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BENEFIT CLAIMANTS ARE FACING MORE INTIMIDATION!

Note the following article on Sheffield Indymedia:

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/sheffield/2005/02/304633.html

The above article was the first time I've seen anything at all on this issue, there are many people here in Liverpool and elsewhere on social security benefits both in work and out of work, disabled, sick or retired. Many claimants have had the pressures put upon them, I for one have been getting letters pressuring me for months and months into accepting payment firstly into a Post Office (P.O.) card account.

Sheffield Social Forum open meeting report-back

Sheffield Social Forum had its first ‘open meeting’ of 2005 on 17th February. This is a report back by one of the organisers, and some reflections on the social forum movement in 2005. This is just one person’s local point of view.

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Is it M.E. or is it me?

Jane Horton | 31-01-2005 17:53 | Analysis | Health | Sheffield

For the last year I have been unwell, so unwell that I have stopped working and have to spend much of the day horizontal. This has been difficult to come to terms with. When I was a child I read the Beano, and fantasised about being Billy Whizz...

Join your local campaigners against Biometric identification, new ID card

Everyone knows about the danger: not the seemingly harmless bit of plastic in your wallet –but a massive and intrusive database that fundamentally changes the nature of UK Citizenship.

4 Homes Blunkett

Mark Barnsley | 28-01-2005 13:42 | Analysis | Repression | Sheffield

After my piece 'Shed No Tears For Blunkett' was published on Sheffield Indymedia, one of Blunkett's cronies, who happens to be the councillor for Blunkett's Sheffield Brightside constituency, came (alone) to his defence. This went along the lines of 'You're all middle-class, not like me and my good working-class pal David', and part of this ludicrous argument was the supposed low-cost of the houses they both own in Sheffield. What Blunkett's pal forgets to mention is that Blunkett doesn't just have 1 home, but 4! And either Peter Price has been playing down the value of Blunkett's Sheffield house - or Blunkett has been on the fiddle again!

The power of social forums: 3000 words on why we should fight for them

"Once the logic of power is adopted, the struggle against power is already lost… for what is at issue in the revolutionary transformation of the world is not /whose/ power but the very existence of power." [Holloway / Peláez]
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Throughout the ESF process, I kept on having this dark vision: the European Social Forum office in London as an encampment deep in the Congolese Jungle. Like the Heart of Darkness – Ken Livingstone a 21^st Century Kurtz. Picture him: lurking in shadow, brooding in the last rays of a blood red sunset, deep within his humid, plastic-plant-filled office. Picture him: at the end of a long, dark corridor lined with the heads of SWP members and GLA officials who displeased him…

Working Class Victim of the Rich: Blunket, apparently!

pasted from The Observer | 19-12-2004 13:43 | Analysis | Migration | Sheffield

Blunkett: I'm a working class victim of the rich

· Kimberly Quinn 'mesmerised' Budd inquiry
· Former Home Secretary faces 'climate of fear' claims rejected

Shed No Tears For Blunkett 1

In the wake of Blunkett’s overdue resignation a picture is being painted, with himself as the primary artist, of ‘an honourable man brought low by love’. The career of this vain, arrogant, conceited individual was not brought to an end because of Blunkett’s private life, something he has done his utmost to deny the rest of us, but because he is a liar and corrupt, neither of which are new.

Council wardens - council spies ?

Billy Badger | 26-11-2004 11:50 | Analysis | Indymedia | Sheffield

Sheffield City Council sent two wardens round to my flat last week (Low Edges). They wanted to use my kitchen to carry out "observations" on another tenant they suspected of "benefit fraud". I said no. Three days later I got a letter from the council saying they'd received complaints of my "loud" television. Which is strange, as I don't own one. But...on the day the wardens came ... I had a TV box (empty) on my kitchen table. Mmm...

3 STEPS

To initiate a war of aggression, therefore, is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.

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Song of Guantanamo Base

a poem/song aimed at becoming a collective song, anyone may contribute by adding another stanza anywhere in the poem, the only requirement being that it matches its rhythm, ie metrical and rhyming pattern.

Indymedia writing workshop - Tuesday 28, 6-8, The Drum: yay!

Dan | 23-09-2004 13:31 | Analysis | Sheffield

Yes, it's that time again! The next Indymedia writing workshop is coming up...
Tuesday 31st August
6pm
National Centre for Popular Music
Paternoster Row

Indymedia writing workshop: Tuesday 31st - 6pm - the Drum

Dan | 26-08-2004 17:53 | Analysis | Free Spaces | Sheffield

Yes, it's that time again! The next Indymedia writing workshop is coming up...

grownupgreen website is launched

grownupgreen is a new website aimed at communicating sustainability.

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Some more incineration facts

Dan | 19-08-2004 13:06 | Analysis | Ecology | Sheffield

Some facts on incineration - put together, we're left with the question: why the hell are we incinerating? It's madness!

Sheffield's regeneration: there is an alternative

Bernard Little (editted by Dan) | 09-08-2004 11:35 | Analysis | Ecology | Sheffield

A New Master Plan for Sheffield, called "Creative Sheffield", is being hailed as the way forward for the City by Labour, Lib Dem and Tory Councillors. Bernard Little argues that there is an alternative...

Local works - report of meeting

Dan | 23-04-2004 17:35 | Analysis | Sheffield

Local DOES work. That was the message from a meeting in St. Andrew’s Church Hall last night.

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National Anti-G8 Gathering of Dissent! Network, Next Weekend, Manchester

tigfk | 17-04-2004 13:42 | Analysis | Culture | Sheffield

Next weekend (24th-25th April, 2004) there's gonna be a national gathering of the Dissent! Network in Manchester. The Network, formed last autumn to co-ordinate radical resistance to the 2005 G8 Summit in the UK, and capitalism in general, is ope to all who subscribe to the Peoples' Global Action (PGA) Hallmarks (see: www.agp.org). If you want to attend the gathering PLEASE send confirmation to:

g8gathering@yahoo.co.uk saying when you're arriveing (Fri/Sat), how many people you are and if you require accommodation. PLEASE DO THIS ASAP!!!!

Social Forum Launch - a view from London

Dave Timms works for World Development Movement and is active in organising for both the London and European Social Forums. This was his report on the Sheffield Social Forum launch...

The Lantern Carnival: was it political?

steve | 31-03-2004 14:34 | Analysis | Culture | Sheffield

Description and analysis of the Sharrow Lantern Carnival

Sheffield Analysis Newswire Archive

BENEFIT CLAIMANTS ARE FACING MORE INTIMIDATION!

Sheffield Social Forum open meeting report-back

Is it M.E. or is it me?

Join your local campaigners against Biometric identification, new ID card

4 Homes Blunkett

The power of social forums: 3000 words on why we should fight for them

Working Class Victim of the Rich: Blunket, apparently!

Shed No Tears For Blunkett 1

Council wardens - council spies ?

3 STEPS

Song of Guantanamo Base

Indymedia writing workshop - Tuesday 28, 6-8, The Drum: yay!

Indymedia writing workshop: Tuesday 31st - 6pm - the Drum

grownupgreen website is launched

Some more incineration facts

Sheffield's regeneration: there is an alternative

Local works - report of meeting

National Anti-G8 Gathering of Dissent! Network, Next Weekend, Manchester

Social Forum Launch - a view from London

The Lantern Carnival: was it political?

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