Protesters against ban on Palestine Action intend to make mass arrests ‘impossible’
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Defend Our Juries says ‘trick of using street bail’ will not work if participants insist on being taken to a police station

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.

  • zedcell
    3·
    4 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.

    • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
      2·
      4 months ago

      That’s pretty forward thinking of them I’ve been working here for 6 years.

      It’s a fairly standard contract and it’s like that because if I did something really bad and people found out about it they would put pressure on the company to fire me anyway. Having that clause in the contract just gives them an easy thing to point to.

      The bosses are based in Gibraltar so I don’t know if they would even necessarily know about this. In theory they’re part of the UK but they seem really isolated out there, they often seem unaware of things happening in back here in the mainland. So not only would I be fighting against a technical clause in the contract but also against their ignorance of the whole situation.

      I’m fairly sure these arrests are not going to stick but that doesn’t really help.

      • zedcell
        1·
        4 months ago

        The forward thinking nature of being able to crush any dissenters is a baked in part of class struggle. The State and the bosses are twinned at the hip and ensure that workers will be punished severely for getting above their station.

        Criminal punishment is overwhelmingly used to selectively punish poorer people and political enemies, ignoring the general criminality of the ruling class.