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Enjoy a riveting Beyblade battle!

#beyblade #Beyblade X #Beyblade UX #Wizard Rod #Phoenix Wing #let it rip #go shoot #gaming #Beyblade battle

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in light of police across the country cracking down on pro palestine protests with brutal force, it feels like a great time to remind everyone to shut the fuck up around cops. don't make small talk, dont act friendly, don't fucking engage with them!! if you are arrested DO NOT speak without a lawyer present. protest organizers, get into contact with local pro bono lawyers who can be there for your arrested comrades. no matter what, if cops are there, shut the fuck up unless you are actively doing a protest chant. dont tell cops why you were there, dont tell them if you're affiliated with the school you may be protesting at, dont tell them if you came there with anyone, dont tell them anything!!!

#free palestine #end aid to israel #israeli genocide #abolish Israel #protest safety #ACAB #never talk to cops

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im noticing that for a lot of americans “free palestine” has been an ideological motto and symbol rather than them actually believing in their heart that freedom is attainable and necessary

#!!! #palestine #israeli occupation #israeli genocide #israeli apartheid #from the river to the sea #palestine will be free

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15-20 years from now, when this genocide is viewed in the same light as the holocaust and you see white liberals pretending to have given a shit, pretending to have been on the right side of history, and acting like they weren't out here both-sidesing a genocide or sympathizing with the occupation forces, remember to call them the fuck out.

Remind them how they were more upset about being mildly inconvenienced by protestors than they were about 15,000 slaughtered children. Remind them how they stood behind the architect of this genocide and demanded we vote for him because the other guy's fascism might affect them instead of brown people in the middle-east.

And definitely remind them how they had the UTTER GALL to say that genocide is acceptable because God ordained it.

#israeli genocide #free palestine #gaza #death to israel #usa #america #american fascism #us fascism #biden is just as much of a fascist as trump #this is a fucking genocide #you amoral fucks would advocate for hitler if his opponent was trump #what is wrong with you? #why do the lives of people who aren't white mean nothing to you? #how do you sleep at night after advocating for genocide during the day? #are your rights really worth it if they're won on the back of 30000 dead civilians?

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Relentless direct action has secured another victory in the fight against Israel’s arms trade, as Elbit Systems are forced to sell their ‘Elite KL’ factory in Tamworth.

The company had previously manufactured cooling and power management systems for military vehicles, but was sold on after stating that it faced falling profits and increased security costs resulting from Palestine Action’s efforts. 

After the sale was completed last month, Elite KL’s new owners, listed as Griffin Newco Ltd, confirmed in an email to Palestine Action that they will have nothing to do with the previous owners, Elbit, and have discontinued any arms manufacturing:

“Following the recent acquisition of Elite KL Limited by a UK investment syndicate, the newly appointed board has unanimously agreed to withdraw from all future defence contracts and terminate its association with its former parent company”.

This victory is a direct result of sustained direct action which has sought, throughout Palestine Action’s existence, to make it impossible for Elbit to afford to operate in Britain. Before they sold the enterprise to a private equity syndicate, Elbit had reported that Elite KL operating profits had been slashed by over three-quarters, with Palestine Action responsible: Elbit directly cited the increased expenditure on security they’d been forced to make, and higher supply chain costs they faced.

And these actions did, indeed, cost them. The first action at the site, in November 2020, saw Elite KL’s premises smashed into, the building covered in blood-red paint. Between March and July 2021, the site was put out of action three times by roof-top occupations – drenched red in March 2021, with the factory’s camera systems dismantled, before again being occupied in in May. Another roof-top occupation in July, despite increased security, saw the site forced closed – once again painted blood-red, and with its windows and fixings smashed through.

In February 2022, activists decommissioned the site for weeks – closed off after an occupation that saw over £250,000 of damages caused, the roof tiles removed one-by-one. After this, Elbit erected a security perimeter around the site – but to no avail. One month later, six were arrested after Palestine Action returned to Tamworth – again taking the roof and smashing through, preventing the production of parts for Israel’s military machine.

Elite KL is a ‘specialist thermal management business’. Since the sale, the company focuses on cooling systems for buses and trains, but it had, under Elbit, manufactured these systems for military vehicles. Until December of last year, Elite KL’s website was advertising its military and defence products, and it was known to provide parts for Israel’s deadly Merkava tanks, with export license records demonstrating its provision of ‘ML6a’ components for military ground vehicles to Israel. The company was also known to manufacture crew cooling systems, for the military vests of tank operators.

Elbit Systems itself provides 85% of the drones and land-based military equipment for the Israeli military, along with a wide range of the munitions and armaments currently being used against Gaza’s beseiged population. Its CEO, Bazhalel Machlis, has claimed that the Israeli military has offered the company its thanks for their “crucial” services during the ongoing genocide in Gaza

A Palestine Action spokesperson has stated:

“Each activist who occupied and dismantled Tamworth’s Israeli weapons factory did so in order to bring an end to Israel’s weapons trade, and to end the profiteering from Palestinian repression. Every defeat Elbit faces is a victory for the Palestinian people.

Kicking Elbit out of Tamworth shows once again that direct action is a necessary tactic. It is one which must be utilised and amplified in the face of the Gaza genocide.”

#palestine #palestine action #elbit systems #israeli genocide #free palestine #anti imperialism #gaza

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#free gaza #free palestine #israeli genocide #fuck israel #palestine

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#sudan #darfur #keep eyes on sudan #keep eyes on darfur #eyes on sudan

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U.S. PROTESTERS FLY THE FLAG OF PALESTINE FOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDANTS DINNER

📹 Footage from a Pro-Palestine rally where protesters unravel the flag of Palestine out of a hotel window and over the Washington DC Hilton where tonight's White House Correspondants' dinner is being held.

#source

@WorkerSolidarityNews

#us protests #united states #us news #pro palestine protest #palestine protest #protests #palestine #gaza #free palestine #israeli genocide #American genocide #U.S. genocide #American fascism #U.S. fascism

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[ID: Two black and white photos of Kwame Ture/Stokely Carmichael, a young Black man, saying into a microphone with a sardonic expression, "In order for non-violence to work, your opponent must have a conscience. The United States has none, has none." End ID.]

#kwame ture #stokely carmichael #pacifism #anti colonialism #student nonviolent coordinating committee #black power #accessible photos #described images #black panthers

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the Columbia University arrests are worse than they seem. They're arresting protesting students for trespassing. It goes without saying students cannot meaningfully "trespass" in the common areas of a university they attend. So Columbia University has suspended all student protestors from their institution, in the process revoking their access to housing, their belonging, and most crucially damaging their academic futures. We are witnessing full scale silencing and removal of anyone of conscience from the next generation of academia.

#israeli genocide #free palestine #columbia is a private equity firm #american fascism #us fascism #the united states of america is a fascist state #fascism

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#palestine #free palestine #gaza #free gaza #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #current events #Columbia #student protest

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If you're having trouble keeping up with what's going on in Palestine because of US news coverage of university protests, here are some articles you can read and a video you can watch:

While CNN & all the other mainstream media try to paint the university protests as "pro terrorism" (which they're not, they're literally anti-war protests.) Palestinians are being slaughtered by the minute.

Please don't stop speaking about Palestine.

#free palestine #palestine #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #free gaza #gaza #columbia university #university pro palestine protests

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#yemen #jerusalem #tel aviv #current events #palestine #free palestine #gaza #free gaza #news on gaza #palestine news

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I have come to realize that in the modern context, when insultingly using the word ‘authoritarian,’ what those within the utopian left truly mean is that they are at the core against anti-imperialist solidarity as all of their complaints are rooted in people of the Marxist-Leninist persuasion having critical support for nations fighting against imperialist aggression and recognizing their attempts at achieving socialism.

This is rooted in a belief among the ultra left that national liberation/socialism in one state is not feasible and that instead of through a revolutionary party of the masses, true socialism can only be achieved via an international self-organized proletarian revolt with no guiding body.

Their belief in an international proletarian revolt and the spontaneous achievement of communism exclude the transitionary period of a socialist state. For this reason, they attribute the concept of a one-party democratically centralized dictatorship of the proletariat as being equivalent to a fascist dictatorship of the bourgeoisie.

Within this viewpoint, those nations victimized by modern imperialism (such as Cuba, China, the DPRK, Laos, Vietnam, etc.) are in their mind no better than the aggressors themselves. This ideological structure is what spawns the left-wing concept of ‘authoritarianism.’

This ‘authoritarianism,’ contrary to what they profess, is not a bad thing. I feel as though that flawed perception is one of the USAmerican left’s biggest hurdles to move past.

Until a classless system is achieved, the core dynamic of society will always be the exertion of one class’s authority over another. The only variable is whether the class in power will be the elite minority or the working majority.

Don't know why this needs to be rehashed but "authoritarianism" does not exist as a meaningful political category or avenue of critique and saying "it's not actually anticommunist it's just anti-authoritarian" is literally the basis of "leftist" anticommunist mythmaking for like 100 years lol

#communist #communism #socialism #Marxism #Leninism #marxist leninist #marxism leninism #ml #authority #authoritarianism #class war #class warfare #dialectics #historical materialism #dialectical materialism

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Supreme Court refuses to hear case that allows states to ban mass protest

You can’t protest in Louisiana, Mississippi, or Texas anymore. And there will be more states to follow in their example.

You know what time it is?

#israeli genocide #free palestine #anti imperialism #apartheid #protest #resistance #rebellion

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White South African silences the family of Nelson Mandela for acting against genocide. That sounds about right.

You can take the apartheid out of South Africa but you can never take it out of a white South African

#united states #south africa #palestine #israel #zionism #colonialism #imperialism #racism #genocide #elon musk #twitter #x #apartheid #fuck elon musk #musk #elongated muskrat #tesla #boring company #spacex

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They'll feel bad about this in a few years. Someone will take a photo of a National Guard pig brutalizing a student and get a Pulitzer for it. They'll make a nice little memorial commemorating it. The next EDI hire president will be sure to thank the brave students of Columbia for their radical action years ago before sending in more pigs to deal with whatever is happening on campus then. They'll golf clap as whatever NGO leech who wants to claim credit for the encampment movement gets their next grant. All will be well.

#fuck capitalism #fuck imperialism #fuck the united states #fuck these private equity firms masquerading as universities #burn it all down #this country does not deserve to exist #and i'm sick of it being allowed to