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Silence is not an option.

Independent experts today urged the UK 🇬🇧 not to ban the “direct action” group Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation under the Terrorism Act 2000. “Acts of protest that damage property, but are not intended to kill or injure people, should not be treated as #terrorism.”

To my colleagues in the UK media – You may not agree with Palestine Action’s tactics, messaging, or political objectives. You may think protestors in general are noisy, irritating, and uncouth. Indeed, you may think the same of me! But all of us who work in UK journalism, in any

Watch: I spoke in parliament today to oppose banning the direct action protest group Palestine Action under UK anti-terrorism laws. We shouldn't confuse dissent and terror. I understand what terrorism is. I was in London on the 7th of July in 2007, and I watched this city

Govt’s decision to proscribe Palestine Action dangerously conflates direct action with terrorism, risking a chilling effect on free speech and protest. It also cynically lumps them in with two genuine extremist groups, and shamefully denied MPs a proper vote on each organisation.

Peter Hain says anti-apartheid activists & suffragettes would’ve been terrorists under logic used to ban Palestine Action ‘treating Palestine Action as equivalent to Islamic State is intellectually bankrupt, politically unprincipled & morally wrong’ 1/ theguardian.com/politics/live/…

Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb, "There are many reasons why proscribing Palestine Action is a bad idea" "Palestine Action's actions did not have the same calibre of evil that the other two organisations did" "Collectively organising these three organisations into one is a little

Baron Hain, "Palestine Action members spraying paint on military aircraft is moderate by comparison to what the suffragettes did" "Treating young people as terrorists because they feel frustrated about the failure to stop mass killings and bombings of civilians in Gaza" "I've

This decision marks the erosion of the right to protest, a right won through centuries of sacrifice and struggle. In one move, the Labour government has torched a civil liberties tradition rooted in 200 years of activism.

BREAKING: Palestine Action has been denied a court injunction to oppose its proscription as a terrorist organisation. By midnight today, sharing this film could get you 14 years in prison:

We are all Palestine Action.

Every progressive must get behind changing the voting system. LCER

The government's proscription of Palestine Action came into force at midnight last night. It is now illegal to express support for the group under the Terrorism Act 2000. But Keir Starmer and Yvette Cooper can't change what I believe. Classifying a direct action protest group

I was re-elected this time last year. This is what I had to say then.

Under Gandhi’s statue. For holding placards. A priest, a professor, medics - arrested for peaceful protest. This is not about terrorism. It’s about silencing dissent - and it’s leading us down an ever darkening path.

“ people have been told Gaza protests are hate marches…US campus protesters are motivated by antisemitism…Palestine Action is a terrorist organisation…the government finds Israel’s actions “intolerable”…they can see it’s not true” Defend the truth theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

It really is not rocket science. If this Labour government is to rebuild the country, it must start with the scourge of poverty – in all its forms. There can be no credible definition of success that does not include its eradication as a central goal. To those who say that in

Labour outflanked on civil liberties by…… The Times and The Sunday Times

Surreal conversation on small boats arrivals on Newsnight Zoe Gardener crushes Labour's Mike Tapp over small boat arrivals When he knows he’s lost the argument, he switches to talking about deporting pedophiles Victoria Derbyshire cuts in to say they’re talking about small