Another Black Lives Matter Protest Planned on Ealing Common
Live music and socially distanced dancing to take place
Rupa Huq on drums on Ealing Common
July 22, 2020
The Black Lives Matter campaign are to hold another demonstration on Ealing Common this Sunday starting at 1:45pm.
This will be the third such protest in recent weeks and they say that like the previous ones it will be peaceful and socially distanced.
The last protest was held on Sunday, 12 July, attracting 50 people who were addressed by Rupa Huq, MP for Ealing Central and Acton and Balwinder Rana, convenor of West London Stand Up To Racism, amongst others. There was also live music and socially distanced dancing.
The organisation has also held similar protests in other areas in West London over the last six weeks, including two in Turnham Green, Chiswick, one in Hillingdon and also one in Brentford.
These protests are part of the worldwide protests that started after the murder of George Floyd by a police office on 25 May, this year, in America. The protesters have been demanding end to police brutality against black people and also an end to racism still being experienced by black people in America as well as in Europe and other parts of the world.
They claim that the problem exists in this country also as there have been many deaths of black people after coming into contact with police including Rashan Charles, Sean Rigg, Roger Sylvester, Joy Gardener and Cynthia Jarrett.
Good sunny day for chilled #BlackLivesMatterUK gathering on Ealing Common. Last week Turnham Green +Acton event soon planned
— Rupa Huq MP (@RupaHuq) July 12, 2020
Music, jerk chicken and determination George Floyd’s death not in vain. Moving speeches included 87 year old demo veteran Ruth whos parents fled holocaust pic.twitter.com/HFARg9dLCq
Balwinder Rana, one of the organisers of the protest said, “It’s not just the police brutality that we would be protesting against but racism in all its forms. The Windrush Scandal, the Grenfell fire, the disproportionate stop and search of young blacks and now the disproportionate deaths of BAME people due to COVID19 have shown that black people’s lives are not valued by the people in power. I am glad to see that so many white people have been coming out to support us, especially the youth. We want to bring all such people together, people who are prepared to take a stand, and we want to build a mass movement so that we can shout loud enough till the authorities hear our voices that Black Lives Matter.’
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