London demonstrators gather for Black lives and justice

Movement for Justice and supporters used a street action to demand that the Windrush Scheme include descendants and family members excluded by its narrow rules. The protest linked individual...

Rebels occupied sites around Westminster and bridges, seeking a citizens’ assembly and urgent emissions cuts. Activists described civil disobedience as necessary because conventional politics had...

Students and young people joined a further global climate strike, demanding urgent emissions cuts and an end to fossil-fuel expansion. The repeated school walkouts built a sustained movement rather...

Campaigners and residents continued petitions, research and public education challenging the city’s celebration of Edward Colston. Long before the statue fell, Black-led organizing questioned the...

Black organizers and allies began demonstrations across Britain after George Floyd was killed by police in Minneapolis. Participants connected the global uprising to British histories of policing,...

Around 10,000 people joined an anti-racist demonstration organized by All Black Lives Bristol. Protesters pulled down the statue of a slave-trading merchant and rolled it to the harbor. The action...

More than a thousand protesters gathered outside Oriel College, chanting for the removal of the Rhodes statue. The rally drew on the Rhodes Must Fall movement and global anti-racist uprising,...

After the Colston statue was removed, residents gathered around its empty plinth with placards and messages. The space became an improvised memorial and forum for debate about slavery, resistance...

Protests in cities including London, Cardiff, Manchester and Glasgow brought local anti-racist demands into a shared national mobilization. Organizers called attention to policing, unequal health...

Survivors and families continued to demand justice, safe housing and accountability from public institutions and corporations. Their organizing connected the fire to social housing policy,...