The Final Straw Radio Palestine Action Prisoner Hunger Strikes, Elbit Systems and UK Complicity In Gaza (with Francesca)
This week, we're joined by Francesca, a member of Prisoners For Palestine who is a former prisoner herself who speaks about Palestine Action, a group proscribed in the UK as a terrorist organization at the behest of the Israeli state and Israeli arms manufacturer Elbit Systems for their successful direct actions against Elbits war profiteering and the UK's role in assisting the genocide in Gaza. Currently, 6 incarcerated members of Prisoners For Palestine are on an open-ended hunger strike against their conditions and the continued operation of Elbit which has garnered support from around the world.
This last week, he UK government has begun it's trial against the 29 Palestine Actionists, simultaneous to the legal challenge to the proscription being brought before the courts. You can keep up on the hunger strikers at PrisonersForPalestine.org and many of the other cases at FiltonActionists.com . Check our show notes for more links.
- Hunger Strikers: Qesser Zuhrah, Amu Gib, Heba Muraisi, Jon Cink, T Hoxha and Kamran Ahmed
- solidarity strikers include: anarchist prisoner Luca "Stecco" Dolce at Sanremo prison in Italy and Dimitris Chatzivasileiadis in Domokos Prison in Greece
- Video of the attack on the Filton warehouse of Elbit Systems where people broke in and destroyed killer drones
- Quite good episode of 12 Rules For What! podcast on the proscription of Palestine Action: https://m.soundcloud.com/12rulesforwhat/106-proscription-and-the-uk-counter-terror-regime-w-iida-kayhko
- Article about concerns of the proscription of Palestine Action: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9vmjjxvj0eo
- A Muslim anti-repression group supporting the hunger strikers: https://www.cage.ngo/
- A group in WNC opposing the local Raytheon subsidiary, Pratt and Whitney: https://rejectraytheonavl.com/who-we-are/
Then, you'll hear a part of our interview with members of the DFW Support Committee that didn't make the radio two weeks ago speaking about the application of terrorism charges to antifascists in the US, the wider repression of liberationist movements in the imperial core and the collaboration between far right governments paralleling this.
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