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📣📣PLEASE SHARE WIDELY BY FORWARDING THIS MESSAGE📣 📣📣Lift The Ban Action locations across UK and hunger strike announced In what is set to be the “most widespread mass civil disobedience across the UK in modern British history” actions will take place in 19 towns and cities across every nation in the UK, challenging the ‘terror’ ban on Palestine Action ahead of and during the judicial review (25–27 November): 👉 Tues 18 Nov: Edinburgh, Cardiff, Oxford, Leeds, Aberystwyth, Newcastle, Nottingham, Northampton, Gloucester and Truro 👉 Thurs 20th Nov: London 👉 Sat 22nd Nov: Belfast and London 👉 Mon 24th Nov: London 👉 Weds 26th Nov: London 👉 Sat 29th Nov: Edinburgh, Cardiff, Manchester, Birmingham, Cambridge, Bristol, Sheffield, Exeter and Lancaster Sign up for action:

Defend Our Juries

Thousands of people have been arrested for opposing the government’s absurd ban on Palestine Action, protest trials are being manipulated and UK ...

At the same time, Prisoners for Palestine held in British jails without trial will go ahead with a rolling hunger strike from 2 November after the Home Secretary failed to respond to their demands including immediate bail, access to documents necessary for the right to a fair trial and the de-proscription of Palestine Action. Full press release:

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2025 10 28 Lift The Ban | October 28 Press Release

*** PRESS CONFERENCE AT 11AM WITH DEFEND OUR JURIES, JULIET STEVENSON, PRISONERS FOR PALESTINE, FILTON 24, CAGE, JOHN MCDONNEL MP ZOOM LINK *** PR...

Watch recording of press conference here: https://defendourjuries.net/lift-the-ban/lift-the-ban-calls/

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More words on the grape vine. The pain and trauma inflicted on the families of Palestine are not enough.

Word on the grapevine is "Four flottila members arriving back on 8.10 plane were detained in Heathrow while waiting for special branch officers ... haven't anything since."

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Exhibition Concept statement: 🎨 In Your Face my friends and other activists In Your Face is a portrait series about presence, defiance, and compassion. It brings together people whose faces, sometimes famous, sometimes activist friends of the artist, embody what it means to care actively and loudly. From the globally recognised to those working tirelessly on the front lines of change, these works explore the many faces of courage and conscience. Some are “in your face” as public figures, yet their activism is hidden in plain sight. Others are “in your face” through protest, direct action, and the daily labour of refusing injustice, insisting again and again, that another world is possible. The phrase plays with contradiction: the literal intensity of my painting style: Expressive, close-cropped faces that confront the viewer, alongside more elusive works where the image almost disappears into shadow. Activism, too, moves between visibility and silence, confrontation and grace. To be “in your face” is sometimes to shout in the streets, sometimes to stand one’s ground when it would be easier to turn away, but always challenging systems of oppression. Exhibited at The Blockwork Gallery , a grassroots community art space on an estate facing demolition, these portraits become part of a living act of resistance. They speak not only of those portrayed, but of all who refuse to vanish quietly. .... (Portraits in pictures are previous work. The exhibition proposal is for December @ #blockworkgallery #clockworkgallery #2140 https://image.nostr.build/1566c58a963daa6fb44b3e752733270871132e86dcff16e9f27cafa04a0f172e.jpgp

The UK still licenses F-35 fighter jet parts. That will continue. Unless our pressure can get them banned. https://image.nostr.build/c5c2c30d864e03fb70ca4c485808b147c2b64adad119c4c3daa531c128a8407e.jpgAFSC’s statement on the ceasefire announcement

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AFSC's statement on Gaza cease-fire

“All people have the right to self-determination” “Full humanitarian aid access now”

We are sharing this powerful account from the American Friends Service Committee, documenting the conditions in Gaza City ahead of the latest IDF offensive. I'm writing this to you while starving. She writes to me from Gaza. A young woman, intelligent, early professional, recently engaged to her love. Her name is Serena. Good morning dear Lindsey, i can barely move and walk today, it has been 5 days and i am only eating soup, nothing else. So my body is not helping me anymore. She hoped to join the QUNO summer school in 2024, but she could not get out. No one could get out; 2+ million people trapped behind a seven-meter-high fence with barbed wire, military posts with sharpshooters and remote-control machine guns. A fence that trapped them under more bombs dropped by Israel than were dropped on London, Dresden and Hamburg combined during World War 2. And that statistic is a year old. Our bodies and the pain have become inseparable, and sickness remains an unrelenting part of daily life. With no medicine and no functioning hospitals, illness is ever-present, pressing on us without relief. Instead, she spoke virtually to the students gathered in Geneva. She spoke of her life, of her humanitarian work for the American Friends Service Committee, her childhood home now destroyed, her longing for life.

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