Private groups work to identify & report #student #protesters for possible #deportation

When a protester was caught on video in January at a NY rally against #Israel, only her eyes were visible between a mask & headscarf. But days later, photos of her entire face, along w/her name & employer, were circulated online.

#Trump #immigration #law #FacialRecognition #technology #FreeSpeech #RightToProtest #FreedomOfAssembly #dissent #CivilRights
https://apnews.com/article/trump-foreign-students-campus-gaza-protests-deportation-9e2d4abc1c158454da1f68c01062c9ef

It's not just American universities that are up to this shit.
Since the attached article was written, the court has granted Cambridge University's injunction and all protests will be banned until the end of July.

#UKPolitics #PoliceState #RightToProtest

https://www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/issue/cambridge-university-attempting-to-silence-students-and-academics-liberty-says/

UK Police State latest from Just Stop Oil.

#ClimateCatastrophe #UKPolitics #RightToProtest

Two related items on state repression in the UK.

https://bylinetimes.com/2025/03/19/protest-crackdown-in-britain-now-amounts-to-state-repression-and-the-labour-government-is-continuing-the-trend-warn-campaigners/#Echobox=1742463638

And a JSO press release from yesterday on exactly this subject:

https://juststopoil.org/2025/03/20/heathrow-airport-10-8-found-guilty-1-acquitted-after-judge-removed-all-legal-defences/

#UKPolitics #ClimateCatastrophe #RightToProtest #JSO

If you're in central London on Friday

#FreePalestine #RightToProtest #UKPolitics

The Jewish Institutional Reaction to #MahmoudKhalil's Abduction

#JewishCurrents' Arielle Angel, Mari Cohen, & Alex Kane discuss how American Jewish groups have reacted to the arrest of the #PalestineSolidarity activist

https://jewishcurrents.org/the-jewish-institutional-reaction-to-mahmoud-khalils-abduction

#USpol #USpolitics #JewishAmericanPolitics #FreeMahmoudKhalil #StudentProtests #RightToProtest #FreeSpeechOnCampus #StateRepression #CivilLiberties #Palestine #Gaza @palestine

"What led to the arrest of #MahmoudKhalil, a prominent pro-#Palestine activist at #ColumbiaUniversity? Although he is a United States permanent resident, Khalil is facing deportation. The #Trump administration says it's part of a broader effort to combat anti-Semitism, but critics see a chilling attack on political speech..."

https://omny.fm/shows/the-take/mahmoud-khalil-and-trump-s-war-on-pro-palestinian

#FreeMahmoudKhalil #RightToProtest #FreeSpeechOnCampus #StudentProtests #PalestineSolidarity #StateRepression #USpol #USpolitics @palestine

#AmericanPrestige pod | The Arrest of #MahmoudKhalil w/ #SpencerAckerman

https://americanprestige.supportingcast.fm/listen/american-prestige-1/special-the-arrest-of-mahmoud-khalil-w-spencer-ackerman

Ackerman's piece @ Forever Wars : https://www.forever-wars.com/mahmoud-khalils-detention-is-a-war-on-terror-milestone/

#FreeMahmoudKhalil #RightToProtest #FreeSpeechOnCampus #StudentProtests #Palestine #PalestineSolidarity #GazaSolidarity #PoliticalPrisoners #DHS #ICEdetention #StateRepression #USpol #USpolitics @palestine

#Trump WH ofcls said the #DHS, which oversees #ICE, investigated #MahmoudKhalil’s activities, but immigration officers provided no written evidence to support his deportation beyond #MarcoRubio’s determination. The doc, a notice to appear in #immigration court, says Khalil is a citizen of Algeria & has an #immigration court hearing later this month.

#law #CivilRights #FreedomToAssemble #FreeSpeech #RightToProtest

A determination by Secy of #State #MarcoRubio is so far the #Trump admin’s sole justification for trying to deport #ColumbiaUniversity student #MahmoudKhalil, according to the first official government document detailing the civil charges he is facing that was obtained by WaPo.

#law #immigration #CivilRights #FreedomToAssemble #FreeSpeech #RightToProtest
https://www.washingtonpost.com/documents/8a3cbff6-4589-43e1-8455-042fa9555e3c.pdf

Effort to deport #ColumbiaUniversity student rests solely on #MarcoRubio determination

A government document that details the civil charges against #MahmoudKhalil does not include written evidence from #immigration officers.

#law #CivilRights #FreedomToAssemble #FreeSpeech #RightToProtest
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/03/12/marco-rubio-mahmoud-khalil-deportation/

"Please add your name to join #RashidaTlaib and her colleagues in Congress demanding the immediate release of political prisoner #MahmoudKhalil. He should be back home safely with his wife, a U.S. citizen who is eight months pregnant with their child."

https://actionnetwork.org/forms/demand-mahmoud-khalils-immediate-release-from-dhs-custody/

#FreeMahmoudKhalil #RightToProtest #FreeSpeechOnCampus #StudentProtests #Palestine #PalestineSolidarity #GazaSolidarity #PoliticalPrisoners #DHS #ICEdetention #StateRepression #USpol #USpolitics @palestine @israel

https://social.chinwag.org/@sbs_bot/114134168821003916 So many online & other media reports of all the damage & dislocation caused by #TCAlfred, even though the actual cyclonic aspect, wrt sheer wind speeds, had greatly diminished by the time of the eventual landfall.

Ergo, can we grasp the immensity of the damage & carnage that will result, next time the luck runs the other way, & direct hits on high-population centres arises with rating still at 2, 3... or higher?

Do we keep sticking our heads in the sand & denying / ignoring all this, so that we can continue being climate criminals??

#AusPol #Greens #VoteGreens #ProgIndies #WeAreTotallyFscked #WeAreSelfishCruelBastards #Misanthropy #FsckOffDutton! #ShitParty1 #ShitParty2 #ComeOnTanya! #WhyIsLabor #NatsAreNuts #NoNukes #racism #FuckRacists #TuckFrump #ClimateCrisis #NonLinear #TippingPoints #PositiveFeedbackLoops #FossilFools #RenewableEnergy #ChangeTheSystem #StateCapture #RightToProtest #Biodiversity #WeAreTotallyFscked #Misanthropy #Karma #NativeForests #StopLoggingNativeForests #FsckCapitalism #CognitiveDissonance

So, this case is potentially a BIG DEAL! If the #WhiteHouse is calling for arrest of LEGAL students and protestors, that's a violation of a LOT of laws!

#ICE arrests #PalestinianActivist who helped lead #ColumbiaUniversity #protests, his lawyer says

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ
Updated 6:32 PM EDT, March 9, 2025

NEW YORK (AP) — "Federal immigration authorities arrested a #Palestinian graduate student who played a prominent role in protests against #Israel at Columbia University, according to his attorney.

"#MahmoudKhalil was inside a university-owned residence Saturday night near Columbia’s Manhattan campus when several Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents entered his apartment and took him into custody, his attorney, Amy Greer, told The Associated Press.

"Greer said she spoke by phone with one of the ICE agents during the arrest, who said they were acting on #StateDepartment orders to revoke Khalil’s student visa. Informed by the attorney that Khalil was in the United States as a permanent resident with a green card, the agent said they were revoking that too, according to the lawyer.

"The arrest appeared to be among the first known actions under President Donald #Trump’s pledge to deport international students who joined the protests against the war in Gaza that swept college campuses last spring. His administration has claimed participants forfeited their rights to remain in the country by supporting Hamas, a terror organization.

"When ICE agents arrived at the campus building Saturday, they also threatened to arrest Khalil’s wife, an #AmericanCitizen who is eight months pregnant, Greer said. The authorities declined to say why Khalil was being arrested, according to the attorney."

Source:
https://apnews.com/article/columbia-university-mahmoud-khalil-ice-15014bcbb921f21a9f704d5acdcae7a8
#FreePalestine #Gaza #RightToProtest #Censorship #Fascism #ICE #ACAB #Authoritarianism #USPol

https://social.chinwag.org/@abc_bot/114123803376124701 I'm so utterly disinterested in this. I shan't even bother trying to watch His Maj Antony Green's wizardry on Aunty tonight. Whilst tis obvs that Lab will win again, i feel no positive passion at all about that. WA is totes state-captured by the abominable gas industry, & WA Lab have zero ethical superiority over their Liebs-Nats opponents. They're all climate-criminal arseholes.

#WAPol #AusPol #ClimateCrisis #NonLinear #TippingPoints #PositiveFeedbackLoops #FossilFools #RenewableEnergy #ChangeTheSystem #StateCapture #RightToProtest #Biodiversity #WeAreTotallyFscked #Misanthropy #Karma #NativeForests #StopLoggingNativeForests #FsckCapitalism #CognitiveDissonance

lAnD oF tHe FrEe

https://www.axios.com/2025/03/06/state-department-ai-revoke-foreign-student-visas-hamas

#USPolitics #RightToProtest #Fascism

The reviewing Judge called them 'excessive'. And reduced them - a little. Most right minded people would still call these excessive.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/mar/07/just-stop-oil-protesters-jail-sentences-shortened-after-appeal

“No country in Europe gives such draconian sentences for peaceful protests, proving we are out of kilter with the rest of the civilised world. We are reviewing the judgment and considering an appeal to the supreme court.” [Raj Chada representing many of the defendents]

#RightToProtest #Politicisation #FreedomOfSpeech #UkPolitics

Sydney Morning Herald - Latest News

‘More frequent, intense’: PM puts climate front and centre for election

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/more-frequent-intense-pm-puts-climate-front-and-centre-for-election-20250307-p5lhqx.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_feed

Gaaaah, we know all this, you dweeb. We've known it for decades. We also know that you keep funding fossilfools via undeserved obscene tax breaks & subsidies, & doing their work by approving new fossilfool projects & expansions, plus demonising protesters instead of the actual climate criminals. You simply have NO credibility in this space, dear PM.

#AusPol #Greens #VoteGreens #ProgIndies #WeAreTotallyFscked #WeAreSelfishCruelBastards #Misanthropy #FsckOffDutton! #ShitParty1 #ShitParty2 #ComeOnTanya! #WhyIsLabor #NatsAreNuts #NoNukes #racism #FuckRacists #TuckFrump #ClimateCrisis #NonLinear #TippingPoints #PositiveFeedbackLoops #FossilFools #RenewableEnergy #ChangeTheSystem #StateCapture #RightToProtest #Biodiversity #WeAreTotallyFscked #Misanthropy #Karma #NativeForests #StopLoggingNativeForests #FsckCapitalism #CognitiveDissonance

This fucking country 🤬

Byline Times: "Holocaust Survivor Summoned For Police Interview Over Gaza Solidarity March"

https://bylinetimes.com/2025/03/04/holocaust-survivor-summoned-for-police-interview-over-gaza-solidarity-march/

Here's an interview with Stephen on Double Down News.

#UKPolitics #FreePalestine #RightToProtest #PoliceState

Looks like Erik Prince's SCOTUS whispering worked... jfc

The Supreme Court effectively abolishes the right to mass protest in three US states

It is no longer safe to organize a protest in Louisiana, Mississippi, or Texas.

By Ian Millhiser Apr 15, 2024,

"The Supreme Court announced on Monday that it will not hear Mckesson v. Doe. The decision not to hear Mckesson leaves in place a lower court decision that effectively eliminated the right to organize a #MassProtest in the states of #Louisiana, #Mississippi, and #Texas.

"Under that lower court decision, a protest organizer faces potentially ruinous financial consequences if a single attendee at a mass protest commits an illegal act."

#McKessonVsDoe #BLM #Fascism #SCOTUS #SLAPPs #RightToProtest #FreeSpeech #CivilDisobedience #CorruptSCOTUS #ClarenceThomas #ImpeachJusticeThomas #Blackwater #ErikPrince #NoDAPL #Academi #Activism

OMZ, Madeleine King, Minister for Arse-Kissing Gina & Co, now on #730. She's terrible, Muriel.

#AusPol #ClimateCrisis #NonLinear #TippingPoints #PositiveFeedbackLoops #FossilFools #RenewableEnergy #ChangeTheSystem #StateCapture #RightToProtest #Biodiversity #WeAreTotallyFscked #Misanthropy #Karma #NativeForests #StopLoggingNativeForests #FsckCapitalism #CognitiveDissonance

Oi, you. Yeah, you.

Feeling undesirably placid today?

Wanna get some justifiable climate rage into you instead?

Here ya go.

https://omny.fm/shows/7am/burnt-mansions-why-the-next-election-is-a-fork-in

Burnt mansions: Why the next election is a fork in the road

7am Saturday Paper
Fri Jan 24 2025

As wildfires tore through some of LA’s most affluent neighbourhoods, burning down mansions owned by celebrities, some wondered if it might be a turning point in how seriously we take the climate crisis.

But climate scientist Joëlle Gergis wasn’t sharing that hope.

Instead, Gergis was angered by our heartache for wealthy communities while the impact of climate change disproportionately affects the poor.

And to make matters even worse, a climate denier has entered the White House.

Now, Gergis is turning her attention to the upcoming election here in Australia, where she says we have a choice to make about how comfortable we are being complicit on climate.

Today, climate scientist and contributor to The Saturday Paper, Joëlle Gergis, on why the next election is a fork in the road for our climate.

Guest: Climate scientist and contributor to The Saturday Paper, Joëlle Gergis

#podcast #AusPol #WhyIsLabor #ClimateCrisis #NonLinear #TippingPoints #PositiveFeedbackLoops #FossilFools #RenewableEnergy #ChangeTheSystem #StateCapture #RightToProtest #Biodiversity #WeAreTotallyFscked #Misanthropy #Karma #NativeForests #StopLoggingNativeForests #FsckCapitalism #CognitiveDissonance

The pigs blatantly used provocation to arrest people. Only after the lead organiser was arrested for no reason, and people got angry about that, they made around 70 more arrests, whilst there was no violence from the crowd as they were peacefully trying to march to the #BBC. Absolute bastards.
#press #BreakingNews #freePalestine #RightToProtest

youtu.be/XPwaGi-H64A?...

Addendum 1

A Billionaire Conserving Montana Is Funding the Group Bulldozing the Atlanta Forest
Home Depot co-founder Arthur Blank is helping fund the forces behind Cop City
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110471619577888008
https://inthesetimes.com/article/arthur-blank-cop-city

#HomeDepot #ArthurBlank #DefundBillionaires #MilitarizedPolice #DefundPolice #APF #CopCity #StopCopCity #neofascism #PrivateEquity #PrisonIndustrialComplex #GOP #Atlanta #RightToProtest #HumanRights #PrivateEquity #corporations #DefundCorporations

cont'd 3/

Private equity Profits f. Destroying Atlanta Forest
Connections to Cop City & Blackhall Studios
https://pestakeholder.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/PE-Profits-from-Destroying-the-Atlanta-Forest_March_2023.pdf

Previous thread

Cop City: Atlanta City Council OKs $67M for Facility Despite Mass Protests & Armed Raid on Bail Fund
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110498034813139445
https://www.democracynow.org/2023/6/6/cop_city_atlanta_vote_bail_fund
https://web.archive.org/web/20230609031916/https://newrepublic.com/post/173275/atlanta-council-approves-cop-city-funding-despite-opposition

#MilitarizedPolice #DefundPolice #APF #CopCity #StopCopCity #neofascism #corporations #PrivateEquity #PrisonIndustrialComplex #GOP #Atlanta #RightToProtest #HumanRights

Just Stop Oil activist jailed for six months for taking part in slow march

Stephen Gingell, 57, thought to be first to receive prison sentence under new Public Order Act

by Damien Gayle
Fri 15 Dec 2023

"A #ClimateActivist has been jailed for six months after pleading guilty to taking part in a peaceful #SlowMarch protest on a London road.

"The sentence handed to Stephen Gingell, 57, is thought to be the first jailing under a new law that critics say makes anyone walking in a road liable for prosecution for 'interference with key national infrastructure'.

"#Section7 of the #PublicOrderAct2023 bans any act that prevents newspaper printing presses, power plants, #oil and #gas extraction or distribution sites, #harbours, #airports, #railways or #roads 'from being used or operated to any extent', with a potential penalty of 12 months in jail.

"Gingell, a father of three from #Manchester, was one of about 40 supporters of #JustStopOil who spent about 30 minutes marching on #HollowayRoad in north #London at about 4pm on 12 November, the climate campaign group said.

"He pleaded guilty to breach of section 7 at a hearing that same month at Wimbledon magistrates court. On Thursday, his case was transferred to Manchester magistrates court, where he was sentenced to six months.

"Just Stop Oil has been campaigning since 2022 for the UK government to stop all new fossil fuel production. The campaign’s 'guerrilla tactics' were cited by the Home Office when it introduced the Public Order Act’s tough new #AntiProtest measures to parliament.

"Police began using section 7 to tackle Just Stop Oil’s protests at the end of October, arresting 60 people taking part in a march in Parliament Square. In a campaign of slow march protests carried out by the group between then and 4 December, 470 of the group’s supporters were arrested 630 times, with about half of those arrests under the new law.

"A spokesperson for the campaign said: 'Section 7 of the Public Order Act 2023, a law drafted by the #FossilFuel lobby, was introduced in April by Priti Patel, and covers ‘interference with the use or operation of key national infrastructure’. It seems this government has now made walking down the road, walking on the public highway an illegal act that is worthy of imprisonment.

"'How many fathers will be imprisoned before those planning to kill us are stopped? New oil and gas will see millions upon millions lose their homes, livelihoods and lives. Protected by the government, by failed politicians, by the police, those committing genocide continue to walk free, those protesting the killings are banged up. Whose side are you on?'

"The human rights organisation Liberty criticised Gingell’s sentencing. Katy Watts, a lawyer at Liberty, said: “It is shocking to see such harsh sentences handed down to protesters. This is yet another unnecessary and draconian law introduced by a government that is hell-bent on discouraging people from standing up for what they believe in. It is a clear attempt to silence people and for the government to hide from all accountability.

"Protest is a fundamental right, not a gift from the state. Government should be protecting our right to protest, not criminalising it.'"
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/dec/15/just-stop-oil-activist-is-first-to-be-jailed-under-new-uk-protest-law?share=jetpack-whatsapp

#BigOilAndGas #WaterProtectors #DirectAction #CriminalizingDissent #DefendTheForest #EnvironmentalActivists #ClimateActivists #ClimateJustice #ACAB #Fascism #SilencingDissent #CorporateColonialism #EcoActivists #Censorship #HumanRightsViolations #Article20 #AbolishTheMonarchy #RightToProtest

#Toolkit: #Protest #safety tips from #Greenpeace

"Protest is a powerful strategy to demand #justice. Greenpeace has been holding and supporting protests around the world for nearly 50 years. Because of this, we’ve received requests and messages asking for advice on protest tactics, digital, and physical security against #militarized #police forces. While we have compiled this from a US point of view where this Greenpeace team is based, we hope some of what is here is helpful beyond the US.

"We are continuously learning, learning from mistakes, learning from each other. The #activists that make up our Greenpeace community, also come from many protest practices and methods, including #Indigenous-led resistance to #FossilFuel #extraction, the #ImmigrantRights movement, the Movement for Black Lives, [#BLM] and others. We wanted to share some of our learnings so that you can join us in protests that demand systemic changes from fighting for #ClimateJustice to dismantling #WhiteSupremacy. We support you and are fighting with you.

"We want to acknowledge that there are many different types of protest tactics, and that this is not an exhaustive list. We also want to acknowledge that communities of color, especially Black communities and other non-Black Indigenous and communities of color, are policed differently than white communities.

"When we protest we have an opportunity to demand the world we need and to understand how the issues we face are interconnected. As we fight for environmental justice, we show up for racial justice, Indigenous rights, immigrant rights, disability rights and more. While this guide focuses on protests, even if you are not able to join us in the street you can support those who are protesting by providing supplies, donating to bail funds, providing rides, having important conversations with your coworkers, friends, families, and neighbors.

"Also, we want to remind you that we are not your lawyers. This is not legal advice, any tips contained here are only to assist you in thinking through how to engage in protest activity. We urge you to connect with your local organizing and legal community for additional support."

https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/toolkits/protest-safety-tips-from-greenpeace/

#DigitalFreeSpeech #ACAB #DirectAction #Fascism #CriminalizingDissent #WaterProtectors #ForestDefenders #EnvironmentalActivists #ClimateActivists #ClimateJustice #SilencingDissent #CorporateColonialism #EcoActivists #Censorship #HumanRightsViolations #Article20 #RightToProtest #SlowMarch #BigOilAndGas #SLAPPs

And how much economic damage is from climate change and pollution from #FossilFuels? #BigOil is the real criminal here!

#ClimateProtesters are taking action against Big Oil. UK courts are handing them prison terms akin to rapists and thieves

By Kara Fox, CNN
September 14, 2024

London CNN — "As #RightWing rioters attacked communities with #racist violence across parts of the UK last month, 22-year-old #ClimateActivist #CressieGethin sat in a prison cell.

"Her crime? Organizing a disruptive protest against new government-granted licenses to drill for oil — a planet-heating #FossilFuel — in the #NorthSea.

"In late July, a London court found #Gethin and four other members of the #JustStopOil activist group guilty of 'conspiring intentionally to cause a #PublicNuisance,' after recruiting protesters to climb structures along the M25 — a major ring road around London — bringing traffic to a standstill in parts over four days in November 2022.

"Prosecutors alleged that the protests, organized over a #ZoomCall, disrupted more than 700,000 drivers, caused economic damage of over £760,000 ($980,000) and racked up £1 million ($1.3m) in policing costs.

"Now Gethin and three others — Louise Lancaster, #DanielShaw and #LuciaWhittakerDeAbreu, who planned the disruption on the call — are serving four-year jail terms, while Just Stop Oil co-founder #RogerHallam was given five years. All are appealing.

"The sentences are believed to be the longest in the UK’s history for #nonviolent protest and were delivered under two new controversial laws that supercharged #policing powers to crack down on disruptive protests, even when they are peaceful.

"They place the act of planning a 'public nuisance' event, which carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison, on a similar footing as #ViolentCrimes like robbery, for which punishments range from community service to 12 years’ jail, or rape, which is four to 19 years.

"The judge — who in court referred to the activists as '#extremists' — justified the long jail terms because all five activists had previously been convicted of one or more offenses in relation to direct action protest. Each were on bail for another set of proceedings when the Zoom call took place. He also noted people missed important doctor’s visits and funerals because of the protest.

"But activists like Gethin say their demonstrations are proportionate to the problem at hand — a rapidly warming world that threatens to transform life as we know it, through deadly #ExtremeWeather events and by pushing #ecosystems to their brinks. They are now battling the bolstered powers of the #police and courts to get their point across.

“'A very harsh sentence like this doesn’t make sense morally or legally — but it does make sense politically,' Gethin told CNN in a handwritten letter from HMP Bronzefield, a women’s prison just south of London’s Heathrow Airport.

"The laws have drawn criticism from the UN’s special rapporteur on #EnvironmentalDefenders, #MichaelForst, who said not only do they criminalize peaceful protest, but they are being enforced in 'punitive and repressive' ways."

Read more:
https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/14/climate/uk-climate-protests-policing-laws-prison-intl/index.html

#BigOilAndGas #ClimateActivists #ClimateProtest #SLAPPs #CorporateColonialism #WaterDefenders
#ClimateDefenders
#EnvironmentalActivists
#SilencingDissent #SLAPPs #ClimateActivists #CorporateColonialism
#EarthDefenders #CriminalizingDissent #FreeSpeech #RightToProtest #BiodiversityNecessityDefense
#EarthDefenders
#SLAPPs #Fascism #CivilDisobedience
#Activism #ClimateStrike
#HumanRights #Article20 #2023PublicOrderAct #ClimateNecessityDefense #Corporatocracy #CorporateFascism #ClimateCrisis #ClimateCatastrophe

I'm not knocking the Grecians here, but I do find it fascinating that a crowd of football fans can block a road with a #SlowMarch on the way to a match and get indulgent nods and smiles, but if they were calling for clean air, better insulation in a time of #FuelPoverty and #ClimateCrisis or an end to the bombing of Gaza there would be immediate calls to lock them up for the disruption they're causing.

#RightToProtest #UKPol #JustStopOil #InsulateBritain #ExeterCity