#people have been arrested for holding quaker meetings outside e.g. the arms fair at the excel centre | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

an-ruraiocht · 27 days ago

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"i can't believe this would happen in london" then you haven't been paying any fucking attention have you

"is britain learning the wrong lesson from the us" look i know you believe the us is the centre of every political event that has ever happened but the uk has been gradually criminalising more and more kinds of protest for years now all by itself cos in fact multiple places can be shit at the same time, both in different and in related ways

#i know too many people who've either been arrested or spent time ministering to those who have been arrested at protests #in the last few years to be surprised at this point. though actually going into the meeting house is a new low #ministering ? is that the right word ?? i don't know.#when you go and do pastoral support at police stations for your protest buddies who got arrested #that thing #polaitiocht #also while entering quaker meeting houses hasn't happened in recent decades #people have been arrested for holding quaker meetings outside e.g. the arms fair at the excel centre #sitting quietly is very threatening if you do it politically enough apparently

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