"When KS🚨did a version of the #SaveAct, it purged ~40 ineligible voters - & stopped 31K legal citizens from registering to vote (12% of all applicants). That's 775 legal voters lost for every 1 ineligible voter."
-J Reidl
"Are you one of nearly 70M American women who changed their names when they got married? 🙋♀️
Republicans in Congress want to make it harder for you to vote."
-H Clinton
So while the proscription remains in place to allow some further legal argument & a possible appeal by the Govt. for now the High Court has concluded (on two out of the four counts raised) that Palestine Action's proscription was unlawful.
The proscription did not fully follow the Govt.'s own rules on proscription & the proscription also failed by contravening, Articles 10 & 11 of the ECHR.
"The highly classified whistleblower complaint against T Gabbard🚨involves an intercepted conversation in which 2 foreign nationals discussed J Kushner. The complaint was locked in a safe for eight months. The🚨allegations about Kushner are significant if verified."
-Hoodlum
"Snr Trump admin ofcls said the claims about Kushner were demonstrably false..." (which means they were likely...)
A five-minute #protest for #Palestine triggered an #ICE subpoena for a student’s bank info, and #Google didn’t blink. If this doesn’t alarm us, what will?
Imran Khan is right; the real & present danger to the right to protest can be summed up in two words that the Govt. is thinking of applying to the policing of protests:
'cumulative impact'.
This is not the first time this has come up, and we already know the danger that this slippery term involves for protests.
This is a Govt. that is seeking to (further) close down democratic rights - my parents (both old Labour) are spinning in the graves!
Today, in honor of Black History Month, we remember the Orangeburg Massacre, which occurred on February 8, 1968 in South Carolina, when highway patrolmen opened fire on black student protesters from South Carolina State, who were trying to integrate a bowling alley. They killed 3 African American students and wounded 33. These were the first student demonstrators killed by the police in the 1960s. 2 days prior, students held a sit-in at the bowling alley. When the police arrested them, hundreds of students arrived from Claflin College and South Carolina State to protest the arrests. As tensions grew, the governor called out the National Guard and Highway Patrol to “keep the order.” 9 cops were charged with deprivation of rights under color of law, but all were acquitted. But one of the student protestors, Cleveland Sellers, was convicted of several riot charges. In 1960, students and others marched through Orangeberg to protest segregation. Police and firefighters attacked them. They arrested 400 and imprisoned them in outdoors in a cattle stockade.
"The VP took to X to respond to RI Rep S Magaziner, who argued that🚨many of the families #ICE & #CBP are detaining are #immigrants who entered the country legally.
Vance🚨attacked the💙family of #Liam Conejo Ramos, the 5-yr-old who was detained by federal immigration agents in Minnesota along with his father, falsely claiming that the family entered the US unlawfully."
“So, please, we need to be different,” he concluded. “If we fight, we have to do it with love. We don’t hate them, we love our people, we love our family, and that’s the way to do it — with love. Don’t forget that please. Thank you. Thank you, God, and thank you to the Academy."
Our photojournalists Cengiz Yar and Peter DiCampo were on the ground in Minneapolis, covering what they saw in the days before and after the shooting of Alex Pretti.