Palestine solidarity demos in the UK

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It would seem that the Met have decided to be difficult regarding the march organised for 07/09/24

Thats the way things have been going over recent years
I see Johnson stuck his oar in over the half hearted arms embargo

 

[tony.c]

It would seem that the Met have decided to be difficult regarding the march organised for 07/09/24:

Met has now agreed assembly time and place for Saturday. March will be leaving at 2.30pm from Regent St, near Piccadilly Circus, Central London and ending at Kensington High Rd (near Israel Embassy).

 

[tony.c]

Route for tomorrow's PSC march;

 

[tony.c]

Met Police have now agreed to march starting one hour earlier than they had previously insisted.
So march will now be moving off at 1.30 pm tomorrow from Regent St/St James.

 

[TopCat]

Close to the Zionist embassy the end point.

 

[a_chap]

The pedant in me wants to know that the hell is the difference between those last two points:

 

[rich!]

The pedant in me wants to know that the hell is the difference between those last two points:

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The second one means anyone who looks like a protestor is in breach of they are outside the assembly area and proceeding along the route.

The first one applies to the organisers as a whole?

 

[tony.c]

The pedant in me wants to know that the hell is the difference between those last two points:

The second one means anyone who looks like a protestor is in breach of they are outside the assembly area and proceeding along the route.

The first one applies to the organisers as a whole?

Originally the PSC march was due to assemble from 1200, departing at 1300, as with previous London marches. Coaches from other cities were booked to arrive in line with those times.
This week (Monday) a pro-Israel group announced it would be holding an event near the Israeli Embassy at around the time the PSC march would be due to arrive. This was a blatant attempt to get the PSC march moved in time or place. Until Thursday the Met were insisting that the PSC march would not be allowed to begin until 1430, which would have meant that people arriving for the scheduled 1300 start would have arrived early, and may also have not been able to get their coach home.

On Friday the Met moved a bit, accepting that the PSC march could start at 1330. The conditions you point out are presumably because they intend to prevent the march moving off any earlier, and are likely to contain or arrest any early attendees who might find themselves somewhere on the route march before 1330.

Met backs down over attempt to delay London Palestine march start time

Anger at manoeuvres to please Israel lobby leads to rethink, but conditions still imposed The Metropolitan Police has abandoned its attempt to delay, at short notice, the start time of Saturday&#82…

www.skwawkbox.org

 

[rich!]

Originally the PSC march was due to assemble from 1200, departing at 1300, as with previous London marches. Coaches from other cities were booked to arrive in line with those times.
This week (Monday) a pro-Israel group announced it would be holding an event near the Israeli Embassy at around the time the PSC march would be due to arrive. This was a blatant attempt to get the PSC march moved in time or place. Until Thursday the Met were insisting that the PSC march would not be allowed to begin until 1430, which would have meant that people arriving for the scheduled 1300 start would have arrived early, and may also have not been able to get their coach home.

On Friday the Met moved a bit, accepting that the PSC march could start at 1330. The conditions you point out are presumably because they intend to prevent the march moving off any earlier, and are likely to contain or arrest any early attendees who might find themselves somewhere on the route march before 1330.

Met backs down over attempt to delay London Palestine march start time

Anger at manoeuvres to please Israel lobby leads to rethink, but conditions still imposed The Metropolitan Police has abandoned its attempt to delay, at short notice, the start time of Saturday&#82…

www.skwawkbox.org

That makes a lot of sense.

 

[Gramsci]

Originally the PSC march was due to assemble from 1200, departing at 1300, as with previous London marches. Coaches from other cities were booked to arrive in line with those times.
This week (Monday) a pro-Israel group announced it would be holding an event near the Israeli Embassy at around the time the PSC march would be due to arrive. This was a blatant attempt to get the PSC march moved in time or place. Until Thursday the Met were insisting that the PSC march would not be allowed to begin until 1430, which would have meant that people arriving for the scheduled 1300 start would have arrived early, and may also have not been able to get their coach home.

On Friday the Met moved a bit, accepting that the PSC march could start at 1330. The conditions you point out are presumably because they intend to prevent the march moving off any earlier, and are likely to contain or arrest any early attendees who might find themselves somewhere on the route march before 1330.

Met backs down over attempt to delay London Palestine march start time

Anger at manoeuvres to please Israel lobby leads to rethink, but conditions still imposed The Metropolitan Police has abandoned its attempt to delay, at short notice, the start time of Saturday&#82…

www.skwawkbox.org

Looks like the counter demo went ahead but it was separated from end point of the PSC march.

I was at march and didn't see anything. From this twitter the other demo was further down the road.



I certainly found it all confusing with changes of times. And wonder if it affected turnout.

What I don't understand is why police wanted march time changed at such short notice.

Could they not be have said to the other lot no. But you can have demo further down the road

What I also find annoying is that the PSC demos have all been good natured with little to no trouble.

Yet the very fact of them causes them to be viewed negatively.

 

[Gramsci]

 

[Larry O'Hara]

Looks like the counter demo went ahead but it was separated from end point of the PSC march.

I was at march and didn't see anything. From this twitter the other demo was further down the road.



I certainly found it all confusing with changes of times. And wonder if it affected turnout.

What I don't understand is why police wanted march time changed at such short notice.

Could they not be have said to the other lot no. But you can have demo further down the road

What I also find annoying is that the PSC demos have all been good natured with little to no trouble.

Yet the very fact of them causes them to be viewed negatively.

Stop the Hate? These sad fuckers are genocide apologists. Scum

 

[Gramsci]

And also there was as is usual now a large Jewish bloc. Made up from different groups.

 

[Gramsci]

Na'amod , JVL and Jewish socialist group among others.

 

[Gramsci]

I was chatting to some one on the march whose grandparents were east European Jews. Members of the Bund. Who brought there socialism with them to UK. She was descended from several several generations of socialists. She said Bund were anti Zionist. Bund had been major socialist group.

 

[Gramsci]

Stop the Hate? These sad fuckers are genocide apologists. Scum

I wouldn't use that language but yes I now think Zionist supporters of Israel in this country are supporting genocide.

PSC are mainstream lobbying group who support Palestinian rights.

Everything they do is within the law.

The demos are well stewarded and the people on them are well behaved.

The Zionist lobby in this country have imo done themselves no favours.

That goes from the Chief Rabbi down to these Zionist outfits.

So yes I thought the Chief Rabbi interjection when Lammy agreed some arms license reduction showed him to be a full on Zionist

Having a go at Lammy for the very limited arms license reduction shows them to be the extremists. Any sane person would think this Labour government is still supporting Israel and doing the minimum when it has to stop some arms.

If I were a sensible Zionist ( if there is such a thing) Id think ok Lammy had to do something but we can still work with this Labour government.

Lammy made it clear in his speech of arms licenses that he didn't want to do this. But the procedures for granting arms licenses ment he had to something. And he did the minimum.

It's not people like me who have lost their moral compass. Its those who support Zionist state of Israel.

The demo that the Zionist / Israeli supporters decided to do was purely to try to mess up the Gaza demo

These supporters of Zionism - Chief Rabbi, Board of deputies of British Jews and all these online groups are showing themselves up here. It's not about anti semitism. It's about supporting Israel right or wrong.

Some of these people seem to think Israel state is the frontline of the fight for Western democratic values against an axis of evil ( Iran Russia etc)

 

[Larry O'Hara]

I wouldn't use that language but yes I now think Zionist supporters of Israel in this country are supporting genocide.

PSC are mainstream lobbying group who support Palestinian rights.

Everything they do is within the law.

The demos are well stewarded and the people on them are well behaved.

The Zionist lobby in this country have imo done themselves no favours.

That goes from the Chief Rabbi down to these Zionist outfits.

So yes I thought the Chief Rabbi interjection when Lammy agreed some arms license reduction showed him to be a full on Zionist

Having a go at Lammy for the very limited arms license reduction shows them to be the extremists. Any sane person would think this Labour government is still supporting Israel and doing the minimum when it has to stop some arms.

If I were a sensible Zionist ( if there is such a thing) Id think ok Lammy had to do something but we can still work with this Labour government.

Lammy made it clear in his speech of arms licenses that he didn't want to do this. But the procedures for granting arms licenses ment he had to something. And he did the minimum.

It's not people like me who have lost their moral compass. Its those who support Zionist state of Israel.

The demo that the Zionist / Israeli supporters decided to do was purely to try to mess up the Gaza demo

These supporters of Zionism - Chief Rabbi, Board of deputies of British Jews and all these online groups are showing themselves up here. It's not about anti semitism. It's about supporting Israel right or wrong.

Some of these people seem to think Israel state is the frontline of the fight for Western democratic values against an axis of evil ( Iran Russia etc)

You are right of course: but their blatantly ignoring 40,000 dead is just too much!

 

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Passing the American Embassy today, it looks like their is a peace or pro Palestinian campaign camped out there. Was it just today or are they there for the longer term?

 

[Gramsci]

Passing the American Embassy today, it looks like their is a peace or pro Palestinian campaign camped out there. Was it just today or are they there for the longer term?

They have been there during this week. Saw them a few days ago.

 

[hitmouse]

Palestine Action keeping up the pressure, this time in Kent:

Palestine Action targets Instro Precision at Discovery Park again

Palestine Action activists have blocked all entrance roads to the Instro Precision factory in Discovery Park, once again shutting down the Kent factory of company, Elbit Systems. Activists have use…

theisleofthanetnews.com

Palestine supporters blockade entrance to arms factory in Kent

morningstaronline.co.uk

 

[tony.c]

Palestine Solidarity Campaign are organising a protest outside the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool on Saturday 21 September.

The Stop the War Coalition have coaches going from London, Bristol and Manchester. The London coaches are from Lewisham and Kings Cross, cost £25. Details in link:

Transport To Labour Conference March: End the Genocide in Gaza – Stop Arming Israel

Book: Bristol-Liverpool Coach Book: London (Lewisham)-Liverpool Coach Book: London (Kings X)-Liverpool...

www.stopwar.org.uk

 

[hitmouse]

Some great news from the courts:

Jury refuses to convict Palestine activists - Freedom News

No verdict returned after judge rules out any lawful excuse for April military firm raid ~ Cristina Sykes ~ A jury at Bradford Crown Court today refused to convict four Palestine Action defendants who shut down an Israel-supplying military electronics firm in April. The activists occupied the...

freedomnews.org.uk

 

[Gramsci]

Next demo one year on

 

[hitmouse]

Edinburgh next week:

COURT SUPPORT NEEDED IN EDINBURGH ON THE 1st & 2nd OCTOBER

3 Palestine action activists, prepare to stand trial in Edinburgh for causing £1.5m in damage to arms company Leonardo.

On Tuesday 1st and Wednesday 2nd October, from 9AM onwards, join us with placards and banners outside Edinburgh sheriff court.

Please share widely and show up for the Leonardo 3!

 

[hitmouse]

Coming up in Glasgow:

Join us on Thursday evening from 6 - 8pm Oct 10th for an evening of letter writing at Glasgow Autonomous Space. Dinner and materials provided!

This event is dedicated to writing to people who have been imprisoned for protesting against the ongoing Palestinian Genocide. Arrive on time so you don't miss our introduction!

If you have any questions feel free to send us a DM, looking forward to seeing you

 

[hitmouse]

Even more PA prisoner stuff:
SUPPORT NEEDED FOR PALESTINE ACTION PRISONERS IN HMP BRONZEFIELD

After an action which cost Israel's largest weapons firm over £1million in damages, six of the #Filton10 are remanded in HMP Bronzefield, a female prison run by Sodexo (@sodexogroup). All six of them have been separated and banned by the prison from associating with one another. This condition is completely arbitrary as the four men from the #Filton10 have been kept together in prison, a move which was secured after a mass call in campaign from our supporters.

HMP Bronzefield's punitive actions have led to

- Zoe Rogers, 20, being stuck in the induction wing rather than the youth wing.

- Madeleine Norman categorised as an "escape risk", banned from wearing normal clothes, unable to make unsupervised phone calls and being checked by a guard every hour.

- Some of the prisoners being unable to participate in prison activities.

- A huge reduction in visits as they are unable to be in the visiting hall together at the same time.

- Some of them being unable to attend their own court hearings.

The prison's actions come after each of them were detained without charge in solitary confinement and repeatedly interrogated for a week under the Terrorism Act. The prison is now attempting to further isolate the actionists — but we can not allow that to happen.

Please contact the prison and ask for the governor (Jonathan French) to demand that the prisoners are allowed to associate with each other and they also stop restricting access to books which have been sent to each of them.

+441784 425690

press.office@sodexo.com

Jonathan.French@sodexogov.co.uk

During the calls or in an email to the prison, you can use the names of the prisoners as a reference.

 

[Miss-Shelf]

Thanks for sharing this hitmouse

Here are details of the other four women being held in HMP Bronzefield

Hannah Davidson

Exists to support non-violent activists in prison in the UK.

rebelsinprison.uk

Fatima Rajwani

Exists to support non-violent activists in prison in the UK.

rebelsinprison.uk

Leona Kamio

Exists to support non-violent activists in prison in the UK.

rebelsinprison.uk

Charlotte Head

Exists to support non-violent activists in prison in the UK.

rebelsinprison.uk

I'm in a very boring work meeting so I took the time to create and send this email if anyone wants to adapt it

Dear Mr French,

I am concerned about reports of arbitary conditions being applied to the women listed below who are are being held on remand in HMP Bronzefield in connection with actions allegedly undertaken as part of the group Palestine Action.

The women prisoners in question are

Madeline Norman
Zoe Rogers
Fatema Rajwani
Leona Kamio
Charlotte Head
Hannah Davidson

It's reported that they are not allowed to associate with each other in prison: is there a legal reason for this and is it usual practice to separate prisoners in this way?

It's disturbing to note that Zoe Rogers is being held in the induction wing rather than the youth wing. Likewise, it's also surprising to hear that Madeline Normen is being subject to additional conditions, unable to wear her own clothes and subject to hourly checks. Is there a reason for this heightened security displayed towards Madeline?

I look forward to hearing that the women named above are freely permitted to associate with each other and have unnecessary conditions removed from them.

etc

 

[tony.c]

Reminder.

 

[Dystopiary]

Palestine Action were at Teledyne weapons factory in Bromborough, Merseyside this morning, helping to stop war crimes.

For Palestine and Lebanon, we're dismantling and disrupting the producers of crucial parts for Israel's F-35 fighter jets.

Three people have been arrested.

I don't know why the Echo put "protest" in quotes.

Police cordon off Wirral factory after incident involving ‘protest’