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Police repression is a 'part of life now', activists say after Quaker centre raid (www.middleeasteye.net)

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The pro-Palestine Youth Demand movement says it has been targeted with over 150 arrests since it began

Katherine Hearst Published date: 5 April 2025 09:12 BST

"On 27 March, some 20 police officers burst in on a group of young women at a Quaker’s meeting house in central London and arrested them on suspicion of conspiracy to cause a public nuisance.

The women were activists who had gathered for an open meeting of Youth Demand, a pro-Palestine and climate justice movement demanding an end to UK government arms sales to Israel and new fossil fuel licensing. The group emerged in the aftermath of Israel’s war on Gaza, which began in October 2023."

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[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 7 points 6 hours ago

When you're against the Quakers, of all people, you're on the wrong fuckin' side.

[–] notsure@fedia.io 23 points 14 hours ago

the quakers are the reason that slavery didn't exist in Massachussetts or Rhode Island, iirc, the congregation only voted in unison and one member refused to accept slavery as god's will, and was therefore not approved by the territorial, soon to be state, government...i'm probably remembering wrong, but somehing to this effect in the stance on slavery in the colonial US....anyways, quakers seem to be on point...