Victoria’s draconian new anti-protest laws will have a chilling effect on free speech — and won’t keep anyone safe. Far-reaching anti-protest measures and giving police more repressive powers only serve to increase the risk of escalating violence.
Victoria’s draconian new anti-protest laws will have a chilling effect on free speech — and won’t keep anyone safe. Far-reaching anti-protest measures and giving police more repressive powers only serve to increase the risk of escalating violence.
@drgeraint I want them to decide that, yes. That is the point. It's also why I've made my name and email address part of the design: if anyone's getting prosecuted for this, I'm up for it.
PROTECT THE PROTEST.
Across the world, we’re seeing a crackdown on the right to protest.
This doesn’t just affect environmental activists. It affects anyone who wants to make their voice heard.
https://www.greenpeace.org.uk/news/protester-ads-billboards-london-birmingham-manchester/
Australia’s protester crackdown didn’t start with Hannah Thomas — and it won’t end with her. The injuries sustained by the former Greens candidate are just the latest event in Australia’s crackdown on the right to protest.
‘It’s a complete assault on free speech’: how Palestine Action was targeted for proscription as terrorists
It might even be illegal to share this in a week's time, so do it today!
#RightToProtest
#MetPolice arrested autistic #YouthDemend activist in supported housing as part of #WestminsterMeetingHouse #Quaker raid operation
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jun/22/police-arrested-autistic-activist-in-supported-housing-as-part-of-quaker-raid-operation
"They showed me pictures of protests that I wasn’t even in. They showed me pictures of [information about] upcoming events, only a few of which were actually protests, the other which were just meetings and free food events."
citynews.com.au/2025/no-easy-a…
AFAICT this is a very real looming problem, yet our cretinous AusPol lack-of-leadership bullshit shemozzle is either exacerbating this, or at the very least, not helping. Eg... each time i begin again to ponder if i could possibly overcome my personal demons to fully electrify my home [ie, endure all the intensive peopling needed] when our gas prices rise [ie, increasing the economic desire to convert], what happens? Yep, our fucken electricity prices rise as well, thus reducing or eliminating the economic incentive.
Ofc all the climate, & moral, reasons remain to more than justify converting, but so far, w/o also the strong economic reasons, my demons keep winning the day. For normal, non-me, peeps, sans my demons, the confused economic signals alone prolly entirely prevent them converting.
Fuckheads, our govt.
“Petitioner is not a flight risk, & the evidence presented is that he is not a danger to the community,”Judge Farbiarz said. “Period, full stop.”
During an hourlong hearing conducted by phone, the New Jersey-based judge said the #Trump admin had “clearly not met” the standards for #detention.
The #DOJ filed notice Friday night that it is appealing #MahmoudKhalil’s release. [cuz they’re assholes]
The #Trump admin is [still] seeking to #deport #MahmoudKhalil over his role in pro-#Palestinian #protests. He was detained on March 8 at his apartment building in Manhattan.
Khalil was released after US Dist Judge Michael Farbiarz said it would be “highly, highly unusual” for the govt to continue detaining a #legal US resident who was unlikely to flee & hadn’t been accused of any violence.
The former #ColumbiaUniversity graduate #student left a federal facility in Louisiana on Friday. He is expected to head to New York to reunite with his #UScitizen wife & infant son, born while #MahmoudKhalil was detained.
“Justice prevailed, but it’s very long overdue,”he said outside the facility in a remote part of Louisiana. “This shouldn’t have taken 3 months.”
#ColumbiaUniversity #protester #MahmoudKhalil freed from #immigration #detention
#Palestinian #activist Mahmoud Khalil was released Friday from federal immigration detention, freed after 104 days by a judge’s ruling after becoming a symbol of #Trump’s clampdown on #campus #protests.
#immigration #law #Constitution #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #RightToProtest #dissent #AmericanAutocracy
https://apnews.com/article/mahmoud-khalil-release-columbia-protest-trump-immigration-69162d21ab22377b1c1c08cf2c83d6cd
The story behind the arrest of 87-year-old #veteran #JohnSpitzberg at the Capitol
John Spitzberg joined a #veterans march at the National Mall on March 14 in Washington, DC. The 87-year-old veteran was #arrested June 13 at the US Capitol while protesting #Trump’s birthday parade spectacle.
#AmericanAutocracy #law #democracy #Constitution #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #RightToProtest #dissent
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/20/nx-s1-5438406/john-spitzberg-veteran-arrest-trump-parade
#Trump admin lawyers wrote in a June 17 filing that #MahmoudKhalil's request for release should be addressed to the judge overseeing his #immigration case, an administrative process over whether he can be deported, rather than to Farbiarz, who is considering whether Khalil's March 8 arrest & subsequent detention were constitutional.
US #judge orders release of pro-#Palestinian #activist #MahmoudKhalil
A U.S. judge ordered on Friday that #ColumbiaUniversity graduate Mahmoud Khalil be released from #immigration custody, a major victory for #CivilRights groups that challenged what they called the #Trump admin's unlawful targeting of a pro-Palestinian activist.
#law #Constitution #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #RightToProtest #FreedomOfAssembly #AmericanAutocracy
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-judge-orders-release-pro-palestinian-activist-khalil-2025-06-20/
That request centers on a 19th-century #law, the #PosseComitatusAct, that generally makes it illegal to use the #military for #domestic law enforcement. The #Trump admin has argued that the #troops are not themselves performing law enforcement tasks, but rather are protecting civilian agents who are trying to arrest undocumented #immigrants.
[but we know better]
Judge Breyer’s temporary restraining order [#TRO] concerned only the #NationalGuard & whether it was lawful for #Trump to mobilize them under #federal control. At the hearing on Friday, he is also set to address a #state request to limit #troops under federal control to guarding federal buildings, & to bar them from accompanying #ICE agents on the #workplace #raids that sparked the #protests.
Either way, litigation in the case is set to return on Friday to the San Francisco courtroom of the Federal District Court judge, Charles Breyer, for a hearing. He is weighing whether to issue a more durable preliminary injunction restricting what #Trump can do with some 4,000 #NationalGuard #troops or 700 active-duty #Marines his admin has also deployed into the #city.
The court case could have wider implications on the president’s #power to deploy #soldiers within the #US after #Trump directed #immigration officials to prioritize #deportations from other #Democratic-run #cities.
Trump, a Republican, argued that the #troops were necessary to restore order. Newsom, a #Democrat, said the move inflamed tensions, usurped local authority & wasted resources.
The decision halts a ruling from Judge Breyer, who found #Trump acted illegally when he activated the #NationalGuard over opposition from #California Gov #GavinNewsom.
The #9thCircuit court of appeals concluded that “it is likely that the President lawfully exercised his statutory authority”.
It also found that even if the #federal govt failed to notify the Newsom before federalizing the National Guard as required by #law, Newsom had no power to veto the president’s order.
The court used 14 of its 38 page ruling to reject the #DOJ's argument that #Trump's decision to federalize the #California #NationalGuard can't be reviewed by the courts.
But, the court concluded that the requirement in #Title10 §12406 that "orders ... shall be issued through the governors of the States" does not mean that a governor must consent or even be consulted before their #state's National Guard is federalized.