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Simon Brooke

@simon-brooke.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy

No, @BBC_News_Labs , Banksy's generous gifts to the nation cost the British taxpayer absolutely nothing. Intentionally defacing these internationally significant works of public art is what has cost money.

#banksy
#publicart
#defendtherighttoprotest

Bristol artist Banksy's works cost taxpayers […]

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August 10, 2026 at 12:35 PM

Extinction Rebellion Global

@xrglobal.bsky.social

Peace activists in the UK have been sentenced as terrorists. They were not charged or tried with terrorist offences and the jury was not informed that the defendants could be sentenced under terrorism laws. The judge ruled there was a ‘terrorism connection’
#PeaceNotWar
#DefendTheRightToProtest

Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · Jun 12

BREAKING: Judge Johnson has confirmed the Filton Four will be sentenced based on a 'terrorist connection'.

This heart breaking news comes despite the protestors never being charged or convicted of terror offences or violent intent.

For more info: defendourjuries.net/savinglives/

June 13, 2026 at 8:45 AM

imagesofprotest

@imagesofprotest.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy

#FreePalestine #Photo of the day #Photography #protest #defendtherighttoprotest ##protestphotography

A man dressed as Jesus smiles at the camera and holds a newspaper called The Communist.

May 16, 2026 at 3:01 PM

XRUK-Actions

@xruk-actions.bsky.social

“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win”

Today nonviolent civil disobedience movements in the UK would definitely appear to be in stage 3 - the fight - as they face a torrent of repressive legislation.

#DefendTheRightToProtest
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May 10, 2026 at 9:44 AM

Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸🐧

@peter-link.expressional.social.ap.brid.gy

RE: https://flipboard.com/@theintercept/justice-59pjpfnnz/-/a-SEkA0mUyRxOtjpaxJO3WGw%3Aa%3A1855233807-%2F0

#abolishice
#defendtherighttoprotest
#news #politics #uspol

flipboard.com

April 21, 2026 at 9:12 PM

Disabled People Against Cuts - DPAC

@dis-ppl-protest.bsky.social

#DefendTheRightToProtest

@dis-ppl-protest.bsky.social supported the MP lobby on 17th March to #DefendTheRightToProtest

The fight to defend our right to protest must not stop when the government is doing all it can to undermine this important right

Paula Peters @paulapeters19.bsky.social · Mar 22

#DefendTheRightToProtest

On Tuesday 17th March @pscupdates.bsky.social @amnestyuk.bsky.social &many organisations including @dis-ppl-protest.bsky.social were part of a photo shoot and lobby of MPs to #DefendTheRightToProtest

Activists and MPs are grouped around a white banner with logos of various organisations. The text on the banner says Defend The Right To Protest. MPs are standing with the Houses of Parliament in the background

March 23, 2026 at 6:16 AM

Paula Peters

@paulapeters19.bsky.social

#DefendTheRightToProtest

On Tuesday 17th March @pscupdates.bsky.social @amnestyuk.bsky.social &many organisations including @dis-ppl-protest.bsky.social were part of a photo shoot and lobby of MPs to #DefendTheRightToProtest

March 22, 2026 at 8:39 PM

Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament

@cnduk.bsky.social

We're outside Wesminster Magistrates' Court this morning in solidarity with Ben Jamal and Chris Nineham. Protesting for Palestine is not a crime. #DropTheCharges #DefendTheRightToProtest

@pscupdates.bsky.social
@stwc.bsky.social

February 23, 2026 at 9:10 AM

Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament

@cnduk.bsky.social

🚨Palestine Coalition statement: We welcome the High Court decision calling the proscription of #PalestineAction unlawful.

#DropTheCharges #DefendTheRightToProtest

Palestine Coalition welcomes High Court decision calling proscription of Palestine Action unlawful

The Palestine Coalition welcomes news of the High Court’s historic ruling which declared the British government’s ban on Palestine Action unlawful. The judgement is a decisive rebuff to the state’s attempts to criminalise political dissent and activism aimed at stopping material support for genocide.

Over the past two years of Israel’s genocide against the Palestinian people, millions in Britain have taken action to oppose British support for Israel’s atrocities through protests, campaigns and direct action focused on the arms companies supplying it. The British government should have taken immediate action to end its own involvement in genocide,

but instead has been cracking down on protest, including through the unprecedented use of anti-terrorism legislation to ban Palestine Action, and attempts to silence all forms of protest through the extraordinary misuse of Public Order legislation.

Today’s ruling, and the court victories of the previous weeks in the cases of the Filton 24, show that the government’s overreach is not only immoral, it is unlawful. We call for the resignation of police commissioner Mark Rowley, as well as former Home Secretary Yvette Cooper and current Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood.

In light of this ruling, the Palestine Coalition calls on the CPS to drop the charges on all who have been linked to this unlawful proscription and other cases of protest against British complicity in Israel’s genocide, including

the organisers of the national marches for Palestine facing criminal charges.

Furthermore, we call on the government to accept today’s ruling, and to withdraw its connected attempts to silence protest.

Finally, we call on the government to address the root causes of these protests and impose a two-way arms embargo on Israel to put an end to British complicity in Israel’s ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people.

Palestine Solidarity Campaign

Palestinian Forum in Britain

Friends of Al-Aqsa

Stop the War Coalition

Muslim Association of Britain

Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament

February 13, 2026 at 1:16 PM

Dr Kim Alley

@reasonandrevolt.bsky.social

Shame on #Albanese
Shame on #ChrisMinns
Shame on #ALP
#Minns #Albanese #StateViolence #PoliceViolence #PoliceRiot
#MinnsMustResign #ALP
#DefendTheRightToProtest
#DefendFreeSpeech #DefendCivilRights
#AntiPalestinianRacism
#Gaza #Palestine
#Herzog #WarCriminal

The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · Feb 10

We knew from the moment we heard it that “social cohesion” would be one of those Orwellian terms which would be used to cover all manner of state sanctioned abuse and deprivation of civic freedoms.
It fuels the very unrest it pretends to seek to quell.

February 10, 2026 at 4:59 AM

Dr Kim Alley

@reasonandrevolt.bsky.social

Shame on #Albanese
Shame on #ChrisMinns
Shame on #ALP
#Minns #Albanese #StateViolence #PoliceViolence #PoliceRiot
#MinnsMustResign #ALP
#DefendTheRightToProtest
#DefendFreeSpeech #DefendCivilRights
#Racism #Islamophobia
#AntiPalestinianRacism
#Gaza #Palestine
#Herzog #WarCriminal

6 News Australia @6newsau.bsky.social · Feb 9

#BREAKING 🚨 Aftab Malik, Australia's Special Envoy to Combat Islamophobia, has released a statement condemning "unprovoked violence and aggression" from NSW Police against Muslims praying in Sydney's Town Hall Square

"There cannot be any justification for this behaviour"

February 10, 2026 at 4:58 AM

Stop the War Coalition

@stwc.bsky.social

🚨 Defend the Right to Protest 🚨

🛑 Public meeting

🗓 Thursday 12 February
⏰ 7pm
📍 SOAS (DLT)

Speakers include actor Juliet Stevenson, Yanis Varoufakis, Chris Nineham, Ben Jamal and Katy Watts from Liberty. Free tickets via events page [link in bio]

#defendtherighttoprotest #dropthecharges

February 3, 2026 at 2:27 PM

Orgreave Truth and Justice Campaign

@orgreavejustice.bsky.social

Stop the Govt’s new #CrimeAndPolicingBill - it clamps down on the #RightToProtest Use the Liberty prepared email to the House of Lords to call on them to vote against dangerous proposals. We need to #DefendTheRightToProtest secure.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/page/180398/...

January 12, 2026 at 2:09 PM

Orgreave Truth and Justice Campaign

@orgreavejustice.bsky.social

OTJC ACTIVISTS MET MPs IN PARLIAMENT this week & gave a presentation to the Coalfields Labour MPs. The whole experience of the #MinersStrike exemplified in the events of 18 June 1984 was of the destruction of protected rights #OrgreaveInquiry #Truth #Justice #DefendTheRightToProtest

October 30, 2025 at 12:50 PM

Stop the War Coalition

@stwc.bsky.social

Join us in calling on the govt to drop its use of draconian police powers to try to suppress the movement for Palestinian rights. Help us make our 11 October national demonstration the biggest so far!

Statement by the Palestine coalition on our #DefendTheRightToProtest campaign 🔽

September 16, 2025 at 4:45 PM

EL Miller

@elmiller.bsky.social

Police Fail to Arrest Two-Thirds in Biggest-Ever Protest Against Palestine Action Ban | Novara Media
#DefendTheRightToProtest
#LiftTheBan
#MetPoliceAreKnownLiars

September 7, 2025 at 4:50 PM

Extinction Rebellion Global

@xrglobal.bsky.social

More coverage of the protest against the ban, which has potential implications for other direct action groups in the UK can be seen at defendourjuries.net/press/
#DefendTheRightToProtest
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National Press - Defend Our Juries

National Press Majority verdicts in England and Wales brought in ‘partly for racial and class reasons’ The Guardian, 24 January 24 Leading UN Figure Gives Scathing Verdict on UK Government’s Climate C...

defendourjuries.net

August 14, 2025 at 3:41 PM

Extinction Rebellion Global

@xrglobal.bsky.social

521 people were arrested in #London 's Parliament Square during the peaceful 'Lift the Ban' protest against the proscription of the Palestine Action group under the UK Terrorism Act.
Film by @camerazoe.bsky.social
#DefendTheRightToProtest
youtu.be/uyvjdcCVAAk?...
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