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#PalestineAction defendants acquitted of aggravated burglary over arms factory raid
After eight days of deliberations, defendants were acquitted, or not convicted, of all offences levelled against them
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/breaking-palestine-action-defendants-acquitted-aggravated-burglaryfrom #MiddleEastEye #MEE
4 February 2026 12:40 GMTDuring the trial, the prosecution alleged that the six defendants entered the factory with sledgehammers, intending, if needed, to injure and incapacitate security guards.
But the defendants disputed that the sledgehammers were “weapons of offence”, and insisted they were intended only to damage property.
As the verdicts were being read, the defendants held hands and embraced in the dock, as families and supporters cheered and wept.
The six defendants have been held for around 18 months on remand- exceeding standard #UK custodial time limits.
#NoTechForApartheid
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#SanctionIsrael
#StopArmingIsrael
#AntiZionismIsNotAntisemitism
#Gaza #Israel #Palestine
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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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Prominent historian cancels course at Columbia University over Trump deal
#RashidKhalidi, in open letter published by #Guardian, accuses university of ‘capitulating’ with $200m settlement
from #TheGuardian
Dani Anguiano
Fri 1 Aug 2025 06.00 EDT“Although I have retired, I was scheduled to teach a large lecture course on this topic in the fall as a “special lecturer” but I cannot do so under the conditions #Columbia has accepted by capitulating to the #Trump administration in June,” Khalidi wrote.
Columbia announced last week that it would pay more than $200m in a settlement with the federal government after the White House claimed the university failed to adequately address alleged antisemitism on campus amid protests over the #Israel-#Gaza war, and threatened to pull significant funding.
@palestine
#DefendFreeSpeech
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#DefendRuleOfLaw
#USA #US #USPolitics #politics
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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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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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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
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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
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from #TheIntercept
“I Was Pulled Off of the Sidewalk”: At Least 3 #Journalists Arrested Covering #DNC #ProtestsThe photojournalists face misdemeanor charges of disorderly conduct after spending the night in police custody.
by #AkelaLacy, #JonahValdez
August 21 2024, 8:56 p.m.
https://theintercept.com/2024/08/21/dnc-chicago-gaza-protests-arrests/#ProtestIsNotACrime
#Uncommitted
#NotAnotherBomb
#StopArmingIsrael
#RejectAIPAC #BDS
#CeasefireNow #EndUSAidToIsrael #DivestFromIsrael
#StopGazaGenocide
#RestoreFundsToUNRWA
#LetGazaLive
#SolidarityWithPalestine is #NotAntisemitism
#EqualRightsForAllFromTheRiverToTheSea is #NotAntisemitic
#JewHatredHurtsPalestine
#Gaza #Israel #Palestine #politics
#USA #US #USPolitics #USElection #KamalaHarris #DemocraticParty #Biden
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGHfIP7XcnM
#TheStream #AlJazeera A #MustWatchVideo
What have #PalestineActivists in #Germany 🇩🇪 been facing?
#FreePalestineNow 🇵🇸
#ProtestIsNOTACrime
#ACABGermany #ACAB #PoliceRepression #StateRepression
#ViolencesPolicières #NakbaDemonstration #rassismusWhat gets me is govt knobheads who are part of The State are too dumb to understand the basics: Humans don't like other humans getting murdered.
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#KnowYourSchmuck: Meet #BillAckman 🤮
#TheNation 8 January 2024
Meet #WilliamAkman, Amerika's most Entitled Donor -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9A6u6UhY1MM
#StatusCoupNews #ProtestIsNOTACrime #PeoplePower
#CIVILLIBERTIESLawyers in #NYC #NewYorkCity LISTEN UP.
Thia is from yesterday's #PalestiniansRightsProtest
Pigs 🐷 🐷 🐷 ASSAULT Pro-Palestinian 🇵🇸 Protesters on #BrooklynBridge and DETAIN Many Including #JOURNALISTS (and #TEENGIRLS )
#WTF!!! #FreePalestine 🇵🇸 #NYPDTRASH
A #MustWatchVideo PLEASE REBOOST to as many as possible.
8.43 mark, arresting #StatusCoupNews #press
10.30 approx. arresting unarmed protesters, and kettling. #Kettling is ILLEGAL! -
#StatusCoupNews
#PeoplePower
#NYC Students Protest for #Gaza: SCREW the Pro-Israel School Donors
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuBxjIbcE9I#FuckZionistDonors
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#StatusCoupNews
#PeoplePower
#NYC Students Protest for #Gaza: SCREW the Pro-Israel School Donors
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuBxjIbcE9I#FuckZionistDonors
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#StatusCoupNews
#PeoplePower
#NYC Students Protest for #Gaza: SCREW the Pro-Israel School Donors
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuBxjIbcE9I#FuckZionistDonors
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#StatusCoupNews
#PeoplePower
#NYC Students Protest for #Gaza: SCREW the Pro-Israel School Donors
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuBxjIbcE9I#FuckZionistDonors
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#StatusCoupNews
#PeoplePower
#NYC Students Protest for #Gaza: SCREW the Pro-Israel School Donors
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuBxjIbcE9I#FuckZionistDonors
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Amnesty International: Five Ways Our #RightToProtest is Being Threatened Around the World
by James Duggan, October 5, 2022
"All around the world, right now, peaceful protestors are being imprisoned, threatened, and face physical violence from authorities. Even at home, in #Australia, our right to stand up and speak out against injustice is being taken away. Now more than ever, it’s essential we continue to fight for our #HumanRights.
"The right to protest is a fundamental human right. #Article20 of the #UniversalDeclarationOfHumanRights states that everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association. The right to protest is a way for people to defend their human rights and the rights of others when they’re threatened by governments and authorities.
"Here are five places where the right to protest is currently at threat:
1. #Australia
"Right here in Australia, governments and authorities are adopting an increasingly punitive attitude towards protestors. In 2020, peaceful protestors at a #BlackLivesMatter rally in #Sydney were met with excessive and unnecessary force from #NewSouthWales Police. Police used pepper spray and chased student protestors on horseback at the University of New South Wales, and pushed them to the ground. Both protestors and bystanders were injured in the process.
"The following year, in November 2021, a #ClimateActivist was sentenced to 12 months in jail after he climbed atop a #coal train and stayed on it for five hours to protest Australia’s #climate policies. Twenty-eight other people belonging to the same activist group were also arrested in NSW that month.
"In 2022, the NSW Government announced that disrupting any bridge or tunnel in Greater Sydney as part of a protest would result in individual fines of $22,000. This is a ten-fold increase from the previous penalty of $2,200. The NSW Government also plans to introduce legislation which would mean this $22,000 fine would also apply to protestors disrupting roads and public transport facilities.
2. #HongKong
"In June 2020, a new law came into effect in Hong Kong, referred to as the #NationalSecurityLaw (#NSL). What “national security” refers to in this law isn’t well defined, and the NSL has been applied arbitrarily at the discretion of the government and authorities to suppress #dissent and political opposition.
"In September 2021, a human rights lawyer named #ChowHangTung was arrested under this law and charged with 'inciting subversion.' She faces up to ten years in prison for peacefully commemorating the 1989 #Tiananmen Square protest crackdown. During the 1989 crackdown, an undisclosed number of people, anywhere from hundreds to thousands, were killed by authorities for gathering to protest the government’s censorship laws. At least three other activists were arrested along with Chow Hang-tung in relation to the peaceful memorial of these victims.
3. #Cambodia
"In May 2021, three young activists belonging to a Cambodian environmental campaign group called #MotherNatureCambodia were convicted to between 18 and 20 months in prison. They were arrested after they announced a plan to undertake a two-person march to the #Cambodian prime minister’s house in order to express their concerns regarding plans to privatise and develop the largest remaining #lake in the country’s capital city. They were charged with 'incitement to commit a felony or disturb social order.'
"Mother Nature Cambodia have won several major #environmental victories in Cambodia. In 2016, their efforts to expose widespread environmental destruction and human rights abuses linked to the #mining and export of #sand from coastal areas of Cambodia resulted in a total export ban on #CoastalSand from the country. As a result, the group have been targeted with harassment and repression from the Cambodian government. Multiple other activists have been charged with 'incitement,' and the group has been accused of 'causing chaos in society' and labelled 'illegal' because they’re not registered under the country’s restrictive NGO Law.
4. #Russia
"The right to protest in Russia has been severely compromised since 2004, when the Federal Law on Assemblies, Rallies, Demonstrations, Marches and Pickets was passed. The Law on Assemblies restricts who’s allowed to organise a protest and where the protest is allowed to be held, and subjects planned protests to a strict authorisation process that often results in permission being denied.
"Since 2004, legislation has been tightened numerous times. Most recently, the Russian government introduced new, heavy penalties for anyone who protests Russia’s invasion of #Ukraine. Less than three weeks after the beginning of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022, almost 15,000 peaceful protestors had been arrested. #RussianAuthorities have arrested bystanders of protests and even children. Police have used excessive force against peaceful protestors, including women, subjecting them to beatings and electrocution with stun guns.
5. #India
"In India, draconian laws such as 'the crime of sedition' have been repeatedly used against peaceful protestors, journalists and human rights defenders. The slow investigative processes and strict bail conditions under these laws mean that activists and others who speak out against injustice in their country may spend many years behind bars while their trial is ongoing.
"In 2021, a 22-year-old #EnvironmentalActivist named #DishaRavi was charged with '#sedition' for sharing an online Google document that was originally tweeted by #GretaThunberg. The document was a basic 'toolkit' for #farmers in India who were then in the midst of protests against the Indian government over newly introduced agricultural legislation. The 'toolkit' included information on the protests and how to support the movement, both in person and online. Disha is a leader of India’s #FridaysForFuture movement, an international student environmentalist movement instigated by Greta Thunberg.
Source:
https://www.amnesty.org.au/five-ways-our-right-to-protest-is-being-threatened-around-the-world/#ForestDefenders #WaterProtectors #DirectAction #ACAB #CriminalizingDissent #EnvironmentalActivists
#ClimateActivists #ClimateJustice #Fascism #SilencingDissent #CorporateColonialism
#EcoActivists #Censorship
#HumanRightsViolations
#DefendTheDefenders #ActivismIsNotACrime #ClimateJusticeNow #ProtestIsNotACrime