This news has broken today:
As Greenpeace UK's co-executive director, Areeba Hamid has said in response:
Protests, even when they are disruptive or inconvenient, are absolutely not the same thing as terrorism.
We support this decision and hope the judicial review will reveal this proscription order for the sinister and anti-democratic move it is.
There is a long tradition of protest in Britain that has helped win many of the freedoms we enjoy today such as votes for women and a ban on commercial whaling. Treating direct action as terrorism is a dangerous and worrying escalation of the ongoing crackdown on protest and freedom of speech in the UK.
I agree.
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Hear, hear and Amen to that.
more details in various news – but here are 2 links – https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jul/30/palestine-action-co-founder-wins-permission-to-challenge-ban? and https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/society/2025/07/palestine-action-proscription-distortion-of-terrorism
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Treating protests as terrorism invites the thought, if I’m a terrorist for protesting then I should protest through terrorism. You may get some to stay at home, but they may be the moderate ones, the voices of reason. The protesters who don’t fear proscription are the ones with nothing to lose. This is all going to escalate.
While I do not condone the act of breaking into a military installation for very obvious safety reasons, even if nothing happened this time, prescribing PA as a terrorist organisation was a massive over-reach and really shows how authoritarian and inept the government is. As my generation would say, we’re being ruled by a bunch of karens.
Oh and this online safety act is one of the stupidest things I’ve ever seen and is likely to cause more harm as private companies hoover up personal data and use this as an excuse to get even more that puts everyone at real risk of identity fraud. That’s without mentioning it will make blackmailing people a lot easier, especially children. It’s also being used to effectively filter out the Gaza and other news by age gating it.
QQ, how is a newly voting 16 year old supposed to make an informed choice if half the bad news about politicians is kept from them due to “online safety”?