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Call for solidarity: Defend the rights of disabled campaigners
April 18th: In advance of planned protests by Extinction Rebellion this week, Netpol is calling on the Metropolitan Police to prevent a repeat of the systemic discrimination towards disabled protesters that we documented in our report “Restricting the Rebellion” in 2019.![](https://freedomnews.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/animal-rising.webp)
Grand National disrupted: Animal Rising occupy track
April 16th: Animal Rising climbed perimeter fences and occupied the track, alongside others who had been posing as spectators, bringing the race day to a halt just before the 175th Grand National race was due to run.
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Workers digital rights defeat Uber and Ola Cabs
April 5th: In a series of historic and wide-ranging digital rights rulings, the Court of Appeals in Amsterdam has found in favour of workers and against Uber and Ola Cabs.
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Palestine Action smash and spray weapons factory auditors
April 3rd: Palestine Action activists this week took apart the offices of Edwards, Aldridge-based accountants working for Israel’s largest weapons firm Elbit Systems.
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Palestine Action shut down agents for the global murder industry
March 29th: Palestine Action have shut down the premises and operations of ADS Group, representatives and advocates of the world’s largest arms dealers.
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Man charged with terrorism over arson of Russian enlistment office
March 27th: Freedom reproduces a statement from Solidarity Zone: Ilya is a young man from Novosibirsk.
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Two years on, Bristol still fights
March 25th: On Tuesday 21st March, hundreds of Bristolians marched to Bridewell Police Station to mark the two year anniversary of the Kill the Bill uprising, and to stand in solidarity with all those facing police and state repression.
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Radical reprint: The Napoli revolt of 1913
March 20th: On a cold day in the wake of a war, starving Italian citizens wanted to put up a poster against raised tariffs but were told to hop it by the government – which in short order was faced with 100,000 protesters and severe rioting.