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The Unity in the Community Stand up to Racism Rally
Derbyshire Times
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12/08/2024
Watch as over 200 people join the anti-racism rally in Chesterfield.
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Around 200 people gathered in front of Chesterfield Town Hall on Saturday to join the Unity in
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the Community Stand Up to Racism Rally.
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The event has been organised after a number of anti-immigration and far-right protests
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across the country, including an attack on Chesterfield premises hosting asylum seekers
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a week before.
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It was so important because the events of last week, especially last weekend, and I
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was at Rotherham at the hotel that was burnt, it was important to bring people together
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to make ourselves feel better, but also to publicly demonstrate that we are the majority.
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Anti-racists are the majority and we will stand together and I feel really much better
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now myself, so it was good for that reason, but also to make it clear to the minorities
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in Chesterfield that we are standing with them.
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Now, one, we are the people, two, we won't stand, three.
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What we've seen recently in this country is the far-right mobilising, just thugs really,
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just trying to scare people and trying to make people from our diverse community feel
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uncomfortable.
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And we are gathered here because the vast majority of people in this country are decent
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and we welcome asylum seekers, we welcome refugees and Muslim people, and people from
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all walks of life are welcome here.
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This is how you make a vibrant community, we are all the same, we're all together,
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but it's very easy for the thugs to be noisy and smash things up and get in the headlines,
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so instead we come here peacefully together and show solidarity with each other, with
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everyone, because we're all the same and peace and love will continue.
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Say it louder, say it clear, racists are not welcome here.
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And refugees are under attack, what do we do, stand up, fight back.
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That's fantastic, I think a really, really heart-warming turnout of over 200 people from
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Chesterfield, giving a clear message of unity in our community, that we won't stand for
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racism and division, we're horrified by the violence we've seen, and a real sense of determination
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that really we're better than that and our town is better than that.
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We've had some great speeches, some great poems, it's been a really powerful event.
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And hate crime is on the rise, what do we do, stand up, fight back.
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