Show Racism the Red Card launches campaign for 2011-2012

Policy Response DateOctober 11, 2011 Country: Ireland Address: Dublin, Ireland General Type: Racist violence, Racist discourse, Equality/Integration Racism and discrimination phenomena: Anti-migrant/xenophobia
Groups affected / Interested in: Majority Key socio-economic/institutional areas: Education, Culture, Sport, Anti-racism Hate speech/Racist Discourse Medium: Public Discourse

The programme of activities for Irish anti-racism initiative Show Racism the Red Card were launched with an audience of young people and special guests.

 

The programme of activities includes:

-Anti Racism Creative Competition for schools & youth services
-Education workshops for schools & youth services
-Intercultural Summer Camps for young people
-Racist Incident Report Card
-‘Jeff the Ref’ our sports and events mascot
-10,000 wristbands

 

The highlight of this year’s launch of activities was the presence and speech of Elin L’Estrange from Norway Labour Youth.  Elin was one of the survivors of the Uteoya island atrocity of July 22nd when 69 young people were murdered by the racist Anders Behring Breviks.

In her speech, she warned against the dangers of ignoring racism. She was praised for her courage by another guest at the event, Irish Tanaiste (Deputy Prime Minister) Eamon Gilmore.

He called for other politicians to tackle the huge myth of people from abroad getting five star hotels and free cars on social welfare.  He said: ‘It is at times like this that you have people looking around saying ‘the people coming to this country are getting everything for free and we are not’.

Mr Gilmore promised his department’s funding for the anti-racism campaign and said that past events teach us it is vital not to let racism grow.

 

Source: http://theredcard.ie/news/?p=1178 October 11th 2011  - Show Racism The Red Card Website.