{"id":116948,"date":"2024-08-07T21:25:06","date_gmt":"2024-08-07T21:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/07\/over-100-cultural-figures-sign-unity-statement-launching-protests-against-the-far-right\/"},"modified":"2024-08-07T21:25:06","modified_gmt":"2024-08-07T21:25:06","slug":"over-100-cultural-figures-sign-unity-statement-launching-protests-against-the-far-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/07\/over-100-cultural-figures-sign-unity-statement-launching-protests-against-the-far-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 100 cultural figures sign unity statement launching protests against the far-right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/C-V2SIyoD7y\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\"\/><p>As of today, UK police are aware of <b>at least 100<\/b> <b>violent racist and Islamophobic riots<\/b> planned by supporters of the far-right movement<\/p>\n<p>This has led to <b>attacks on mosques, hotels housing migrants, setting fire to libraries and attacks on anyone in the vicinity who is profiled by rioters as Muslim and\/or a POC,<\/b> particularly anyone Asian, brown or black<\/p>\n<p>While the UK media are taking their sweet, sweet time in deciding whether or not violence against unarmed innocent people is a bad thing,<b> a lot of UK citizens and campaigners are defending their communities themselves<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Stand Up To Racism UK<\/b> is a charity that campaigns to reduce the lurch to the far-right, and they launched their unity statement today<\/p>\n<p>Their counter-protests are to be launched<b> this Saturday in every city<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a name=\"cutid1\"\/><br \/>Some notable names that have added their names to the statement <i>[OP note: the full list is pitifully small but I&#8217;m hoping it&#8217;s just because this was launched quickly and not many people know about the movement yet. The pushback has been slow]:<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Kate Nash<br \/>Paloma Faith<br \/>Shirley Manson<br \/>Bimini Bon Boulash<br \/>Divina De Campo<br \/>Billy Bragg<br \/>Self Esteem (Rebecca Lucy Taylor)<br \/>Gurinder Chadha (Bend It Like Beckham; Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging)<br \/>Roots Manuva<br \/>Maverick Sabre<br \/>Zarah Sultana MP<br \/>Diane Abbott MP<br \/>Jeremy Corbyn MP<a name=\"cutid1-end\"\/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/C-V2SIyoD7y\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram Source<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/unitystatement24\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Unity Statement Source<\/a><br type=\"_moz\"\/> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com\/128940299.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As of today, UK police are aware of at least 100 violent racist and Islamophobic riots planned by supporters of the far-right movement This has led to attacks on mosques, hotels housing migrants, setting fire to libraries and attacks on anyone in the vicinity who is profiled by rioters as Muslim and\/or a POC, particularly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":116949,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-116948","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}