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‘Our streets don’t belong to the far right’
A march from Redcliffe to Wapping Wharf was held on Saturday in response to a recent gathering of people outside a hotel currently closed to the public which only houses asylum seekers.
Hundreds of protesters marched in solidarity with the refugees now living in our city behind a large banner from the Bristol branch of Stand Up To Racism reading ‘refugees welcome here’.
Placards contained slogans including ‘no-one is illegal’ and ‘migrants make our NHS’, with car horns beeped and bicycle bells rang as the march made its way around the city centre.
is needed now More than ever
The march on Saturday afternoon began from the Portwall Lane car park
In a speech on Museum Square next to the M Shed, Anne Lemon from Stand Up To Racism Bristol said that the reason why groups such as the English Defence League and National Front “all failed is because we got out onto the streets and stopped them”.
Lemon added: “Generations of people have done that. We’ve stood up to them and we’ve said to them, ‘Whose streets are these? They are our streets and they don’t belong to the far right.'”
Several hundred took part in the march
Booooo to fascism
People from across Bristol attended the march
‘Refugees are welcome, fascists are not’
All photos: Rob Browne
Read next:
- The refugee charities bridging borders in Bristol
- ‘Increasingly precarious’ situation for ‘cut off’ asylum seekers
- Luxury hotel becomes accommodation for asylum seekers
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