“We are all frustrated and we are overworked, our demands are just and fair. They don’t talk to us right, they talk to us like children.”
Amazon cleaners to lead coordinated strike action
Tag: Activism
Day 10 of Palestine Action’s siege of weapons factory sees lockdown
Palestine Action drove a car through the inner perimeter of Leicester’s Israeli drone factory, UAV Tactical Systems (U-TacS), blockading the only entrance for the site.
[ID: A woman is locked on in a car and gives the peace symbol while surrounded by cops outside the gates of Elbit’s weapons factory]
Palestine Action occupy Leicester’s Israeli drone factory
Palestine Action have started their watch on UAV Tactical Systems by setting up a surprise ground camp, catching the Israeli arms manufacturer, its private security, and the police off guard. The activists set up camp, including unreachable hammocks in the treetops, in open defiance of the war machine. Under the cover of the trees behind the
Grand National disrupted: Animal Rising occupy track
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.
Call to action: We are all comrades of Serge
We ask all those in France and around the world who recognise themselves in this struggle to make the week of May 1st an intensive week of actions against the state and capital.
Trash guerilla: Bins to block Paris!
Freedom reports good praxis from our comrades in Paris, via Paris Luttes: Let’s block Paris with bins! The place for bins is on the road to block the traffic! Today, one of our most strategic allies in blocking our logistics-based society is … the bin! Thanks to our comrades in the striking waste services, we
Drone factory shut down trial begins
In April last year, two activists locked-on to the gates of the Leicester drone company UAV Tactical Systems (UTACS), a subsidiary of Israel’s largest weapons firm Elbit Systems. The activists fixed their bodies to the lock-on, rendering access to the site impossible. The activists were arrested later that day, having shut the factory down entirely
Vodafone’s cleaners storm Oxford Street store
Migrant workers who clean Vodafone’s head offices assembled at their flagship Oxford Street store on Saturday for a surprise protest demanding fair pay and proper sick pay. The action came from cleaners represented by the Independent Workers’ union of Great Britain, and marks an escalation in their ongoing campaign against Vodafone’s exploitation of outsourced workers.
Celebrating victory and justice for South Africa’s Abahlali baseMjondolo
Freedom continues its coverage of Abahlali baseMjondolo, a South African movement of shack dwellers who organise land occupations and communes: In 2019 the Abahlali baseMjondolo branch in Vusimuzi, Gauteng, resisted an imposed reblocking project by the Ekurhuleni Municipality. During the community resistance all lies and threats against Abahlali activists were masterminded by the local ANC
Fortifying setts against badger baiters
At first glance of a badger sett covered in steel wire mesh and belting, it is easy to presume that its residents are victims of some form of persecution. In fact, the sight is reminiscent of the controversial method used during the construction of HS2 railway to evict badgers, which includes an exit-only system at
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The lie of a bloodthirsty empire
Political artists Andrei Molodkin and Santiago Sierra, and Wikileaks ambassador Joseph Farrell, talk to A/POLITICAL about the sham of Western liberty, Julian Assange, and how art can still transform pain into defiance ~ Becky Haghpanah-Shirwan ~ The heightened tensions of international politics are reflected in the work of Andrei Molodkin (Russia, 1966) and Santiago Sierra
What chances for climate protesters at Court of Appeal?
Van Gogh soup protest and M25 blockade among cases in January hearing ~ Andy Meinke ~ In July, when five Just Stop Oil activists were jailed for a total of 21 years for a plan to block the M25 motorway in London, it was part of a huge jump in sentencing for peaceful protesters.
Harrods workers vote for Xmas strike
Walkout over pay and conditions expected on 19 December as company refuses to engage with union ~ Cristina Sykes ~ Hundreds of workers across Harrods’ retail, restaurant, kitchen and cleaning departments have returned a resounding 95% yes vote to strike action in the Christmas season.
Report from anti-war congress in Hamburg
It seems like in the year 2024, governments and the people supporting them have accomplished the impossible in terms of normalising death—but refusal persists ~ Juju Alerta ~ With a wild demonstration to enliven the St Pauli district of Hamburg, people from different countries gathered in the city in mid-November to exchange stories and discussions
Freedom News Review—3 December 2023
Items discussed in this program: Rojava emergency with renewal of war in Syria • Repression against Kurdish activists in the UK • Deportation machine in overdrive under Labour • Newport Radical Bookfair revived
