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Netpol has updated and expanded our guidance on the government’s decision to ban Palestine Action, in response to the many questions we received. This includes fundraising for prisoners, criticising the ban and differences in the way offences are dealt with in Scotland netpol.org/2025/06/26/p...
New: a talk by Kevin Blowe of Netpol for @article11trust.bsky.social:
"What if... the restriction and disruption of movements and campaign groups is baked into public order policing, and that simply surviving the current crackdown is hard enough on its own?" article11trust.org.uk/protest-righ...
"What if... the restriction and disruption of movements and campaign groups is baked into public order policing, and that simply surviving the current crackdown is hard enough on its own?" article11trust.org.uk/protest-righ...
November 13, 2025 at 7:04 AM
New: a talk by Kevin Blowe of Netpol for @article11trust.bsky.social:
"What if... the restriction and disruption of movements and campaign groups is baked into public order policing, and that simply surviving the current crackdown is hard enough on its own?" article11trust.org.uk/protest-righ...
"What if... the restriction and disruption of movements and campaign groups is baked into public order policing, and that simply surviving the current crackdown is hard enough on its own?" article11trust.org.uk/protest-righ...
All that effort, yet whilst the commission's conclusions about the harms caused by the Terrorism Act are correct, the report offers reformist changes but swerves the obvious conclusion – why don't we start to talk about abolishing the Act itself? www.middleeasteye.net/news/sweepin...
Sweeping UK terror laws risk labelling harmful behaviour as terrorism, says major report
The Independent Commission on UK Counter-Terrorism Law, Policy and Practice says counterterror powers 'risk being applied too broadly' and cites Palestine Action ban
www.middleeasteye.net
November 11, 2025 at 3:07 PM
All that effort, yet whilst the commission's conclusions about the harms caused by the Terrorism Act are correct, the report offers reformist changes but swerves the obvious conclusion – why don't we start to talk about abolishing the Act itself? www.middleeasteye.net/news/sweepin...
"Middlebrough said he was not a terrorist and should never have been imprisoned in the first place".
"I am not on the run. I am merely being sensible, refusing to be held as a prisoner of war of Israel in a British prison". electronicintifada.net/content/excl...
"I am not on the run. I am merely being sensible, refusing to be held as a prisoner of war of Israel in a British prison". electronicintifada.net/content/excl...
Exclusive: Absconded activist refuses to be “prisoner of war”
Sean Middlebrough says he and fellow Palestine Action activists were “kidnapped” by British counter-terrorism police at the point of a gun.
electronicintifada.net
November 11, 2025 at 7:46 AM
"Middlebrough said he was not a terrorist and should never have been imprisoned in the first place".
"I am not on the run. I am merely being sensible, refusing to be held as a prisoner of war of Israel in a British prison". electronicintifada.net/content/excl...
"I am not on the run. I am merely being sensible, refusing to be held as a prisoner of war of Israel in a British prison". electronicintifada.net/content/excl...
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🚨 BREAKING: MARCUS WINS DEPORTATION APPEAL
Marcus Decker, who was facing deportation after being handed a prison sentence over 2 years for climbing the QEII Bridge in 2022 with Morgan Trowland, has won his appeal against the deportation order.
Marcus Decker, who was facing deportation after being handed a prison sentence over 2 years for climbing the QEII Bridge in 2022 with Morgan Trowland, has won his appeal against the deportation order.
November 10, 2025 at 5:05 PM
🚨 BREAKING: MARCUS WINS DEPORTATION APPEAL
Marcus Decker, who was facing deportation after being handed a prison sentence over 2 years for climbing the QEII Bridge in 2022 with Morgan Trowland, has won his appeal against the deportation order.
Marcus Decker, who was facing deportation after being handed a prison sentence over 2 years for climbing the QEII Bridge in 2022 with Morgan Trowland, has won his appeal against the deportation order.
A petition has been launched by @pscupdates.bsky.social, demanding that the government withdraws its draconian new proposal to give police powers to effectively ban protests based on their ‘cumulative impact’.
Add your name today: palestinecampaign.eaction.org.uk/right-to-pro...
Add your name today: palestinecampaign.eaction.org.uk/right-to-pro...
PETITION: Defend the right to protest
palestinecampaign.eaction.org.uk
November 10, 2025 at 11:53 AM
A petition has been launched by @pscupdates.bsky.social, demanding that the government withdraws its draconian new proposal to give police powers to effectively ban protests based on their ‘cumulative impact’.
Add your name today: palestinecampaign.eaction.org.uk/right-to-pro...
Add your name today: palestinecampaign.eaction.org.uk/right-to-pro...
The definition of terrorism isn't just too broad, or that it includes 'serious property damage'. It justifies surveillance, on behalf of oppressive regimes globally, of people resisting injustice. We need a proper debate about abolishing the Terrorism Act 2000 www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
Terror definition too broad, Starmer to be told
New advice could undermine the Palestine Action ban
www.newstatesman.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:14 AM
The definition of terrorism isn't just too broad, or that it includes 'serious property damage'. It justifies surveillance, on behalf of oppressive regimes globally, of people resisting injustice. We need a proper debate about abolishing the Terrorism Act 2000 www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
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#OtD 10 Nov 2010 50k students and supporters marched in London against the tripling of university fees and the abolition of EMA grants. Breaking away from the official demo, 1000s of people occupied and trashed the governing Tory HQ at Millbank stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8238...
November 10, 2025 at 5:10 AM
#OtD 10 Nov 2010 50k students and supporters marched in London against the tripling of university fees and the abolition of EMA grants. Breaking away from the official demo, 1000s of people occupied and trashed the governing Tory HQ at Millbank stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8238...
A Palestine Action member held on remand for more than a year over an alleged plot to lock on and disrupt the London Stock Exchange is on the lam – failing to return to HMP Wandsworth after he was temporarily granted bail to attend his brother's wedding www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...
Another inmate on the run from UK prison after ‘being freed for wedding’
Another HMP Wandsworth inmate is reportedly on the run after being granted bail for a wedding - after two prisoners were accidentally released in the past two weeks
www.mirror.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 8:50 PM
A Palestine Action member held on remand for more than a year over an alleged plot to lock on and disrupt the London Stock Exchange is on the lam – failing to return to HMP Wandsworth after he was temporarily granted bail to attend his brother's wedding www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...
#SundayWisdom Don't talk to the blue-bibbed Police Liaison Officers if you're at a protest, no matter how hard they try to "chat". They're intelligence gatherers
November 9, 2025 at 4:30 PM
#SundayWisdom Don't talk to the blue-bibbed Police Liaison Officers if you're at a protest, no matter how hard they try to "chat". They're intelligence gatherers
Environmental protesters are facing extraordinary licence conditions more commonly associated in terrorism cases on release from prison, in another serious abuse of rights to freedom of speech and freedom of association www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...
Jailed UK climate protesters facing conditions reserved for extremists on release
Exclusive: Just Stop Oil activist was banned from attending gatherings, including meeting a friend in a cafe, without permission
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Environmental protesters are facing extraordinary licence conditions more commonly associated in terrorism cases on release from prison, in another serious abuse of rights to freedom of speech and freedom of association www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...
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We recommend this 2023 guide from #KevinBlowe of the awesome #Netpol on local independent police monitoring. It's vital work! #WeCopWatch
We recommend this 2023 guide from #KevinBlowe of the awesome #Netpol on local independent police monitoring. It's vital work! #WeCopWatch
Local Police Monitoring: A Practical Guide - now available in print - Netpol
Local Police Monitoring – A Practical Guide Author: Kevin BlowePublished by: NetpolISBN: 978-1-3999-4675-9Published in print: March 2023 Local independent police monitoring groups in the 1980s and 1990s understood that to survive and sustain themselves meant more than simply documenting local policing issues. It meant seeking accountability by challenging state power: in particular the power of […]
netpol.org
November 7, 2025 at 3:59 PM
netpol.org/2023/04/04/l...
We recommend this 2023 guide from #KevinBlowe of the awesome #Netpol on local independent police monitoring. It's vital work! #WeCopWatch
We recommend this 2023 guide from #KevinBlowe of the awesome #Netpol on local independent police monitoring. It's vital work! #WeCopWatch
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The #spycops inquiry has heard how officer HN16 James Thomson invented a gun plot by animal rights activists in order to extend his deployment. Even though his managers called it 'bollocks' & said there's no evidence for it at all, he still reckons it was true.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Undercover police officer fabricated gun plot by animal rights activists, inquiry told
Spycops inquiry hears James Thomson lied to superiors and deceived two women into relationships
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:07 PM
The #spycops inquiry has heard how officer HN16 James Thomson invented a gun plot by animal rights activists in order to extend his deployment. Even though his managers called it 'bollocks' & said there's no evidence for it at all, he still reckons it was true.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Nothing here isn't already widely known. The reality is the Met is serially incapable of acting in anything other than a token way to findings of numerous critical reviews, responding instead with platitudes and then waiting out any short term negative publicity www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Nothing here isn't already widely known. The reality is the Met is serially incapable of acting in anything other than a token way to findings of numerous critical reviews, responding instead with platitudes and then waiting out any short term negative publicity www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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What if I don't intend to influence them, what if my intention is to inform the community? That still okay?
The government has announced yet another proposed anti-protest law: a new criminal offence of protesting outside the home of someone in public office "where their intention is to influence them in their role or an aspect of their private life", with a maximum sentence of 6 months’ imprisonment.
November 5, 2025 at 2:21 PM
What if I don't intend to influence them, what if my intention is to inform the community? That still okay?
Labour's other new anti-protest Crime and Policing Bill amendment is the previously trailed restriction on "cumulative" protests. The wording says a senior police officer “must” take into account any cumulative impact of past protests – regardless of who organised or attended them
November 5, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Labour's other new anti-protest Crime and Policing Bill amendment is the previously trailed restriction on "cumulative" protests. The wording says a senior police officer “must” take into account any cumulative impact of past protests – regardless of who organised or attended them
Last night we told a group of funders that the problem with focusing campaigning against the current anti-protest crackdown on tinkering with or abolishing a law is there's always more injust legislation on the horizon. Almost always banning things that are already unlawful.
Earlier that day...
Earlier that day...
The government has announced yet another proposed anti-protest law: a new criminal offence of protesting outside the home of someone in public office "where their intention is to influence them in their role or an aspect of their private life", with a maximum sentence of 6 months’ imprisonment.
November 5, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Last night we told a group of funders that the problem with focusing campaigning against the current anti-protest crackdown on tinkering with or abolishing a law is there's always more injust legislation on the horizon. Almost always banning things that are already unlawful.
Earlier that day...
Earlier that day...
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The ‘correct’ way of influencing a politician in their role is to pay them, have meetings with them and persuade them to act in your interests, rather than those of their constituents or the country as a whole.
For which a peerage can be expected.
For which a peerage can be expected.
The government has announced yet another proposed anti-protest law: a new criminal offence of protesting outside the home of someone in public office "where their intention is to influence them in their role or an aspect of their private life", with a maximum sentence of 6 months’ imprisonment.
November 5, 2025 at 9:58 AM
The ‘correct’ way of influencing a politician in their role is to pay them, have meetings with them and persuade them to act in your interests, rather than those of their constituents or the country as a whole.
For which a peerage can be expected.
For which a peerage can be expected.
Remember the rule, folks – if it's outside a politician's home, it's "toxic behaviour", but if it's outside a so-called 'asylum hotel' it's a "reasonable concern" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
November 5, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Remember the rule, folks – if it's outside a politician's home, it's "toxic behaviour", but if it's outside a so-called 'asylum hotel' it's a "reasonable concern" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Fascist thugs kicked down security fences and attacked security guards at my local refugee hotel and yet we still can't even get a basic PSPO.
The government has announced yet another proposed anti-protest law: a new criminal offence of protesting outside the home of someone in public office "where their intention is to influence them in their role or an aspect of their private life", with a maximum sentence of 6 months’ imprisonment.
November 5, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Fascist thugs kicked down security fences and attacked security guards at my local refugee hotel and yet we still can't even get a basic PSPO.
The government has announced yet another proposed anti-protest law: a new criminal offence of protesting outside the home of someone in public office "where their intention is to influence them in their role or an aspect of their private life", with a maximum sentence of 6 months’ imprisonment.
November 5, 2025 at 6:57 AM
The government has announced yet another proposed anti-protest law: a new criminal offence of protesting outside the home of someone in public office "where their intention is to influence them in their role or an aspect of their private life", with a maximum sentence of 6 months’ imprisonment.
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November 4, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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📣 Court Support Callout the Southampton Leonardo 3
📍 Southampton Crown Court, SO15 2XQ
📆 First Day 10th November 2025 (scheduled for 2 weeks)
⏱️ 10am each day
📍 Southampton Crown Court, SO15 2XQ
📆 First Day 10th November 2025 (scheduled for 2 weeks)
⏱️ 10am each day
November 4, 2025 at 3:57 PM
📣 Court Support Callout the Southampton Leonardo 3
📍 Southampton Crown Court, SO15 2XQ
📆 First Day 10th November 2025 (scheduled for 2 weeks)
⏱️ 10am each day
📍 Southampton Crown Court, SO15 2XQ
📆 First Day 10th November 2025 (scheduled for 2 weeks)
⏱️ 10am each day
Allianz, the insurers for Israeli weapons company Elbit, has been targeted by direct action protests in eight countries freedomnews.org.uk/2025/11/03/e...
Elbit insurer Allianz targeted in 8 countries - Freedom News
Company “complicit in the world’s wars and genocides”, say activists ~ Cristina Sykes ~ Groups including Shut the System, Carnage Tot…
freedomnews.org.uk
November 3, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Allianz, the insurers for Israeli weapons company Elbit, has been targeted by direct action protests in eight countries freedomnews.org.uk/2025/11/03/e...
"There appears to be a growing pattern of undercover officers raising mental ill-health as a reason that they should not attend the inquiry to give oral evidence" www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Doreen Lawrence calls for ‘cowardly’ undercover officer to face public inquiry
Mother of murdered teenager to challenge ruling that David Hagan is too ill to give live evidence at spycops inquiry
www.theguardian.com
November 2, 2025 at 11:03 AM
"There appears to be a growing pattern of undercover officers raising mental ill-health as a reason that they should not attend the inquiry to give oral evidence" www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...