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On Saturday 21st June, the Resistance Kitchen joined other local grassroots organisations of the Croydon Divest Coalition, to protest outside the surgery of the head of Croydon council pension committee, Councillor Callton Young who seems to have reneged on a promise to meet us.
On Thursday 5th June 2025 the Resistance Kitchen joined several community groups outside the Croydon Labour party fundraising Gala dinner to protest NHS privatisation, disability cuts, and Labours complicity in genocide.
With your help, mashAllah, we have smashed our target of 1,000 letters to councillors! As of Sunday 8th June 2025, the community has sent 1,272 letters to their local councillors in Croydon and the Council Pension Committee urging them to divest from genocide and instead invest ethically to benefit our community. Every councillor in every ward in Croydon has now received letters from their local residents in their ward.
Croydon council pension fund has invested over £120 million in companies complicit in genocide. Please write to your councillors urging Croydon council to divest from genocide, help us reach a 1000 letters. Use our simple 3 step tool - it only takes 2 minutes.
Send an email to your local Croydon councillor asking them to divest Croydon Council from companies supporting genocide. Use our simple 3-step tool to generate you email.
The Croydon Divest coalition this week challenged Croydon councils investments in arms companies guilty of genocide in Gaza, by tabling a question at the full meeting of Croydon council.
This week the Resistance Kitchen wrote to the chair of Croydon Council Pension Committee urging the council to divest from arms companies and those complicity in genocide and apartheid in Palestine.
On Tuesday 18th March the Resistance Kitchen joined other local community groups to protest outside Croydon town hall demanding Croydon council divest from the arms trade and genocide.
Since joining the campaign to boycott Israeli dates, the Resistance Kitchen has received several queries as to why boycotting Israeli dates is so complicated. Why can't we just have a list of brands to boycott like with other products. Why can't we just check the label? There are several reasons for this, here we look at just one of them - false labelling.
As we mark 186 days that the Filton 18 have been unjustly imprisoned without trial for trying to stop genocide, the Resistance Kitchen is proud to work with the Islamic Human Rights Commission and Inminds Human Rights Group in joining the campaign to boycott Israeli dates this Ramadan.
Today the Resistance Kitchen joined Migrants Organise and Reclaim Croydon outside the new Home Office building in Ruskin Square in Croydon as part of the campaign to Abolish Reporting for migrants.
As we marked 172 days that the #Filton18 have been unjustly imprisoned for trying to stop genocide, they have had to endure a particularly cruel week with the new management at HMP Bronzefield cancelling around half of all visits to the Filton 18 detainees with no explanation, often last minute. Other prisoners have not been targeted.