That's Friday evening taken care of! On Saturday, I'm off to #Ballymena for the 1st ever Mid & East Antrim Pride. I'm very happy to see this statement from MEA Pride of solidarity with the local migrant communities which have been under attack. See you there also? www.irishnews.com/news/norther...
Organisers of Ballymena’s firs...
#Ballymena
First ever Mid & East Antrim #Pride in #Ballymena this Saturday, 28th June. See you there? #LoveOverFear
Opinion
The racial violence in Ballymena repeats a pattern that’s blighted Britain for years. We must wake up to that
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/19/ballymena-violence-migrants-nothern-ireland-race-issues
#guardian #uk #racism #northenireland #Ballymena #farright
#BBCNews - Bulgarian mother of two leaving #Ballymena 'to save my children'
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3e5ljx2wjlo
On Tuesday night, rioters broke into her house and caused significant damage
#BBCNews - Anti-racism rally in Belfast after days of violence
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdr51peryk3o
People in the crowd held signs with slogans such as "racists go home", "refugees are welcome" and "diversity makes us stronger".
#Ballymena
"The Ballymena violence has nothing to do with ‘protecting women’. It is racism, pure and simple".
‘Where are the foreigners?’: does a facile explanation lie behind #Ballymena’s outbreak of hate?
Northern Ireland faces stark questions over the #racism, #xenophobia and #intolerance that has forced families from abroad to flee
NI - cherishing women and children’s rights
A reposte to Ballymena
White People ruined Ballymena, then blame it on The Other, rather than take adult responsibility for their lives and their community.
It's easier to wallow in self pity and spite rather than do anything, and that's what this white trash do. Don't waste your energy trying to understand these people, there's nothing to understand.
"growing international antipathy to immigrants was affecting Northern Ireland"
Not an excuse for this shameful criminality but the disease is spreading.
‘Where are the foreigners?’: does a facile explanation lie behind #Ballymena’s outbreak of hate? https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jun/14/facile-explanation-for-ballymena-outbreak-of-hostility-northern-ireland-racism?CMP=share_btn_url
Favourite companies - Moy Park who require people to work in their factories for poor wages and doing jobs that many of the locals won't do!
There was certain ex local MP which included #Ballymena actually lobbied the government of the day to make exemptions, to allow Moy Park employ foreign born workers (irony being he was a mouthpiece for leaving the EU - I didn't say the DUP'S stance on #Brexit was coherent)
So when you see their dear leader or their MP'S - ask them these things -
„In #Ballymena dagegen gibt es keinen Grund, überhaupt von Protesten oder Protestierenden zu sprechen (die "#tagesschau" tut‘s trotzdem, die #dpa auch, hier im "#Tagesspiegel", und bei "#Zeit"-Online). Die Attacken richten sich gezielt gegen Menschen und Wohnhäuser, denen oder deren Bewohner*innen die gewalttätigen Gruppen eine Einwanderungsgeschichte zuschreiben. Das ist kein Anliegen, keine Kritik, das ist gewalttätiger #Rassismus.“ Kolumne: Das #Altpapier am 13. (1/2)
#BBCNews - Water cannon used against Northern Ireland rioters
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c79e239ld7ro
#Portadown #Ballymena
How a Northern Irish town descended into 3 days of anti-immigrant violence
Protests in the small Northern Irish town of Ballymena spiralled into acts of anti-immigrant violence this week after two teenagers who spoke Romanian were charged with sexually assaulting a local girl.
#violence #protest #crime #immigration #NorthernIreland #Ballymena
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/north-ireland-riots-1.7558861?cmp=rss
How a Northern Irish town descended into 3 days of anti-immigrant violence
Protests in the small Northern Irish town of Ballymena spiralled into acts of anti-immigrant violence this week after two teenagers who spoke Romanian were charged with sexually assaulting a local girl.
#violence #protest #crime #immigration #NorthernIreland #Ballymena
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/north-ireland-riots-1.7558861?cmp=rss
Families hid in attics and wardrobes during violent disorder in #Ballymena , the Police Service of Northern Ireland Chief Constable has said.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c20xrq9vzz7o
Brits will turn on Foreigners in the blink of an eye, we did with Brexit, we do it every time the Far Right baits a White Riot on social media...we are not much different from the States, why would we be? We're both Colonialists.
#Ballymena #Fascism #Xenophobia #UKPOL #UKpolitics #Colonialism
"White Rioters Attack Children In Leisure Centre"
It keeps happening, shitty white people from forgotten communities taking out their aggression on the Other, but it's Trans People and Just Stop Oil that are the big threat apparently....
#Ballymena #UKPOL #UKPOLITICS #Whiteness #WhiteRiots #WhiteNationalism #Fascism
The DUP were shit stirring and are partially responsible for these rights. But this is Colonialism, so they'll be above the law like the Catholics aren't....Westminster will make sure of it.
Just as Tommy Robinson won't be hassled about his input into these riots....
#Ballymena #GordonLyons #DUP #Colonialism #UKPOL #UKPOLITICS #Mastodoine #TommyRobinson
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