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Does this strategy involve talk about invoking the 25th?
06.08.2025 19:00 β π 0 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Three things the rest of the world can do.
Boycot, boycot, & more boycot.
Then lets throw in a bit of divestment & a good handful of sanctions too.
I know athletes will be working their socks off for '28 but at what price for participating in bolstering a fascist regime?
'Palestine Action ban is an attack on fundamental freedoms'
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Naomi Klein and Angela Davis among those demanding stop to βattack on fundamental freedomsβ of assembly and protest
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Weapons of mass destruction?
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
A stairwell with a wrought-iron banister, large gilt-framed paintings of clouds on the walls and a suspended sculpture of a bride clinging to a rope. A headline reads: "Inside Jeffrey Epstein's Manhattan Lair."
Inside Jeffrey Epsteinβs seven-story Manhattan townhouse, the sex offender hosted the elite, displayed photos with presidents and showcased a first edition of βLolita,β according to previously unreported photos and letters. nyti.ms/3GXMlrZ
05.08.2025 14:49 β π 1534 π 551 π¬ 191 π 79Peter Kyle mp is vice president of Labour Friends of Israel.
I wonder why he felt the need to set the police on someone who obviously cares passionately about other human beings and is no threat to you or me?
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This should be getting lots more attention than it seems to be getting.
If SCOTUS strikes out sect. 2 of Voting Rights Act it will mean a lot more loading of the political dice for Grand Old Pedo Protector Party.
www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
From the rest of the worldβs perspective the US is just rolling over with little resistance. Faith in turn around midterms seems very misplaced. Even if Trump is replaced the regime controls all the leavers of power. Mass non violent resistance needs to begin now, incl. GS, assisted by global BDS.
04.08.2025 15:06 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Former magistrate, 81, faces six months in jail for Palestine Action vigil
More than 200 people arrested for supporting Palestine Action, a group recently proscribed by the Labour government. It was the first time in her life that she had been arrested.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
The campaign to lift the ban on Palestine Action makes the front page of the Telegraph.
Within the report, a retired Met officer says the system will be tested to the limit if thousands take part.
Join us on Saturday to oppose genocide and the unjust law. Together, we will win!
Concerns protest could βimpede Sydney driversβ solved by getting basically the whole city at the protest
"Turns out roughly a hundred thousand people wanted to cross the bridge at the time of the march" said one organiser
Read more: chaser.com.au/general-news...
Totally ashamed that my government is fine with this, when it could do so much more to stop the Genocde.
Heartbreaking.
This video from Zev is even more relevant today and worth watching than it was 5 years ago.
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Guessing there are no bars on the upper story windows in that cushy prison.
Mmmmm?
Definitely worth a listen this one.
π opening.
@wajali.bsky.social doing many great interviews on his Left Hook Substack.
Airbnb? Choose an alternative.
Donβt support any organisation that is fine with supporting the illegal settlements in the West Bank and the apartheid Israeli regime.
#Airbnb
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Reform
Only one party mentioned in BBC UK Politics headlines today
01.08.2025 09:23 β π 116 π 49 π¬ 16 π 12Barclays follows HSBC in exit from banking industryβs net zero alliance.
They all support Trumpism and chase profits whilst humanity and planet earth face crisis.
Can't expect banks to voluntarily accept social responsibility, it must be imposed by law.
Apparently, Trumps soon to be appointed new Labour Stats chief will not be relying so much on statistics⦠She will occasionally be collating an album of drawings, poems and sketches documenting just how amazing the jobs market is.
01.08.2025 19:33 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0And then.....?
She has all the required qualifications for working for the Trump regime.
What the Corbyn comeback tells us is the 'anti-semitism' trope can no longer be used effectively as a political cosh.
People care more about saying no to genocide than being labeled an anti-semite.
Yesterday, I published an article about yourparty.uk
I want to issue a public correction and a sincere apology for an error.
In that article, I said 500,000 people had signed up. That was incorrect.
It is now 600,000 β and counting.
Real change is coming.
Via Defend Our Juries just now: High Court Grants Full Legal Review of Palestine Action Ban in 'Blow to Yvette Cooper'
Full legal review set for September. High Court cites βrecipe for chaosβ if legality of order isnβt reviewed as soon as possible, according to Defend Our Juries
Defend Our Juries: Today the High Court granted permission to Huda Ammori, co-founder of Palestine Action, to bring a full judicial review against the order of the Home Secretary, Yvette Cooper, proscribing the group as a βterrorist organisationβ
30.07.2025 13:23 β π 11 π 3 π¬ 1 π 0https://
I stand with Palestine Action challenging this abuse of power by UK Labour government.
#PalestineAction
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jul/30/palestine-action-co-founder-wins-permission-to-challenge-ban?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other