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Palestine Action: Final Statement Before Proscription
DESPITE OUR COLLECTIVE EFFORTS TO STOP THE PROSCRIPTION OF PALESTINE ACTION, THE BAN WILL COME IN AT MIDNIGHT
In five years, we have managed to build a direct action movement which successfully disrupted and challenged the Israeli weapons industry. Through relentless actions and the willingness to sacrifice our liberty, we’ve forced shut three Israeli weapons factories, pressured over a dozen companies to cut ties with Elbit Systems and cost the Israeli weapons maker £billions in lost contracts. The most important victory is building an effective global movement in service of the Palestinian people.
It’s clear, we were too effective and the government had to impose the most draconian attack on civil liberties to please the pro-Israel lobby. They may be able to proscribe ‘Palestine Action’, but they can not stop direct action happening across the country in different forms. We are more than just a name, or a network, we are an idea that can never be stopped. To be clear, they can not proscribe the TACTIC of direct action for Palestine.
We are extremely grateful for all of the support we have received over the past few years, and the outpouring of solidarity since the intention to proscribe us was announced. This proscription CAN NOT go unchallenged, and we are pleased to see many who are adamant on resisting the ban through a campaign of civil disobedience.
Breaking unjust laws is a moral duty. Unaffiliated campaign groups, Defend Our Juries and ‘we do not comply’ (wedonotcomply.org), will lead on defiance of the ban and resist the extreme counter-terror laws imposed on all of us. It is a given that there will be resistance.
However, we are also aware that anyone, knowingly or mistakenly, could be committing a terrorist offence just by liking or sharing our social media posts, if they are a British national or are in the ‘United Kingdom’. This could lead to vulnerable communities being harassed and targeted by the state. Whilst we encourage and support a campaign of civil disobedience, all who take part must do so on an informed basis. That’s why our social media will be taken down. For clarity, Palestine Action is ONLY proscribed in Britain.
Many will be rightfully angry at the imposed proscription of Palestine Action. However, with repression always comes more resistance. This is a moment that the British state will likely come to regret. It’s a signal to all of us who are willing to resist, to make the ban unenforceable.
We must resist for our own rights and most importantly, for the Palestinian people facing a genocide. We are all Palestine Action isn’t just a slogan, it’s a state of resistance.
COLLECTIVELY, WE WILL RESIST AND ULTIMATELY, WE WILL WIN
Palestine Action's final statement before proscription Couple of excerpts:
"In five years, we have managed to build a direct action movement which successfully disrupted and challenged the Israeli weapons industry" "...we were too effective and the government had to impose the most draconian attack on civil liberties to please the pro-Israel lobby"
Groups "Defend Our Juries and ‘we do not comply’ (wedonotcomply.org) still resisting
Sometimes I have to remind myself that although humans are smart enough to have made the Internet and fancy gadgets and nuclear weapons, many, many people still believe there's a white bearded deity in the clouds who will make everything good once his hippie son turns everyone who ate his flesh once a week into zombies, so they can all do the Macerena in the sky for the rest of time-- and all simply because the reality of death and injustice are too much to bear honestly.
There are many good people who are religious, but I really do strongly believe that religion, especially the one I was subjected to heavily--Catholicism--prime people for disinformation, authoritarianism, tribalism, and excusing the abuse of power.
In net, I think it's a negative that comes as a result of our inability to be honest that the world is hard, power is hard to rein in, life is wicked and lacks meaning unless we ourselves give it meaning, and the future is unscripted.
It is a lot of weight to carry, that truth, and most will not do it.
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More than 100 people died in floods in Texas and our emergency management agency, FEMA, is being de-funded so that very expensive concentration camps-- which also flood--can be built.
For those in Texas? The Federal government had prayers.
How about instead of blaming the New York Times or WaPo as a whole, you identify the exact journalist who reported the bullshit and drag them through the social media streets. There are actual people (for how long nobody knows) who write this garbage. Attack them!
I want names if you are going to bash WaPo or NYT. It's time to hold the journalists themselves responsible. If it's good enough to call out an on-air POS over at Fox or CNN then the same should be true of "Print" media. Why on earth is there a different standard?
Agreed about naming, and it’s (mostly) the editors we need to go after. Read for example Paul Krugman on the BS they were making him do to his writing before he quit. The rot is at the top.
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"Professor Ralph Wilde of University College London, an international law expert, unequivocally condemned Israel’s Gaza displacement plans as illegal under multiple legal frameworks. Speaking to Al Jazeera, he asserted that Israel’s occupation itself violates Palestinian self-determination rights, rendering all associated actions, including forced transfers, unlawful." @DrALJONES
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"Detainees at the 'Alligator Alcatraz' concentration camp in the Florida Everglades say they are enduring inhumane conditions, including inadequate and maggot-infested food, inability to bathe, flooding, and denial of religious practice, CBS News Miami reported Tuesday."
Philly Mayor Cherelle Parker's administration airs sabotage allegations & demands "order" be restored while refusing to agree to raises demanded by the only majority-Black municipal union in the city.
Tomorrow is set to mark Day 9 of the #DC33 strike as Mayor Cherelle Parker still refuses to meet demands by striking municipal workers (garbage collectors, library staff, and more) for a living wage.
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Not only do the disinformation campaign and politicisation of public health threaten the gains made over the last six decades, they threaten the entire international effort to control these preventable diseases.
Not only do the disinformation campaign and politicization of public health threaten the gains made over the last six decades, they threaten the entire international effort to control these preventable diseases.
For over a decade, Unicorn Riot has been on the frontlines of social and environmental movements covering stories that are often ignored in mainstream discourse, including alternatives to conventional normalcies.
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Hey, please stop repeating the misinformation that corps are legally required to maximize profits or your shareholders can sue you. It's propaganda promoted by a handful of huge fund managers because they'd *like that* to be true.
Even SCOTUS agrees “Modern corporate law does not require for-profit corporations to pursue profit at the expense of everything else, and many do not.” (Burwell v. Hobby Lobby)
Also, what follows from this is another request I have: do not accept "but we have to maximize our profits!" as an excuse for shitty corporate behavior.
The duty leaders have to shareholders is basic, and comes down to at least trying to make some money; it absolutely does not require anyone to be a complete exploitative asshole. That's a *choice*.
This is an interesting one. While it's the CEO's fiduciary duty to deliver returns to shareholders, that does not mean they can/should take undue risk by putting profits before all else. It's the executive's job to balance the risk/return ratio.
Money is the problem. Not too little, but too much. Where there's wealth, there's a natural human desire to make more wealth. Ever since Firefox 1.0 in 2004, Firefox has never had to compete. It's been attached like a mosquito to an artery to the Google cash firehose. The Reg noted it in 2007, and it made more the next year. We were dubious when Firefox turned five. And as for that money — remember back in 2018? That's when Google dropped "Don't be evil" as its motto. Mozilla's leadership is directionless and flailing because it's never had to do, or be, anything else. It's never needed to know how to make a profit, because it never had to make a profit. It's no wonder it has no real direction or vision or clue: it never needed them. It's role-playing being a business.
This is a good summary of all the good they have done and also how they repeatedly throw out the baby but keep the bathwater.
And this interesting bit.
Mozilla is, sadly, far from alone in having faltering leadership. Around the industry, tech execs who couldn't tell an LLM bot from an MLM scheme if their lives depended on it are investing in AI. It's not just cool, it's a cult now. This isn't hyperbole. The phenomenon has a name – it's called TESCREAL, and it is without exaggeration on its way to becoming a religion.
The campaign will roll out in September. We are building the website and gathering "content," assets, allied organizations and staff right now. We were just featured on Zero Hedge.
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Affluent older white people will tell you with a straight face that crime is rampant on the subway, which they never use, or downtown, where they never go, amongst other easily disproven things.
I rode the bus for years, in some of the poorest parts of town, and the worst thing that ever happened was their budget got cut, turning hour-long trips into 3-6 hour ordeals.
Part of this is inherent to their racism, but part of it is that the people who are nominally anti-racist and who've had the opportunities to rein in or destroy the propaganda outlets that keep rotting older white people's brains just refuse to do it.
Every single Dem administration *should* have been pouring effort into finding any and everything they could nail on Fox News, OANN, etc. and the people behind them to put them out of operation. Same goes for Facebook, etc.
the funniest thing you can do to a boomer is tell them the change in the crime rate since they were young. they will not just disbelieve you, they will throw an absolute fit.
The craziest part is that driving is much more dangerous, results in way more exposure to crime, and causes way more societal problems. Our society has come up with unlimited dog whistles to pretend they're not racist assholes.
ugh - my mom is the opposite of rich, and doesn't think of herself as racist but believes all the horror stories on MSNBC about crime in NYC and is sure that all her home aides ( mostly muslim) hate her because she's jewish. We have lots of conversations about these false stories.
Also, if the white people came from another country they will whine about immigrants in their home country despite not having been there in 100 years. 🤷
I experienced this in my hometown. Worked for over 4 years downtown, working swing shift (both days & nights, in other words) and rarely saw anything that could truly be called "crime." Even what I did see was mostly lights from police cars.
The kicker: I worked at a TV station, one of the outlets where affluent older white people get the idea that crime is rampant downtown.
I live in a down-on-its-luck Southern US town. My dad and uncles live out in the county. When I told my uncle I wanted to buy a house in town, he said I'd be shot within three months.
Couple years now. No gunfire near me. Plenty out there near him.
@c0debabe I had a dude once rail about how dangerous our local city was (it isn’t). I told him I disagree and he said “then go downtown!!”
I do, a few times a week. No issues. “Well, I’d NEVER do that” bro then (a)how are you so confident and (b)why do you care about crime somewhere you’d never go?!
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FREE Allen Syncrograph Model E135 automotive distributor testing machine. What an antique! I have no idea if it works but it would sure look great as a display piece once cleaned up. You haul, no...
it's a device for tuning automotive distributors. looks like it's missing the chuck? you clamp the distributor onto that arm, and then a chuck is supposed to go from the plate up to the distributor. you put the wires on it and the thing spins the distributor at various speeds (see the 'engine speed' gauge) and the firing points show up on the plate at the bottom. the charts are various ignition timing information for various engines, so you can see how far off your distributor is and figure out what you need to change.
I haven't seen anyone use one of these things since I was a little kid, and I'm old as hell
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Probably so they could replace them with cars with special software to make repairs more difficult and so it would be more difficult for people to get cars that can not be location tracked
Never mind Russia, North Korea and Iran, a majority of Canadian citizens now see the neighboring United States as the “greatest threat” to their country.
Fifty-nine percent of Canadians view the U.S. as a major risk.
The reason I view the US like this is because their actions do not reflect their stated intentions: “rules-based international order”, until it becomes politically inconvenient. Then, it’s “might makes right as long as it’s *our* might”.
North Korea only became like this after the US blew up their entire country, killed about a fifth of their people, and then sat next to their borders for seventy years with guns pointed at them (and also sanctioning the hell out of them after the end of the USSR). Iran wanting to have nukes is due to the understanding that Israel has them, and getting their nuclear facilities bombed has not only not eliminated their nuclear weapons program, but fully justified it.
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It is actually very difficult to externally rotate the hips as much as they do in ballet for some people that have never trained in it even if they can do the splits and had a lot of yoga
Balancing on only the toes instead of the whole foot is also challenging
These two features make ballet exercise unique compared too many other common types of exercise and uniquely different than many other types of dance
Princess Tutu follows Duck, a duck who was transformed into a young girl and takes ballet at a private school. She becomes enamoured of her mysterious school...
@shortstories My sister did ballet for years. She did not pursue it. She was remarkably fit and lithe. We are estranged... This reminded me of her. Sorry for rambling. Perhaps it was just cathartic release.
Aside: yoga is not a fitness regime. It is a spiritual practice to be grounded with Nature. Western ideas have subverted it. Unfortunate.
Also: The Russians were clearly better at this performance of Swan Lake. Synchronization and smoothness of movement.
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