“This is a crucial time to stand up to racism, the divisive rhetoric of the mainstream political parties and media that is increasing in the run up to the general election in May,” the organization’s official website reads.
Right to Remain plans to bring activists who would like to participate in the rally from all parts of the United Kingdom to London.
The organization stressed that minorities in Britain started to feel the impact of the Immigration Act 2014, which was adopted last May and forbade private landlords to rent houses to people without status. It also prevented immigrants living in the United Kingdom without legal permission from obtaining driving licenses and bank accounts.
UK parliamentarian John McDonnell called the act “most racist piece of legislation that this country has witnessed since the 1960s,” after its draft was released in 2013.
Last year’s anti-racism rally gathered up to 10,000 people on London’s Trafalgar Square, according to the organization.
Right to Remain was founded in 1995 to help people establish their right to remain with dignity, safety and humanity, and to counter the injustice of the immigration and asylum system.
Some 30 percent of British people confided to have feelings of racial prejudice in 2013, according to a poll by Britain’s largest independent social research agency NatCen.
