Just over half of the misuses of force against anti-ICE demonstrators were directed at protesters, while 43 percent targeted journalists, find Physicians for Human Rights and the Human Rights Center at the University of California at Berkeley.
Anyone looking beyond the carefully choreographed photo-ops saw a military alliance beset by public feuds, competing visions of security, and widening political divisions, writes Medea Benjamin.
The U.K. judge said the prosecution failed to produce sufficient evidence on a charge linked to the break-in at an Israeli-owned arms factory in the Filton area of Bristol, Dania Akkad repots.
These exceptionally long sentences and criminalization of protest is the latest mutation in the sprawling U.S. policing and incarceration apparatus, writes Hannah Riley Fernandez.
All of the four activists who raided a Wolverhampton arms factory were immediately released on bail after the jury was deadlocked, John McEvoy and Hanna-Johara Dokal report.
WIRED Magazine has reviewed leaked documents showing how, as the Trump administration prepares for AI to cause a wave of social unrest, it is already using the technology to suppress anti-AI “extremism,” Alan MacLeod reports.
Labour wants the repression of Palestine Action to serve as a blueprint for politics. Why not lock up opposition party leaders and any constituents who protest government policy?
A U.K. jury is mulling the case of four protesters who raided Wolverhampton arms factory said to produce “military aircraft parts for Israel,” John McEvoy reports.
The court on Monday upheld the Labour government’s terrorism proscription of Palestine Action, overriding a High Court ruling in February and setting off another round of mass arrests of protesters in London.
It’s a war on the human conscience. Sentencing anti-genocide activists as terrorists. Working to deport mainstream foreign policy experts for criticizing a U.S. war. They’re actually punishing people for not acting like sociopaths.