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Among much utter mince uttered by the English Court of Appeal today. Lady Chief Justice Carr said that the suffragettes were non-violent and did not plan any actions in secret. Which is so ignorant of history I don't know where to start...
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I love that students are still making statements, still walking out, still talking about this - when it feels everyone, everything has “moved on” I’m glad to see this. Not because it materially changes any realities for Palestinians (and Lebanese, Iranians, etc) but because it forces everyone who witnesses it to remember the on-going, unending crimes of our country against entire peoples.
BREAKING: Stanford University graduates staged a walkout during Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s keynote address at commencement Sunday. The walkout was organized by Students for Justice in Palestine and No Tech for Apartheid as a protest against Google’s contracts with the IDF, Dept. of Homeland Security, and ICE.
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Palestine Action is in good company. British governments and courts criminalised resistance to slavery, the Chartist movement for universal male suffrage, any organising by trade unionists, and the Suffragette movement to win women the vote. None of our rights were given to us by the ruling class. We had to fight for each of them tooth and nail. The British establishment is always on the wrong side of history, because history is with the struggle of ordinary people, not with the selfish interests of the billionaires and war industries. Those earlier struggles were deemed the terrorism of their day by the very same "liberals" – the British establishment and its useful idiots – who today declare any practical action to stop British complicity in Israel's genocide to be terrorism. Note too as proof of bad faith: the British establishment is well advanced in its efforts to declare entirely peaceful protest – marches through the streets – as anti-social, hate crimes and soon enough terrorism too. The ruling class consider attempts to stop a genocide, even holding a banner against the mass murder of children, to be far worse than racist pogroms in Belfast, which try to burn alive people in their homes because of the colour of their skin.
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Translation: 'All your lives have to get worse for bombs'. We are in the top 6 for defence spending. United States: £686bn, China: £241bn, Russia: £136bn, Germany: £82bn, India: £66.1bn, UK: £62bn All this 'money for defence' is absolute BS.
Lisa Nandy says the govt has already cut spending in other departments to divert money for war & confirms they're going to implement further cuts.
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Today’s ruling to uphold the UK government's proscription of Palestine Action is a travesty of justice. One by one, the very foundations of our democracy are being destroyed — all to oil the wheels of British complicity in genocide. Our government has participated in the mass murder of Palestinians. That is the real crime, and we must bring about justice.
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🔴Lebanese Ministry of Health: 3798 civilians killed and 11, 781 injured in Israeli attacks since March 2nd. Report from Tebnine hospital.
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We've been contacted by many people on the Isle of Lewis who disagree with the Guga hunt. However, you don't have to be from a specific place to know that killing baby seabird chicks for a delicacy is wrong.
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This is genuinely wild. The British establishment has just admitted that destroying 'israeli' weapons is worse than attacking the British state itself. Private weapons the IOF uses to genocide non-jews. Britain officially declared that it puts the interests of 'israel' first.
The Lady Chief Justice: Palestine Action was not a direct action civil disobedience protest group like the suffragettes, but used violence to destroy property The suffragettes burned down country houses & train stations, bombed churches & sent letter bombs to politicians.
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Stuart Freedman retweeted
The Lady Chief Justice went to private school and Cambridge University but apparently has zero knowledge of history.
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The Lady Chief Justice said proscription of Palestine Action “struck a fair balance” and that PA is not a peaceful civil disobedience group like the Suffragettes
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Remember The repression is increasing because they are losing The mask is off. And it's never going back on
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Completely ignorant of her own country’s history, what an embarrassment
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The Lady Chief Justice said proscription of Palestine Action “struck a fair balance” and that PA is not a peaceful civil disobedience group like the Suffragettes
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Again: a suffragette threw an axe at Herbert Asquith
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The Lady Chief Justice said proscription of Palestine Action “struck a fair balance” and that PA is not a peaceful civil disobedience group like the Suffragettes
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For those who asked what are the Israelis doing in Lebanon, They are murdering chefs now! Kassem Jouni was a chef and kitchen owner, and this is what happened today:
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“I’m just trying to do my job” says the policewoman. The I was just following orders defence didn’t work then. It doesn’t work now. Uk Police officers have had plenty of time to decide if they want to uphold & enforce corrupt laws which support genocide
Passer by pleads with police to let a woman go free “she’s frail... can you let her go?... just from holding up a placard!” outside Woolwich Crown Court as hundreds join protest against sentencing of Filton 4 as terrorists despite not being charged or convicted as terrorists.
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Once again the UK says Iran must never be allowed to possess nuclear weapons. While British officials continue to defend Israel by refusing to acknowledge its own possession of nuclear arms.
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The second trial, with eight of the Filton 25, has begun today at the Old Bailey. However, security are denying entry to all the family members and loved ones, demanding they have two forms of ID. This rule has never been used before, and is clearly an intimidation tactic.
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Reform's leader of Warwickshire Council, George Finch, bragging about cracking down on high street illegality. He will do this by cutting the Trading Standards budget by £100,000 and making crappy videos to pretend he's doing something.
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Outside the illegal Israeli land sale event in London today, Zionists showed pictures of dead Palestinians on their phones to anti-genocide protesters. But as usual, it’s the decent British citizens trying to uphold international law who end up being arrested.
Police arrested peaceful Jewish protesters outside Edgware Synagogue during a demonstration against the illegal sale of Palestinian land, including properties linked to West Bank settlements.
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Riddle me this? How come a cameraman is at the bottom of stairs being "cleared" by "Brave British Marines?" How come he's inside rooms being "cleared" as they enter? Standing on front of presumably live weapons? What utterly embarrasing, cringeworthty staged idiocy.
Britain's opposition leader Kemi Badenoch thanked- "Brave Royal Marines" For landing unppposed on a completely unarmed civillian ship, with a civillian crew. The only thing they had to stop for, was to re-film some parts. Theatre.
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