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Joint letter to PM against facial recognition technology expansion plans
We wrote to the PM as a coalition of human rights, racial justice, migrants’ rights and civil liberties groups following his statement on the recent far right violence across the country and plans to introduce a “wider deployment of facial recognition technology.” We joined him in condemning the racist, violent and disorderly scenes across the…
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Letter to Prime Minister on far-right violence
With 80 anti-racist and migrant rights organisations, we’ve written to the Prime Minister asking for Parliament to be recalled to address far-right attacks spreading across the country. The Government must address the rampant racism, Islamophobia and anti-migrant hate fuelling this violence. Thank you to our friends at Runnymede Trust for coordinating this letter.
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Racism in action
by MRN and Islamophobia Response Unit Far-right violence is spreading from Southport to Manchester and Whitehall accompanied by Islamophobic, racist and anti-migrant chants. The violence followed rampant misinformation online including comments by Tommy Robinson in which he linked the attack with Islam and migrants, whereby he actively encouraged protests against ‘asylum hotel owners’. This led…