
#BlackLivesMatter
*THREAD*
1/7
Today anti-racists and anti-fascists dealt another blow to the fascist organisations "Homeland Party" and "Patriotic Alternative" who have been harassing asylum seekers outside a hotel in Erskine for the last 7 months.
🧵 (1/4) The local population of Elgin today gave anti-fascists everywhere a lesson of how you deal with fascist hatred targeting your community
A powerful rally excellently organised by Moray Trades Council sent a powerful message of solidarity
#RefugeesWelcome
#ErskineSaysYes
These are all the local residents who joined today's 400-strong rally outside the Muthu hotel in Erskine by
@ScottishTUC
and
@SUTRScotland
saying
#RefugeesWelcome
Many more than have ever joined the hateful Nazi Homeland-led protests (who were a no show today)
Over 150 antifascists on the protest organised by SUTR and Paisley and Clydebank Trades Councils opposing the Nazi Patriotic Alternative attempt to stir up hatred in Erskine. Twice as many people here than on their side, to say
#NaeNazis
#RefugeesWelcomeHere
The Nazis give up and go home. Don't come back!
#RefugeesWelcome
#NaeNazis
Well done to all antifascists and antiracists who mobilised at very short notice to oppose fascist Patriotic Alternative in
#Erskine
Well done all who mobilised & joined counterprotest in Erskine today to oppose Nazi PA
Pathetic PA packed up & left local racists behind after 90 minutes not w/out 2 fights breaking out between them first
Join
#ResistRacism
demo in
#Glasgow
Sat 18 March to say
#RefugeesWelcome
Stand Up to Racism public meeting at St Albert's Primary School,
#Pollokshields
, in the wake of vile racist abuse directed at pupils and teachers at the school.
Speakers include Clare Harker,
@zamardzahid
,
@AamerAnwar
, school pupils and speakers from
@EISUnion
and
@AntiRacismDay
Despite the rumours, Nazi Tommy Robinson is a no show in
#Erskine
Will the fascists start punching each other like last time?
100 antifascists now opposing the PA Nazis and saying
#RefugeesWelcome
📢The BIG ONE in Erskine: join the demo & community solidarity event ✊🏿✊🏼✊🏾
ALL OUT TO:
💙welcome refugees
🤝support Erskine anti-racists
⛔stop the Nazi 'Homeland party'
For more info, including transport from Glasgow & Edinburgh:
#RefugeesWelcome
🚨 Calling West Coast anti-fascists!
Nazi group Patriotic Alternative are trying to stir up hatred in Erskine, Renfrewshire, by exploiting concerns over asylum seekers being housed in a local hotel.
⛔ Join the counterprotest
#NaeNazis
Read more:
📣 Solidarity with people in Erskine on Sunday opposing fascist Patriotic Alternative. Some of us will be joining in solidarity with local people and in solidarity with Asylum seekers held at the hotel
- join the counter protest from 11.30am ✊️
#RefugeesWelcomeHere
#NaeNazis
We are proud to announce
@frankieboyle
has been the first to sign a public letter saying
💙
#AyeWelcomeRefugees
🤝support Erskine anti-racists
⛔
#NaeNazis
Read letter here:
🚌Glasgow coach:
🚌Edinburgh:
+70 antiracists and antifascists respond at short notice to oppose Patriotic Alternative Nazis at Erskine hotel to say
#RefugeesWelcome
#NoRacismNoFascism
Fascists & racists are now routinely outnumbered in a ratio of 3:1 at the Erskine Muthu hotel
While they look miserable & hateful, we have a great time with our friends in the hotel with music, dancing, football & even some pizza 🍕⚽🥁
Back this Sunday 11.30am
#RefugeesWelcome
Back in
#Erskine
where anti-fascists are outnumbering the Patriotic Alternative-led racist protest against asylum seekers 2 to 1.
Local residents say
#RefugeesWelcome
- PA is not. Great to be joined by asylum seekers from the hotel today
#NaeNazis
🏴NATIONAL DEMONSTRATION📢
Dangerous rhetoric. Deaths in the Channel. Rwanda. A rise in Islamophobia, attacks on civil liberties & the right to protest
⛔Stop this racist government
#AyeWelcomeRefugees
Glasgow, Sat 16 March
Assemble BBC Scotland, 11am
March on the Home Office
📢REFUGEES WELCOME - STOP THE SCAPEGOATING
📢BRAVERMAN MUST GO NOW
📢END DETENTION
📍Glasgow protest & vigil in George Sq, Fri 5pm
Join anti-racist campaigners, trade unionists and politicians to oppose the government's racist offensive and say
#RefugeesWelcome
#BravermanMustGo
#ResistRacism
Just two of the many beautiful banners coming to George Sq today
One from Erskine, where locals have been mobilising for
#RefugeesWelcome
The other one from Fife, where Sheku Bayoh died after contact with the police
#Justice4ShekuBayoh
Today, George Sq, 11am
Enough is enough: drive the Nazi Homeland party out of Erskine!
STOP the harassment and intimidation of asylum seekers in the Muthu hotel
Keep joining the community events every Sunday & join us on the 17th for a larger, full day of activities outside the hotel
#RefugeesWelcome
Police Scotland chief has admitted the force is 'institutionally racist, sexist and discriminatory'.
This will come as no surprise to anyone who has been attending the
#ShekuBayoh
public inquiry.
We continue to demand the truth, justice and change.
#BLM
Parents, pupils, teachers,
@EISUnion
members and antiracists come together at St Albert's Primary School, Pollokshields, to
#StandUpToRacism
in schools. Public meeting starting now
@AntiRacismDay
#ShekuBayoh
would have turned 40 yesterday - had he not died at the hands of the police in Kirkcaldy on the 3rd of May, 2015.
Yesterday evening, SUTR supporters in Fife projected a simple message on the Kirkcaldy police station: JUSTICE
#JusticeForShekuBayoh
#BlackLivesMatter
Braverman and this Tory government has fuelled the far right and their targeting of hotels across the UK.
In Erskine, local community members, anti-racists and trade unionists are clear. We Say
#RefugeesWelcome
#BravermanOut
#ShekuBayoh
's sister Kadi Johnson, who has referred to her brother as 'Scotland's George Floyd', addresses the antiracist vigil outside Capital House before the inquiry starts
She says your support has been & will continue to be vital for the family in their struggle for justice
As new phase of public inquiry into
#ShekuBayoh
's death in police custody starts in
#Edinburgh
, trade unionists and antiracists gather outside to support the family
We are not going away & we will continue to mobilise until there is justice
#BlackLivesMatter
#UnionsAgainstRacism
*EMERGENCY PROTEST*
🚨 STOP THE RWANDA FLIGHTS - STOP THE DEPORTATIONS🚨
*REFUGEES ARE WELCOME HERE*
📆 Tues 30th April
⏰️ 5.30pm
📍 Home Office, Brand Street, Glasgow G51 1DH
📣We can resist the racist Rwanda policy through defiance, unity and mass numbers.
#StopRwanda
Delegates to
@EISUnion
AGM in Aviemore send solidarity to the family of
#ShekuBayoh
& their struggle for justice 8 years after he died in police custody. Now Police Scotland chief officer has admitted the force is 'institutionally racist', we must fight for the truth and change
Stand Up to Racism Scotland and
@ScottishTUC
are today releasing a statement on why you should join the
#MarchOnTheHomeOffice
in Glasgow on Sat 16 March, assembling at BBC Scotland, 11am
#AyeWelcomeRefugees
Read the full statement here:
Glasgow on Saturday protesting against Priti Patel’s plans to offshore asylum seekers to Rwanda. Sickening, but this is the logic of the
#NationalityandBordersbill
and its attempt to criminalise refugees. The government's racist plans have to be stopped!
#allrefugeeswelcome
It mattered that 200 campaigners & trade unionists stood in solidarity with
#ShekuBayoh
family as the inquiry began last week. It may last years - and we must keep up the pressure.
Be @ Capital House, Tues 24 May 9am
#BlackLivesMatter
🚌GLASGOW TRANSPORT:
"I speak for
#Erskine
, we say yes to refugees, no to Patriotic Alternative. They can go away, they are not welcome in Erskine. Refugees are."
Coverage of today's counterprotest:
National:
STV:
Daily Record:
(3/4)On the other side of the square, 100s of locals spontaneously & peacefully surrounded the Nazis & drowned them in chants & opposition
'Führer' hopeful Alek Yerbury had travelled 8 hours from Leeds for only 7 of his supporters to turn up & were stopped from holding a rally
Tremendous show of solidarity & support for
#ShabazAli
in
#Edinburgh
. Over 200 anti-racists came out to stand shoulder to shoulder against racism & say refugees & migrants are welcome here!
7 years after Sheku Bayoh's death in police custody in Kirkcaldy in May 2015, his family are still fighting for truth & justice.
Tuesday 10 May is the first day of the public inquiry in Edinburgh - book your seat on the coach from Glasgow
#BlackLivesMatter
Anti-racists and trade unionists gather outside Capital House for the last key date of the first phase of the
#ShekuBayoh
public inquiry
We are in this for the long haul - and we will be back. No justice, no peace.
#BlackLivesMatter
Erskine resident sends a strong message to the Patriotic Alternative Nazis: refugees are welcome, fascists are not
For all the talk of an 'Easter special', the Nazi-led protest was outnumbered 2 to 1 by antifascists & antiracists rejecting their poisonous hatred
#ErskineSaysYes
Protesters opposing the Nazi Homeland 'party' in Erskine today say - join us for the BIG ONE next Sunday!
💙
#AyeWelcomeRefugees
🤝support Erskine anti-racists
⛔stop the Nazi 'Homeland party'
🚌Coaches from Glasgow & Edinburgh - book your seat:
EMERGENCY PROTEST - GLASGOW
Given the inhumane Rwanda Bill being forced through Parliament yesterday, join us at George Square tomorrow to let the racists know that we will not be divided!
#StopRwanda
#RefugeesWelcome
🗓️ 5:30pm, Wednesday, April 24th
📍George Square, Glasgow
Southside anti-racist campaigner
@zamardzahid
has a message for politicians in the room: "condemnation is important but nowhere near enough. We will not stop fighting until we're convinced the colour of their skins won't compromise children's safety in schools".
@AntiRacismDay
Justice4Sheku mtg in
#Glasgow
hears from
@ScottishTUC
@RozFoyer
"Trade unionists have a role to play to tackle racism wherever we see it"
"An injury to 1 is an injury to all & we mustn't forget this core principle"
And calls on all to join St Andrew's Day antiracism march 26 Nov
(4/4) Eventually Yerbury & his supporters had to be escorted by police back to their vehicle as anti-fascists celebrated
Today was an utter humiliation for the fascists hoping to build in the racist climate created by the govt policies. Well done the people of Moray!
#NaeNazis
“Time and time again, the trade union movement & anti-racist groups like SUTR have driven out the poison of fascism from our communities. This weekend will be no different” -
@RozFoyer
Only 2 sleeps before The BIG ONE
🚌Transport
Supporting the vigil in Glasgow today marking 8 years since Sheku Bayoh's death at the hands of the police
#Justice4ShekuBayoh
, justice for all
On Tuesday 9th May, 8.45am, join us outside Capital House in Edinburgh as a new phase of the public inquiry begins
#BlackLivesMatter
The first phase of the
#ShekuBayoh
inquiry is ending soon. June 21st is a key date.
🚌SUTR &
@ScottishTUC
are running another coach from Glasgow
We are in this for the long haul - & we will be back in the autumn & won't stop until we see justice & change
Today anti-racists in Erskine have occupied the space the fascists have used in the last 7 months.
Today we say no more harassment
#NoToFascism
&
#RefugeesWelcome
At the same time we have a lively community event as always supporting refugees and asylum seekers in the hotel ✊️
A message from the First Minister of Scotland
@HumzaYousaf
in support of tomorrow's🏴national demo organised by SUTR &
@ScottishTUC
Take to the streets against Islamophobia, to defend the right to protest & welcome refugees
BBC Scotland, 11am
#StopRacism
Ruby Hirsch from Glasgow Stand Up to Racism speaks at the antiracist solidarity event at Capital House in Edinburgh as the public inquiry into his death in police custody restarts - we want justice but we also want change
#Justice4ShekuBayohb
#BlackLivesMatter
Supporters begin assembling outside Capital House in Edinburgh as a new phase of the
#ShekuBayoh
public inquiry begins
We are not going anywhere until there is justice - and change
Trade unionists and anti-racists will continue to stand behind the Bayoh family's struggle
The anti-refugee riot in Knowsley is a worrying warning. We need to drive back the far-right now.
The government's rhetoric has inspired these attacks, from the Dover bomber to the Knowsley riot.
Join the
#ResistRacism
demos in Glasgow, London & Cardiff to say
#RefugeesWelcome
Standing ovation for Sheku's sister Kadi Johnson
'My brother was unarmed, he wasn't violent, yet he was restrained and covered with lacerations'
'My brother can't cry for justice - but it's our duty to do for him and all who have lost their lives at the hands of the authorities'
As the Home Office lease draws to an end & asylum seekers begin to relocate from the Erskine hotel, well done all who have stood in solidarity with them & in unity against racism
#AyeWelcomeRefugees
#MarchOnTheHomeOffice
in Glasgow Sat 16 March:
Today👇