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• Stop Trump Coalition
  In 2020, the UK-based organisation Stop Trump Coalition published a crowdsourced map, titled 'Topple the Racists', which identified several statues and monuments across the country that celebrate slavery and racism. The Topple the Racists map was widely reported on by a number of UK media outlets during that year. The group's statement is reproduced below: Stop Trump stands in full solidarity with Black Lives Matter activists across the world. Your fight is our fight. We started the map of problematic statues across the UK as a crowd-sourced project that aims to highlight the complicity and history of Empire and slavery. This is a collaborative project that examines our public spaces, the history of wealth that built our towns and cities, and our understanding of our own history. We are actively encouraging people to engage with the map, not just by submitting examples, but by reading through the ones listed, and providing different perspectives on historical figures who were elevated for some of their actions with no mention of their complicity in exploitation and racial violence. Who are these men and what do we do with their statues? In the short space since the statue of Edward Colston went into the river, we have seen a sweeping wave of changes – from colleges, to councils to cultural institutions – various authorities are suddenly taking action to remove or rename monuments to slavers. We welcome this development and we recognise this would not have happened with the speed it has were it not for the BLM protestors in Bristol, so we offer our full solidarity. We also acknowledge that many more people have taken the time to learn about these exploitative figures from our collective past thanks to the work of the Black Lives Matter movement. It is high time this effort was matched by our education system as well, so we can have understanding and awareness, as well as empty statements of support to our black and ethnic minorities communities. Now that the conversation has started, we invite institutions to engage with the public and their own history and find ways to educate about the uncomfortable links between wealth, philanthropy and colonialism. Monuments can find a new home in museums, or through art, and some might simply be removed. It is not our job to decide what happens. Glorifying colonialists and slavers has no place in a country serious about dismantling systemic racism and oppression, but education does.
• Stroud Against Racism
• Stroud District Council
• Sunderland City Council
• Sutton London Borough Council
• Swansea Council / Cyngor Abertawe
• The Anchor Society
• The British Museum
• The Church of England
• The Colston Four
  The "Colston Four" are four people—Rhian Graham, Milo Ponsford, Jake Skuse and Sage Willoughby - who helped to topple the Edward Colston statue in Bristol on June 7th 2020, and were subsequently put on trial for criminal damage. In 2022, the Colston Four were acquitted by an 11-1 majority decision by the trial jury.
• The Colston Society
• The Dolphin Society
• The Grateful Society
• The Society of Merchant Venturers
  Charitable organisation based in Bristol, deeply involved in the transatlantic slave trade in the eighteenth century.
• Tower Hamlets London Borough Council
• Uncomfortable Cambridge
• Uncomfortable Oxford
• University College London (UCL)
• University of Bristol
• University of Cambridge
• University of East London
• University of Essex
• University of Exeter
• University of Manchester
• University of Oxford
• Wakefield Council
• Waltham Forest London Borough Council
• Wandsworth London Borough Council
• We Are Bristol History Commission
  A consulative body appointed by the Mayor of Bristol in 2020, with these aims: "help Bristol better understand its history and how it became the city it is today work with citizens and community groups to make sure that everyone in the city can share their views on Bristol's history build an improved, shared understanding of Bristol's story for future generations."
• West India Dock Company
  The West India Dock Company was responsible for the creation of the West India Docks, which first opened in 1802. Founded by the merchant and slave-owner Robert Milligan (1746-1809), the Docks were built to facilitate the flow of commodities and people between Britain and the Caribbean.
• Westminster City Council
  Borough council in London
• York Civic Trust
  A membership organisation based in York, dedicated to the promotion of heritage.