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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 Tories’ racist campaign against refugees has plumbed new depths. Vulnerable people who have undertaken long, risky journeys in the search for asylum are to be put in a barge in Portland Harbour. Here they will be held in a security zone and forced to comply with a night-time...
First, please read the following: Leonard Farruku, a young Albanian discovered deceased aboard the Bibby Stockholm ship in Great Britain, is reported to have taken his life approximately 12 hours before being found, according to his roommate interviewed by The Guardian. The asylum seeker was found in a shower cubicle on...
Local residents to welcome refugees to Portland barge on Tuesday 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...
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...
This summer Poole Museum will display stories from Kushti Bok, a group that supports people from Gypsy, Roma and Traveller backgrounds. Poole Museum’s ‘Our Space’ area invites community groups to tell stories that are important to them and their links to the local communities. ‘Our Space’ will host a display...
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...
Racism is a pervasive and malignant trait. It is selfish and extremely damaging to others across all ethnic groups. It is also very damaging to the perpetrators, who live a life of ignorance and low empathy. Low empathy levels have been shown to detrimentally impact the immune system and...
In response to Boris Johnson, Nigel Farage and every other far right racist Tory Brexiteer the perfect response: https://twitter.com/ADFofficial/status/1344754753297932288?s=20 Wonderful. Just wonderful. Douglas James PLEASE SUPPORT US FOR JUST £2 A MONTH https://dorseteye.com/donate/
Made up terms. No depth or context. Just the walking dead making unfathomable noises. This sums up the way racists and the far right largely treat black people when they refuse to accept the abuse, exploitation and cancelling. This very brief discussion bring many of these topics to the fore...