On the 21st day of the siege against Elbit’s Leicester factory, UAV Tactical Systems (U-TacS), Palestine Action targeted two companies linked to the Israeli weapons company.
Siege day 21: Palestine Action target firms linked to weapons factory
Tag: Solidarity
Amazon cleaners to lead coordinated strike action
“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.”
Frontex: Public relations not people
Since 2016, Frontex has become the fastest growing EU agency, with a budget of close to €1 billion, and 11,000 employees. Make no mistake about its priorities: dissuasion, detention and deportation, rather than the assistance and protection of people. Hans Leitjens, successor to Fabrice Leggeri as head of Frontex — who resigned last year over
Turkey elections: The myth of ‘free but not fair’
To put it another way, it would be wrong-headed to oppose Erdoğan’s expected victory on the basis of certain electoral irregularities alone: the rot at the heart of Turkish democracy runs far deeper than that.
As election fraud shows, Erdoğan would never cede power
The repression of the Turkish state is ever-present.
Palestine Action retaliate on Nakba Day
Palestine Action spray the Foreign Office red on Nakba Day
Homeless shelter threatened with illegal eviction
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In a decaying empire, in which UN Human Rights Chiefs characterise the government’s most recent legislative power grabs as “deeply troubling” and in context of the police “especially worrying” it’s not surprising to see courts being cut out of the equation.
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Outrage after two dogs executed by police
There is another demo called by Animal Rising at 8PM today at Scotland Yard, London SW1A 2JL, to honour the lives of these dogs and hold the Met Police accountable.
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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
Call for solidarity: Defend the rights of disabled campaigners
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.
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