Palestine Action activists cleared of aggravated burglary at Israeli [weapons] factory All six were acquitted of aggravated burglary and jurors found Ms Rajwani, Ms Rogers and Mr Devlin not guilty of violent disorder. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

After 17 months in prison, 6 Palestine Action members have been cleared of all charges over an alleged raid on Elbit Systems. What an embarassment for the government and their expansion of 'counter-terror' measures. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Muhamad Majadla (ch12, Israel) reports that Palestinian returnees were "offered flights to third countries as an alternative to going back to Gaza".

Fascinating guest post on @3arabawy.substack.com blog about the surveillance infrastructure of Egypt’s repressive state. 3arabawy.substack.com/p/inside-the...

Our #liver #health project ‘MoLo’ for the #Mongolian Community in #London: #education, assessment for #diabetes, metabolic liver disease #MASLD, #HIV & viral #hepatitis, & linkage to care. Huge team effort with brilliant engagement. @who.int @crick.ac.uk @ucl.ac.uk #HBV #HCV #LiverSky #MedSky 🧪🇲🇳

They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.

Still on!

Today is the 4th anniversary of the worst ever tragedy in the Channel. At least 27 men, women & children drowned in the freezing water, & 4 more have never been found. Since then, neither we nor the French have done a thing to offer people in this situation with real solutions.

#OtD 20 Nov 2013 Syrian anarchist Omar Aziz was arrested by dictator Bashar al-Assad's secret police. Aziz helped distribute supplies in beseiged communities and co-founded the first directly democratic local council in Barzeh. He later died in custody stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9317...

"A Chinese immigrant was found dead in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention, with his hands and feet tied behind him, an attorney has alleged." www.newsweek.com/ice-detainee...

Of the twenty-six who sat silently in protest of the ban, only eight were arrested… Police said that the stations in Cornwall did not have a large enough capacity to hold the number who had defied the ban. In other terms, the police force had been overwhelmed cobblestonemedia.co.uk/2025/11/18/d...

Van Gogh Painting Sunflowers https://botfrens.com/collections/44/contents/12378

All Protocol Observed Welcome to Issue 219 of The Continent Protests, an internet blackout, and deadly force marked Tanzania’s Election Day. Once online again, 37 readers shared what they witnessed. Read their stories: bit.ly/219_TC

PR firm 'planted story' about Iran funding Palestine Action in media, report says Head of CMS Strategic, which works for Israeli arms firm Elbit Systems, was allegedly heard by witness saying she placed story in The Times before group's proscription www.middleeasteye.net/news/pr-firm...

‘British police arrested us for carrying signs on pizza boxes’ Two young Irish men feel they’re being treated “akin to ISIS” after being arrested for carrying pizza boxes emblazoned with a Palestine Action and anti-genocide slogan in London Lift The Ban m.independent.ie/irish-news/b...

'We Will Not Be Silenced': Prisoners Launch Hunger Strike Over UK's 'Complicity in Genocide' Remand-held activists against Elbit Systems launch open-ended hunger strike for bail, fair trials, and deproscription of Palestine Action Search: Prisoners for Palestine www.ibtimes.co.uk/imprisoned-u...

Atar on fall of al-Fashir, #Darfur. RSF took city with new drone systems, Colombian mercenaries, killings of food smugglers. People fleeing chaotically to non-aligned areas in Jebel Marra, massacre and torture en route. Emergency rooms closed in mourning. atarnetwork.com?p=16940&utm_...

Fighters from the Rapid Support Forces have filmed themselves committing mass killings in Darfur’s El Fasher – even as their leaders sat in US-sponsored peace talks. The city’s fall marks a new horror in Sudan’s war, reports journalist and human rights defender Ahmed Gouja. ⬇️

Fourth anniversary of Sudan's most recent coup, organized by the RSF and SAF together. Great article by Lutz Oette and Nada Ali remembering how the coup pushed Sudan towards this terrible war sudantransparency.org/remembering-...

Death toll from Israel's overnight strikes in Gaza reaches 81. Hospital officials expect that number to go up. Israel’s military has since said the ceasefire is back on. apnews.com/article/isra...

Sudan is the latest govt to get the deportation bug. Deportations won't solve the permacrises in Europe or the US, and they won't bring peace or prosperity to Sudan. sudantribune.com/article/306192

Why are Sudanese gun-trucks called Thatchers? Why is the Janjaweed named after the Heckler and Koch G3 rifle. Because Euro arms deals are always needed for for genocide. Yet another incredible must-read from @romandeckert.bsky.social www.rosalux.de/en/news/id/5...

Now’s a great time to pick up Alaa’s book, folks. It is perfectly titled: you have not yet been defeated Alaa was not defeated!

علاء علي الاسفلت!!!! Alaa is HOME and FREE!!!

Did we just get a Banksy? New Banksy showing judge hitting protester with gavel appears on High Court. metro.co.uk/2025/09/08/n...

📷 Two Ottoman Youth Both Named Yusuf in Antalya: An #Arab from Beirut and an #African from Antalya, December 21, 1882 (Southern Türkiye)

"Around 2.5% of all global marine fish caught are used to feed Norwegian salmon farms" - wtf!!!

Orphans - 1882 #artbots #vangogh https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/12469

Read this book! First major study of S Sudan's climate catastrophe. Written by maths PhD who can explain and critique climate stats - AND integrates evidence from documentary/oral history + songs. Optimistic about S Sudanese capacity for climate adaptation + justice. x.com/jongethon/st...

Sally Rooney: I support Palestine Action. If this makes me a ‘supporter of terror’ under UK law, so be it

In a world of John Boynes, be a Sally Rooney.

Sally Rooney: I support Palestine Action. If this makes me a ‘supporter of terror’ under UK law, so be it www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

We asked Sudanese people to explain what the war is about. What emerges is clear: there is no such thing as a war about nothing. continent.substack.com/p/is-the-sud...

All Protocol Observed Welcome to Issue 209 of The Continent The war in Sudan is more than numbers and labels — it’s a war about everything. Five Sudanese writers share stories from the ground, revealing its real contours and what it’s truly about. Get your copy here: bit.ly/TC_209

Also, from yesterday: "What matters more than your aversion to calling Israel’s actions “genocide” is the fact that a genocide is happening. Stop verbalizing your moral impulses out of existence by hemming and hawing about whether a genocide is a genocide."

- UNOCHA: more than 60 people, primarily women and children, died of malnutrition in a single week in besieged Elfashir. #KeepEyesOnSudan

Au Soudan, les paramilitaires de Hemetti tuent plus de 40 réfugiés dans un camp du Darfour en proie à la famine

Great article by Hekma Yagoub, and great translation from Najlaa Eltom, about the cruel new forms of grief and how to endure them. arablit.org/the-feminist...

Amongst those arrested in London for peacefully protesting the genocide in Gaza is this blind person in a wheelchair. Staggeringly embarrassing and shaming for Starmer. “Shame on you!” being shouted by the crowd. (🎥 Defend Our Juries)

Sudan War Update: Humanitarian crisis in El Fasher, North Darfur State #ACJPS #Sudan #Soudan

A must-read by Richard Seymour @leninology.bsky.social, on David Graeber for the @lrb.co.uk Baseline Communism —> www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

The Israeli cabinet ordered the expulsion of Gaza City residents by the 7th October 25. The IDF will then occupy the city. If this goes ahead in the manner of IDF operations in Rafah, it would entail the physical destruction of Gaza City - one of the oldest cities in the Middle East. 1/

Palestinian activist and teacher Odeh Hathaleen was shot dead by a settler. His body is still being withheld. The killer walks free. Odeh’s story is not the exception -- It is the rule in the West Bank. 🔗 Read the full report: www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1657...

From The Archives: ‘New York Times’ Issues Apology For Reporting Palestinian Deaths

Judicial review granted for Palestine Action proscription

The new capitalism is not people’s capitalism, but homoploutic capitalism. What has happened was not that capital income tricked down, but that labor income “trickled up” and combined with the pre-existing or newly-created large fortunes to create, at the very top, a new class

Une des compositions les plus populaires de Ziad Rahbani, décédé hier, pour sa mère Feyrouz. open.spotify.com/track/46R7cZ...

Monday, July 28, at 21:00 Israel/Palestine time (20:00 CET/2 PM EDT) Emergency discussion on the starvation of Gaza, its causes, its current and long-term impacts, the legal structures around it, and what we can do to stop it. Full details in alt text

British doctor comes back from Gaza and confirms two things we knew: 1- the Israelis *specifically* confiscate formula feed to starve children 2- there is a clear pattern in gun shot wounds pointing to the fact that IDF soldiers are playing games hunting humans. www.instagram.com/reel/DMm03Kp...