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Sam Walton
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Quaker. Womble. Have Lyme disease so taking a bit of a break. He/him/his.
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Resign in disgrace 3 more times and you can be like your idol Mandy!

He'll be back. Labour loves a soulless ghoul.
February 8, 2026 at 5:13 PM
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Six Palestine Action activists were cleared today of aggravated burglary over a protest at an Israeli weapons firm in 2024. The jury also cleared three defendants of violent disorder and failed to reach a verdict on a GBH charge – charges that are the basis of the group's labelling as "terrorists"
February 4, 2026 at 12:40 PM
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Filton24: Jury acquits or refuses to convict defendants
February 4, 2026 at 1:00 PM
samwalton.bsky.social
The amazing @rogergeffen.bsky.social giving evidence to the #SpyCops Inquiry about Reclaim the Streets.

Right now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0Et...
UCPI Evidence Hearings | Tranche 3 (Phase 2) | Day 3 - (04 February 2026) - AM
YouTube video by Undercover Policing Inquiry
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February 4, 2026 at 11:13 AM
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Netpol stands in solidarity with US Legal Observers facing brutal repression from ICE agents and police.

We send our love & rage to the family & comrades of Renée Nicole Good, executed on the street as she & her wife sought to bear witness to the racist violence inflicted in their home city.
The Network for Police Monitoring stands in solidarity with Legal Observers in Minneapolis facing brutal violence from police and border forces. We send our love and rage to the family and comrades of Renée Nicole Good, executed on the street as she and her wife Becca Good sought to bear witness to the racist violence inflicted on marginalised and migrant people in their home city: the raids, disappearances and executions currently taking place across the United States. Legal Observing is a simple act of solidarity. Legal Observers underpin efforts to resist state repression, bearing witness to police abuse of power so that violence is recorded and redress is possible. In Britain that abuse of power is purposeful and targeted at marginalised, migrant and racialised people. Here, as in the US, police and border enforcers detain, deport, injure and kill with impunity. The British state, like others across the Global North, has blood on its own hands for the inhumane border regimes and hostile environment policies which continue to result in preventable deaths. And here, as in the US, Legal Observers are subject to worsening violence and restraint. This is not exceptional to the US, but an escalating global system of border and police brutality. Netpol stands with all Legal Observers, Copwatchers, anti-raids and migrant solidarity organisers who are committed to a just and equitable world. We stand, always, with those killed, injured, detained and deported by police and border forces, and with their families. We call on all liberation movements to continue to support and centre those most at risk of state violence: Black, brown and racialised people, migrant people, Muslim people, trans and disabled people. We recognise that intensification of border violence is only one tactic in a colonial project of control, and will continue our work accordingly. We believe in a future free of police violence, with freedom of movement and adequate resources available to all.
January 9, 2026 at 6:27 PM
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Congratulations to the Stansted15, current record holders (781 days) for the shortest time as terrorists in the UK. You beat Nelson Mandela (911 days)!

But watch out! P&le$tine Action could nab the record off you any day!

I even made a graph: www.thecanary.co/opinion/2025...
Will Palestine Action be 'terrorists' for a record short amount of time?
Many groups have been called terrorists, banned and/or imprisoned as terrorists - only for the political tides to turn...
www.thecanary.co
December 19, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Quakers in Britain are continuing to work to ensure that all Quaker communities are inclusive of gender diversity, following a decision in 2021. A new document provides both theological background for this, rooted in the commandment to love one another, and practical guidance. 1/4
December 19, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Met police agrees to pay £7500 to a woman arrested for "suspicion of committing a religious or racial offence" in November 2023 over her Gaza protest placard www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Met police agree to pay £7,500 to woman arrested over Gaza protest placard
Exclusive: Force to pay damages to Aisha Jung, who was put into a police van and held until 4am
www.theguardian.com
December 15, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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This happens *all the time*. Cops do what they want and it doesn't even occur to them that they might need a legal basis for their actions until they're actively challenged - and even then they carry on regardless.
When police surrounded her and asked her to put the sign down she asked them what legislation they were relying on. She said she was told officers were finding out the answer, but was not given an explanation and was arrested, searched, bundled into a police van and taken to Bromley police station.
December 15, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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Shout out to @samwalton.bsky.social
gbclegal.bsky.social Green & Black Cross @gbclegal.bsky.social · Dec 5
On the 5th day of ACAB... we recall the times you could be acquitted for breaking into an airbase💥

➡️ Check out our guide on criminal damage greenandblackcross.org/guides/laws/...

#12DaysofACAB
Grey background with light brown stars. 4 green squares in centre. Black 02 text on top. Black writing underneath reading '12 days of acab. significant protest court cases'. GBC logo top right. Grey background. Green border with darker green stars. GBC logo bottom right. Black text reading Walton & Woody Acquitted after breaking into an airbase In 2017, Sam Walton & Daniel “Woody” Woodhouse, broke into a BAE Systems airbase intending to disarm fighter jets heading to Saudi Arabia. These jets were to be used in Yemen, causing the world’s biggest humanitarian catastrophe. Meters from the fighter jets they were caught by security, arrested and charged with criminal damage. In court, they argued they had intended to prevent war crimes and save lives by physically disabling the jets. The judge commended them as “impressive and eloquent men who held strong views about what they were doing” and found both not guilty. Check out our guide on criminal damage, on our website.
December 5, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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On the fifth day of ACAB, my true love said to me... "NO CAUTION – a caution is a legal admission of guilt – it's an easy win for the police"
#12DaysOfACAB
The 12 Days of ACAB, Day 5 – NO CAUTION – a caution is a legal admission of guilt – it's an easy win for the police #12DaysOfACAB
December 5, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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Excited for this training next week!!
netpol.org Netpol @netpol.org · Dec 2
Coming next week on the 11th day of ACAB, 'Basic Security in a Digital Age', a workshop on how we keep ourselves and each other safe when organising online, organised with our friends, the Digital Self-Defence Collective www.eventbrite.com/e/basic-secu... Register now! #12DaysofACAB
Basic Security in a Digital Age
In the face of surveillance from police and far-right groups, how do we keep ourselves and each other safe when organising online?
www.eventbrite.com
December 3, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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In the run up to Netpol's winter fundraiser on 13/12 #ACABDay, we'll be celebrating the 12 days of #ACAB!

Every day we're sharing a key piece of Know Your Rights information for protest movements and political organisers.

Beause all we want for Christmas is... an end to police repression.
December 1, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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The government plans new powers to label dissenting movements as ‘subversion’
netpol.org/2025/11/28/g...
Shut Elbit Down protest at Centurion House
November 28, 2025 at 7:35 PM
samwalton.bsky.social
Power has concentrated on the hands of the rich. No surprise there.

What really strikes me is how weak the entire left are when it comes to policy ideas for how to break up media ownership.

"Encouraging ownership diversity" won't cut it.

Any ideas anyone?

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
‘Unelected power’ of ultra-rich is reshaping British politics, report claims
Equality Trust study shows how House of Lords appointments, big donations and media ownership affect political decisions
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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Once again, the Metropolitan Police has demanded last minute changes to a Palestine Coalition march this weekend and imposed unnecessary conditions, which is deliberately disruptive and keeps no-one safer palestinecampaign.org/palestine-co...
Palestine Coalition statement on police harassment of our protests - Palestine Solidarity Campaign
Given the escalating assault on the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, Saturday’s national demo is absolutely crucial. Having agreed the assembly point and route of the march on November 10th, no...
palestinecampaign.org
November 27, 2025 at 8:35 AM
samwalton.bsky.social
Counter terrorism legislation has been used throughout my adult life to silence my friends.

This Palestine Action ban is nothing new. It is inherently Islamophobic.

My latest for @thecanaryuk.bsky.social:

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The ban on Palestine Action is inherently Islamophobic
Palestine Action supports Palestine which is mostly Muslim. Many people active in it are Muslim. This is not terrorism but it is Islamophobia
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November 26, 2025 at 2:07 PM
samwalton.bsky.social
Supreme Court today:

Government of Bahrain is challenging the decision to lift its diplomatic immunity in a hacking case that caused psychiatric injury to two dissidents.

Oh dear #Bahrain. You screwed up big time.

Press release: www.leighday.co.uk/news/news/20...
The Kingdom of Bahrain (Appellant) v Shehabi and another (Respondents) - UK Supreme Court
Is a foreign State whose agents, located abroad, cause spyware to be installed remotely on the computers of individuals located in the United Kingdom, causing those individuals psychiatric injury when...
supremecourt.uk
November 26, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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The ban on Palestine Action is inherently Islamophobic, writes one of Netpol's founders, Sam Walton, for @thecanaryuk.bsky.social www.thecanary.co/opinion/2025...
The ban on Palestine Action is inherently Islamophobic
Palestine Action supports Palestine which is mostly Muslim. Many people active in it are Muslim. This is not terrorism but it is Islamophobia
www.thecanary.co
November 25, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Here are the Royal Courts of Justice for the Palestine Action judicial review
November 26, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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The BBC here, reprinting a police press release. In reality, police officers unlawfully threatened antifascists with demands for personal details using powers under Exeter's Public Space Protection Order introduced to crack down on street drinking and "aggressive begging" www.bbc.com/news/article...
Protest groups come together 'peacefully' in Exeter city centre
The police had issued an order giving powers to require the removal of face coverings.
www.bbc.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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Latest article on arms industry complicity in Andrew’s abuse of women and girls:

"That photo, the one with his arm around Virginia Giuffre, was broadly part of his government job – where he influenced elites through sex and good times to buy British weapons."

www.thecanary.co/opinion/2025...
The arms industry is complicit in Andrew and his ilk's abuse of women and girls
Andrew influenced the super rich through child rape and abuse to buy British weapons - and the arms industry actively facilitated him
www.thecanary.co
November 9, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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The only coverage on the Andrew Windsor story worth reading.

Every other media outlet bends over backwards to avoid mentioning that it was literally Andrew's job to 'entertain' despots to sell British weapons.
November 3, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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Front page of this morning's 'The National'.

"Extreme Violence – Police Scotland used excessive restrictions to protect the interests of arms firms during Palestine protests, says new report".

The SCALP/Netpol report launches this evening in Glasgow
Front page of this morning's 'The National'. "Extreme Violence – Police Scotland used excessive restrictions to protect the interests of arms firms during Palestine protests, says new report".
October 23, 2025 at 7:14 AM