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Palestine Action ban protesters plan to make their mass arrest ‘practically impossible’ (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 8 months ago by geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml to c/uk_politics@feddit.uk

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Protesters at the next mass demonstration against the ban on Palestine Action will withhold their details from officers to force en-masse processing at police stations in an effort to make it “practically impossible” to arrest everyone.

On Friday, Defend Our Juries, the pressure group behind the protests, will open sign-ups for its next demonstration to be held in London on 6 September. The group said it would only go ahead if 1,000 people agreed to take part, making it the largest protest opposing the proscription of Palestine Action since it was banned in June. More than 2,500 people have already expressed interest in taking part.

Earlier this month, 532 people were arrested at the largest demonstration so far relating to Palestine Action since it was proscribed. The Met said 212 of those arrested were transported to police stations after either refusing to provide their details or having been found to already be on bail.

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[–] ramble81@lemmy.zip 8 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Why do I have a feeling this is where we find out how extensive the government’s facial recognition database is and they’ll just snap your face and process you there.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago

Putting 1000 people in jail is actually a very tough ask. It is extremely expensive to jail people.

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 1 points 8 months ago

Just make sure you're covered. Preferably, almost everyone should be wearing black bloc so they can't identify any particular people.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The problem with this is as much as I support them and would like to take part, I can't be arrested. Like most people I have clauses in my contract about my behaviour outside of the company, and although I'm sure I could argue the ethical angle and point out what I wasn't actually doing anything, I don't think that would matter. I think being arrested and charged is an automatic dismissal.

Unfortunately the bank don't accept moral high ground in lieu of mortgage repayments.

I wish they would come up with some form of activism that didn't require me to lose my job. If I was in a different employment situation I would join them, but I'm not so I can't.

[–] zedcell@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 8 months ago

Sure seems like the bosses and the state are in cahoots to make sure ANY criminality (regardless of it's dubious class nature) is punishable by destitution. We should really work on trying to fix that.