The next Lift The Ban action will take place at Trafalgar Square (relocated from Parliament Square) in London on October 4th at 1pm. Sign up here to make a commitment to standing with 1,500 others to demand the de-proscription of Palestine Action, and an end to UK complicity in genocide.

Please read the Action Briefing Document in full before committing to this action. There is a significant risk of arrest for those who take part. The action will only go ahead if 1,500 people make a commitment.

500+ people committed to action on August 9th, over 1,000 people committed in September - Defend Our Juries made clear our intention to continue to oppose this absurd ban until it is overturned. A Judicial Review is pending in November, but the Home Office can, and should, overturn this ban before that time.

This is a defining moment for peaceful protest in the United Kingdom. The proscribing of direct action groups as “terrorist organisations” is a major assault on democracy and everyone’s rights to freedom of expression. Since Yvette Cooper and the UK Government brought in the ban on Palestine Action in July record numbers of people have been arrested under the Terrorism Act, simply for opposing this absurd ban and for supporting a direct action group whose intention is to end UK complicity in genocide.

We will not comply with anti-democratic laws. We call on the UK Government to Lift The Ban on Palestine Action.

In unity, not uniformity, we join together.