Freedom News: **Filton acquittals: The start of a sea change**
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2026/02/05/filton-acquittals-the-start-of-a-sea-change/
The public is clearly uncomfortable with jailing peaceniks for trying to stop weapons supplies to a genocidal regime ~ Andy Meinke ~ Woolwich Crown…
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#News #Antiwar #DefendOurJuries #DirectAction #Elbit #Filton24 #Gaza #Trial
Quixoticgeek
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I know this has been shared many times before but never by me and I did want to share it for that one person who may not know it yet (or didn't know who wrote it)
#activism #marwanmakhoul #poem #poetry #war #antiwar #antifascism #antifa
I know this has been shared many times before but never by me and I did want to share it for that one person who may not know it yet (or didn't know who wrote it)
#activism #marwanmakhoul #poem #poetry #war #antiwar #antifascism #antifa
Michael Graaf
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@caityjohnstone mentions the 2020 smearing/vilification/cancellation of Roger Waters for speaking about this #corruption. Four years earlier he provided narration to a startling and undeniably accurate #documentary #film about #Hasbara - the corruption and the manufacture of consent for it - called 'The Occupation of the American Mind' which started the ball rolling toward his erasure. It's recently become quite challenging to find; even any discussion of the film's existence. Although it could be rightfully considered propaganda itself simply because it has a point of view, a "bias", it does bring together a preponderance of facts about these things. It makes for compelling viewing even if you feel Waters is an asshole. He's rational and worthy of some respect, if only for sticking his neck out. And his participation in this film's production is limited. He just provides narration for parts of it; it's mostly well-edited, well contextualized, academic and journalistic archive & actuality.
#journalism #dissentingOpinion #freeSpeech #antiwar #speech #decolonization #publicOpinion #zionism #propaganda #publicRelations #manufacturedNarrative
"Some people will look at these clips and claim it’s antisemitic to even share them. Others will look at them and cite them as evidence that the world is ruled by Jews. For me they’re just evidence that the world is ruled by wealthy sociopaths, and that western democracy is an illusion... I mean, you really couldn’t ask for a better illustration of the sham of American democracy than this. Two billionaires from supposedly opposite political parties publicly admitting that they use their obscene wealth to manipulate US politics to advance the military and geopolitical agendas of a foreign state on the other side of the planet..."
To be opposed to the spuriously-faithbased whitenationalist ideology that excuses and promotes genocide like the 2025-6 US-Israeli #holocaust in Gaza and broader Western Asia - whether or not you label it as antizionism - is to be in favor of democracy over authoritarianism.
#Antizionism isn't #antisemitism, period. #deconflate It is however antifascism. Which is why hundreds of millions of dollars, if not billions, have been spent (on something the Likud and other Israelis call Hasbara) to vilify those of us who find the now-ubiquitous, 21st Century #fascism intolerable. The US bargain with the people running the colonialist, occupying, apartheid, terror state of Israel was always a devil's bargain, in the end helping to promote and reinforce the US version of white-nationalism and its enforcers who are now at war against the US public in places like Minnesota. And Maine. And North Carolina. And Oregon. And Illinois.
Thank god it can't happen here #tgichh #plutocracy #corruption #racism #whiteNationalism
That's my take; here's @caityjohnstone's
https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/zionist-billionaires-openly-acknowledge
@caityjohnstone mentions the 2020 smearing/vilification/cancellation of Roger Waters for speaking about this #corruption. Four years earlier he provided narration to a startling and undeniably accurate #documentary #film about #Hasbara - the corruption and the manufacture of consent for it - called 'The Occupation of the American Mind' which started the ball rolling toward his erasure. It's recently become quite challenging to find; even any discussion of the film's existence. Although it could be rightfully considered propaganda itself simply because it has a point of view, a "bias", it does bring together a preponderance of facts about these things. It makes for compelling viewing even if you feel Waters is an asshole. He's rational and worthy of some respect, if only for sticking his neck out. And his participation in this film's production is limited. He just provides narration for parts of it; it's mostly well-edited, well contextualized, academic and journalistic archive & actuality.
#journalism #dissentingOpinion #freeSpeech #antiwar #speech #decolonization #publicOpinion #zionism #propaganda #publicRelations #manufacturedNarrative
Audible Anarchism: **International Statement - We Denounce the Imperial Offensive on Venezuela**
https://audibleanarchism.podbean.com/e/international-statement-we-denounce-the-imperial-offensive-on-venezuela/
#antiwar #antiimperialism #venezuela
For questions, comments or to get involved, e-mail us at audibleanarchist(at)gmail.com
The statement can be read in English and Spanish at BR/RN's site
https://www.blackrosefed.org/cala-statement-12-25/
Chip Butty
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#Antiwar organizations in #US call for emergency nationwide protests on Saturday, Jan 3
In the first hour since the call was issued, 13 cities have already listed protests against the war on #Venezuela, including in front of the #WhiteHouse at 1pm. The organization says more cities will be posted by the morning.
The listing is available at https://answercoalition.org/venezuela
#Antiwar organizations in #US call for emergency nationwide protests on Saturday, Jan 3
In the first hour since the call was issued, 13 cities have already listed protests against the war on #Venezuela, including in front of the #WhiteHouse at 1pm. The organization says more cities will be posted by the morning.
The listing is available at https://answercoalition.org/venezuela
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Based Baddy horsewhips boots for wage theft.
Today in Labor History December 31, 1918: U.S. courts found Marie Equi guilty of sedition for speaking out against World War One. Marie Equi was born to working-class immigrant parents in New Bedford, Massachusetts. As a young woman, she went to work in a textile mill. Her first documented experience as an activist came in 1893, when she horse-whipped Reverend Orson D. Taylor, a land developer and superintendent of the Wasco Independent Academy, after he reneged on paying her lover, Bessie Holcomb, her salary for teaching at the institution. Many local people considered Taylor as a crook and applauded her attack. In 1897, she moved to San Francisco to study medicine. She practiced medicine in Portland, Oregon, where she cared primarily for working-class and poor patients. However, she came back to San Francisco to volunteer during the 1906 earthquake.
In 1913, she went to support a strike by women cannery workers at Oregon Packing Company over low wages. When the IWW and socialists joined the strike, the demands broadened to include equal rights for women and the right to free speech. During that strike, police clubbed her as she protested their brutality toward a pregnant woman. The experience radicalized her and drew her into the anarchist and the radical labor movements. She became a leader in Portland’s unemployment crisis of 1913-14, supported the IWW’s free speech fights, and the labor battles of the region’s timber workers. Throughout her career as a doctor, she provided information on birth control and abortions despite both being illegal at the time, providing discounts to lower income women. She was imprisoned in 1916 for providing abortion literature.
As nationalism and jingoism increased during the years leading up to U.S. involvement in World War One, there were massive Preparedness Parades held throughout the country. Equi believed the war was about profits for capitalists at the expense of working-class people. During one Preparedness Parade in downtown Portland, she unfurled a banner that reading: Prepare to die, workingmen, JP Morgan & Co. want preparedness for profit. She was arrested at this protest, and again in 1918. They sentenced her to three years at San Quintin, which President Wilson commuted to one. After her release, she returned to Portland and invited IWW organizer Elizabeth Gurley Flynn to come live with her.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #marieequi #anarchism #feminism #lgbtq #antiwar #strike #police #policebrutality #abortion #birthcontrol #sedition #prison #IWW
Based Baddy horsewhips boots for wage theft.
Today in Labor History December 31, 1918: U.S. courts found Marie Equi guilty of sedition for speaking out against World War One. Marie Equi was born to working-class immigrant parents in New Bedford, Massachusetts. As a young woman, she went to work in a textile mill. Her first documented experience as an activist came in 1893, when she horse-whipped Reverend Orson D. Taylor, a land developer and superintendent of the Wasco Independent Academy, after he reneged on paying her lover, Bessie Holcomb, her salary for teaching at the institution. Many local people considered Taylor as a crook and applauded her attack. In 1897, she moved to San Francisco to study medicine. She practiced medicine in Portland, Oregon, where she cared primarily for working-class and poor patients. However, she came back to San Francisco to volunteer during the 1906 earthquake.
In 1913, she went to support a strike by women cannery workers at Oregon Packing Company over low wages. When the IWW and socialists joined the strike, the demands broadened to include equal rights for women and the right to free speech. During that strike, police clubbed her as she protested their brutality toward a pregnant woman. The experience radicalized her and drew her into the anarchist and the radical labor movements. She became a leader in Portland’s unemployment crisis of 1913-14, supported the IWW’s free speech fights, and the labor battles of the region’s timber workers. Throughout her career as a doctor, she provided information on birth control and abortions despite both being illegal at the time, providing discounts to lower income women. She was imprisoned in 1916 for providing abortion literature.
As nationalism and jingoism increased during the years leading up to U.S. involvement in World War One, there were massive Preparedness Parades held throughout the country. Equi believed the war was about profits for capitalists at the expense of working-class people. During one Preparedness Parade in downtown Portland, she unfurled a banner that reading: Prepare to die, workingmen, JP Morgan & Co. want preparedness for profit. She was arrested at this protest, and again in 1918. They sentenced her to three years at San Quintin, which President Wilson commuted to one. After her release, she returned to Portland and invited IWW organizer Elizabeth Gurley Flynn to come live with her.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #marieequi #anarchism #feminism #lgbtq #antiwar #strike #police #policebrutality #abortion #birthcontrol #sedition #prison #IWW
joene 🏴🍉
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How an old quote just stays relevant... #war #peace #humanrights #palestine #freepalestine #israel #idf #FuckTheIDF #IdfAreTerrorists #antifascism #antifa #antiwar
How an old quote just stays relevant... #war #peace #humanrights #palestine #freepalestine #israel #idf #FuckTheIDF #IdfAreTerrorists #antifascism #antifa #antiwar
Freedom News: **Germany: “Frustration” with centralism, Tankies at anti-militarist camp**
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2025/12/10/germany-frustration-with-centralism-tankies-at-anti-militarist-camp/
Anarchist evaluations discuss tensions with Rheinmetall Entwaffnen organisers and authoritarian left groups ~ Cristina Sykes ~ Evaluations of last …
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#News #Antiwar #Germany
Thanksgiving in the US is time to remember a Massacree involving a VW Microbus; shovels, rakes, and implements of destruction; a half a ton of garbage; photographs of the scene with alt text on the back to describe them; bench W; pencils and papers with a question on the backside; and a study in black and white
Oh, and Alice's Restaurant and a guitar that will come around again
It should be in your library
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m57gzA2JCcM&list=RDm57gzA2JCcM&start_radio=1
#Thanksgiving #AlicesRestaraunt #ArloGuthrie #antiWar #antifa
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#VictoriaAustralia’s draconian new #AntiProtest laws will have a chilling effect on #FreeSpeech — and won’t keep anyone safe
Far-reaching anti-protest measures and giving police more repressive powers only serve to increase the risk of escalating violence.
by Sarah Schwartz, Jul 9, 2025
"In response to the weekend’s attack on the East Melbourne Hebrew Congregation, Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan has announced she will forge ahead with new anti-protest measures and more #police powers.
"In doing so, she is following what has become the new normal for state governments across the country: using acts of racism and violence as a pretext to #ClampDown on unrelated democratic rights.
"Taking to the streets in peaceful protest is one of the main ways for people to come together and express our political views when our representatives aren’t listening to us. But this right is not without limits. Every person has a right to worship in safety. The attack on East Melbourne Synagogue was not a protest; it was an act of antisemitism. The suspect has been apprehended and charged with a multitude of criminal offences.
"Two other incidents over the weekend, the targeting of a business with ties to the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation — a US-backed #Israeli organisation linked to the massacres of unarmed #Palestinians seeking aid — and a weapons company with links to the Israeli military, are also being referred to as justifying new laws. It is important not to conflate these actions against Israel with an attack against a Jewish place of worship. International human rights law, as well as our current laws, already place limits on protests that involve intimidation and violence.
"So what is actually being proposed in response? The Allan government is suggesting the creation of a new criminal offence for wearing a #FaceCovering at peaceful protests, banning 'dangerous attachment devices' (e.g. a #chain, a #BikeLock) — which have long been used in non-violent civil disobedience — and #criminalising peaceful protests around places of religious worship.
"The ban on face coverings would be a first in #Australia. It would mirror measures used in #authoritarian states that force people to submit themselves to various forms of #StateSurveillance.
" #VictoriaPolice has been using facial recognition software for years without any regulatory or legislative framework to prevent breaches of privacy. This technology, combined with a ban on face coverings at protests, would essentially amount to an obligation on behalf of individuals to submit to surveillance by the state, corporations and other groups that surveil protesters.
"Unless you’re a #MiningCompany spending hundreds of millions buying politicians’ favour or can wine and dine decision-makers, peaceful protest is one of the main ways for people to hold governments and corporations to account. Protests for the eight-hour workday, #WomensRights, #FirstNationsRights and the #AntiWar movement have led to significant improvements in all of our lives.
Know something?
"Many people attending protests wear face coverings to protect their privacy and anonymity. For temporary migrants, the consequences of identification can include visa cancellation and detention. #FarRight groups, abusers of gender-based violence and other political groups have all been documented as engaging in doxing, surveillance and retaliatory violence against people identified at peaceful protests.
"Even with exemptions, a ban would mean that people who wear facemasks for reasons of health, disability status, or religious or cultural reasons would be at risk of police targeting and made to justify their use of a face mask.
"Adding new repressive police powers against peaceful protesters only serves to increase the risk of escalating violence at already heightened public demonstrations. People will not stop taking to the streets on issues they care about, even if the state tries to stifle their voices. Donald #Trump’s deployment of the #NationalGuard in response to protests in LA shows us how deploying more state force at protests increases rather than decreases the risk of violence.
"A ban on protests outside or within a certain proximity to places of worship would mean police could arrest those engaging in peaceful protests for a genuine, non-discriminatory purpose — for example, protests by survivors of #ClergySexualAbuse or by congregants against the political activities of their own religious institutions.
"It would also have the unintended consequence of rendering large areas of the state no-go zones for peaceful protest, due to the high number of places of worship. Similar laws in #NSW are already being challenged for their #unconstitutionality.
"Taken together, this suite of laws, which would provide police with extraordinary powers against people peacefully raising their voices against #injustice, would have a chilling effect, deterring #MarginalisedGroups from attending protests and exercising their rights to freedom of expression, which the Victorian government has sought to protect.
"Ultimately, banning face coverings at peaceful protests and banning protests outside places of worship would not have done anything to prevent what occurred over the weekend. Premier Allan knows this. Yet she is stuck in the same reactive law-and-order merry-go-round that saw NSW Premier Chris Minns enact fear-based, repressive anti-protest measures in response to what we now know was an opportunistic criminal conspiracy.
"Encouraging people to express their political views peacefully is the antidote to non-peaceful forms of protest and is something that all governments should be encouraging and facilitating. At times like this, we should be able to trust our politicians not to fuel division and panic through misguided and knee-jerk responses, but to take measures to address the root causes of racism and hatred."
#AntiProtestLaws #ProtestLawsAustralia #ACAB #SilencingFreeSpeech #SilencingDissent #CriminalizingProtest #Authoritarianism
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Today in Labor History August 24, 1922: Howard Zinn, American historian, author, teacher and activist was born on this day. Zinn has written over 20 books, including his most well-known book, “A People's History of the United States” (1980). He has described himself as an anarchist and as a democratic socialist. He was initially opposed to U.S. involvement in WWII, but later enlisted to help fight fascism. However, after napalm-bombing a town in France, he later learned that over 1,000 civilians had been killed. This experience reinforced the anti-war stance he would maintain for the rest of his life. In the 1960s, he was heavily involved in the SNCC and Freedom Summer. Zinn has mentored many famous activists and writers, including Alice Walker and Marian Wright Edelman. In 2008, the Zinn Education Project launched to support teachers using “A People’s History” in their curriculum. He died in 2010 from an apparent heart attack.
Be sure to come to the annual Howard Zinn Book fair this December 7, 2025, (10am-6pm) at San Francisco City College, Mission Campus. There will be lots of great writers and workshops. This year’s theme is “Fight Supremacy: Actions Against Authoritarianism.” I will be hosting a working-class writers panel with San Francisco Poet Laureate and activist Tongo Eisen-Martin, poet Daphne Gottlieb, educator and author Jenny Worley, and possibly more tbd.
https://www.zinnbookfair.org/2025
#workingclass #LaborHistory#howardzinn#peopleshistory #anarchism #socialism #sncc #historian #civilrights #antiwar #author #writer #books#poet @bookstadon
Today in Labor History August 24, 1922: Howard Zinn, American historian, author, teacher and activist was born on this day. Zinn has written over 20 books, including his most well-known book, “A People's History of the United States” (1980). He has described himself as an anarchist and as a democratic socialist. He was initially opposed to U.S. involvement in WWII, but later enlisted to help fight fascism. However, after napalm-bombing a town in France, he later learned that over 1,000 civilians had been killed. This experience reinforced the anti-war stance he would maintain for the rest of his life. In the 1960s, he was heavily involved in the SNCC and Freedom Summer. Zinn has mentored many famous activists and writers, including Alice Walker and Marian Wright Edelman. In 2008, the Zinn Education Project launched to support teachers using “A People’s History” in their curriculum. He died in 2010 from an apparent heart attack.
Be sure to come to the annual Howard Zinn Book fair this December 7, 2025, (10am-6pm) at San Francisco City College, Mission Campus. There will be lots of great writers and workshops. This year’s theme is “Fight Supremacy: Actions Against Authoritarianism.” I will be hosting a working-class writers panel with San Francisco Poet Laureate and activist Tongo Eisen-Martin, poet Daphne Gottlieb, educator and author Jenny Worley, and possibly more tbd.
https://www.zinnbookfair.org/2025
#workingclass #LaborHistory#howardzinn#peopleshistory #anarchism #socialism #sncc #historian #civilrights #antiwar #author #writer #books#poet @bookstadon
#VictoriaAustralia’s draconian new #AntiProtest laws will have a chilling effect on #FreeSpeech — and won’t keep anyone safe
Far-reaching anti-protest measures and giving police more repressive powers only serve to increase the risk of escalating violence.
by Sarah Schwartz, Jul 9, 2025
"In response to the weekend’s attack on the East Melbourne Hebrew Congregation, Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan has announced she will forge ahead with new anti-protest measures and more #police powers.
"In doing so, she is following what has become the new normal for state governments across the country: using acts of racism and violence as a pretext to #ClampDown on unrelated democratic rights.
"Taking to the streets in peaceful protest is one of the main ways for people to come together and express our political views when our representatives aren’t listening to us. But this right is not without limits. Every person has a right to worship in safety. The attack on East Melbourne Synagogue was not a protest; it was an act of antisemitism. The suspect has been apprehended and charged with a multitude of criminal offences.
"Two other incidents over the weekend, the targeting of a business with ties to the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation — a US-backed #Israeli organisation linked to the massacres of unarmed #Palestinians seeking aid — and a weapons company with links to the Israeli military, are also being referred to as justifying new laws. It is important not to conflate these actions against Israel with an attack against a Jewish place of worship. International human rights law, as well as our current laws, already place limits on protests that involve intimidation and violence.
"So what is actually being proposed in response? The Allan government is suggesting the creation of a new criminal offence for wearing a #FaceCovering at peaceful protests, banning 'dangerous attachment devices' (e.g. a #chain, a #BikeLock) — which have long been used in non-violent civil disobedience — and #criminalising peaceful protests around places of religious worship.
"The ban on face coverings would be a first in #Australia. It would mirror measures used in #authoritarian states that force people to submit themselves to various forms of #StateSurveillance.
" #VictoriaPolice has been using facial recognition software for years without any regulatory or legislative framework to prevent breaches of privacy. This technology, combined with a ban on face coverings at protests, would essentially amount to an obligation on behalf of individuals to submit to surveillance by the state, corporations and other groups that surveil protesters.
"Unless you’re a #MiningCompany spending hundreds of millions buying politicians’ favour or can wine and dine decision-makers, peaceful protest is one of the main ways for people to hold governments and corporations to account. Protests for the eight-hour workday, #WomensRights, #FirstNationsRights and the #AntiWar movement have led to significant improvements in all of our lives.
Know something?
"Many people attending protests wear face coverings to protect their privacy and anonymity. For temporary migrants, the consequences of identification can include visa cancellation and detention. #FarRight groups, abusers of gender-based violence and other political groups have all been documented as engaging in doxing, surveillance and retaliatory violence against people identified at peaceful protests.
"Even with exemptions, a ban would mean that people who wear facemasks for reasons of health, disability status, or religious or cultural reasons would be at risk of police targeting and made to justify their use of a face mask.
"Adding new repressive police powers against peaceful protesters only serves to increase the risk of escalating violence at already heightened public demonstrations. People will not stop taking to the streets on issues they care about, even if the state tries to stifle their voices. Donald #Trump’s deployment of the #NationalGuard in response to protests in LA shows us how deploying more state force at protests increases rather than decreases the risk of violence.
"A ban on protests outside or within a certain proximity to places of worship would mean police could arrest those engaging in peaceful protests for a genuine, non-discriminatory purpose — for example, protests by survivors of #ClergySexualAbuse or by congregants against the political activities of their own religious institutions.
"It would also have the unintended consequence of rendering large areas of the state no-go zones for peaceful protest, due to the high number of places of worship. Similar laws in #NSW are already being challenged for their #unconstitutionality.
"Taken together, this suite of laws, which would provide police with extraordinary powers against people peacefully raising their voices against #injustice, would have a chilling effect, deterring #MarginalisedGroups from attending protests and exercising their rights to freedom of expression, which the Victorian government has sought to protect.
"Ultimately, banning face coverings at peaceful protests and banning protests outside places of worship would not have done anything to prevent what occurred over the weekend. Premier Allan knows this. Yet she is stuck in the same reactive law-and-order merry-go-round that saw NSW Premier Chris Minns enact fear-based, repressive anti-protest measures in response to what we now know was an opportunistic criminal conspiracy.
"Encouraging people to express their political views peacefully is the antidote to non-peaceful forms of protest and is something that all governments should be encouraging and facilitating. At times like this, we should be able to trust our politicians not to fuel division and panic through misguided and knee-jerk responses, but to take measures to address the root causes of racism and hatred."
#AntiProtestLaws #ProtestLawsAustralia #ACAB #SilencingFreeSpeech #SilencingDissent #CriminalizingProtest #Authoritarianism