Richard Barnard

Two months from today, I will be on trial with @HudaAmmori and others, facing charges of conspiracy to commit criminal damage, burglary and blackmail. All for taking direct action to take down Israel's largest arms firm, Elbit Systems #ShutElbitDown

Palestine Actionists in Liecester, England, are getting ready for the siege on the local Israeli arms factory Elbit Systems from May 1. #ShutElbitDown

Protest is like begging the powers that be to a dig a well ,direct action is digging the well yourself and daring them to stop you. David Graebar. Use direct action let’s #ShutElbitDown in Leicester.

May is the 2 yr anniversary since @pal_action took over the roof for 6 days of the Elbit factory in Leicester that supplies Israelis with military equipment to kill Palestinians. We return on Monday to support the siege. 3pm on Monday, I’ll be performing + @Lowkey0nline Dabke etc

@Pal_action is showing the way! They forced Elbit to sell its facility in Oldham in the UK. Elbit is operating on the 2nd floor of the building shown below, located on the corner of Prospect St & Bishop Allen Dr in Cambridge, MA. Let's force Elbit out of our city! #ShutElbitDown

For folks outside of Massachusetts: Elbit Systems has 11 other (disclosed) facilities in the U.S. Find out where Elbit is operating near you, and plan an action to #ShutElbitDown in every town! elbitamerica.com/contact-us

.@Pal_action continue to take action to #ShutElbitDown. From Monday 1st May, Palestine Action will lay siege on an Israeli weapons factory in Leicester until they can shut the factory down. #StopArmingIsrael

Palestine Action activists scaled the trees behind Leicester's Israeli weapons factory. #ShutElbitDown

Palestine Action Occupy the Space Behind Leicester’s Israeli Drone Factory palestineaction.org/occupy-camp/

Will you look on and watch the most important anti-imperialist event this May, like the helpless police? Or will you get down on May 1st and force the 3rd site permanently shut down?

The UK-based Palestine Action says a siege it is vowing to impose on the Israeli weapons factory in Leicester starting May 1 will kick off with a performance from rapper Lowkey. #ShutElbitDown

Palestine Actionists are out on the streets of Leicester, the UK, calling on the local residents to join the siege of the local Israeli weapons factory starting next month. #ShutElbitDown

The @Pal_action siege of the Elbit factory in Leicester starting from 1st May is going to be the most significant anti-imperialist mass mobilisation in Britain since a million people marched against the Iraq War. Except this will probably be less people and it will actually work

Palestine Actionists in Bristol, England, drop a banner atop an overpass ahead of the siege on Israel’s arms factory in Leicester, scheduled for upcoming May. Actionists across the country are gearing up to #ShutElbitDown.

Reading @azadessa’s excellent Hostile Homelands. Much more to write but this was particularly important: “Whereas the PA was supposed to prepare for Palestinian statehood, it instead became a subcontractor and a party to the Israeli occupation, coordinating and collaborating with the Israeli state, punishing and imprisoning Palestinian dissent.”

Every successive UK government for the past century has played a part in the colonization of Palestine, says @HudaAmmori.

We wish all those celebrating around the world a Happy and Blessed Eid al-Fitr Next year in a #FreePalestine ❤️🇵🇸

"Potential for our data to be compromised" . @HudaAmmori on The Golden Valley Development, which is mentioned in the trade agreement between the UK and Israel

Since Elbit Systems has become a toxic brand due to @Pal_action activities, there is no mention of it in the recent UK-Israel trade agreement, says @HudaAmmori

"Israel uses the Palestinian people in Gaza as a testing ground for their weapons.." Palestine Action Co-Founder Huda Ammori speaking at a rally for Palestine outside Downing Street in London.

Join @Lowkey0nline & me at 6pm this evening to discuss getting Israeli arms company Elbit Systems out of the UK with @Pal_action