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The Croydon Divest coalition this week challenged Croydon councils investments in arms companies guilty of genocide in Gaza, by tabling a question at the full meeting of Croydon council.
This week the Resistance Kitchen wrote to the chair of Croydon Council Pension Committee urging the council to divest from arms companies and those complicity in genocide and apartheid in Palestine.
On Tuesday 18th March the Resistance Kitchen joined other local community groups to protest outside Croydon town hall demanding Croydon council divest from the arms trade and genocide.
Since joining the campaign to boycott Israeli dates, the Resistance Kitchen has received several queries as to why boycotting Israeli dates is so complicated. Why can't we just have a list of brands to boycott like with other products. Why can't we just check the label? There are several reasons for this, here we look at just one of them - false labelling.
As we mark 186 days that the Filton 18 have been unjustly imprisoned without trial for trying to stop genocide, the Resistance Kitchen is proud to work with the Islamic Human Rights Commission and Inminds Human Rights Group in joining the campaign to boycott Israeli dates this Ramadan.
Today the Resistance Kitchen joined Migrants Organise and Reclaim Croydon outside the new Home Office building in Ruskin Square in Croydon as part of the campaign to Abolish Reporting for migrants.
As we marked 172 days that the #Filton18 have been unjustly imprisoned for trying to stop genocide, they have had to endure a particularly cruel week with the new management at HMP Bronzefield cancelling around half of all visits to the Filton 18 detainees with no explanation, often last minute. Other prisoners have not been targeted.
Today the Resistance Kitchen wrote to Jonathan Hall, the Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation and invited him to meet Filton 18 detainee Fatema Zainab in HMP Bronzefield so he can understand first hand the impact the abuse of counter terrorism powers has on ordinary lives.
Palestine Action coordinated a phone in requesting people to all phone the prison on the same day politely demanding Fatema Zainab's right to mail be respected. It was very effective and for the first time new mail is trickling in to her.
Yesterday, on 9th January, in the early hours two Mosques in Croydon were attacked with racist Islamophobic graffiti.
The London Police Ethics Panel has indicated that they will consider our report on the Mets deployment of live facial recognition surveillance in Croydon as part of their five year review of Metropolitan Police use of live facial recognition in London. Our report documents systemic racism in how the technology is used by the Met and also bias in the technology against people of colour.
On 21st December, the week before Christmas, the Resistance Kitchen marked 137 days that the #Filton10 have been unjustly caged without trial, simply for opposing genocide, by trying to stop the flow of arms from Israel's arms facilities in the UK to fuel genocide in Gaza. The week began with a second protest outside HMP Bronzefield where most of the #Filton18 women are imprisoned.