Not only is the British state now criminalising Palestine Action activists as terrorists, they're also prosecuting a leading barrister who successfully defended them.
30 years for moving a box of zines. Des Sanchez Estrada was not even at the noise demo that led to this. The state is attempting to make an example of these anti-fascist political prisoners. We can expect the crackdowns to continue & escalate. Take this seriously. Don't back down
I just don’t think the people who generally ignore cases like Prarieland because they are doing “legal, above-ground work” really have a clue about the future frontiers of state repression, even if Trump does leave office in a typical way. Democrats will do this too.
It doesn’t matter that antifa isn’t a group.
It doesn’t matter that one person simply carried around zines. It doesn’t matter that it was a noise demo.
If you oppose state violence, according to this DOJ, you are inherently engaged in criminal conspiracy to commit terrorism.
Des has been sentenced to 30 years because he & his wife Mari stood up against the concentration camp in their city. He wasn't even at the protest. She got 70 years.
If you think you can stay safe from this by staying home, please take some time to study the history of fascism.
People doing above ground work might think that they’re safe from the sort of horrific government crackdowns on groups like the Prairieland 5, the ELF, the ALF, AIM, etc, but let me remind you that the net of what is considered “out of bounds” is expanding constantly and rapidly.
In Texas if you protest against the illegal kidnappings of your neighbors, you’ll get sentenced to 50 years in prison because the judge wants to “send a message to anyone who shares a similar ideology.”
Egregious.
Essentially, her most fundamental human right - her right to exist in the modern world - has been destroyed because of her speech and advocacy; because she said something a powerful government did not like. And they call this “the law”
I write in my upcoming book how true crime has conditioned people to think DNA evidence is IRREFUTABLE. It is NOT. Between lab contamination, cross contamination, partial samples, transfer DNA, and even forensic people LYING or misinterpreting stats at trials, it’s NOT foolproof
The violence is not always loud. sometimes it is a bill, a waiting list, a rent increase, a denied claim, a zero-hour contract, a form that never resolves. capitalism is very good at making harm look administrative.
Kylie Jenner has a new collaboration with Mark Zuckerberg as a designer for the new Meta AI spyware glasses. Of course those talentless hacks teamed up to profit from creeps nonconsensually recording people for state surveillance requiring environmental and human exploitation.
women deserve human rights not because we’re “goddesses who create life🥹,” but because we’re humans.
women should be able to show our chests not because they’re “for feeding baybies🥹,” but because they’re a neutral body part just like male chests.