Almost 900 people arrested at London Palestine Action protest, police say
British police said on Sunday (local time) they had arrested almost 900 people at a demonstration the previous day in support of Palestine Action, and the government appealed for people to stop demonstrating in support of the banned campaign group.
Britain proscribed Palestine Action under anti-terrorism legislation in July after some of its members broke into a Royal Air Force base and damaged military planes.
That followed vandalism and incidents targeting defence firms in Britain with links to Israel. The group accuses Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s government of complicity in what it says are Israeli war crimes in Gaza.
Hundreds of Palestine Action supporters have since been arrested at demonstrations, many of them over the age of 60. London police said 890 had been held following a protest near parliament in central London on Saturday, the highest number of detentions from a single such protest to date.
Of those, 857 were detained for showing support for a banned group, while 17 were arrested for assaults on officers after police said the protest turned violent.
The true free speech issue in the UK right how, is not this fuckwit…
…it’s being arrested for holding a sign saying ‘Palestine Action’.
The vast majority of those the British Pigs are arresting are boomers who are using their privilege to make a stand against this corrupt attack on Free Speech.
Here is the reality.
Direct action is the only action that works now be it the genocide in Gaza or the environmental crimes against humanity that polluters are causing with climate change.
Here is another reality.
The Pigs won’t beat the shit out of White Boomers.
In NZ, the cops are great for beating up Māori, chasing young people to their deaths and hassling the homeless, they ain’t so good and hurting white boomers.
It is time for our White Boomer Activists to lean into this privilege and put their bodies on the line at the very forefront of the fight.
Direct Action by our white boomer comrades be it Gaza or Climate Change is the only way to force real change.
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So are peaceful protests outside the Israeli embassy telling them that they are not welcome an option? We need to be crystal clear that it is actions and not nationality that we oppose, so getting Jewish people involved would be a great PR start.
Word of Day ‘Imperial boomerang’
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_boomerang
The imperial boomerang is the thesis that governments that develop repressive techniques to control colonial territories will eventually deploy those same techniques domestically against their own citizens.
This concept originates with Aimé Césaire in Discourse on Colonialism (1950) where it is called the terrific boomerang to explain the origins of European fascism in the first half of the 20th century.[1][2] Hannah Arendt agreed with this usage, calling it the boomerang effect in The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951).[3][4][5] According to both writers, the methods of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party were not exceptional from a world-wide view because European colonial empires had been killing millions of people worldwide as part of the process of colonization for a very long time. Rather, they were exceptional in that they were applied to Europeans within Europe, rather than to colonized populations in the Global South.[6]…
“….it is Nazism, yes, but that before they were its victims, they were its accomplices; that they tolerated that Nazism before it was inflicted on them, that they absolved it, shut their eyes to it, legitimized it, because, until then, it had been applied only to non-European peoples; that they have cultivated that Nazism, that they are responsible for it, and that before engulfing the whole edifice of Western, Christian civilization in its reddened waters, it oozes, seeps, and trickles from every crack.”
— Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism (1950)
Don’t be an accomplice, get to the Harbour Bridge this Saturday.
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