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Netpol @netpol.org · 8d

Yesterday's narrative of 7 October as ‘another 9/11’ – "yet another day torn free from any history or context" with only two sides – seeks to demonise all Palestine solidarity as "pro-terrorist." It is critical to understanding Britain's current crackdown on protest rights netpol.org/2025/10/06/a...

Protesters against the banning of Palestine Action in Trafalgar Square, London, 4 October 2025.

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Netpol @netpol.org · 23d

VICTORY: citing "lack of evidence", prosecutors have dropped the trial against the Drax 15. They never had a case, but they kept defendants waiting for a year to somehow justify an astonishing £3 million police operation. This is yet another example of the repression of protest rights in Britain

Some of the Drax 15 defendants outside Leed Magistrates Court

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Whose Streets @mappingprotest.bsky.social · 23d

Brighton people - please share this far and wide!

Poster for gathering to fight the far right

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Pollyanna Ruiz @profpol.bsky.social · Sep 6

I miss #hashtags.

Pollyanna Ruiz @profpol.bsky.social · Sep 6

Elbit Systems in Bristol today, L3 Harris in Brighton tomorrow www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Israeli arms manufacturer closes UK facility targeted by Palestine Action

Exclusive: Elbit Systems UK Bristol site was subject of protest days before direct action group was proscribed

www.theguardian.com

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Pollyanna Ruiz @profpol.bsky.social · Sep 6

Hundreds of thousands supported Palestine in London today.

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Niall Winters (also: @[email protected]) @n-win.bsky.social · Sep 6

Arrests at Palestine Action ban protest in London but article notes that “police forces in Edinburgh, Totnes, Derry and Kendall had all decided not to arrest sign-holders.”

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Police make arrests at London Palestine Action ban protest

More than 1,000 people have pledged to risk arrest in demonstration billed as largest since group was proscribed

www.theguardian.com

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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · Sep 6

BREAKING: Police start to arrest protestors under the Terrorism Act for holding signs which say "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action"

Over a thousand people are risking arrest today, despite the state's best efforts to deter us.

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Whose Streets @mappingprotest.bsky.social · Jul 25

Archiving the map crowd sourcing memories of anti-fascist and anti-racist protest in Brighton and Hove begins!

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Pollyanna Ruiz @profpol.bsky.social · Jul 23

My daughter graduating in style!

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Pollyanna Ruiz @profpol.bsky.social · Jun 26

Whose Streets talk in pictorial form!

Pollyanna Ruiz @profpol.bsky.social · Jun 16

Summer days!

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Rob Sharp @robsharp.bsky.social · Jun 10

Have a new publication published — re.: solidarity long-term re.: Ukraine (open access)

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Amy @amzomac.bsky.social · Jun 8

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Help keep the 12 humanitarians on board the Madleen safe.

Demand that BBC news covers the @freedomflotilla.bsky.social's life saving mission to Gaza.

Demand they do their job & actually report the news!!!

📧 Email: [email protected]

📲 WhatsApp: +44 7980 682727

#FreePalestine🇵🇸

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Sanjit Singh Chudha 🏳️‍🌈 @sanjitchudha.bsky.social · Jun 6

Thank you @alanlester.bsky.social. Bristol's Shed museum is screening a short documentary about the lead up and immediate aftermath of Colston's toppling. Context, and the cult of Colston.

You can also see the toppled relic, graffiti and all, in a case at the end of our PROTEST Gallery too.

Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · Jun 6

Tomorrow it will be five years since Black Lives Matter demonstrators dumped slave trader Edward Colston’s statue into Bristol’s harbour. The act reshaped our political history and helped us rewrite our colonial history. Colston 5 Years On blog:

alanlester.co.uk/blog/how-top...

Five Years On: How Toppling Colston’s Statue Rewrote History

Alan Lester On 7th June 2025, it will be the 5th anniversary of Black Lives Matter demonstrators toppling Edward Colston’s statue into the harbour whence his slave ships had sailed. Immediately fol…

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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · Jun 6

On the anniversary of the #BLM toppling of the Colston statue in Bristol, Roger Ball of Bristol Radical History Group looks at the mythologizing around Colston over the years.

www.brh.org.uk/site/article...

Myths within myths... - Bristol Radical History Group

In the light of recent moves to place a ‘corrective’ plaque on the statue of Edward Colston in the centre of Bristol and calls for it to be removed to a museum it seems the time is right to investigat...

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COPS campaign @copscampaign.bsky.social · May 31

Disclosure: Unravelling the #Spycops Files. Kate Wilson's book tells her unique story of being deceived into a relationship then fighting a 10year legal battle to get 1000s of secret reports laying bare the shocking truth of our political secret police
www.weidenfeldandnicolson.co.uk/titles/kate-...

Disclosure

'It was exciting when it started, then comfortable and domestic, and over time we grew apart. If it had been real, our relationship wouldn't have made a chap...

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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · May 27

'Why do protestors use disruptive, confrontational tactics? New research shows they’re not just a last resort'

New blogpost from @metesefauysal.bsky.social @yasemingacar.bsky.social & me, funded by @polpsyispp.bsky.social

theconversation.com/why-do-prote...

Why do protestors use disruptive, confrontational tactics? New research shows they’re not just a last resort

People who opt for disruptive protests are not acting out of desperation according to a new study.

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Whose Streets @mappingprotest.bsky.social · May 26

Whose Streets?

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Pollyanna Ruiz @profpol.bsky.social · May 25

Look out for this amazing image from Erin James at Afrori Books in Brighton. It’s part of an exhibition marking five years since the killing of George Floyd.