Amazing pro-Palestine protests at the Vuelta today. It sucks that my favourite sport is getting disrupted... but not as much as the genocide Israel is perpetrating. Brilliant to see cycling paying the price for it's sport-washing. Bahrain, UAE & INEOS etc I hope you are next! #Vuelta25

LETS GO!

REVEALED: DSEI, the UK's largest arms fair, have quietly removed Israel from the list of 'International Pavilions' on its website. Israel was listed as exhibiting in April but was removed in July.

Not the biggest fan of the police? Good at running shit? Well now, we have something for you.

This morning had been extremely serious for the future of protest rights, but it's still really hard not to laugh at the respected lawyer who presented South Africa's case to the International Court of Justice talking about a new protest group called 'Yvette Cooper'

"Westminster continues to exist inside a bubble: one where fringe groups like ‘We Believe in Israel’ and loud partisan cranks like Lord Walney are heard... but where the anger and resentment across Britain about the massacre of children in Gaza, every night on our television screens, is ignored"

🚨BREAKING His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama confirms continued reincarnations and reaffirms that Tibetans will have the sole authority to recognise all future Dalai Lamas.

We have deep concerns about government plans to designate Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation. Nonviolent protest, and even acts of vandalism, should not be labelled as terrorism. Civil disobedience has been a powerful force for positive social change. www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...

Want to know what it's like to be called a terrorist by the UK Government and then vindicated by history? I asked former ANC MP @andrewfeinstein.bsky.social. Don't think it will take as long to be prooved right this time @palaction.bsky.social.

In 2017, we broke into a BAE Systems airfield to stop jets from going to bomb Yemen. Our lenient treatment exposes the @palaction.bsky.social ban for what it is: racist and politically motivated. Reverend Woody & I for @novaramedia.com. novaramedia.com/2025/06/27/w...

As of Monday showing this film could be illegal, if @palaction.bsky.social is proscribed. It'd be TERRIBLE if someone in say, Ireland, starting hosting this film. Then people could watch it using a VPN. Let's make sure this doesn't happen!

Love @palaction.bsky.social but us at @quaker.org.uk have been taking anti-militarist nonviolent direct action since the 1650s and have never once been proscribed as terrorists. If they are terrorists surely we have got to be?

So far, members of the Netpol Lawyers Group have confirmed four appeals against conviction already, as a consequence of the government's defeat.

Word is the government is dropping its appeal against the court victory by @libertyhq.bsky.social over regulations unlawfully defining serious disruption as anything "more than minor". The state must now be forced to review hundreds of arrests and convictions of protesters made using this definition

The chair of the Undercover Policing Inquiry, John Mitting, is retiring before the inquiry completes its work, departing after an interim report. Its terms of reference were published a decade ago. The police have delayed, obfuscated and successfully kicked the scandal into the long grass

More political repression of Palestine solidarity

In the 80s @quaker.org.uk installed a condomn machine in the toilets, specifically to help prevent the spread of AIDS. The same biogotted tactics that are being used to attack Quakers now for allowing trans-women into their toilets were used then. www.thepinknews.com/2025/05/27/q...

Delighted that @quaker.org.uk are "destroying" their reputation by refusing to obey unjust guidance that attacks trans people. The FA could learn a lot. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05...

I want to see Serj Tankian cover Red Wine Supernova by Chapell Roan. I would really suit his vocal style. That is all.

🧵 Unable to share this as it's paywalled but it's a good question: Britain is facing growing repression of protests rights, but WHY is this happening?

Today numerous frontline climate campaigners told UN Special Rapporteur for environmental defenders @michelforst.bsky.social about the grim state of repression from the police, the courts, in prisons and from probation. Forst was invited to Britain by Netpol to follow up an earlier visit in 2024

Not the best time to raid a @quaker.org.uk meeting house...

Our friends at the Article 11 Trust are looking for someone to help them raise funds to distribute to grassroots movements to support their rights to freedom of assembly article11trust.org.uk/call-for-con...

Face masks at protests: if not now, when? netpol.org/2025/04/02/f...

Cool work alert: Notice the recent repression of protest? The Article 11 Trust is looking for someone to help us raise funds, to distribute to grassroots movements to support their rights to freedom of assembly. article11trust.org.uk/call-for-con...

Excited to see that the extraordinarily detailed Spycops.Info website created by the Undercover Research Group is now live at spycopsresearch.info

👉NEW -- How Israel secretly armed Argentina during the Falklands war by @john-mcevoy.bsky.social Declassified files reveal how Tel Aviv deceived Britain while it supplied Argentina’s anti-Semitic dictatorship with weapons during the 1980s. www.declassifieduk.org/how-israel-s...

Labour’s decision to try and ban face coverings is based on an increasingly authoritarian state‘s understanding that masks represent one of the few remaining, readily available, and effective protections against the crackdown on protest rights. freedomnews.org.uk/2025/04/02/f...

Join Quakers on Thursday at a meeting for worship outside New Scotland Yard, 12-1pm 🪧 Join us in responding to police aggression with love and peace 🙏🕊️ Details: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/scotland-y...

Oliver Robertson, head of witness and worship for Quakers in Britain, said: “This raid is not an isolated incident. “It reflects a growing trend of excessive policing under new laws brought in by the previous government, which are now being enforced by the current administration." @quaker.org.uk

🕯️*Quaker Meeting for Worship*🕯️ In support of all who speak up for truth & integrity in the face of increasing state oppression. *Outside New Scotland Yard* Thurs 3 April 12-1pm Join us in returning police violence & aggression with love & peace. Meet at Chindit Memorial, Embankment Gardens

If anyone in the #Climate or #Palestine movements wants to try a Quaker Meeting, this would be a good one to go to. It is in response to arrests of @youthdemand.bsky.social for action on climate & Palestine. And it is at the Met Police's HQ, and they gotta be held to account for their repression.

Met police raiding a Quaker meeting house is a raid on a place of worship. Arresting 6 women for attending a meeting is a raid on our right to assembly. The media silence is deafening.

🕯️Quaker Meeting for Worship🕯️ Upholding our worshipping community & Westminster Friends Outside New Scotland Yard 3 April 12-1pm Anyone who wishes to join us will be most welcome, of all faiths or none (exact location to be posted on Wednesday) @quaker.org.uk @ccanl.bsky.social

The police failed to arrest my dad (70)! He was in the basement during the raid. On a committee discussing @quaker.org.uk youth work. He is still at large.

🚨 Outrage as 20 police officers break into Westminster Quaker Meeting House and arrest six. 🚨 This shocking violation of a place of worship is a direct result of crackdowns on protest and dissent - freedom of speech, assembly and democracy are at risk.🕊️ 👉 www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...

"No-one has been arrested in a Quaker meeting house in living memory". Some said we were overstating our case, in our report launched last week,that we've now reached a state of repression in England and Wales. THIS is repression

The day after saying that they want to stop harassment in places of worship... The police raid a Quaker meeting house. I know the @quaker.org.uk will follow up this amazing press release by lawyering up. I'm sure @netpol.org will support.

Finally, proper protection for Quaker meetings for worship outside of arms fairs and military bases. For years these places of worship have disrupted by intimidation, largely from the police. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Labour plans to amend legislation to avoid a legal challenge to the Met Police's effective ban on protests outside the BBC on a Saturday. It's presented as protecting "places of worship" but police have never been as forthright over a far-right march near a mosque www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Only £585,000 to tell prospective students that Sussex Uni wont tolerate TERFs? BEST VALUE PUBLICITY EVER! Young people not so keen on the TERFs you see. 🏳️‍⚧️ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Did you miss last week's webinar launch of "This is Repression", our new report on the state of protest in England and Wales? Watch it now on our YouTube channel, with speakers from Netpol, Palestine Action, Reclaim the Power and CASP www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_2b...

Protesters are a great way to justify more money for the police. £125,000+ per head. After decades of Reclaim the Power not being policed like this. Don't believe them when the police say they need more money. #DefundThePolice

£125,000+ per arrest at Reclaim the Power camp at Drax in August. Ridiculous repression as @netpol.org says. novaramedia.com/2025/03/18/r... More great work from @simonchilds.bsky.social

Thames Water got approval for its £3 billion bailout loan, but it's still going to go bust. 16 million customers now face 59% price hikes to pay for Thames' mountain of debt. We'll put them out of business instead. Join us 👉 takebackwater.uk

Justice for the #Essex6 www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-pro-...

I THINK YEEESSSSSSS. Also I thinkn the badger crew from last time were ace. 🦡

On Weds 19 March at 1pm we're launching our State of Protest report! We'll be joined for the launch by frontline organisers from social movements facing the police, alongside the author of the report Kevin Blowe. Book now: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Well you did accuse them of political repression. This is just more direct than usual!

For at least five years, Netpol has argued the police are obsessed with environmental and pro-Palestinian protesters. Now we need to know exactly who they're gathering intelligence on www.theguardian.com/uk-news/arti...