Good luck pal

Spending the night on the pavement outside the Bahraini embassy in London, marking the 15th anniversary of arrest of Human Rights Defender Abdulhadi Al Khawaja. He & others unjustly jailed in 2011 for peaceful protests remain in prison @maryamalkhawaja.bsky.social @nickkristof.bsky.social

Katie McFadden - Protest lawyer, Hodge Jones & Allen. Caroline Russell - London Assembly Member (Green). Chris Nineham - Co-founder Stop the War. Persecuted for organisaning Palestine solidarity demos. Graeme Hayes - Sociologist specialising in the criminalisation of direct action. Maya Fitchett - Netpol: Research Coordinator & author of the report BOOK: netpol.org/events

Excited to announce this amazing line-up for our event next week in London:

End Zero Accountability: End the crackdown on protest in London

Hosted by @waronwant.bsky.social

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That said this book by Andrea does a much better job of detailing how to do it.

A thrilling read given how much of a manual for nonviolent direct action it is:

peacenews.info/node/8253/ha...

As Qesser was arrested for encouraging nonviolent direct action, I would like to encourage everyone to break into airfields to disarm planes imminently bound for use in war crimes.

This is of course legal, as the court found in my case.

Happy to advise how to do it.

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We are now in the public gallery for the London Assembly's Police and Crime Committee, waiting for questions on protest rights in the capital

We are excited to announce our second annual State of Protest 2025 report: How Repression Became Routine.

The report launches with a free livestream on Wed 25 Mar 2026 7:00-8:30 pm GMT.

Link in bio to book OR www.tickettailor.com/events/netpo...

So many names I want to send but I think everyone of them would be annoyed I did.

This Guardian puff-piece on Labour's Yvette Cooper is not how history will judge the current Foreign Secretary. This is...

Large banner being held aloft at a protest. It reads: Westminster Local Meeting Quakers Equality - Peace - Truth - Simplicity

Flying the flag: less than 48 hours after police raided our meeting house (again), Westminster Quakers were among the thousands marching today against the US, UK and Israeli war on Iran. @quaker.org.uk

Suffragettes stage "Defend the Right Protest" rally, Trafalgar Square, London, 6/3/26 Ahead of International Women's Day activists dressed as suffragettes - the early 20th century direct action group who helped gain women the vote - protest in Trafalgar Square in pouring rain, calling for repeal of the Public Order Act 2023 which gave police and courts yet more powers to restrict and criminalise peaceful protest activity. The women, supporters of Fossil Free London, aim to highlight the unprecedented punishments given to climate campaigns for peaceful protest. By coincidence, the event took place the same day police raided the homes of "Take Back Power" activists, many of whom were arrested last night at Westminster Quaker Meeting House. Image © Ron Fassbender

Suffragettes stage "Defend the Right Protest" rally, Trafalgar Square, London, 6/3/26 Ahead of International Women's Day activists dressed as suffragettes - the early 20th century direct action group who helped gain women the vote - protest in Trafalgar Square in pouring rain, calling for repeal of the Public Order Act 2023 which gave police and courts yet more powers to restrict and criminalise peaceful protest activity. The women, supporters of Fossil Free London, aim to highlight the unprecedented punishments given to climate campaigns for peaceful protest. By coincidence, the event took place the same day police raided the homes of "Take Back Power" activists, many of whom were arrested last night at Westminster Quaker Meeting House. Image © Ron Fassbender

Suffragettes stage "Defend the Right Protest" rally, Trafalgar Square, London, 6/3/26 Ahead of International Women's Day activists dressed as suffragettes - the early 20th century direct action group who helped gain women the vote - protest in Trafalgar Square in pouring rain, calling for repeal of the Public Order Act 2023 which gave police and courts yet more powers to restrict and criminalise peaceful protest activity. The women, supporters of Fossil Free London, aim to highlight the unprecedented punishments given to climate campaigns for peaceful protest. By coincidence, the event took place the same day police raided the homes of "Take Back Power" activists, many of whom were arrested last night at Westminster Quaker Meeting House. Image © Ron Fassbender

Suffragettes stage "Defend the Right Protest" rally, Trafalgar Square, London, 6/3/26 Ahead of International Women's Day activists dressed as suffragettes - the early 20th century direct action group who helped gain women the vote - protest in Trafalgar Square in pouring rain, calling for repeal of the Public Order Act 2023 which gave police and courts yet more powers to restrict and criminalise peaceful protest activity. The women, supporters of Fossil Free London, aim to highlight the unprecedented punishments given to climate campaigns for peaceful protest. By coincidence, the event took place the same day police raided the homes of "Take Back Power" activists, many of whom were arrested last night at Westminster Quaker Meeting House. Image © Ron Fassbender

Ahead of International Women's Day activists dressed as suffragettes—the direct action group who helped women get the vote—protest in Trafalgar Square, calling for repeal of the Public Order Act 2023 which gave police & courts yet more powers to restrict and criminalise peaceful protest activity.

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Last night, the Metropolitan Police raided the Westminster Quaker Meeting house – again. This time, they targeted Take Back Power's direct action training. There were 15 arrests.

Very wise.

I'm always polite about other meetings...

To put it mildly.

There are Quaker Meetings who do less effective Outreach than the Met are doing for us.

Excuse my unspiritual language but fuck this shit.

Deeply worrying if true.

On section 60AA (covering your face): check out the excellent briefing from @netpol.org telling you everything you need to know.
Remember! The police DO NOT have the right to demand the removal of any face coverings in public UNLESS a section 60AA order is in place 😷
netpol.org/2026/02/27/s...

We ended with:

"If the government chooses to continue to clamp down on Jesus’s message of nonviolent direct action, despite last week’s judgement, ministers should probably start with the head of the Church of England, and arrest Charles Mountbatten-Windsor."

(Quakers don't use titles.)

‘If Palestine Action are terrorists then so is Jesus’: Sam Walton & Daniel Woodhouse | The Friend ‘Thankfully, we were two nice white boys.’| The Friend

Woody explained how Jesus' actions are remarkably similar to Palestine Action.

AND THE LAWYERS LEAVE IT IN THE STATEMENT.

So it becomes part of Huda's case to de-ban Palestine Action.

We wrote about this for The Friend: thefriend.org/article/if-p...

While loathe to evangelise, Woody is still a Methodist minister:

"Jesus made a whip out of cords and so had clearly planned what he wanted to do. He then turned the tables over with the money on and drove the animals out of the temple and said stop turning my father’s house into a market."

Woody said in his statement:

‘At no point was the word “terrorist” or “terrorism” even mentioned, whether by the police, the prosecution or in the media in relation to our direct action protest. I would have been utterly shocked had it been.’

The lawyers for Huda Ammori read this, and asked us for a witness statement.

Wood gave one, and the "We also broke into an airbase" article was submitted as evidence in the judicial review.

We Also Broke Into an Airbase to Stop War Crimes. Thankfully, We Were Two Nice White Boys | Sam Walton & Reverend Daniel “Woody” Woodhouse In 2017, we broke into a BAE Systems airfield to stop jets from going to bomb Yemen, write Sam Walton and Daniel Woodhouse. Our lenient treatment exposes the Palestine Action ban for what it is: racis...

When Palestine Action were banned, we wrote an article about how we did the same thing, and were not called terrorists:

We Also Broke Into an Airbase to Stop War Crimes. Thankfully, We Were Two Nice White Boys

novaramedia.com/2025/06/27/w...

'Greater good' pair cleared of BAE criminal damage The two men say they wanted to disarm Tornado jets to prevent them being used to bomb Yemen.

A thread: ‘If Palestine Action are terrorists then so is Jesus’ - How we ended up supporting the Palestine Action judicial review.

In 2017 Reverend Woody & I broke into BAE Warton to disarm Saudi war planes being used to bomb Yemen.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engl...

The arms industry is complicit in Andrew and his ilk's abuse of women and girls Andrew influenced the super rich through child rape and abuse to buy British weapons - and the arms industry actively facilitated him

Let's remember that when Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was committing hideous crimes...

... He was doing it largely on behalf of the British arms industry.

The arms industry is just as corrupt today.

www.thecanary.co/opinion/2025...

Resign in disgrace 3 more times and you can be like your idol Mandy!

He'll be back. Labour loves a soulless ghoul.

Six Palestine Action activists were cleared today of aggravated burglary over a protest at an Israeli weapons firm in 2024. The jury also cleared three defendants of violent disorder and failed to reach a verdict on a GBH charge – charges that are the basis of the group's labelling as "terrorists"

Filton24: Jury acquits or refuses to convict defendants

UCPI Evidence Hearings | Tranche 3 (Phase 2) | Day 3 - (04 February 2026) - AM YouTube video by Undercover Policing Inquiry

The amazing @rogergeffen.bsky.social giving evidence to the #SpyCops Inquiry about Reclaim the Streets.

Right now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0Et...