SilversnapplesCome on folks. London based? Against hate? Want a day of unity and positivity? Please please if you can.
BOOST FOR UNITY
Charlie Stross@Silversnapples @glynmoody Nowhere on this poster does it say what the march is in favour of! From Scotland, it could easily be read as a pro-unionist anti-independence march! Orange-order adjacent.
@cstross @glynmoody orange adjacent.
Interesting take.
Anyway heres the website so you can have a look. Im surprised you dont know about it as its been all over media for weeks.
Billy Bragg is there, Zack Polanski, Paloma Faith, Lenny Henry, Paul Weller... a multitude of organisations representing various groups against fascism and the far right.
Amnesty international.
Greenpeace
Stand up to Racism.
TUC
UNISON
The Green Party.
https://www.togetheralliance.org.uk/
@Silversnapples @glynmoody Depends which media you follow! I don't watch TV and avoid right wing newspapers (including The Guardian, because: violent transphobia and enough xenophobia they'd have been on the far right in the 1980s).
@cstross @glynmoody youre talking about TV?
And its antifascist not right wing.
As it stands it looks like the biggest UK mobilisation in an age.
I wish I was able to be in London right now.
And its antifascist not right wing.
As it stands it looks like the biggest UK mobilisation in an age.
I wish I was able to be in London right now.
@Silversnapples @glynmoody As I said: NOWHERE on that poster does it explain what hte cause is. Not a paragraph, not a sentence, not even a phrase. It presupposes knowledge which is very unevenly distributed these days.
Nicol Wistreich@cstross @Silversnapples @glynmoody I think it was a planning sheet more than a poster.. the link tho for me shows that it’s an anti far-right rally..
@nicol @cstross @glynmoody I cant believe neither of you knew nothing about the planning of this. So many national and international activist groups have been harping on about this event for quite some time. Posting about it. I guess you dont receive uodates or follow any of them. Sods law this was the one share that made you look though! 😉
This sprung into existence as a concept following the Tommy Robinson aka Yaxley-Lennon, Musk financed far right rally and riots that took over london with 100k racist nationalists last year.
Anyway its done and it was a massive success. My only regret is that I wasn't there and clearly provided just enough confusion for one toot to cause this random deconstruction. 😂
@Silversnapples @nicol @glynmoody Shockingly, having just undergone eye surgery I might have had limited attention for news media in the past few months.
@cstross eye surgery! 😬 I hope you're on the mend and everything is good!