“Your anonymous correspondent’s recollections of Nazi Germany are important. But as our community prepares to mark Holocaust Memorial Day, their suggestion that the breaking of a single window at the back of a pub is somehow “Kristallnacht in well-heeled Whiteshill” is both dangerously wrong and highly offensive.
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HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY 2024 – Stroud Ceremony – 28th January
Please join us in reflection and remembrance on Sunday 28th January from 2-3pm at the Lansdown Hall (GL5 1BB) for our Holocaust Memorial Day ceremony.
Whiteshill and Ruscombe Community Solidarity’s demonstration promoting inclusivity, anti-racism, and tolerance
Last night, 11th January 2024, the Whilteshill and Ruscombe Community Solidarity group successfully organised a calm and peaceful demonstration to promote village values of inclusivity, anti-racism and tolerance. Here’s a short video featuring Whiteshill residents Helen Price and Adrian Lukes talking about why they organised the demonstration, and some photos from the event and links to social media posts you might like to share.
Help residents keep Whiteshill tolerant, loving, anti racist, and inclusive
Residents of Whiteshill are hosting a show of solidarity against hate-speech when Katie Hopkins comes to perform at The Star Inn on Thursday 11th January. There’s also a banner making session on Tuesday 9th.
Take care what you share about the Israeli assault on Gaza
It was perhaps inevitable that the Israeli assault on Gaza would lead to a swathe of new conspiracy theories. Israel positions itself as the state of the Jewish people, and Jews are often the locus and subject of conspiracy theories. Israel, its enemies, and other actors with interests in the region are involved in a sharp information war.
So there are lots of unsubstantiated and sometimes implausible claims circulating about the “real truth” behind what is going on in Gaza, and about what “really” happened on 7th October. Some of these play into classic anti-Jewish stereotypes and narratives.
We read ‘The Light’ so you don’t have to: Issue 39
We plan to produce summaries looking at each issue of The Light. Below we look at Issue 39, which continues to promote false claims on climate – as we have we have written about previously.
Don’t let conspiracy influencers pull you into their hateful rabbit hole
As well as opposing the harmful content in The ‘Light’ paper, Community Solidarity Stroud District has raised concerns about some of the people who have been invited to speak in Stroud by groups pushing conspiracy theories locally.
On this page you will find text from a leaflet we started handing out on 11th November 2023, the day an event was held in Stroud featuring Sandi Adams (returning for her 3rd public speaking event here) and James Delingpole (returning for a 2nd time)
Ceasefire NOW!
We are encouraging our supporters to sign the Stroud Ceasefire Now Coalition declaration: sign the open letter, and to join the weekly candlelit vigil for Gaza and Israel every Friday 6-6.15pm outside local MP Siobhan Baillie’s office, 3 King St, GL5 3BS. The declaration and weekly vigils are supported by us at CSSD, Stroud Against Racism, Stroud District Together With Refugees and Palestine Solidarity Campaign – Five Valleys Branch.
Speeches from our Public Meeting on 4th October 2023
On 4th October 2023, we held a public meeting titled ‘Conspiracy Theories, the Far Right, and The Light’. Here we present:
The speech by CSSD representatives, James Beecher and Emma Calcutt
The speech by David Renton
A film which collates the footage we have from the event
Press Release: Community Solidarity to hold Public Meeting in Stroud
Contact: contact@communitysolidaritystrouddistrict.org Community Solidarity Stroud District will hold a Public Meeting this Wednesday 4th October from 7.30-9.30pm at The Trinity Rooms on the subject of “Conspiracy Theories, the Far Right and The Light” paper. The meeting follows the “Racism isn’t funny” open letter and protest by Community Solidarity Stroud District (CSSD) held in opposition toContinue reading “Press Release: Community Solidarity to hold Public Meeting in Stroud”
Community Solidarity Stroud District 