{"id":299636,"date":"2017-03-18T19:22:08","date_gmt":"2017-03-18T18:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/thousands-in-london-protest-against-islamophobia-racism\/"},"modified":"2017-03-18T19:22:08","modified_gmt":"2017-03-18T18:22:08","slug":"thousands-in-london-protest-against-islamophobia-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/thousands-in-london-protest-against-islamophobia-racism\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands in London protest against Islamophobia, racism"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Thousands of people have taken to the streets in London to protest against rising sentiments of Islamophobia, racism and anti-refugee motions in the country.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Protesters gathered in London\u2019s parliament square on Saturday as they were united against racism and Islamophobia and supportive of refugee and migrants.<\/p>\n<p>They arrived at Portland Place in Central London at around midday while holding banners with slogans read, \u201cHands off EU workers\u201d, \u201cRefugees and migrants welcome here\u201d and \u201cStand up to Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" width=\"555\" height=\"313\" src=\"http:\/\/217.218.67.233\/\/photo\/20170318\/6ffa49f0-fbfc-46a2-aa0d-5a78645a4bee.jpg\"\/><figcaption>People rally in London to protest against Islamophobia and racism on March 18, 2017. (Photo from social media)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The rally was organized by the UK campaign group Stand Up to Racism, as part of a series of rallies taking place across Europe to mark the International Anti-Racism Day.<\/p>\n<p>The demonstrations are also taken in cities such as Berlin, Vienna and Athens, as well as UK cities Cardiff and Glasgow.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s the fourth year that we\u2019ve held this&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2017\/03\/18\/514848\/UK-London-protest-Islamophobia-racism\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of people have taken to the streets in London to protest against rising sentiments of Islamophobia, racism and anti-refugee motions in the country. Protesters gathered in London\u2019s parliament square on Saturday as they were united against racism and Islamophobia and supportive of refugee and migrants. They arrived at Portland Place in Central London at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":299637,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-299636","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}