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Lush launches product to resist UK government assault on justice system

Post author:Ed Sykes
Post published:2 July 2026
Post last modified:3 July 2026

Lush is no stranger to standing up for what’s right. And now, it has launched a new product to highlight the dangers of the “constitutional crisis taking place in our courts”. The company will donate “75% of the sale price (minus tax)” to Defend Our Juries, which it says has been working hard: defending our right to protest and to a fair trial. Defend Our Juries has been a vocal organiser against the Labour government’s highly controversial ban of Palestine Action. As Lush states on the web page for its new product: Defend Our Juries is a movement of people dedicated…

Netpol launches new report – ‘One Day in Edgware’

Post author:The Canary
Post published:29 June 2026
Post last modified:29 June 2026

29 June is the day that Section 164 of the Crime and Policing Act 2026, creating new restrictions on protests at places of worship, comes into force. On the same day, a new Netpol report examines the police response to violent attacks on an anti-Zionist protest against the ‘Great Israeli Real Estate Event’ that took place at a synagogue in Edgware on 14 June. Testimonies from Palestine solidarity campaigners and anti-Zionist Jewish activists, who mobilised to highlight how the event was openly promoting the sale of land in illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, describe how a violent Zionist…

New Internationalist launches £150k survival appeal

Post author:The Canary
Post published:5 June 2026
Post last modified:9 June 2026

Magazine the New Internationalist, facing the possibility of being forced to cease publication, has launched an appeal to raise £150,000 by 7 July. The independent, cooperatively owned magazine celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2023. The magazine said it was facing “the closest we have ever been to the lights going out for good,” explaining that costs have “soared” while readers are less able to pay. In addition, AI and algorithm changes have hit their website traffic, and that grants are “harder to come by” as funders have shifted priorities. It said: Our information sphere is being rebuilt by tech oligarchs and far-right…