{"id":1404429,"date":"2022-03-28T09:15:54","date_gmt":"2022-03-28T13:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1404429"},"modified":"2022-03-28T09:16:13","modified_gmt":"2022-03-28T13:16:13","slug":"watch-activists-celebs-and-sadiq-khan-use-ukraine-war-to-push-diversity-and-refugees-welcome-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-activists-celebs-and-sadiq-khan-use-ukraine-war-to-push-diversity-and-refugees-welcome-agenda\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Activists, Celebs, and Sadiq Khan Use Ukraine War to Push Diversity and &#039;Refugees Welcome&#039; Agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwatch-activists-celebs-and-sadiq-khan-use-ukraine-war-to-push-diversity-and-refugees-welcome-agenda%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1404429&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Politicians, activists, and celebrities took to Central London on Saturday to protest against the war in Ukraine and celebrate refugees, diversity, and multiculturalism.<\/p>\n<p>The demonstration, which was attended by thousands of people, was organized by the leftist Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, began in Hyde Park and descended on Trafalgar Square, where a stage and massive screen played out messages from Ukrainians, including \u2014 albeit with major technical difficulties, the Mayor of Kyiv, Vitali Klitschko.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Taking to the stage, Mayor Khan hailed the predominantly white, blue and yellow draped crowd as \u201ca sea of humanity, a sea of all ages, of all backgrounds, all ethnicities, all nationalities coming together to send a powerful message: We stand with the people of Ukraine, we condemn Putin\u2019s barbaric aggression, we will stay with you in your struggle for freedom, democracy, and your safe country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet me send a message loud and clear, London will always welcome refugees,\u201d the Labour Party politician declared.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20396090\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/03\/Screenshot-2022-03-27-at-12.35.36-pm.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Protesters in London\u2019s Trafalgar Square hold up a banner denouncing Russia\u2019s President Vladimir Putin as a \u201cwar criminal\u201d on March 26th, 2022. (Kurt Zindulka, Breitbart News)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Going further, Olesya Khromeychuk \u2014 a historian and director of the <a href=\"https:\/\/ukrainianinstitute.org.uk\/team\/\">Ukrainian Institute<\/a> \u2014 said that while she was confident everyone could find Ukraine on the map, the protest was an opportunity to get to know her country \u201ceven better.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Khromeychuk, who hails from the city of Lviv in western Ukraine but moved to Britain in 2000, went on to say that the crisis will afford London and the wider country to \u201cbecome even more diverse, even more multicultural.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"video-src-attr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/author\/kzindulka\/\">Kurt Zindulka<\/a> \/ Breitbart News<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Halima Begum of the left-wing race politics think tank the Runnymede Trust expanded by saying that Britain should be more welcoming in its refugee policies, saying it should not \u201cdistinguish between who is documented, who is undocumented\u201d \u2014 i.e. legal and illegal migrants.<\/p>\n<p>Begum said that the refugee policy should \u201cnot stop children at the borders because, guess what, a child doesn\u2019t have documentation, but his or her or their parent has.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo let\u2019s look forward to a humane refugee policy because you can\u2019t stand up for principles if you can\u2019t show the right principles on your own border,\u201d she concluded.<\/p>\n<p>British actress and activist Emma Thompson also addressed the crowd, dubbing her speech as a \u201cpostcard to President Zelensky,\u201d who called on people across the world to take to the streets in protest against the war earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>Thompson, who has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2020\/05\/01\/emma-thompson-stars-as-vegan-eco-loon-in-extinction-rebellion-movie\/\">attended<\/a> previous left-wing demonstrations in London, said: \u201cWe think of you every day, we pray for you every day, even those of us who don\u2019t pray \u2014 like me \u2014 are praying.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">48 Per Cent of Londoners Think Mayor Sadiq Khan is \u2018Performing Badly\u2019<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/A5tWFltb6U\">https:\/\/t.co\/A5tWFltb6U<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1487455502992740355?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 29, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em><strong>Follow Kurt Zindulka on Twitter here <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KurtZindulka\">@KurtZindulka<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politicians, activists, and celebrities took to Central London on Saturday to protest against the war in Ukraine and celebrate refugees, diversity, and multiculturalism. 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