Many people on social media have criticised Dorset police in recent days for their disproportionate stop and search activity against BAME members of communities.
'Racial disproportionality continues to be high for black people across Dorset. In 2017/18, black people were stopped and searched at approximately sixteen and a half times...
On 25 January 1995, Manchester United footballing legend Eric Cantona kung fu kicked a fascist football hooligan, Matthew Simmons, during a match against Crystal Palace. Simmons, who attended far-right National Front and British National Party rallies and has a raft of violent convictions including attacking a football coach who...
Anti racist campaigners faced up to the far right racist group Patriotic Alternative on Portland in Dorset, on Saturday 9th September. Representing the decent people of the borough of Weymouth and Portland and across the nation they did us all proud.
As The Smiths state in their song 'I...
Alongside many others across the UK Millie Cridland from Weymouth took the knee to symbolically call for justice for George Floyd, murdered by police officers in the US, and to make her mark for Black Lives Matter.
Millie said 'I had to do it when I heard it was taking...
The far-right, extreme right, hard right, radical right, fascist-right and ultra-right are terms used to discuss the position a group or person occupies within right-wing politics.
Many of these parties stem from either the legacy of Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists, or the political views held by either John...
Welcome event – Tuesday 1 August, 9am at Portland Port, Castletown, Portland, Dorset DT5 1BD
Refugees are due to arrive on the controversial Portland barge on Tuesday 1 August. Some will be coming from hotels in Bournemouth - despite reports of unresolved health and safety issues on the Bibby Stockholm.
Stand Up to Racism Dorset, trade...
TV historian David Olusoga has thanked former England footballer and schoolmate "tough kid" Paul Gascoigne for stepping in to help when he was subjected to racist abuse as a child.
Born in his father's home country of Nigeria, Olusoga moved to his mother's home of Gateshead, in Tyne and Wear, when he...
Unity Demonstration in Portland, Dorset
With news of the imminent arrival of the controversial refugee barge in Portland, Stand Up to Racism Dorset has called a Unity Demonstration to counter division and hatred being stirred up by some in the area.
We welcome refugees to Dorset – like the Ukrainians who...
Wow no one was expecting this. Many would have been happy with a hundred but to get this many and so many from the younger generation gives us real hope that the future is safer in their hands.
We walked the 1.5 miles prepared with our face masks... to the...
Slavery justice: ‘It’s time, Mr Drax.’
In a unique initiative, this week Dorset is linked direct to the Caribbean as campaigners challenge Richard Drax, MP for South Dorset, about his ownership of the Drax Hall estate in Barbados.
Barbadian MP Trevor Prescod will address a rally on Saturday 17 July outside Drax’s Charborough Park estate in Dorset....
