What if I don't intend to influence them, what if my intention is to inform the community? That still okay?

Labour's other new anti-protest Crime and Policing Bill amendment is the previously trailed restriction on "cumulative" protests. The wording says a senior police officer “must” take into account any cumulative impact of past protests – regardless of who organised or attended them

Last night we told a group of funders that the problem with focusing campaigning against the current anti-protest crackdown on tinkering with or abolishing a law is there's always more injust legislation on the horizon. Almost always banning things that are already unlawful. Earlier that day...

The ‘correct’ way of influencing a politician in their role is to pay them, have meetings with them and persuade them to act in your interests, rather than those of their constituents or the country as a whole. For which a peerage can be expected.

Remember the rule, folks – if it's outside a politician's home, it's "toxic behaviour", but if it's outside a so-called 'asylum hotel' it's a "reasonable concern" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Fascist thugs kicked down security fences and attacked security guards at my local refugee hotel and yet we still can't even get a basic PSPO.

The government has announced yet another proposed anti-protest law: a new criminal offence of protesting outside the home of someone in public office "where their intention is to influence them in their role or an aspect of their private life", with a maximum sentence of 6 months’ imprisonment.

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📣 Court Support Callout the Southampton Leonardo 3 📍 Southampton Crown Court, SO15 2XQ 📆 First Day 10th November 2025 (scheduled for 2 weeks) ⏱️ 10am each day

Allianz, the insurers for Israeli weapons company Elbit, has been targeted by direct action protests in eight countries freedomnews.org.uk/2025/11/03/e...

"There appears to be a growing pattern of undercover officers raising mental ill-health as a reason that they should not attend the inquiry to give oral evidence" www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Oxfordshire Police have used Public Order Act conditions to effectively ban both a far right protest and an anti-racist counter protest from taking place between 12:30pm and 7pm today, as well as imposing a weekend long dispersal order www.cherwell.org/2025/10/31/o...

#NotGuilty Three Just Stop Oil activists who took part in a protest at Stonehenge, which was sprayed with orange powder, have been found not guilty of criminal damage www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/s...

Protest bans are a ‘display of state power’ - should we celebrate the police banning protests, when they are likely to weaponise their unprecedented powers against anti-racists in the future? netpol.org/2025/10/30/p...

It's unclear what the message is here: two of the three people WERE imprisoned as 'dangerous terrorists': Gandhi in 1922 and again in 1942, Mandela for 27 years from 1962. Millicent Fawcett was a moderate who opposed militancy, received an OBE, and today would probably have been a Lib Dem

A damning report on how Police in Scotland handled protests about Gaza. Full report available here: www.scottishactivistlegalproject.co.uk/from-scotlan... Oh, and I did the report's layout & design.

"Campaigners seldom win their demands overnight with just one demonstration and no other tactics. Why? Because government and corporate interests do not respond to polite pressure. Power concedes nothing without a fight" netpol.org/2025/10/28/r...

Resist new laws restricting ‘cumulative protests’ "if the government wants to avoid repeated protest marches, maybe the answer is to look at its cumulative support for injustice, its cumulative destruction of the environment and its cumulative complicity in genocide" netpol.org/2025/10/28/r...

Police Scotland used 'extreme violence' to protect the interests of arms companies from pro-Palestine protesters, a new report has claimed Read here: www.thenational.scot/news/2...

“Island of strangers”

One of our team took part in today's @fossilfreeldn.bsky.social "Right to Protest Walking Tour" from Parliament Square to the Royal Courts of Justice and won the pot of rosemary - a symbol of the Levellers - at the quiz at the end (our sympathies are more with the Diggers, but a prize is a prize...)

At today's United Families and Friends Campaign rally opposite Downing Street. Jean Charles de Menezses' cousin Patricia is speaking – still campaigning for other families 20 years after Jean was assassinated by the Metropolitan Police

Today in London – solidarity to all who have lost loved ones in the custody or 'care' of the state

Front page of this morning's 'The National'. "Extreme Violence – Police Scotland used excessive restrictions to protect the interests of arms firms during Palestine protests, says new report". The SCALP/Netpol report launches this evening in Glasgow

After eighteen months of stress and anxiety, the ordeal of three local anti-cuts protesters in Newham whose homes were raided by police over alleged 'hate crime' accusations is finally over – all have been told they will not be charged bsky.app/profile/netp...

CAAT’s Media Coordinator Emily Apple, who is also a member of Netpol's core team, was arrested on 9 October for simply wearing a Palestinian kufiya in Whitehall. This is the dystopian, authoritarian country we now live in caat.org.uk/news/caats-m...

CAAT’s Media Coordinator Emily Apple, who is also a member of Netpol's core team, was arrested on 9 October for simply wearing a Palestinian kufiya in Whitehall. This is the dystopian, authoritarian country we now live in caat.org.uk/news/caats-m...

The Metropolitan Police has imposed Public Order Act restrictions on this Saturday's UKIP racist rally, preventing it from taking place in Whitechapel or anywhere else in the borough of Tower Hamlets.

Good article that at least acknowledges that the "increasingly sinister securitisation of football fans at matches" is a problem – and includes this dig at Home Office bullshit that made us laugh www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Campaign group Prisoners for Palestine said activists held on remand will begin a hunger strike on November 2, over their deteriorating treatment in custody since Palestine Action was proscribed as a terrorist group in July www.thenational.scot/news/2555711...

Climate activists disrupt British Museum’s first fundraising gala www.artsprofessional.co.uk/news/climate...

As the political establishment tries to focus attention on whether banning hooligans is good or bad, Birmingham remains focused on the bigger picture – why is Israel allowed to remain in international football while it commits genocide? 🗓️ November 6th 🕕 6pm 📍Holte End entrance on Trinity Road

The alleged organiser of a pro-Palestine march in Westcliff-on-Sea in April this year will appear in court today, after Essex Police decided to track down and arrest them for failing to provide advance notification of a public procession

By having us all talking about whether banning far-right Israeli hooligans is "antisemitism" or "two tier policing" (itself a bullshit trope of far-right victimhood), the Westminster establishment has successfully managed to sideline debate over why Israel is not banned from international football

The government has LOST its bid to block the Palestine Action ban appeal, which will now take place in the last week of November www.bbc.com/news/article...

"It’s during that moment that a police officer threatens to arrest me for filming an altercation. He shouts in my face to stop recording, attempting to strip my journalistic rights away from me. I comply, but tension lingers" www.asianimage.co.uk/news/2554979...

The arms and banking industries lobbied the Scottish government for tougher action on pro-Palestine protests and direct expressions of support, newly released documents reveal www.heraldscotland.com/news/2554473...

Scotland Stop Arming Israel, Workers for a Free Palestine and Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign have blockaded the Edinburgh weapons firm Leonardo UK www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottis...

'Hackney Anti-Raids have pulled together some key safety advice.The guide, available on the @netpol.org blog, covers key advice such as what to do if you're targeted in the street, at your accomodation, and whether or not you have to involve the police.'

As Gratwick does not have a record for such offences dating from the time, this is hard to prove, and it is unlikely we will ever know. Yet, some activists recall police officers telling them there was a paedophile on the camps. freedomnews.org.uk/2025/10/14/d...

The mother of Stephen Lawrence has alleged at the undercover policing public inquiry that the Home Office was “directly involved” in the “egregious and unlawful” surveillance of her family’s campaign for justice. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

'The UK is leading by bad example, abusing the international standards to which it itself agreed by bringing in these draconian laws that are designed to stop protest against any of the issues that are uncomfortable for the UK government." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Some British government ministers don't want anyone to talk about genocide in Gaza or Britain's complicity in it www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...

According to one of our crew involved in preparing it, today's opening statements by Netpol co-founder Newham Monitoring Project is a damning condemnation of police racism and the Inquiry's abject failure to understand it

“Despite the UK government claiming to have suspended arms licenses to Israel and thousands of people demonstrating in the streets, weapons continue to flow from Bristol”, an activist was quoted in a press statement. freedomnews.org.uk/2025/10/11/b...

Hundreds of thousands are expected to attend today's Palestine Coalition protest. Pro-Israel groups and rightwing media say there's now no reason to march because of the ceasefire – but there's no peace without justice, and no justice on the horizon www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

🚨 BREAKING 🚨 Permanent facial recognition cameras are now live in Croydon – with no clear laws and no safeguards to protect our rights.

One of our team was arrested yesterday for allegedly breaching protest restrictions, even though they weren't protesting – because wearing a keffiyeh while walking down the street is "reasonable suspicion". This is the result of Starmer's crackdown: we're back in time to Nov 2023 under the Tories

Date for your diary: United Families and Friends Campaign Annual Remembrance Procession 🗓️ Saturday 25 October 📍 Trafalgar Square, 🕕 12 noon