#protestisnotacrime — Public Fediverse posts
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Words of NSW Police Deputy Commissioner #DavidHudson, 4th July 2025, spoken under oath during a NSW parliamentary inquiry:
“We can’t prevent the free movement of people throughout the city just because you’re in a protest. You can walk down the street, the footpath. Bearing in mind, at that particular protest at the town hall, there were a lot of women, children [and] women pushing prams. It’s not like we were going to put walls up and start boxing on with these people who have a right to protest.”
How things change in 7 months.
That's precisely what NSW police did last night at Sydney Town Hall, to another protest with people from all walks of life (including kids in strollers)—walls were put up, and police did indeed start 'boxing on', even if someone is backing away with their hands up, or kneeling on the ground in prayer, or already pinned to the ground with a knee in their back, or part of a large crowd kettled & unable to disperse (while police charge with pepper spray & horses, yelling "disperse or be arrested").
And the point at which the police first charged? Very soon after rally organiser #JoshLees had begun using a megaphone to encourage people to disperse (not that we could, due to police kettle in place).
#NSW #ProtestIsNotACrime #CriminalisationOfDissent #NSWPolice
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Chris Minns, NSW Premier: "for the sake of Social Cohesion™, we're inviting a wanted war criminal from a rogue state to visit, granting police extraordinary emergency powers to forcefully suppress the expression of non-approved messages in non-approved locations, and installing extra Social Cohesion™ fences and barriers in the middle of the city. In order to ensure maximum Social Cohesion™ please don't come into the city, and if you do, then disobeying the instructions of one of the 3,000 Social Cohesion™ officers will result in a $5,000 fine. This is for your own good. You will cohere, or else."
#NSWpol #CivilLiberties #CriminalisationOfDissent #IsaacHerzog #Herzog #ChrisMinns #NSWLabor #Gadi #Sydney #SydneyNews #NSWPolice #protest #ProtestIsNotACrime
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CW: A note to non-Australians about Australia Day, 26 January
@futzle Every year, the 26th January sees Invasion Day protest marches and other events mourning genocide and dispossession, celebrating the survival of many of the oldest continuous cultures in the world, and expressing ongoing resistance led by local Indigenous peoples across the continent.
In Gadi (Sydney), most years see tens of thousands of people march from the city to the Yabun festival in Vic Park.
This year will be especially important, given the NSW government's efforts to suppress protest in the name of 'social cohesion' (because denying people a voice has always turned out really well for long-term cohesion, right?). Organisers are planning to march, even if the government extends the anti-protest laws for another two weeks. The more people show up, the less likely it is that the authorities decide to cause trouble.
#InvasionDay #26thJan #jan26 #Auspol #Indigenous #protest #ProtestIsNotACrime #SocialCohesion #NSWpol #SuppressionOfDissent #CriminalisationOfDissent
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University of #Michigan Regents Who Led the Charge Against Pro-#Palestine Protestors Are Now Backing Prosecutor Karen McDonald’s Candidacy for State Attorney
Like Dana Nessel before her, McDonald has received huge backing from Pro-Israel organizations, GOP contributors, and corporate donors.https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/university-of-michigan-regents-who
from #DropSiteNews
Dec 19, 2025Last year, the pro-#Israel regents of #UniversityOfMichigan (U-M) ignited controversy by recruiting State Attorney Gen. #DanaNessel to crack down on campus #Gaza protesters. Now, members of U-M’s Board of Regents are making large donations to Oakland Cty. Prosecutor Karen McDonald, a candidate who may replace Nessel.
McDonald is the prosecutor in a wealthy suburban county north of Detroit. She also received the highest level of corporate donations from the state’s largest businesses and executives, and is viewed as the establishment choice to replace #Nessel.
#DefendFreeSpeech
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#USA #US #USPol #politics
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#London #StanstedAirport Security Tries to Remove ‘Free Palestine’ Top - YouTube
https://m.youtube.com/shorts/xIVu43oa0rg
IT'S A FUCKING HOODIE, isn't it!!!!!
HAS THIS COUNTRY LOST IT?!!!!
#TShirtsAreNOTACrime
#APlacardIsNOTACRIME
#PROTESTisNOTACrimeYou know what IS a crime? BOMBING KIDS !!!
WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH THIS FUCKING COUNTRY??!!!
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“When a foreigner resides among you in your land, do not ill-treat them. The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the Lord your God."
— Leviticus 19.33-34Pew pew.
#LA #Andor #CriminalisationOfDissent #protest #ProtestIsNotACrime #authoritarianism #Trump #PoliceState #ACAB #Leviticus #graffiti
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lL34WpoETds
How Governments Spy on #Protesters --And How to Avoid It
#ProtestIsNOTACrime #Tech #Spyware #TechSurveillance #GovernmentSurveillance
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#Georgetown scholar recalls terror and ‘mockery of due process’ in immigration jail
from #AssociatedPress #AP #APNews
By OLIVIA DIAZ and BEN FINLEY
Updated 6:34 PM EDT, May 23, 2025"Then Khan Suri had to use the plane’s bathroom. He said the guards refused to unshackle his wrists.
“They said, ‘No, you have to use it like this or do it in your trousers,’” #KhanSuri recalled of the trip, taking him to a Louisiana detention center. “They were behaving as if we were animals.”"
#DefendAcademicFreedom
#ReleaseMahmoudKhalil
#repression #ICE
#NoDeportationForBadarKhanSuri
#NoDeportationForRümeysaÖztürk
#NoDeportationForMohsenMahdawi
#StopTheDeportations
#DefendFreeSpeech
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#DefendStudentProtesters
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#DefendRuleOfLaw #GeorgetownUniversity
#BadarKhanSuri #Palestine
#USA #US #USPolitics #politics #Trump
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⚠️ WARNING: This may be triggering for victims of state violence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRMIrgdnO_U
EXCLUSIVE: #ProPalestineStudents RAIDED by #MichiganStatePolice
No search warrant, fyi.
D.A. #DanaNessel, #SHANDA !! 😡
#FreePalestineNOW 🇵🇸 #FascistUSA #ProtestIsNOTACrime #MI #Michigan
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mentioned n the #WIRED video
Records Show #DC and Federal Law Enforcement Sharing Surveillance Info on #RacialJusticeProtests
15 May 2024
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Michigan's #Democratic AG Under Fire After Armed Agents Raid Homes of Palestine Defenders
"We are totally convinced that, but for their viewpoints, these students would not have been targeted," said one attorney.
from #CommonDreams
Brett Wilkins
Apr 23, 2025" Federal and local law enforcement officers smashed their way into the #Michigan homes of pro-#Palestine student organizers on Wednesday in what the state attorney general's office said was a vandalism probe—but critics called an attack on dissent against #Israel's genocidal assault on #Gaza. "
https://www.commondreams.org/news/michigan-raids-palestine
#DefendAcademicFreedom
#ReleaseMahmoudKhalil
#repression
#ReleaseMohsenMahdawi
#ReleaseRümeysaÖztürk
#StopTheDeportations
#DefendFreeSpeech
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#DefendStudentProtesters
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#DefendRuleOfLaw
#StopGazaGenocide
#USA #US #USPolitics #politics #DanaNessel #Trump
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FBI fascists and local oinkers 🐷 raided the homes of #UniversityOfMichigan #PalestinianRightsActvists in #AnnArbor, #Ipsilante, and Canton on Wednesday.
The targets of the raids participated in campus nonviolent #antiwar protests.
Disgrace to the #queer community :pride: , traitor to humanity and #zionazi, Attorney General #DanaNessel, claims they're part of a 'vandalism investigation' 🤨 (#wtf?)
The CouncilOnAmericanIslamicRelations #CAIR : 'Peaceful dissent is NOT a crime'
No search warrant was provided. Trigger warning for #PTSD victims of police violence. Please take care ☮️ .
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/p4hbf4KPLpk (video provided by the #TAHRIRCoalition and #DemocracyNow)
(SOURCE for story: DemocracyNow)
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‘I realised we’re such hypocrites’: how growing numbers of US veterans were moved to protest over #Gaza
from #TheGuardian #Guardian
Tara Sutton
Thu 16 Jan 2025 07.20 EST[A very inspiring article - it helps make clear that a mass movement in the #US to support #Palestine is possible.]
#NotAnotherBomb
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#CeasefireNow
#StopArmingIsrael
#BDS #DivestFromIsrael
#StopGazaGenocide
#RestoreFundsToUNRWA
#SolidarityWithPalestine is #NotAntisemitism
#EqualRightsForAllFromTheRiverToTheSea is #NotAntisemitic
#JewHatredHurtsPalestine
#Israel #Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia #politics
#USA #USPolitics
#media #news #press @palestine @israel -
#NewYorkUniversity issues one-year suspensions over peaceful sit-ins for #Gaza, staff says
Critics say the move is meant to deter future encampments as #Israel’s assault on the enclave intensifies
from #MiddleEastEye #MEE
By Yasmine El-Sabawi
Published date: 9 January 2025 17:57 GMT#ProtestIsNotACrime
#DefendStudentProtesters
#NotAnotherBomb
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#CeasefireNow
#StopArmingIsrael
#BDS #DivestFromIsrael
#StopGazaGenocide
#RestoreFundsToUNRWA
#SolidarityWithPalestine is #NotAntisemitism
#EqualRightsForAllFromTheRiverToTheSea is #NotAntisemitic
#JewHatredHurtsPalestine
#Gaza #Israel #Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia #politics
#USA #US #USPolitics #NYU
#media #news #press @palestine @israel -
Inside the #Yale Police Department’s War on Student Protesters
Exclusive documents reveal the YPD’s use of counterterrorism tactics in suppressing pro-Palestine activism.
from #JewishCurrents
Theia Chatelle
December 20, 2024https://jewishcurrents.org/inside-yale-police-department-war-student-protesters-palestine
#Jewish #ProtestIsNotACrime
#DefendStudentProtesters
#NotAnotherBomb
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#CeasefireNow
#StopArmingIsrael
#BDS #DivestFromIsrael
#StopGazaGenocide
#RestoreFundsToUNRWA
#Gaza #Israel #Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia #politics
#USA #US #USPolitics
#media #news #press @palestine @israel -
Renewed crackdown on free speech aims to overwhelm #US student protests
How universities respond to the suppression could define the boundaries of campus activism for years to come
from #MiddleEastEye #MEE
By Kayra Sener
Published date: 29 November 2024 18:24 GMThttps://www.middleeasteye.net/news/massive-crackdown-free-speech-threatens-overwhelm-us-student-protests
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#DefendStudentProtesters
#SolidarityWithPalestine is #NotAntisemitism
#EqualRightsForAllFromTheRiverToTheSea is #NotAntisemitic
#JewHatredHurtsPalestine
#NotAnotherBomb
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#CeasefireNow
#StopArmingIsrael
#BDS #DivestFromIsrael
#StopGazaGenocide
#RestoreFundsToUNRWA
#Gaza #Israel #Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia #politics
#USA #USPolitics #Biden
#media #news #press @palestine @israel -
Police Raid Pro-#Palestine Students’ Home in #FBI-Led Graffiti Investigation
#GeorgeMasonUniversity suspended its #StudentsForJusticeInPalestine chapter and effectively kicked out the group’s co-president.
from #TheIntercept
Akela Lacy
December 3 2024, 7:33 p.m.
https://theintercept.com/2024/12/03/george-mason-fbi-gaza-palestine-israel/#NotAnotherBomb
#StopArmingIsrael
#DivestFromIsrael
#StopGazaGenocide
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#DefendStudentProtesters
#Gaza #MiddleEast #WestAsia #politics
#USA #US #USPolitics
#media #news #press @palestine @israel -
How Universities Cracked Down on Pro-#Palestinian Activism
Stricter rules and punishments over campus protests seem to be working. #Universities have seen just under 950 protest events this semester, compared with 3,000 in the spring.
from #NewYorkTimes #NYT
[gift article - link can be shared. Expires in 30 days.]By Isabelle Taft
Nov. 25, 2024 Updated 8:53 p.m. EThttps://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/25/us/university-crackdowns-protests-israel-hamas-war.html?unlocked_article_code=1.c04.7u24.BzgBMbsnenoS&smid=url-share
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#DefendStudentProtesters
#NotAnotherBomb
#StopArmingIsrael
#BDS
#CeasefireNow #DivestFromIsrael
#Gaza #Israel #Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia #politics
#USA #US #USPolitics
#media #news #press @palestine @israel -
from #TheGuardian #Guardian
#UniversityOfMichigan recruits state attorney general to crack down on #Gaza protestersRevealed: in a highly unusual move, regents allegedly bypassed local prosecutors, believing #DanaNessel would be tougher on student protesters
Tom Perkins in Detroit
Thu 24 Oct 2024 07.00 EDT
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/24/michigan-attorney-general-dana-nessel-campus-gaza-protests?CMP=share_btn_url
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#DefendStudentProtesters
#NotAnotherBomb
#StopArmingIsrael
#RejectAIPAC #BDS
#CeasefireNow
#DivestFromIsrael
#StopGazaGenocide
#RestoreFundsToUNRWA
#SolidarityWithPalestine is #NotAntisemitism
#EqualRightsForAllFromTheRiverToTheSea is #NotAntisemitic
#JewHatredHurtsPalestine
#Israel #Palestine #politics #MiddleEast
#USA #US #USPolitics #USElection #DemocraticParty
#media #news #press @palestine @israel -
from #AlJazeera
#Zionist ‘safety patrols’ on campus have little concern for #Jewish safety‘Self-defence’ has vastly different meanings for the colonised and the coloniser.
[important article - has information on far-right Zionist thugs in Canada and US]
Yoav Litvin is an Israeli-American doctor of psychology/neuroscience, a writer and photographer.
14 Oct 2024
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/10/14/zionist-safety-patrols-on-campus-have-little-concern-for-jewish-safety
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#DefendStudentProtesters
#NotAnotherBomb
#StopArmingIsrael
#RejectAIPAC #BDS
#CeasefireNow #EndUSAidToIsrael #DivestFromIsrael
#StopGazaGenocide
#RestoreFundsToUNRWA
#Gaza #Israel #Palestine #politics #MiddleEast
#media #news #press @palestine @israel -
CNN's Tapper, Bash Urged to Apologize for 'Reprehensible' Lies About Rashida Tlaib
from #CommonDreamsBrett Wilkins
Sep 24, 2024"At this point, there is virtually zero chance that #CNN, #JakeTapper, and #DanaBash don't know that #RashidaTlaib never said what they are claiming," said one observer.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/rashida-tlaib-false-allegations
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#DefendStudentProtesters
#EndTheOccupation #SettlersOut
#PalestinianLivesMatter
#FreePalestine #LetGazaLive
#SolidarityWithPalestine is #NotAntisemitism
#EqualRightsForAllFromTheRiverToTheSea is #NotAntisemitic
#JewHatredHurtsPalestine
#Gaza #Israel #Palestine #politics #MiddleEast
#USA #US #USPolitics #USElection #DanaNessel #GretchenWhitmer #ADL #Jewish #antiSemitism #DemocraticParty
#media #news #press
@[email protected] @usa@lemmyml
@[email protected] @israel -
from #CommonDreams
'Deeply Disturbing' #NYU Policy Change Equates #AntiZionism With #Antisemitism"What the administrators have clearly failed to grasp is that repression cannot kill the student movement," one coalition said, promising "new and more creative forms of resistance."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/nyu-antisemitism
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#ActivismIsNotACrime
#NotAnotherBomb
#StopArmingIsrael
#RejectAIPAC #BDS
#CeasefireNow #EndUSAidToIsrael #DivestFromIsrael
#StopGazaGenocide
#RestoreFundsToUNRWA
#EndTheOccupation #SettlersOut
#PalestinianLivesMatter
#FreePalestine #LetGazaLive
#SolidarityWithPalestine is #NotAntisemitism
#EqualRightsForAllFromTheRiverToTheSea is #NotAntisemitic
#JewHatredHurtsPalestine
#IsraelWarCrimes #ArrestNetanyahuAndGallant
#USHandsOffICC
#Gaza #Israel #Palestine #politics
#USA #US #USPolitics #CampusProtests #students #NewYorkUniversity #campus
#media #news #press @palestine @israel -
from #TheGuardian
‘Summer school’ activists plan pro-#Palestinian protests at US colleges in fall"Despite academic suspensions, doxing attempts and the arrests of more than 3,000 students nationwide, the students who occupied their campuses’ lawns with tents last semester are gearing up for another – possibly bigger – round of #demonstrations “on all fronts, by all means”, calling once again for a #ceasefire in #Gaza and for their colleges to #divest from financial ties to #Israel."
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#NotAnotherBomb
#RejectAIPAC
#CeasefireNow #EndUSAidToIsrael #DivestFromIsrael
#StopGazaGenocide
#RestoreFundsToUNRWA
#PalestinianLivesMatter
#LetGazaLive
#SolidarityWithPalestine is #NotAntisemitism
#EqualRightsForAllFromTheRiverToTheSea is #NotAntisemitic
#JewHatredHurtsPalestine
#IsraelWarCrimes
#USHandsOffICC
#Palestine #politics
#USA #US #USPolitics
#media #news #press #StudentProtests #CampusProtests @palestine @israel -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2odJHZt7WI
#HindHallTakeover (previously named #HamiltonHall) on #ColumbiaUniversity #NYC #NewYorkCity
#PeoplePowerNo media allowed on campus. The lie is 'safety concerns'.
#FreePalestine🇵🇸
#SupportStudentsAndFacultyforPalestine
#MinoucheShafikDÉGAGE #MinoucheShafikRESIGN#GeorgeWashingtonUniversity #DC are threatening to suspend students
#ProtestIsNOTACrime#GenocideJoe et al kvetching about the word '#intifada', without obviously knowing what it means and moaning about student protests.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3kj6h3clLE
Oinkers arrest more protesters in #SolidarityWithPalestine at #UniversityOf Texas #Austin
4 hours ago
#ProtestIsNOTACrime #SupportStudentsAndFacultyforPalestine
#FreePalestine🇵🇸 -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gm3oD4ky1nI
keep in mind, this is normie news
*#EmoryUniversity student tased and tackled
*#UniversityOfTexas more peaceful unarmed protesters, including faculty, who are pissed off by the police brutality yesterday. #NoStateTroopersOnCampus
*No National Guard will come to #ColumbiaUniversityhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=In35ZJEGtu8
#Texas #TX #PeoplePower #ACABatUTAustin #ACAB
#SupportTheStudentsAndfacultyForPalestine 🇵🇸
#FreePalestine🇵🇸 #ProtestIsNOTACrime -
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/c4GKfUmesm0
🇨🇦 #Canadian oinkers 🐷 🐷 🐷 attack #ProPalestineProtesters at #Toronto protest
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Not everyone is prepared to do #DirectAction and risk arrest. However, that doesn't mean you can't get involved. Some good tips here for anyone who is new to #activism, or who wants to learn more...
"Here in the United States, a common place to start researching #environmentalism is in the works of #AldoLeopold, #RachelCarson, and #EdwardAbbey. Although the work of these authors is undeniably crucial to understanding the landscape of modern environmentalist thought, it’s only a skim of the surface of the centuries of work done by #Indigenous leaders to protect and conserve #Earth and the natural resources we can’t live without –– the water we drink, the air we breathe."
The Introvert’s Guide to Environmental Activism
by Deanna Pratt | Mar 7, 2020
"Putting yourself out there and standing up for something you believe in can be really intimidating. Especially if you’re an introvert.
"Inside of most environmental activists and organizers –– including myself –– there’s an intense battle raging on between our passion for environmental justice and our fear of being seen and heard. It takes an immense amount of vulnerability to put your most intimate beliefs and worldviews out in the open for the world to see.
"Despite that, we still choose to post on social media, attend rallies, and organize community meet-ups and events because we know it’s what we have to do in the face of the climate crisis.
"If you’re someone who wants to get involved in environmental activism but, you’re not sure how to comfortably start, this guide is for you.
"Here are three steps you can take to progressively ease into environmental activism and community outreach."
Read more:
https://ecoally.co/environmental-activism-guide/#EcoAlly #EcoActivists #FridaysForFuture #ClimateStrike #ActNow #EnvironmentalActivists #IntrovertedActivists #DefendTheDefenders #ActivismIsNotACrime #ClimateJusticeNow #ProtestIsNotACrime