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Awareness raised ahead of Tuesday's anti-Trump demo

ANTI-RACISTS took to the streets at the weekend ahead of US President Donald Trump’s state visit to urge the public to take action.

Local community groups and organisations set up stalls and handed out leaflets in their areas to call people to the Together Against Trump march taking place tomorrow.

Speaking at Saturday’s gathering in the London borough of Hackney, Councillor Humaira Garasia said they would refuse to let Mr Trump “destroy the peace and harmony” that Hackney, London and the whole of Britain is all about.

Spokesman for Day-Mer Local Turkish and Kurdish Community Centre Cagdas Canbolat said communities needed to stand “shoulder to shoulder” to let Mr Trump know they will not “tolerate his racist and sexist views.”

He said: “Trump, Nigel Farage and Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan — they claim that they are marginalised by the Establishment, that they are victimised, that they are not part of the elite and that they are friends of the working people. We know that they are no friends of ours.

“The system that we live in now politically and economically is corrupt and people look for alternatives. They do turn to people like them but the alternative is not with them.

“They don’t have the answer for a better world — we, the people on the street, have the answer.”

City Hall has given clearance for the return of the inflatable Trump baby blimp which will fly over Parliament tomorrow morning.

Protesters will gather in Trafalgar Square at 11am tomorrow, where Stand Up To Racism will be organising a “milkshaking” and “knock down the border wall” stunt.

Activists will bombard effigies of Mr Trump, Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson with milkshake before pulling down a mock-up of Mr Trump’s border wall.

Julie Sherry from Stand Up To Racism said: “There’s widespread, palpable fury simmering across Britain at the lengths our government — which itself has no legitimacy — has gone to to facilitate a state visit for this bigot, racist, misogynist and climate change denier.

“In the spirit of #MilkshakeRevolution, this is a day to express the feeling of the anti-racist majority — not in our name — we reject everything he and his so-called pals Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage stand for.”

Shadow home secretary Diane Abbott, Green MP Caroline Lucas and TUC general secretary Frances O’Grady were all confirmed today as speakers at the rally.

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