{"id":2849,"date":"2025-09-21T10:48:40","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T10:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eastlondon.humanist.org.uk\/?p=2849"},"modified":"2026-04-20T19:37:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T19:37:15","slug":"no-sucking-up-to-tyrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/eastlondon.humanist.org.uk\/?p=2849","title":{"rendered":"No sucking up to tyrants!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Members of East London and Central London Humanists joined the mass demonstration protesting Trump and Trumpism in Central London on 17 September 2025, organised by the Anti-Trump coalition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/eastlondon.humanist.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-09-18-at-13.29.07_5f6a69f3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"462\" src=\"https:\/\/eastlondon.humanist.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-09-18-at-13.29.07_5f6a69f3-1024x462.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2851\" srcset=\"http:\/\/eastlondon.humanist.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-09-18-at-13.29.07_5f6a69f3-1024x462.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/eastlondon.humanist.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-09-18-at-13.29.07_5f6a69f3-300x135.jpg 300w, http:\/\/eastlondon.humanist.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-09-18-at-13.29.07_5f6a69f3-768x346.jpg 768w, http:\/\/eastlondon.humanist.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-09-18-at-13.29.07_5f6a69f3-1536x692.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/eastlondon.humanist.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-09-18-at-13.29.07_5f6a69f3.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Trumpism represents the antithesis of Humanist values. It is characterised by lack of compassion, othering, rejection of science, reason and internationally agreed norms of behaviour, and disrespect for the natural world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our double-sided banner paraded along the march condemned the appeasement of this dangerous phenomenon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/eastlondon.humanist.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-09-18-at-13.28.58_913ada01-768x1024.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/eastlondon.humanist.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-09-18-at-13.28.58_913ada01-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"2853\" data-link=\"https:\/\/eastlondon.humanist.org.uk\/?attachment_id=2853\" class=\"wp-image-2853\" srcset=\"http:\/\/eastlondon.humanist.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-09-18-at-13.28.58_913ada01-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/eastlondon.humanist.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-09-18-at-13.28.58_913ada01-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/eastlondon.humanist.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-09-18-at-13.28.58_913ada01-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http:\/\/eastlondon.humanist.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-09-18-at-13.28.58_913ada01.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/eastlondon.humanist.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-09-18-at-13.29.04_24b76e70.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/eastlondon.humanist.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-09-18-at-13.29.04_24b76e70-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"2855\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/eastlondon.humanist.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-09-18-at-13.29.04_24b76e70.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/eastlondon.humanist.org.uk\/?attachment_id=2855\" class=\"wp-image-2855\" srcset=\"http:\/\/eastlondon.humanist.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-09-18-at-13.29.04_24b76e70-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/eastlondon.humanist.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-09-18-at-13.29.04_24b76e70-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/eastlondon.humanist.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-09-18-at-13.29.04_24b76e70-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/eastlondon.humanist.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-09-18-at-13.29.04_24b76e70-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/eastlondon.humanist.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-09-18-at-13.29.04_24b76e70.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of East London and Central London Humanists joined the mass demonstration protesting Trump and Trumpism in Central London on 17 September 2025, organised by the Anti-Trump coalition. Trumpism represents the antithesis of Humanist values. It is characterised by lack &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/eastlondon.humanist.org.uk\/?p=2849\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9c4oP-JX","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/eastlondon.humanist.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2849"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/eastlondon.humanist.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/eastlondon.humanist.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eastlondon.humanist.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eastlondon.humanist.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2849"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/eastlondon.humanist.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2920,"href":"http:\/\/eastlondon.humanist.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2849\/revisions\/2920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/eastlondon.humanist.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eastlondon.humanist.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eastlondon.humanist.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}