Tim Cooper

Great work Zack, keep it up! You are speaking for the people and gaining momentum rapidly 👍🏻

Please help combat BBC news blackout of Green Party!
@zackpolanski.bsky.social was the only party leader not interviewed by Laura Kuenssberg during their party conference.
So please RT his cracking conference speech..

🚨HAPPENING NOW: Hundreds arrested in Parliament Square in protest organised by Defend Our Juries

The arrest of otherwise peaceful protesters is a violation of the UK’s international obligations to protect the rights of freedom of expression and assembly.

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Caption: Heroes. Every single one of them. Keir Starmer, Yvette Cooper, David Lammy — and the rest of this Labour government enabling genocide — aren’t fit to lace their boots. Screenshot text says: More than 500 people arrested after Palestine Action protest - with about a half aged 60 and above Some 522 arrests were for displaying a placard in support of a proscribed organisation contrary to Section 13 of the Terrorism Act 2000. As of 9pm on Saturday, the number was put at 466.

Heroes. Every single one of them.

Keir Starmer, Yvette Cooper, David Lammy — and the rest of this Labour government enabling genocide — aren’t fit to lace their boots.

As peaceful protestors are arrested for holding placards, starving Palestinians are being shot in the street.

This will go down as one of the most shameful moments in British legal history.

No amount of suppression can hide the truth: our government is complicit in genocide.

How we can fight back against the right-wing coup For a better future the power of corporations and wealthy elites must be curbed and reversed

The UK is in the grip of an ongoing right-wing coup.

It is the main cause of economic decline and social tensions.

Successive govts have been enrolled to make us subservient to corporations and the rich.

Corporate power must be curbed/reversed for a better future.

Did you vote for this?

Cut in real wage/benefits
Queues for NHS appointments
Lousy social care
Crumbling schools
Poor housing
Corporate profiteering/abuses
Tax abuses by corporations/rich
Sewage in rivers
Political corruption

It happens because Govts indulge corporations and the rich.

Behind every draconian decision, there's secret evidence ("detailed security assessments") we're not allowed to see. We should just suck it up and believe them.
Sorry, Yvette Cooper, that's not how democracy should work. When you make a decision of such consequence, we need to see the basis for it.

The Israeli Centre for Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, B'TSELEM, agonised long (too long in my view) and hard before coming up with this report and its crystal clear verdict: Israel is committing genocide. Nothing more needs to be said www.btselem.org/publications...

85 children starved to death in Gaza on the day that the man who legitimizes this abomination was playing golf in Scotland. Does the world's media not have a problem with this?

Water privatisation has been a complete & utter failure.

It is absurd that the government's report into the water industry didn't even consider public ownership.

That's not a report. That's a political broadcast for the private sector.

Put water back into public hands, now.

Starmer and UK government: do what you are required to do by international law - end your support of the Israeli genocide of Palestinians. Stop providing weapons and assistance. Stop delegitimising dissent. NOW.

Massive Attack announce alliance of musicians speaking out over Gaza Brian Eno, Fontaines DC and Kneecap say group will support those subject to ‘aggressive, vexatious campaigns’ by pro-Israel advocates

This is a positive action in defiance of attempts to silence opposition to the UK-supported genocide of Palestinians.

Southern Water nearly doubles CEO pay to £1.4m despite bonus ban Lawrence Gosden’s award comes amid high levels of corporate debt, serious sewage leaks and recent hosepipe ban

Southern Water doubles CEO pay to £1.4m despite bonus ban.

SW has 119 criminal convictions.

£6.2bn debt, 91m litres lost daily to leaks, hosepipe ban, sewage dumped in rivers.

Customer bills to rise 53%; 27% of bills service debt

Looting approved by the state.

Martin Forde concluded Labour operates a hierarchy of racism, where anti-Black racism & Islamophobia are brushed aside.

Now we have a Prime Minister who mimicked Enoch Powell with “island of strangers” & suspended the UK’s first Black woman MP twice.

It’s institutional racism.

Under Gandhi’s statue. For holding placards.

A priest, a professor, medics - arrested for peaceful protest.

This is not about terrorism. It’s about silencing dissent - and it’s leading us down an ever darkening path.

The destruction of Palestine is breaking the world | Moustafa Bayoumi The rules of the institutions that define our lives bend like reeds when it comes to Israel – so much that the whole global order is on the verge of collapse

An interesting perspective on the growth of authoritarianism in the west from the perspective of international law.

Met police arrest activists holding signs referring to Palestine Action Officers arrest protesters day after direct action group banned as terrorist organisation

Explaining their action, a spokesman for the police said "Where we believe an offence has been committed, we will make arrests." No you won't. Ten people in our area were burgled in the last six months and the police didn't do so much as investigate a single one.

Lisa Nandy questions lack of BBC sackings over Gaza war documentary Culture secretary says BBC must ‘get a grip’ in wake of film featuring son of Hamas official and Bob Vylan Glastonbury row

It's clear that with each of these statements the government wants to undermine your sense of priorities. What's more important: getting someone in the BBC sacked, or stopping the genocide in Gaza?

After a week of campaigning against the appalling ban on PA on Facebook, I will be migrating protest against complicity in the ongoing genocide to this platform to keep FB for personal matters. The UK is now effectively an authoritarian police state. Resistance is going to demand a lot from us.

Great to see Rosaleen! Solidarity with all former colleagues and comrades taking action against this uncaring management. Stick together - stay strong! ✊

Checking up on the Five Weirs Walk (much still to be done, watch this space) revealed that historic Carbrook Hall (which I'd never visited) is now a Starbucks! Not many places you can take your flat white in an oak panelled room with decorative plaster ceiling.