Stand Up to Racism Scotland is asking for support for a "Football for All - No to Racism, No to Islamophobia!" unity event in Edinburgh on November 25th. The event is being called in response to a demo planned by the Football Lads Alliance (FLA) in Edinburgh on the same day. The FLA has a track record of attracting racist support.
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News from 2017
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10 November 2017
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25 October 2017
Campaigners met with the Cabinet Secretary for Education, John Swinney, yesterday to urge the Scottish Government to take action to tackle Islamophobia in schools.
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31 August 2017
In the early hours of Wednesday 30th August 2017, police raided the homes of members of the Kurdish community living in Edinburgh, accusing them of having participated in terrorism activity on 26 March 2017. This was in fact a celebration of Newroz (the Kurdish New Year).
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12 June 2017
SACC has filed a submission to the Inquiry into Bullying and Harassment of Children and Young People in Schools by the Scottish Parliament's Equalities and Human Rights Committee
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01 June 2017
SACC will on Friday 2 June launch a new report on experiences of Islamophobia amongst Muslim students at schools in Edinburgh.
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01 June 2017
Home Secretary Amber Rudd has acknowledged that the Prevent strategy is about intelligence-gathering. This has long been denied by officials.
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16 May 2017
Scottish charity Amina MWRC has recently acknowledged that it received Prevent funding in 2015 and has apologised for "any inconvenience and distress this has caused." It still has some way to go before it can be said to have earned the trust that it needs.
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07 April 2017
SACC is appalled by the chemical attack at Khan Sheikhoun on Tuesday and deplores last night's cruise missile strike by the US against a Syrian government airbase at Shayrat. These events risk escalating the Syrian conflict still further, with potentially calamitous consequences for the Syrian people and for regional and world peace.
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01 April 2017
The Scottish Information Commissioner has upheld the Scottish Government's refusal to name charities and NGOs that it is funding under the controversial Prevent strategy. SACC says that secrecy will damage the confidence of Scotland's minority communities
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23 March 2017
Statement on behalf of SACC by Richard Haley (Chair) in response to the murders outside the Westminster Parliament on Wednesday 22 March
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11 February 2017
SACC calls for the rights of EU citizens living in the UK to be protected. We oppose any measures that reduce people’s freedom of movement in the EU or globally.
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11 February 2017
SACC supports efforts in the US and around the world to oppose and resist the racist, reactionary and authoritarian policies taking shape under the Trump administration.
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07 February 2017
Hundreds marched through Edinburgh on Saturday to a rally outside the Scottish Parliament in protest at Donald Trump's Muslim ban.
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26 January 2017
The Prevent strategy is being stepped up in Scotland, but new figures show that the Prevent Professional Concerns element of the strategy is virtually inoperative. What's going on?