{"id":25652,"date":"2017-11-20T15:25:38","date_gmt":"2017-11-20T15:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/intercardiff\/?p=25652"},"modified":"2017-11-20T15:25:38","modified_gmt":"2017-11-20T15:25:38","slug":"socialists-protest-racism-despite-police-preventing-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/global-city\/socialists-protest-racism-despite-police-preventing-march","title":{"rendered":"Socialists Protest Racism despite Police Preventing March"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>\u201cNazis Not Welcome In Cardiff\u201d say protesters against racist hate-crimes.<\/h2>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_25714\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25714\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-25714 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/11\/Racism-Speeches-625x352.png\" alt=\"Richard Edwards gives anti-racism speech at Cardiff University Student Union\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-25714\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-25714 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/11\/Racism-Speeches-625x352.png\" alt=\"Richard Edwards gives anti-racism speech at Cardiff University Student Union\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" \/><\/noscript> Event organiser Richard Edwards gives speech at anti-racism protest.<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nApproximately 40 people gathered at Cardiff University on Saturday afternoon to protest racism and hate speech, after police denied organisers permission to march.<br \/>\nProtesters rallied on the steps of the Student Union in response to posters plastered around the Cathays area in October, depicting swastikas and the bombing of mosques.<br \/>\nOne of the event organisers, Kevin Pourmostofi from Socialist Students, said these posters were \u201cclearly meant to intimidate and frighten the amazing multi-cultural community that makes Cardiff so great and vibrant.\u201d<br \/>\nThe event was planned as a march, but organisers say police would only allow a stationary protest. A representative of the South Cardiff Socialist Party, Richard Edwards, said, \u201cThey told us explicitly not to march. They don\u2019t like organisations that can gather together groups of people. They don\u2019t like protests.\u201d<br \/>\nThere has been a 29% increase in reported hate crimes across the United Kingdom since 2016, according to the Home Office. The protesters said that they are responding to what they see as a rise in far-right racist and anti-Islamic rhetoric in media and politics.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_25727\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25727\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-25727 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/11\/StandUpRacism-625x352.png\" alt=\"Banner says 'STAND UP TO RACISM AND FASCISM'\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-25727\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-25727 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/11\/StandUpRacism-625x352.png\" alt=\"Banner says 'STAND UP TO RACISM AND FASCISM'\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" \/><\/noscript> Protesters carried banners with slogans such as &#8220;Don&#8217;t Let Racists Divide Us&#8221; and &#8220;Refugees Welcome&#8221;.<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\n\u201cThe far-right has effectively been seen off many times from the streets of Britain,\u201d said Kristina Hedges from the organisation Stand Up to Racism, \u201cbut from France to Poland to Greece, we\u2019ve seen the same groups of people swap their jackets for suits, and make alarming inroads in elections.\u201d<br \/>\nReferences were made to the 60 000 people who marched in Warsaw, Poland on November 11th under banners reading &#8220;Clean Blood&#8221; and &#8220;Europe will be white or uninhabited<em>&#8220;.<\/em><br \/>\n\u201cIn times like these, it\u2019s important that we have these kinds of communities,\u201d said Kabira Suleman, Black and Ethnic Minorities (BEM) officer at Cardiff University. \u201cSo I think the march is not only imperative for these people, but also needed so that people can access that community.\u201d<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_25730\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25730\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-25730 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/11\/JoinYouthAgainstRacism-625x352.png\" alt=\"Protesters sell newspapers and take petition signatures. \" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-25730\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-25730 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/11\/JoinYouthAgainstRacism-625x352.png\" alt=\"Protesters sell newspapers and take petition signatures. \" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" \/><\/noscript> A both where individuals could sign a petition against austerity, donate, or buy pins and copies of The Socialist newspaper.<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nCardiff University currently offers services such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cardiffstudents.com\/your-voice\/\">Student Voice<\/a> for those who have experienced racial or religious discrimination, and new staff training and reporting tools are currently being developed. Suleman said, \u201cThere are channels being put in place to make the university a safer place to be a BEM student. These are things which are always being continuously improved.\u201d<br \/>\nPourmostofi said that the Saturday protest showed that \u201cthere is clearly an appetite for anti-racist and socialist ideas in the community,\u201d and expressed hope that it could become a regular event.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cNazis Not Welcome In Cardiff\u201d say protesters who gathered outside Cardiff University to fight racism and hate-speech. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":414,"featured_media":25714,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,14],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-25652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-city","category-politics-social-justice"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - 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