Hundreds in Edinburgh protest against Donald Trump state visit

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00:00No Trump, no KKK, no fascist USA!

00:30We're a campaigning organisation that particularly focus on global inequality and corporate power.

00:41So we're seeing more and more billionaires in the world and the multinational companies

00:47are all raking in the profits and more and more people are not able to pay their bills.

00:52So our campaigns are around the issues that result in that really.

00:58So we're here and part of the Stop Trump Coalition, particularly because Trump is here with the big tech bros,

01:06with what we would say are the modern robber barons.

01:10So extracting profit, not paying taxes, reducing regulation.

01:15So whilst we're not against investment in the UK, what we want is for the UK government

01:22to make sure they're regulated and taxed and that those profits don't make their way straight out of the UK.

01:28and into the pockets of billionaires.

01:30An authoritarian leader anywhere in the world will have an impact on all of us.

01:36So when we see that, and he is taking the US down an authoritarian path,

01:41with what he's doing around shutting down freedom of speech and journalists, for example,

01:46and the universities and the court system, that's a threat to democracy and that can have ripple effects everywhere.

01:54So it's really important that wherever you are, you stand up against that.

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