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"But this time YOU are the decision makers. Unlike what the prosecution and the government want you to be, you are not a rubber stamp.
Don't fall into their trap.
Find the six of us not guilty of criminal damage."
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You can read the speeches of the other four defendants who dismissed their lawyers so they could address the jury directly here:
"And so I will never be ashamed that I was on trial, that I have spent 18 months in prison, that I may face many more.
You know that we have been treated as terrorists throughout this process.
A domestic violence worker, two nursery schoolteachers, one oxford grad, an artist and me. It sounds dystopian, but it’s true.
Just like the proscription of Palestine Action."
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"How can I when you have been kept so in the dark?
But you can be sure of one thing: I am PROUD.
I am so proud that I took part in this. I am proud that I overcame my fear and took action.
Because of course I was scared. You don’t just break into an Israeli weapons factory for fun!
I can say with absolute certainty that this is the best thing I have ever done, because there is a good chance that because of our actions that night,
innocent lives were saved."
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"The reason I was confident enough to allow that was because I knew that now, 20 months in the future, I would be standing in front of 12 ordinary people like you.
Not politicians, not legal experts, not barristers and judges wearing 400-year-old horsehair on their heads, but a panel of my equals.
You are the best counterweight to power and tyranny within the legal system as it exists today.
I want you to know however, that whatever you decide, I will not hold it against you."
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"After hearing the six of us give evidence you might think it odd that what’s happening in Palestine has gone completely unmentioned. You might have noticed certain words that have been blacklisted, that until our closing speeches, the word GENOCIDE wasn’t said once.
I have a lot to lose by going to prison. But you know that we all actually intended to be arrested on 6 August."
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" ... including demonstrations, fundraisers, encampments, petitions, writing to MPs, vigils, arms factory pickets, the list goes on.
And how none of it worked.
You heard how direct action is effective, how it ended apartheid during the civil rights movement in America, how it is being used in the UK today to shut down weapons factories, FOUR of which have been closed permanently."
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Zoe Rogers' mum has posted the full text of her address to the jury at Woolwich Crown Court 🧵
Zoe is 21 years old.
"During this trial you’ve heard some very important evidence. That there are factories on British soil making weapons to send to Israel. That the drones they make include Thor VTOL quadcopters used to drop grenades, drones that are advertised as ‘battle tested’ on Palestinians. You heard how we tried every democratic means available to us ... "
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@Stevenheywood @HarriettMB It seems to me that Labour Together wants the party to become something akin to the "one nation Tory" brand that was so successfully purged by Spaffer.
@Geri @HarriettMB This might interest you two:
https://www.doubledown.news/watch/2026/may/4/the-secret-plot-to-destroy-zack-polanski
@HarriettMB Yeah, I saw Farage had pulled out of LK - as if he'd get a serious grilling from that stooge 
I guess I shouldn't be surprised that the corporate media have both milked and exploited the situation.
And don't get me started about Rowley's "intervention" - as blatant an attempt at election interference by law enforcement as Comey did with Clinton in 2016.
@HarriettMB The way the whole thing's been weaponised against Polanski, simultaneously suggesting he's antisemitic and depicting him in that cartoon (I think in the Times?) in a way that could have been taken straight from Nazi propaganda of the 30s, is such a blatant repeat of what happened to Corbyn. Hopefully prospective Green voters will be able to see it for what it is.
@HarriettMB I saw this article last night before I went to sleep 
Given that the third victim is Muslim, like Khan, you'd think he would have used the opportunity to distance himself from Keith, perhaps by alluding to the fact that there wasn't an immediate £25m security funding for the Muslim community.
Thiago and Saif have appeared in court in Ashkelon today, where their illegal detention has been extended for another two days.
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Hundreds marched through Barnsley yesterday to mark the centenary of the General Strike.
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Thousands of grad students at Harvard are on strike, demanding the university pay its workers a living wage.
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Spotted in Vancouver
A BDS victory in New Zealand
May Day in Ourense
and outside the EU HQ in Barcelona in solidarity with the Sumud
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#MayDay #SolidarityIsBeautiful #BDS #FreePalestine #Flotilla
