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March To Celebrate World Refugee Day and Carnival at Old Fruitmarket, Glasgow

Saturday, 21 June, 2025, 12 p.m. – 10 p.m.

Event by Stand up to Racism – Scotland, Perth Against Racism and Stand up to Racism Glasgow

Assemble for the march 12 noon at Barrowland Park, Glasgow G1 5BG

Carnival

Rally, music and carnival in The Old Fruitmarket,  100 Candleriggs, Glasgow G1 1NQ  hosted by Love Music Hate Racism

Coaches to the event

Coach from Aberdeen – Dundee – Perth  Book at Eventbrite
Coach from Edinburgh Book at Eventbrite

Called by Stand up to Racism Scotland Supported by Scottish Refugee Council, Scottish Trade Union Congress, Positive Action in Housing, Maryhill Integration Network, Afghan Human Rights Foundation, Love Music Hate Racism and Glasgow Trades Council

Refugee Festival Scotland

Runs from 13 – 22 June, 2025

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This year marks 25 years of the festival, and the Scottish Refugee Council’s 40th – who are immensely proud to be organising a national march as part of the festival.

The festival comes as we see an alarming rise in support for racist and far-right ideas – across the world, and also here in Scotland.

At least 82 people, including 14 children, died trying to cross the Channel in 2024. Meanwhile, the British government is boasting record deportation numbers and adopting the hostile language of the far-right by talking about an ‘island of strangers’.

Refugees and migrants are the lifeblood of the NHS, the care system and other public services we all depend on, and are an integral part of our communities, workplaces and families. Refugees and migrants are part of the fightback for a better society.

On Saturday 21 June, join the march through Glasgow and mark #WorldRefugeeDay to:

Show a majority of us welcome refugees and migrants in Scotland
Demand #SafePassage
Support the #LiftTheBan campaign to grant asylum seekers the right to work
Show that we won’t be divided by racism and that together we will demand change

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