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[00:00:00] force
[00:00:00] of and ever since then, ever since that action, when they went on
[00:00:04] the roof in May 2021, the locals go out, they
[00:00:08] maintain the disruption, they
[00:00:10] of maintain the protests outside that
[00:00:13] factory. so the
[00:00:17] British
[00:00:18] of government um cancelled the watchkeeper drone contract, which was
[00:00:22] worth two billion
[00:00:23] pounds.
[00:00:29] at the crater of... Western Civilization,
[00:00:31] of of US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio tells a familiar
[00:00:35] story: Persians as villains, Athenians as
[00:00:38] heroes, but is that history or just Washington's preferred
[00:00:42] vision? Persians plundered the temples,
[00:00:46] they burn the shrines, they raised the acropolis to the ground. Case
[00:00:50] closed, not so fast, history has habit of
[00:00:54] talking back.
[00:00:57] Alexander, he had great respect for the Persian. culture, a little
[00:01:01] inconvenient for narrative that reduces Persia to an army
[00:01:05] of of Barbarians and Oscar winning filmmaker Oliver Stone
[00:01:08] has message for those lecturing the world its past. I think
[00:01:12] westerners don't understand completely in Persia. I would
[00:01:15] suggest and Persia. I would suggest this book is is a
[00:01:19] in great place to
[00:01:20] start.
[00:01:25] Washington may think it can dictate the narrative, but history has
[00:01:29] outlasted. fires before, and it has a warning for those who think
[00:01:33] they can rewrite it. you cannot change history, you'll be defeated
[00:01:37] by the forces of history, which are inevitable, and americans seem to
[00:01:41] believe
[00:01:41] me that they can change that. this is insanity, this is
[00:01:45] of the, it defeats us
[00:01:45] of every
[00:01:45] time.
[00:01:52] me
[00:02:00] When you take action, there must be an internal
[00:02:03] coherence to your action, like
[00:02:07] stealing of statue
[00:02:08] of the state of Israel's first prime minister, or damaging
[00:02:12] picture, a cultural artifact
[00:02:14] of the British colonization of
[00:02:16] Palestine.
[00:02:23] Shortly after we started, we saw escalation in police tactics
[00:02:27] of against us, it was to stop us from speaking. out, it was to
[00:02:31] stop us from acting, it was to stop palestine action from growing. The
[00:02:35] way that the
[00:02:36] me Palestinian cause was pleased, the way that direct action for Palestine
[00:02:40] was policed, was a holy different level. To
[00:02:43] be
[00:02:44] of grown to the floor by
[00:02:45] of police, in violently arrested, showed to
[00:02:49] me exactly what the state thought about
[00:02:52] Palestine.
[00:02:58] I think that's that was one
[00:02:59] of the main. things that led me to take action, woman called
[00:03:03] Mariam
[00:03:06] afifi,
[00:03:10] i watched her being put in handcuffs and she was smiling at the camera and that was that was
[00:03:14] inspiring for me, i think that was one one
[00:03:16] of the big um one
[00:03:18] of the big reasons why i felt like taking action in
[00:03:22] birmingham
[00:03:28] so he hit uh fac'. in Birmingham
[00:03:32] the company was arconic and um
[00:03:35] they uh there are
[00:03:39] of aluminum rolling mill they they're
[00:03:43] controversial for more than one thing
[00:03:45] they um
[00:03:48] make uh parts for the f35 fire
[00:03:51] jet but then there's also um grenfall
[00:03:58] me tower on
[00:04:02] the uh 14th of June
[00:04:04] 2017, fire spread across the
[00:04:08] building and because
[00:04:09] a of the iconic cladding it moved up,
[00:04:13] down and around the building and - killed
[00:04:16] 72 people. whilst the actions happening
[00:04:20] um, you know, it's it's
[00:04:24] fundamental to remember who you're doing it for
[00:04:27] of and who you stand by whilst doing it. I was, I was
[00:04:31] remembering
[00:04:31] you know stories of um, people
[00:04:35] from, from every floor in the Greenfall
[00:04:38] Tower. We wanted to show solidarity through
[00:04:42] actions, not just another statement, but by targeting the
[00:04:46] company which was both
[00:04:47] in responsible for the murder of people in Grenvel
[00:04:51] and in Palestine. The same
[00:04:54] company which disregarded human lives in Britain are the same
[00:04:58] ones who supplied. the materials for Israel's f35
[00:05:02] fighter jets used to massacre people in
[00:05:06] Palestine in Lebanon and across the Middle
[00:05:09] East.
[00:05:23] so the arms trade connects Britain to the ongoing genocide
[00:05:27] in multiple ways, uh, first of all, Britain is a part the
[00:05:30] F-35 program, which uh, which is the NATO program,
[00:05:34] supplying war planes to Israel, now over 15% of
[00:05:38] every single F30 fighter jet is produced in
[00:05:41] Britain. components made by UK-based arms
[00:05:45] factories.
[00:05:54] UK is in violation of number of its
[00:05:58] international obligations when it is uh
[00:06:02] when it's exporting weapons to Israel, including the duty to prevent
[00:06:05] genocide, the duty to cooperate towards ending the uh Israeli
[00:06:09] occupation of Palestine, the duty to protect the...
[00:06:13] so the directors of arms factories across Britain that have been
[00:06:17] targeted by Palestine Action have often tried to
[00:06:21] distance themselves and tried to distance themselves from kind of
[00:06:24] responsibility for where those arms are ending up
[00:06:28] classified based on hundreds of not thousands of
[00:06:31] cargo documents that we obtained is that there are various
[00:06:35] factories across the UK and many of which are
[00:06:38] either elbit or subsidiaries of elbit that they have been.
[00:06:42] porting to Israel amid the Gaza genocide, so
[00:06:46] what we've managed to do basically is to prove in real time which
[00:06:50] arms factories in the UK have been exporting to
[00:06:54] Israel and despite repeated denials on the part the directors
[00:06:58] the arms factories, is that on?
[00:07:02] so this we understand this to
[00:07:05] be the roof that gives us access to
[00:07:09] the clean room where they make...
[00:07:13] parts for the f35 f35
[00:07:17] clean
[00:07:18] uh f 35 fighter jets so we believe that
[00:07:22] if we can contaminate this room
[00:07:25] that we can put this
[00:07:29] factory i have action for up
[00:07:33] to 12 months it's
[00:07:35] fine whoa
[00:07:39] jesus oh my word 'there
[00:07:43] we go, as
[00:07:46] we saw the genocidal campaign escalate, so our
[00:07:50] actions needed to match that in terms of severity, people
[00:07:53] started to break inside factories
[00:07:56] regularly, you talodine
[00:07:59] alarms,
[00:08:05] more people were coming forward and saying i'm going to do it, and they were literally
[00:08:08] getting inside these factories and causing millions of pounds worth'.
[00:08:12] of damage clean room
[00:08:15] two
[00:08:26] someone up security
[00:08:29] security stay together stay
[00:08:32] together stay
[00:08:33] together.
[00:09:03] Ready, yeah, one, two, two,
[00:09:06] three,
[00:09:11] give a hand. Come
[00:09:14] on,
[00:09:21] let's
[00:09:21] go!
[00:09:58] Thank
[00:09:59] you,
[00:10:03] free power
[00:10:04] signs.
[00:10:13] Let's see what we
[00:10:15] have,
[00:10:20] someone finally got the alarm
[00:10:21] off.
[00:10:30] police are
[00:10:31] here,
[00:10:35] have you glued the
[00:10:36] doors?
[00:10:46] this is what happens when you work
[00:10:47] with.
[00:10:53] okay now. stick together guys, stick together
[00:10:57] guys, we stick
[00:10:58] together,
[00:11:03] please the
[00:11:03] head,
[00:11:11] you good, and
[00:11:11] sh,
[00:11:18] yeah, do
[00:11:20] it, we don't have
[00:11:24] to leave.
[00:11:33] Yeah, gives us time to fuck about in which case, check -
[00:11:37] no other
[00:11:37] entrance
[00:11:43] is going to
[00:11:43] just nice, nice,
[00:11:44] okay,
[00:11:49] yeah, yeah, yeah, got it, got it, got
[00:11:53] it, okay, Good, good, good, good, let's go for drives, smash up
[00:11:57] drives, you guys smash up drives, I'm going to bandage my
[00:12:00] hands,
[00:12:10] wow, beautiful,
[00:12:12] have look, it's actually a really nice morning, it's
[00:12:14] beautiful,
[00:12:22] yeah, we're just trying it open.
[00:12:25] Leonardo,
[00:12:28] yes, amazing. Let's see,
[00:12:32] Leonard.
[00:12:42] Fab, go,
[00:12:45] go.
[00:12:53] Thanks.
[00:13:18] Criminal damage to prevent a war crime is not a crime, when you put that
[00:13:22] before most juries in this country, they... you will see that for what it
[00:13:25] is, that these are people doing what they can within their means to
[00:13:29] try and prevent the greater
[00:13:31] harm,
[00:14:00] 'We were allowed by our judge to talk about Palestine and to talk about and to
[00:14:04] put in front the jury how drones are used to share export
[00:14:07] licenses from UAV tactical systems to
[00:14:09] Israel and it means that
[00:14:13] you get fair trial, when juries get to hear the whole
[00:14:17] truth like that, they generally speaking
[00:14:21] find people in Palestine action not guilty.'
[00:14:30] Shortly after the genocide esc. shortly after the genocide
[00:14:33] escalated in Gaza we saw the against Palestine
[00:14:37] action. Actionists were being raided
[00:14:40] every week if different homes were being searched across the country by the
[00:14:44] police. We knew at the start of Palestine
[00:14:48] action. The state would do everything possible to try and stop us
[00:14:52] before we drove Israel's weapons trade out.
[00:14:55] Britain and we weren't going to let them
[00:14:57] win.
[00:15:02] Through freedom of information requests, we've been able
[00:15:06] to establish as fact that there has been
[00:15:10] constant coordination and meeting over the
[00:15:13] years between Israel, Albert Systems, the British
[00:15:17] government. You then have the case of
[00:15:20] 2022, pretty potetel at that
[00:15:23] time as Homes.
[00:15:37] in the judicial process, but we have been in contact with the
[00:15:41] police about this. within a month of that
[00:15:44] meeting was the first conviction of a palestine
[00:15:47] action activist. next meeting that took
[00:15:50] place um between a British
[00:15:54] government minister and elbit systems
[00:15:58] also included somebody representing the crown
[00:16:01] prosecution service. now this is very likely
[00:16:05] to be violation of of 2.1
[00:16:09] the Crown Prosecutions Code of conduct,
[00:16:13] which says that they must behave an independent
[00:16:17] and impartial way, without political
[00:16:20] pressure. The fact that arms companies
[00:16:23] can and are able to go to the
[00:16:27] government and to lobby them directly to say
[00:16:30] impose hartia sentences on activists is in
[00:16:34] itself very telling of where we are.
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[00:17:24] Living in Gaza means you are forced to hear this sound every
[00:17:27] day, almost every
[00:17:29] hour.
[00:17:37] عند ما بدك تحس حالك بدك تنام بتحسها فوق
[00:17:40] راسك.
[00:17:46] i could tell you for sure that haven't talked to anyone in gazza or
[00:17:50] heard any recording in gazzah in the past year where i didn't
[00:17:54] consistently hear the voice of a drone at
[00:17:57] whatsoever any moment. the idf has been
[00:18:01] systematically using drones in its campaign in gaza
[00:18:04] the past 16 months. these... have been used to
[00:18:08] bomb civilians, israel and Israeli corporations are now marketing
[00:18:12] that as very effective uh, very effective ways
[00:18:16] of killing, they're emitting sounds such
[00:18:18] as of women or babies crying a kind of perverse attempt to
[00:18:22] law palestinians out their homes to tend to
[00:18:25] um
[00:18:26] the and using them to bomb them afterwards and using them to bomb them
[00:18:29] afterwards.
[00:18:46] so first of all we've had testimonies from uh doctors who were in the
[00:18:49] grounds who described direct bullets
[00:18:53] coming to children through these quadcopters, we've also heard
[00:18:57] accounts of pregnant women who were targeted by quadcopters
[00:19:01] and also targeting of journalists, so Israel is kind
[00:19:05] of at the cutting edge as well of... technology and
[00:19:09] by way of its experience of testing these different forms of
[00:19:12] drones um in Palestine in
[00:19:16] Palestine.
[00:19:40] What
[00:19:40] I think I found particularly disturbing was
[00:19:44] that um bomb would drop maybe on
[00:19:47] crowded tented area and then the drones
[00:19:51] would come down
[00:19:52] and
[00:19:56] please take your time, it's we're incredibly grateful that you're
[00:20:00] making the time to be here,
[00:20:02] so the drones would come down and pick off
[00:20:05] civilians children. and we
[00:20:08] had description after description, this is not you know an
[00:20:12] occasional thing, this was day after day after day operating on
[00:20:15] children, he would say i was lying on the ground after bomber
[00:20:19] dropped and this quadcopter came down and hovered over
[00:20:23] me,
[00:22:03] The Filton 18 undertook Philton 18
[00:22:07] undertook an unprecedented operation over million pounds
[00:22:11] worth of damage to that facility. I think it's important for
[00:22:15] us to understand that when
[00:22:19] we're told. Filton is a research center, it's
[00:22:23] absolutely not that. It homes, it
[00:22:26] hosts, killing machines. This is
[00:22:30] machinery that is created on UK soil, with UK
[00:22:34] state complicity and investment that is
[00:22:38] targeting and killing innocent children
[00:22:41] and civilians on mass a daily
[00:22:45] basis.
[00:22:56] Fatima zainab was arrested on the 6th
[00:22:59] of August, that's one day after she turned
[00:23:01] 20.
[00:23:11] Fatma Zainab has always been an advocate for social justice, I would say
[00:23:14] that's one of her most defining character, and when
[00:23:18] the when the genocide. It started in October 20 started
[00:23:22] in October 2023, it had a massive
[00:23:26] impact on her, as family all the
[00:23:30] national marches, the emergency protests and rallies, we would
[00:23:33] be in all them, and I think there came
[00:23:37] point where Fatma Zainab was getting really distressed and very
[00:23:41] helpless that you know were marching week and week
[00:23:44] out, the government's not listening, our voices are being
[00:23:48] unheard, um...
[00:23:50] and
[00:23:53] and that she needed to take action herself, do
[00:23:57] something more than just marching week in, week out, and it's an
[00:24:01] incredibly difficult time, because we're not only having to deal with the grief
[00:24:05] of um, witnessing a real-time genocide take
[00:24:09] place every single day, but top of that we're having to
[00:24:13] deal with the absence of our loved ones because they
[00:24:16] have tried to do something to stop that.
[00:24:20] We're all proud of her,
[00:24:21] you know, we're all proud of being where she is for for
[00:24:25] why she is in prison,
[00:24:26] you know, and and even you know when I visit
[00:24:30] her, I tell her you need to hold your head up high, because you, you know, you're
[00:24:34] not going to allow anyone to criminalize you, because you haven't done anything that
[00:24:38] you need to be ashamed
[00:24:39] of.
[00:24:56] now the police response to this action has been quite
[00:25:00] extraordinary. they've used counter terror legislation to detain and
[00:25:04] remand - many of those activists in
[00:25:07] prison and to the extent that they were moved from one site to another
[00:25:11] site without anybody who knows them being made aware that they had been moved. they were
[00:25:15] effectively rendered incommunicado from the rest the world. you have
[00:25:18] seen..." people detained on
[00:25:22] remand for a long time, but initially under counter terrorism legislation,
[00:25:26] which meant there were numerous ways in which
[00:25:30] they could have more harsh
[00:25:34] um treatment justified supposedly
[00:25:37] a cell all day with the lights on, all night with the lights
[00:25:41] on, regular disruption, and with fatima zainab
[00:25:45] I couldn't see her until three weeks into her arrest, the the
[00:25:49] government had has abused
[00:25:52] the the use of counter terror powers to arrest
[00:25:55] the the philton group to interrogate them day
[00:25:59] and night um
[00:26:01] and then because the the terror connection that they're now
[00:26:05] labeled with, the the consequences in
[00:26:09] prison on remand have been horrific for
[00:26:12] all them. it is safe to say that the worst legal framework to
[00:26:16] use in such case is the terrorism framework. the terrorism
[00:26:20] discourse has been heavily critiqued by justice
[00:26:23] theoris, by human rights lawyers, by being a way to
[00:26:27] evade the rule of law and creating an otherwise
[00:26:31] called. space outside the law into
[00:26:35] whatever annoys the
[00:26:37] government.
[00:26:47] The state realized that imprisoning people had failed to stop
[00:26:51] the movement. They realized that rating people's homes has failed to stop the
[00:26:55] movement. This was the first time we had seen
[00:26:59] the state try and say that these actions could... mount
[00:27:02] terrorism, despite being arrested under the terrorism
[00:27:06] act, none them were charged with terrorism
[00:27:09] offenses, but the counter terrorism police continue to
[00:27:13] lead on this investigation.
[00:27:17] the police have sought escalate the
[00:27:20] repression and use counter-terrorism legislation to
[00:27:24] try and suppress Palestine action. but what we've
[00:27:28] seen is that people wanting to join and get
[00:27:31] involved. has risen as
[00:27:35] the repression has
[00:27:36] risen,
[00:27:43] they calling a terrorist like they don't
[00:27:46] know who the terror is when they put it on me tell them
[00:27:50] this i'm all about peace and love peace and love but
[00:27:54] they're calling a terrorist like they don't know who the
[00:27:58] terror is insulting my
[00:28:00] intelligence
[00:28:32] when they put it on me tell them this i'm all about peace and
[00:28:36] love peace and love but they're calling
[00:28:38] terrorist they the a like
[00:28:42] terror don't
[00:28:43] who
[00:28:43] is insulting my
[00:28:44] intelligence.
[00:29:04] Looks like we're finally done
[00:29:05] here, I wouldn't hold my breath
[00:29:09] just
[00:29:10] yet.
[00:29:59] Press TV headlines, Iran's security chief tells.
[00:30:02] STV that the US response to Terron's conditions
[00:30:06] freeopening the hormos straight is inadequate and contains
[00:30:09] ambiguities, it must be cleared. The IRGC Navy warns
[00:30:13] all vessels not to turn off their navigation systems during
[00:30:17] hormos transit, saying all ships doing this will be considered hostile and
[00:30:21] targeted. Hamas strongly condemns Israel's threat to assassinate the
[00:30:25] head of its political bureau stressing that the regime's threat amounts to
[00:30:28] organized state terrorism.