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Just Stop Oil target the authors of our misery
November 1st: Just Stop Oil supporters have sprayed orange paint on four buildings in Central London.
Increased numbers march for the United Friends and Family Campaign
October 31st: This Saturday 28th, thousands of people met in Trafalgar Square at noon to march to Downing St for the United Friends and Family Campaign (UFFC) against deaths in police, prison, and psychiatric custody. At Downing St, friends and family gave moving speeches about their loved ones who had died at the hand of the state.
Call to disrupt Patriotic Alternative’s northern conference
October 29th: Patriotic Alternative are a white nationalist group, founded in 2019.
Students occupy University of Sheffield to protest involvement in arms trade
October 25th: A group of students at the University of Sheffield have occupied the Diamond (a prominent engineering building) to protest the University’s relationship with arms companies.
Victory for domestic and sexual abuse charity counsellors over ‘gig economy’
October 21st: UVW members working as counsellors for Solace Women’s Aid won a legal battle over their employment status on Monday when a judge ruled that the charity had misclassified them as self-employed independent contractors when in reality they were workers, under s.230(3)(b) of the Employment Rights Act 1996.
Coffey’s DWP watered down key parts of plan to prevent suicides
October 19th: Away from the spectacle of the government imploding, Freedom republishes an investigation by Disability News Service (DNS) into the effects of Tory rule: The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) watered down key parts of a plan drawn up to prevent suicides and learn lessons from claimant deaths, while under the leadership of [then] deputy
BREAKING: Judge throws out case against the Bristol 3 who shut down Israeli arms firm
October 17th: Judge declares the activists NOT GUILTY and rules ‘no case to answer’ as Elbit failed to prove their activities were lawful.
Three charged with offences carrying life imprisonment sentence for blocking Jamaica deportation
October 12th: Three people have been charged and will be tried next year for blocking a road outside Brook House Immigration Removal Centre at Gatwick Airport in November 2021 to prevent people being forcibly removed to Jamaica.
First Round to the Bar
October 11th: So the Barristers Strike is off and all decent law breaking protestors can look forward to being sent down with the benefit of proper legal representation.
Solidarity Zone – a new initiative to support anti-war prisoners in Russia
October 6th: Solidarity Zone is a new initiative, established by anti-authoritarian activists.
