Thousands gather in London for anti-racism counterprotest

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Thousands of anti-racism protesters gathered in London on Wednesday (August 7) to challenge expected far-right groups that failed to materialize following more than a week of violent racist attacks targeting Muslims and migrants.  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00Say it loud, say it good, refugees are welcome here.

00:04Whose streets? Our streets.

00:06Whose streets? Our streets.

00:10Whose streets? Our streets.

00:13Whose streets? Our streets.

00:23We want to unite, we want to send a clear message that these are our streets.

00:29We've worked hard to create unity, and we have a community.

00:35We're not going to let fascists, we're not going to let racists and the far right march here.

00:45Yeah, that's basically why I'm here.

00:47And there's fear, they've spread a lot of fear.

00:49And I was fearful, but I thought, no, it's very important to be here and meet them.

00:56If they want to talk, let's talk.

00:58My parents' generation went through great sacrifices to fight against fascism from Germany.

01:04And it started off with small groups on the streets attacking immigrants, or in those days, Jews.

01:11Now, the same types of people are on the streets in this country.

01:16It's absolutely disgraceful.

01:18And I'm standing here against that, with the community here,

01:22to show that we were totally opposed to fascism then, and we're totally opposed to fascism now.

01:28Truly, as you can see today, we really, truly, truly do come together.

01:33We did it before, we'll do it again.

01:36And I'm just worried about the places where this is not happening,

01:42where the people aren't coming out to stop them.

01:44I'm really, truly worried about those other communities.

01:47And feeling really worried about everybody.

01:49Really worried about people's safety, my friends' children's safety.

01:53I've got a lot of people of colour in my network.

01:56I'm worried about the Muslim people, the people of all faiths that are suffering.

02:00We just don't need them, we don't want them.

02:03It's time to move on from this.

02:04I can't believe it's happening again.

02:06I was around with Thatcher years.

02:07I can't believe he used to get up in the anti-Nazi marches, and here we are again.

02:11Show me what the community looks like!

02:14Show me what the community looks like!

02:17This is what the community looks like!

02:19This is what the community looks like!

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