#filton — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #filton, aggregated by home.social.
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(19th August 2026)
“ Cooking Pasta, Giving Rides
None of the eight defendants were on the factory premises when the raid happened.
But prosecutors used joint enterprise powers, normally reserved for gangland murders, to pursue them however tenuous their connections to the break-in.“
https://www.declassifieduk.org/jury-refuses-to-convict-seven-palestine-action-organisers-for-israel-arms-factory-raid/#Bristol #directaction #Elbit #Filton #gaza #Militaryindustrialcomplex #PalestineAction
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Despite the best efforts of the British security state, a modicum of justice has prevailed in the latest Palestine Action kangaroo court! The Zionist-aligned system is unlikely to take this setback lying down!
“JURY REFUSES TO CONVICT SEVEN PALESTINE ACTION ‘ORGANISERS’ FOR ISRAELI ARMS FACTORY RAID”
by Dania Akkad in Declassified UK
“Jurors in an eight-week trial of Palestine Action activists who allegedly planned a raid on an Israeli-owned arms factory were discharged on Wednesday.
It came after they told the court they had been unable to reach verdicts for seven of the defendants.
An eighth defendant, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was found guilty of criminal damage by a majority of nine to one jurors”
#Press #SocialMedia #Journalism #UK #Britain #PalestineAction #Trial #Elbit #Jury #Verdict #Filton #Bristol #Starmer #Labour #MetPolice #Israel #ZionistLobby
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An early release to patrons of $3+/month of our chat with Andy and Maya of @netpol (and other projects), updating the audience on the group's recent reports on police conduct during anti-racist demonstrations in the UK, the endangered fate of the #SpyCops Inquiry, the status of the #Filton #PalestineAction cases and more!
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"The judge in the case of #Filton defendants sentenced as terrorists is trying to jail their lawyer for even informing jurors of their legal right to acquit. The same judge also ordered that jurors must not be informed that he would impose #terrorism sentences if they returned a guilty verdict."
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⭕La police #Britannique a arrêté plusieurs manifestants anti-génocide devant la prison de #Bristol (HMP Bristol) après un rassemblement commémorant le deuxième anniversaire de l'action de #Filton. Les manifestants brandissaient des pancartes en soutien aux activistes impliqués.
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#Filton defence barrister fighting prosecution
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⭕Une manifestation nationale s'est déroulée devant l'usine #d'Elbit-Systems à #Filton, près de #Bristol.
#Elbit-Systems est responsable de 85 % des drones armés déployés dans la bande de #Gaza occupée et utilisés contre les civils.
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“‘A STRAY DOG WITH A TODDLER’S ARM’: HOW ISRAELI ATROCITIES FUELLED PALESTINE ACTION”
by Dania Akkad and Phil Miller in Declassified UK
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@palestinenews“Two women have told a court how they felt compelled to join the Palestine Action protest group after watching ‘a live-streamed genocide’ of Israeli attacks in Gaza.
‘I would see mothers scrape up tiny pieces of their children,’ 53-year-old Hannah Davidson told jurors at the Old Bailey [London Central Criminal Court] this week. ‘I saw a stray dog with a toddler’s arm in its mouth.’”
#Press #SocialMedia #UK #UKPolitics #PalestineAction #PalestinianGenocide #Gaza #Trial #Israel #ElbitSystems #Factory #Filton #DirectAction #BDS
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Jurors convicted the previously acquitted activists of criminal damage in a rigged retrial presided over by a biased pro-genocide puppet judge who hid relevant details of the case from the jurors.
After the verdict, the judge unilaterally upgraded the criminal damage charges to terrorism, blindsiding the jury and making it the first time in U.K. history that criminal damage charges have been treated as terrorism
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Home Office ads on the Overground explaining the new rules that have been brought to bear in the #Filton trials
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Four posters:
New Rules.
One - From now on, the government will decide if you are a terrorist, not a jury.
Two - If you only broke the law to stop someone being killed we'll ban you from explaining that to the jury.
Three - The government will decide which crime you were charged with after your conviction.
Four - Before your trial you can be held in jail for longer than you would spend in prison if convicted.
See #FILTON for details.
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Made these Home Office posters informing citizens about some new rules that are being enforced in the #Filton case.
Print files can be downloaded here:
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My childhood brushes with ghost lore
Despite writing about supernatural folklore, I rarely think about my childhood brushes with ghostly stories. I thought I might rectify that here—by reflecting on two examples of ghost lore I was exposed to in my youth.
Before I begin, I should point out that children’s folklore is just as vital and dynamic a phenomenon as its adult equivalent. Children’s Folklore: A Source Book (1999) is one example of a text that documents the folkloric creativity of children (as opposed to their passive receptivity). The book shows that wherever children come together, they form what folklorists call “folk groups.” The only criteria for the existence of such a group is that “two or more people. . . share something in common—language, occupation, religion, residence”; that they “share ‘traditions'”; and that they have the opportunity to meet face to face.
The Grey Lady
I’ll start with my childhood experience of belonging to a large “folk group” at my prep school, Tockington Manor, in South Gloucestershire. Every child in the school belonged to this folk group, because everyone, at some point, learned about the Grey Lady who haunted the manor’s halls. The boarders at the school were terrified of this lady: they said she wandered the manor at night—the spirit of a nurse who’d fallen from a skylight when the building served as a hospital during the First World War. I don’t remember much about this nighttime revenant, but she’s clearly a variant of a folkloric figure found at boarding schools everywhere: the Grey, White, Black, or Brown Lady.
In my school, older students, already initiated into the ghostly mystery, passed on stories about the drab-colored lady to the younger children, who did the same for the incoming class. I can only assume that telling stories about the Grey Lady allowed us to share anxieties in a fixed, personified form, which helped us adapt to unfamiliar surroundings. It also mythologized the building’s space, especially for boarders—those who couldn’t leave. Separated from their family homes, they created bonds and associations through the emotions that ghost stories evoke.
The story of the Grey Lady may have been one of the most memorable aspects of our folk group. But one story doesn’t create a culture. We also played games like marbles and conkers and had a shared language (words like cave—Latin for “beware”—were used to signal that a teacher was coming). Sometimes we sneaked out of school to gather in an old stone quarry, a place now dense with ivy-covered trees. The aura of this place—which we called simply “Quarry”—will forever remind me of the childhood capacity to create mythological worlds in spaces dominated by adults.
The Yellow Lady
The second example of supernatural storytelling from my childhood occurred during a trip to a Catholic boys’ camp in the summer of 1991. There too the sharing of ghostly legends created belonging among the boys. Despite sharing a tent with my brother, a cousin, and members of my cousin’s family, I felt unsettled in my new surroundings, and I remember how powerfully the nighttime telling of ghost stories allowed us to bond through fear.
The only story I remember clearly (because it terrified me) was inspired by a local landmark. Visible from the camp was a house that glowed an eerie yellow at night. The sight of this building alone would be enough to inspire a haunted house tale. But in our case, the color became detached from the building, and we gave it to a supernatural figure who roamed the grounds at night. Apparently, a mysterious revenant called the Yellow Lady haunted that house, and she visited the meadow where we slept. Pricking up her disturbingly large ears to listen for wakeful boys, the Yellow Lady prowled the rows of tents, determined to steal a child.
Although I remember thinking at the time that the Yellow Lady must have been a ghost, she differs in one important way from the Grey Lady mentioned earlier. While the latter was merely a scary presence that never interacted with students, the Yellow Lady was relational, embodying the discipline of the adult world (“no talking after lights out”). Her eerie color and super-sensory abilities—a result of her inhumanly large ears—suggest that she was a kind of supernatural bogeywoman, perhaps even close to a fairy.
The extreme effectiveness of this Yellow Lady legend meant that all of us had trouble sleeping that night. The next day we rushed to mass, hoping to find protection in proximity to a sacred ritual. The impulse was in keeping with much ghost lore, where holy symbols ward off supernatural threats.
Interestingly, while researching “Yellow Lady” stories (to see how commonplace they are), I came across a blog post in which the writer talks about a Yellow Lady story he learned at a camp run by monks. He then turns the tale into a literary short story—an embellishment, perhaps, of a fragmentary tale like mine. It seems to me that the writer’s camp may even have been the one I attended. Either that or the Yellow Lady haunts a number of such camps.
Haunted houses and witch houses
Besides my encounters with the Grey and Yellow Ladies, the only other ghost lore I can remember from my childhood are stories about haunted houses. These were always abandoned homes in the neighborhood, their shattered windows revealing darkness inside, the absence of family life. Repeating things we’d heard or inventing stories on the spot, we called these houses “haunted” or the former resort of “witches”—words that described the rupture in our sense of what a home should look like. One of these houses sat at the corner of Charborough Road and Dunkeld Avenue in Filton, Bristol (I can still picture its dilapidated state). Another was on a road branching off from Charborough Road: they said that if you looked into its broken, upstairs window, you might see a witch looking back. (The latter is a vague memory that may even have been my own thought.)
Considering all this lore, it seems to me that ghosts fill the gaps where social meaning decays, whether through separation from home, abandonment of a home, or maladjustment in a place that’s not yet fully home. When I consider these crucial functions, I understand why empirical approaches to ghostly “phenomena” bore me: they arguably fail to understand ghosts at all.
Read about more ghost lore here.
#books #england #EnglishFolklore #fiction #Filton #folklore #ghost #ghostLore #ghostStories #ghostStory #Gloucestershire #GreyLady #hauntedHouse #history #horror #TockingtonManor #witches #writing #YellowLady -
Afterthe #Filton 6 victory i was tentatively asking whether tagging #PalestineAction would now cease to deem me a #terrorist. It seems the day has finally come (can't imagine #keirstarmer appealing).
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“#Filton #Acquittals Demolish #Starmer and #Cooper #Lies About #PalestineAction”
by Craig Murray in Craig’s Substack
“As the trial finished at Woolwich Crown Court of the six Palestine Action activists who entered the Filton factory to destroy Israeli killer drones, Starmer, Cooper, Lammy & Mahmood are left bereft of a single guilty verdict in the case on which they relied heavily to label Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation”
https://open.substack.com/pub/craigmurrayorg/p/filton-acquittals-demolish-starmer