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Andy Worthington's avatar

The Court of Appeals turned down the appeal, and the proscription was enacted at midnight. Here's a song I wrote yesterday, and recorded and posted just before it came into effect. I'd like to play it with a full band, but I doubt that will be even possible now. That sounds like the behaviour of a police state, doesn't it? https://substack.com/@andyworthington/note/c-132173089

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The High Court turned down the request for "interim relief" from the implementation of the terror proscription around 5pm today, but the Court of Appeals accepted an urgent appeal, and will rule before midnight. A one-hour hearing began at 8pm, with Baroness Carr, the head of the judiciary in England and Wales, sitting with Lord Justice Lewis and Lord Justice Edis.

Accepting the case, Baroness Carr said, “We’re less than five hours away, we’ve got to make our minds up on what we’ve got. Both sides, if there was any prospect of an appeal, ought to have had all of these matters well in hand, if you were going to come to the Court of Appeal and ask for a decision by midnight. We are here now. We will do our best."

https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/25291432.palestine-action-launch-appeal-court-decision-terror-ban/

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Andy Worthington's avatar

I should note that one hope remains for the proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist organization to be prevented. On Monday, Huda Ammori, one of Palestine Action's co-founders, was given an opportunity to apply for "interim relief" with respect to the proscription order in the High Court on Friday. The Guardian reported that "David Blundell KC, representing the Home Office, said the plan had been for the order to be debated in parliament this week and then signed on Friday to come into effect on Saturday. But the judge, Mr Justice Chamberlain, said that if an application by Palestine Action for interim relief on Friday was successful it would 'have the effect of suspending its [the order’s] operation.'" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/30/palestine-action-ban-judge-court-hearing

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Fern Tishman's avatar

The manipulation and distractions created by corporate conglomerate paid media ,

The right wing fascist coup created 9/11/91,

Various religious groups violating biblical , USA CONSTITUTION, ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY laws , ways of life

Are hurting all life ;

Intentional focus on never enough money , control , others land .

Our small planet is hurting .

Thanks for your commitment to sanity and saving lives .

Wars nevef have and never will bring peace .

We shall overcome !

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Andy Worthington's avatar

Good to hear from you, Fern. "Our small planet is hurting", as you say, and wars never bring peace. That should be obvious, but those who seek only death - and, perahps more importantly, those who promote it - always seek to dress it up as something else. Those of us who love life are now in am existential war with those who only worship death.

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J C's avatar

Disgusting.

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Andy Worthington's avatar

It certainly is, J C. It's one of the most disturbing and inappropriate political decisions taken by a government in my lifetime and it needs to be overturned as swiftly as possible before it gets embraced by other countries.

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J C's avatar

The level of insaniy in the west is almost unbelievable. 😳

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