JuneSim63
@junesim63@mstdn.social  ·  activity timestamp 15 hours ago

"The government is looking [like] such idiots,” said Deborah Hinton, a former magistrate. “I mean when people say, ‘What’s your status?’, and then I say, ‘Well, I’m on bail for terrorism’, they look at me as if the situation is farcical. I think they [ministers] are making themselves look an absolute joke.”

#PalestineAction#UKPol
‘I’m proud to have made this stand’: over-60s arrested at Palestine Action ban protest explain their decision | Israel-Gaza war | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2025/aug/16/im-proud-to-have-made-this-stand-over-60s-arrested-at-palestine-action-ban-protest-explain-their-decision
JuneSim63
@junesim63@mstdn.social  ·  activity timestamp 15 hours ago

"The government is looking [like] such idiots,” said Deborah Hinton, a former magistrate. “I mean when people say, ‘What’s your status?’, and then I say, ‘Well, I’m on bail for terrorism’, they look at me as if the situation is farcical. I think they [ministers] are making themselves look an absolute joke.”

#PalestineAction#UKPol
‘I’m proud to have made this stand’: over-60s arrested at Palestine Action ban protest explain their decision | Israel-Gaza war | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2025/aug/16/im-proud-to-have-made-this-stand-over-60s-arrested-at-palestine-action-ban-protest-explain-their-decision
Charlie Stross
@cstross@wandering.shop  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

This is, to put it mildly, utter bullshit.

You can store a decade of email for a million people—call it 10-20Gb each—in a 10-20Pb storage array that costs under £1M per year (and is constantly getting cheaper). 10 year old emails are *cold* storage: drives not even spinning most of the time: you only really need 5-10% of it available on demand.

The environment agency are gaslighting us. One wonders who put them up to it?
social.lol/@robb/1150165791501
Gillinger
@Gillinger@mas.to replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago
@cstross
Think of all the processing power the police are using inputting all that data from people arrested for carrying #PalestineAction signs.

#bullshit#FuckStarmer
Jake Rayson
@natureworks@mas.to  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

521 arrests yesterday in the UK for people writing:
"I oppose #Genocide
I support #PalestineAction

"more than the Poll Tax riots of 1990 and more than twice as many as the total number of alleged terror-related arrests last year"

Apparently 50% of those arrested were over 60.

#PalestineAction is not a terrorist organisation. Further action planned in September by Defend Our Juries for #LiftTheBan

https://actionnetwork.org/forms/lift-the-ban-september

#Palestine#Gaza#UKpol
Jake Rayson
@natureworks@mas.to  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

521 arrests yesterday in the UK for people writing:
"I oppose #Genocide
I support #PalestineAction

"more than the Poll Tax riots of 1990 and more than twice as many as the total number of alleged terror-related arrests last year"

Apparently 50% of those arrested were over 60.

#PalestineAction is not a terrorist organisation. Further action planned in September by Defend Our Juries for #LiftTheBan

https://actionnetwork.org/forms/lift-the-ban-september

#Palestine#Gaza#UKpol

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DrALJONES
@DrALJONES@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

Report: "All those arrested at a banned Palestine Action protest in London’s Parliament Square have been released from police custody, with none charged."

522 people were arrested for displaying support for Palestine Action, which UK proscribed as a “terrorist” organisation.

Under the Terrorism Act 2000, membership of or support for the group is a criminal offence punishable by up to 14 years in prison.

https://aje.io/iacsb2?update=3882173

#UKPol#USPol#EuroPol #PalestineAction @palestine .
DrALJONES
@DrALJONES@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

Report: "All those arrested at a banned Palestine Action protest in London’s Parliament Square have been released from police custody, with none charged."

522 people were arrested for displaying support for Palestine Action, which UK proscribed as a “terrorist” organisation.

Under the Terrorism Act 2000, membership of or support for the group is a criminal offence punishable by up to 14 years in prison.

https://aje.io/iacsb2?update=3882173

#UKPol#USPol#EuroPol #PalestineAction @palestine .
Nicol Wistreich
@nicol@social.coop  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

‘Among those taking part in yesterday’s protest was Claudia Cotton, 89, a Jewish refugee whose family fled Nazi Germany in 1939. “I am prepared to be arrested,” the retired social worker from London said. “In fact, I think it’s a good thing because it shows how ordinary people are willing to go to prison to oppose governments that are doing evil things.’

RT @urlyman
https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/115003501170223700
Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈
@Lazarou@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago
@nicol @urlyman the UKGOV have utterly lost the narrative and the plot.
They are not on the side of ordinary (yet extraordinary) people like Claudia Cotton

#PalestineAction#UKPOL#UKPOLITICS
Wen
@Wen@mastodon.scot  ·  activity timestamp 7 days ago

Police arrest 466 at Palestine Action protest, beating poll tax record

Hundreds openly flouted terrorism law banning the group, including an 89-year-old Jewish refugee and a former Guantanamo Bay inmate

http://archive.today/2025.08.09-205507/https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/palestine-action-protests-march-5jgf7q6q8
(archive)

#PalestineAction#Policing#UkPolitics#Labour#Cooper
Ika Makimaki
@pezmico@mastodon.nz  ·  activity timestamp 7 days ago

Oh look a banned film you definitely should not click and/or watch.

Posting the link so you can be sure to avoid it.

To Kill A War Machine - FULL 2025 Palestine Action Documentary Film
https://youtube.com/watch?v=GAhpMqJIVeA

#PalestineAction #documentary#directAction#toKillAWarMachine#freePalestine#sanctionIsrael#fromTheRiverToTheSea#endTheOccupation#StopTheGenocide