{"id":131,"date":"2018-09-05T09:31:02","date_gmt":"2018-09-05T08:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/waltham-forest-trades-council\/?p=131"},"modified":"2018-09-05T09:49:56","modified_gmt":"2018-09-05T08:49:56","slug":"how-do-we-stop-the-rise-of-the-racist-and-fascist-far-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/waltham-forest-trades-council\/?p=131","title":{"rendered":"How do we stop the rise of the racist and fascist far fight?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>20th September from 19:30-21:30<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Harmony Hall<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Unit 1 2a Truro Road, E177 London, United Kingdom<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We face a growing and serious challenge from the racist and fascist right in the UK, encouraged by Donald Trump and his close associate Steve Bannon and now boosted by the release from jail of former EDL leader Tommy Robinson.<br \/>\nWaltham Forest is no stranger to the fascist English Defence League and its former leader Tommy Robinson \u2013 they have repeatedly targeted the borough and each time been met by a huge, united community opposition.<\/p>\n<p>Speakers include:<br \/>\n&#8211; <strong>Steve Hedley<\/strong>, Assistant General Secretary RMT (who was viciously assault by far-right thugs during Trump&#8217;s visit)<br \/>\n&#8211; <strong>Leah Levane<\/strong>, Co-chair, Jewish Voice for Labour<br \/>\n&#8211; <strong>Nadia Sayed<\/strong>, Student activist, Stand up to Racism<br \/>\n&#8211; <strong>Hasan Patel<\/strong>, young activist<br \/>\n&#8211; <strong>Weyman Bennett<\/strong>, Co-chair Stand up to Racism<\/p>\n<p>With this latest threat of a new far right and fascist movement emerging, we as a matter of urgency need to come together to build the broadest response possible to defend our multicultural borough.<br \/>\nBring your ideas and experience from your community organisations, trade unions \u2013 or just your individual voice. It\u2019s time to stand up, speak out and join together.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/scontent-lht6-1.xx.fbcdn.net\/v\/t1.0-9\/40495684_2171617013081716_5661051330337177600_n.jpg?_nc_cat=0&amp;oh=deb62d9d29e3e7feb66c66d24cf4a784&amp;oe=5C257B4D\" width=\"720\" height=\"960\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>20th September from 19:30-21:30 Harmony Hall Unit 1 2a Truro Road, E177 London, United Kingdom We face a growing and serious challenge from the racist and fascist right in the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaigns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/waltham-forest-trades-council\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/waltham-forest-trades-council\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/waltham-forest-trades-council\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/waltham-forest-trades-council\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/waltham-forest-trades-council\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/waltham-forest-trades-council\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134,"href":"https:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/waltham-forest-trades-council\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions\/134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/waltham-forest-trades-council\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/waltham-forest-trades-council\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/waltham-forest-trades-council\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}