Dump Drax Coalition & Stand Up To Racism

DORSET PROTEST CHALLENGES MP RICHARD DRAX
SLAVERY JUSTICE NOW – SOLIDARITY WITH BARBADOS
TIME TO GO, MR DRAX!

Richard Drax MP has become well-known worldwide – not for his work in parliament but for his refusal to respect slavery justice. For years, people in Barbados have called on Drax to transfer ownership of his former slave plantation, Drax Hall, to the Caribbean nation. Now they have renewed that call – and people in Dorset will be demonstrating in solidarity:

Saturday 15 June, 12pm, Kings Statue, Esplanade, Weymouth:

TIME FOR REPARATIONS JUSTICE and TIME TO GO, MR DRAX!

Richard Drax is one of the wealthiest landowners in Parliament. He owns over 15,000 acres of Dorset land and lives in a vast mansion. He also says that Britain is “full” and decries immigration!

While making money from his former slave plantation in Barbados, Drax has done little for his Dorset constituents – voting to reduce welfare benefits, to increase the pension age, for more privatisation of the NHS, and against efforts to control environmental pollution.

Lynne Hubbard, joint chair of Stand Up To Racism Dorset says: “It’s a rotten record – both on reparations and on issues that affect the people of Weymouth, Portland, Swanage and the villages of South Dorset.”

The Dump Drax Coalition, based in South Dorset, brings together climate campaigners, trade unionists, anti-racists and community activists. We say:

It’s time for reparations justice and time for Drax to go!

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For more information, interviews etc, contact Lynne Hubbard, joint chair,

Stand Up To Racism Dorset, tel 07944 104463