@defendourjuries.bsky.social
Jurors have a right to acquit a defendant according to their conscience, irrespective of a Judge’s directions. Every defendant deserves access to fair justice. We are a UK-based campaign to ensure fair justice in UK courtrooms. www.defendourjuries.org
WE CALL FOR THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT TO:
1. Lift the Ban on Palestine Action.
2. Name the Israeli assault on the Palestinian people as a genocide.
Join us on August 9th for a mass-participatory action to meet these demands.
Sign up: www.wedonotcomply.org
Within hours of the ban, police arrested 29 people at a London vigil supporting Palestine Action
Over 200 people have been arrested so far, homes of alleged supporters have been raided, and armed police threatened to arrest a protester simply for holding a Palestinian flag.
• The move shields arms companies and the Israeli state from accountability, punishing those who act to prevent further atrocities.
• Predictions warn this will have a “chilling effect” on freedom of speech and assembly, especially for pro-Palestine and environmental activists
LIFT THE BAN ON PALESTINE ACTION
Criminalising anti-genocide protest doesn’t protect people, it protects power.
This is the first time the UK has proscribed a direct-action protest group, not an armed extremist organisation.
Our campaign demands 🧵
Join hundreds of others on August 9th - go to wedonotcomply.org for full information.
This action is conditional on reaching our target of at least 500 commitments.
www.wedonotcomply.org
Finally, we’re not planning to overwhelm the system.
The police have a choice whether to arrest people or not. It’s only if they choose to arrest peaceful protestors that they’ve got a problem, which is on them, not us.
Secondly, There is no ‘plot’.
Plot implies something underhand and secretive. This is an open and transparent campaign against an unjust law, which violates basic democratic freedoms.
All materials, including the Action Briefing Document are publicly available on our website.
Firstly, This is not a ‘Palestine Action’ campaign.
Defend Our Juries is organising the campaign, as the Telegraph must know since they’ve seen our public Action Briefing Document.
Given that Palestine Action is currently a proscribed organisation, important distinction.
It’s great that the Telegraph is helping us spread the word on today’s front page, but they appear to need some help clearing up some serious inaccuracies!
A short thread 🧵
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!
Only if the ban is deemed to have been unlawful - otherwise there may still be work to do to overturn any potential convictions. De-proscribing the group is not enough, according to yesterday’s High Court judge.
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Yvette Cooper’s absurd ban on Palestine Action is weaker than weak. We will not comply.
Join our next Open Call tomorrow to bring >500 people together in August, defying the attack on our freedoms.
Together, we will Lift The Ban.
defendourjuries.org/lift-the-ban
wedonotcomply.org
With love and courage to Huda Ammori for stepping out in defence of our freedoms in the UK, and in opposition to UK complicity in Israel’s genocide against the Palestinian people.
“I believe that we will win” - Huda Ammori.
On August 9th, at least 500 individuals will commit to taking action to call for the ban on Palestine Action to be lifted.
It is not illegal to campaign for the lifting of a ban on a proscribed group, according to the Terrorism Act 2000.
visit wedonotcomply.org for info
Shortly before the proscription, more than 23 organisations, led by the European Association of Lawyers for Democracy & World Human Rights, criticised the use of Terrorism Act powers against the Filton 18, members of Palestine Action.
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UN Human Rights Chief, Volker Türk issued a press statement:
[The ban] appears to constitute an impermissible restriction on rights [to freedom of expression, peaceful assembly and association] that is at odds with the UK's obligations under international human rights law.
🚨 BREAKING NEWS 🚨
High Court grants full legal review of Palestine Action ban in massive blow to Yvette Cooper.
Palestine Action founder, Huda Ammori, will now be able to bring a full legal review in the Royal Courts of Justice.
Full Press Release: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
“They’re not preventing terrorism any more by arresting me because I wasn’t a terrorist in the first place,” she said. “The rights to demonstrate and other rights are being eroded systematically by the government. We are on a slippery slope to all demonstrations being banned.”
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Former 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...
Council supports the legal challenge to Palestine Action's proscription and will write to the High Court to call for the ban to be removed immediately.
Derry City and Strabane District Council rejects the rationale provided by the British Government.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
"The most powerful response to an oppressive and unjust law, which limits freedom of speech, is to challenge it, openly and without fear."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I went out to challenge the law used to ban Palestine Action. Would I be arrested too? - @georgemonbiot.bsky.social
“The order the police are struggling to interpret is as ridiculous as it is oppressive. Oppression and absurdity are never far apart.”
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Starmer v Starmer: why is the former human rights lawyer so cautious about defending human rights? - @theguardian.com
“Starmer, Hermer, Lammy – they’re all lawyers. They’re committed to law, but they can’t bear the full consequences of committing to law.”
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
🚨 BREAKING: SAM WILL BE FREE!
Just Stop Oil supporter Sam has been imprisoned for 4 months after taking action with This Is Rigged, held in Scotland hundreds of miles from his family.
During his appeal today, a judge ruled in favour of quashing his custodial sentence.
HOME OFFICE DISINFORMATION CAMPAIGN OVER PALESTINE ACTION BAN EXPOSED
@declassifiedUK has revealed that Home Office insinuations that Palestine Action supports violence and receives funding from Iran were refuted by its own internal assessments.
In full: www.declassifieduk.org/revealed-how...
ARREST - SHENSTONE
Police arrested a protester today at an anti-genocide rally at the Shenstone, Staffordshire. The protester, who is a wheelchair user, was seen wearing a Palestine Action tshirt.
UAV Engines, a subsidiary of Elbit Stystems, has a Shenstone factory.
Daily Mail: Police fail to arrest supporters of banned group Palestine Action in sign demos.
Protests were held in both Totnes and Edinburgh today as part of a campaign opposing the proscription of the direct action organisation.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
“maybe [the police] had something better to do. Maybe they’ve seen sense and decided that the Human Rights Act, which enables us to speak freely, is more important than the Terrorism Act, which forbids us from speaking freely.” - @georgemonbiot.bsky.social
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🚨BREAKING: Policing of Palestine Action protests in disarray as police decide not to arrest sign-holders for terrorism in Totnes and Edinburgh
Defend Our Juries:
“The chorus of disapproval for Yvette Cooper’s barmy order grows louder by the day.”
full: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
