Why is #LeqaaKordia Still in a Concentration Camp?

Why is #LeqaaKordia Still in a Concentration Camp?

Words of NSW Police Deputy Commissioner #DavidHudson, 4th July 2025, spoken under oath during a NSW parliamentary inquiry:
“We can’t prevent the free movement of people throughout the city just because you’re in a protest. You can walk down the street, the footpath. Bearing in mind, at that particular protest at the town hall, there were a lot of women, children [and] women pushing prams. It’s not like we were going to put walls up and start boxing on with these people who have a right to protest.”
How things change in 7 months.
That's precisely what NSW police did last night at Sydney Town Hall, to another protest with people from all walks of life (including kids in strollers)—walls were put up, and police did indeed start 'boxing on', even if someone is backing away with their hands up, or kneeling on the ground in prayer, or already pinned to the ground with a knee in their back, or part of a large crowd kettled & unable to disperse (while police charge with pepper spray & horses, yelling "disperse or be arrested").
And the point at which the police first charged? Very soon after rally organiser #JoshLees had begun using a megaphone to encourage people to disperse (not that we could, due to police kettle in place).
#NSW #ProtestIsNotACrime #CriminalisationOfDissent #NSWPolice
Chris Minns, NSW Premier: "for the sake of Social Cohesion™, we're inviting a wanted war criminal from a rogue state to visit, granting police extraordinary emergency powers to forcefully suppress the expression of non-approved messages in non-approved locations, and installing extra Social Cohesion™ fences and barriers in the middle of the city. In order to ensure maximum Social Cohesion™ please don't come into the city, and if you do, then disobeying the instructions of one of the 3,000 Social Cohesion™ officers will result in a $5,000 fine. This is for your own good. You will cohere, or else."
#NSWpol #CivilLiberties #CriminalisationOfDissent #IsaacHerzog #Herzog #ChrisMinns #NSWLabor #Gadi #Sydney #SydneyNews #NSWPolice #protest #ProtestIsNotACrime
#PalestineAction defendants acquitted of aggravated burglary over arms factory raid
After eight days of deliberations, defendants were acquitted, or not convicted, of all offences levelled against them
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/breaking-palestine-action-defendants-acquitted-aggravated-burglary
from #MiddleEastEye #MEE
4 February 2026 12:40 GMT
During the trial, the prosecution alleged that the six defendants entered the factory with sledgehammers, intending, if needed, to injure and incapacitate security guards.
But the defendants disputed that the sledgehammers were “weapons of offence”, and insisted they were intended only to damage property.
As the verdicts were being read, the defendants held hands and embraced in the dock, as families and supporters cheered and wept.
The six defendants have been held for around 18 months on remand- exceeding standard #UK custodial time limits.
#NoTechForApartheid
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#SanctionIsrael
#StopArmingIsrael
#AntiZionismIsNotAntisemitism
#Gaza #Israel #Palestine
#UKpol #news #politics
#ICE, lies, and videotape: How the #press is covering the #Minneapolis crackdown •
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@futzle Every year, the 26th January sees Invasion Day protest marches and other events mourning genocide and dispossession, celebrating the survival of many of the oldest continuous cultures in the world, and expressing ongoing resistance led by local Indigenous peoples across the continent.
In Gadi (Sydney), most years see tens of thousands of people march from the city to the Yabun festival in Vic Park.
This year will be especially important, given the NSW government's efforts to suppress protest in the name of 'social cohesion' (because denying people a voice has always turned out really well for long-term cohesion, right?). Organisers are planning to march, even if the government extends the anti-protest laws for another two weeks. The more people show up, the less likely it is that the authorities decide to cause trouble.
#InvasionDay #26thJan #jan26 #Auspol #Indigenous #protest #ProtestIsNotACrime #SocialCohesion #NSWpol #SuppressionOfDissent #CriminalisationOfDissent
University of #Michigan Regents Who Led the Charge Against Pro-#Palestine Protestors Are Now Backing Prosecutor Karen McDonald’s Candidacy for State Attorney
Like Dana Nessel before her, McDonald has received huge backing from Pro-Israel organizations, GOP contributors, and corporate donors.
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/university-of-michigan-regents-who
from #DropSiteNews
Dec 19, 2025
Last year, the pro-#Israel regents of #UniversityOfMichigan (U-M) ignited controversy by recruiting State Attorney Gen. #DanaNessel to crack down on campus #Gaza protesters. Now, members of U-M’s Board of Regents are making large donations to Oakland Cty. Prosecutor Karen McDonald, a candidate who may replace Nessel.
McDonald is the prosecutor in a wealthy suburban county north of Detroit. She also received the highest level of corporate donations from the state’s largest businesses and executives, and is viewed as the establishment choice to replace #Nessel.
#DefendFreeSpeech
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#USA #US #USPol #politics
#news

Like Dana Nessel before her, McDonald has received huge backing from Pro-Israel organizations, GOP contributors, and corporate donors.
'Dark turn of events': Met Police under fire for #intifada chant arrests
Social media users say the decision is discriminatory and violates the right to free speech
https://www.middleeasteye.net/trending/met-police-under-fire-intifada-arrests
from #MiddleEastEye #MEE
By Hannah. Smith
Published date: 18 December 2025 15:40 GMT
At a protest outside the Ministry of Justice on Wednesday, four people were arrested for “racially aggravated public order offences” for their use of the Arabic word “intifada”, meaning uprising.
The move comes in the wake of the Bondi Beach shooting in Sydney on Sunday, in which two gunmen targeted a Hanukkah event, killing at least 15 people.
Several public figures have sought to link the shootings to Palestine activism, specifically referencing the chant.
#FreePalestine
#DefendFreeSpeech
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#FreeHungerStrikers
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#DefendRuleOfLaw
#DueProcessForAll
#UKPol #politics #Palestine
#news
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=E_M8EKSfj6k
#ProtestIsNOTACrime #Illinois #Broadview #AbolishICE #FuckICE