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Plymouth LGBTQ+ activists challenge ‘pinkwashing’ (www.socialistparty.org.uk)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by squid to c/uk_leftists

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Plymouth’s LGBTQ+ Pride parade had been fractured in the lead-up to the event. Some people broke away from planning the march after hearing of the involvement of companies Babcock and BT.

Babcock, a UK-based multinational corporation, has made applications for export licences for military equipment to Israel, making them a questionable and inappropriate sponsor of Pride. Trans Pride and others stated: “No Pride in genocide”.

BT has announced that 55,000 of their 130,000 employees will be laid off over the next six years, as part of a move into ‘AI automation’. This will affect people in Plymouth.

Written by me edited by socialist parties in house editor's. I am also the one on the right in the picture looking uncomfortable as always.

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[–] OrlandoDoom 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Nice one. Corporations hanging rainbow flags without doing anything for community doesn't help anyone.

[–] squid 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Much appreciated thanks. And yes rainbow flags (branded) and corporate sponsors retract from the movement but this is why we must be vocal.