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Indymedia Radio Activist Shot Dead in Kenya

Deep Dish | Waves of Change — 2012-02-22T22:18+02:00

Stephen Nyash was working with Koch FM, a station in Korogocho, a township near Nairobi.

New Leeds ABC T-shirts

Leeds Anarchist Black Cross — 2012-02-22T11:48+02:00

Look good and support a good cause.

Review Of Leeds Antifascist Film Festival

Tom Thumb — 2012-02-21T13:09+02:00

Freelance creative Georgia Halston reviews Leeds Antifascist Film Festival, which ran for the weekend of the 4th and 5th of February, for Culture Vulture,.
Read it in its original form (with pics) at:

http://theculturevulture.co.uk/blog/festivals/no-pasaran-leeds-antifascist-film-festival-%e2%80%93-franco-my-dear-i-don%e2%80%99t-give-a-damn-day-1/

and

http://theculturevulture.co.uk/blog/festivals/no-pasaran-leeds-antifascist-film-festival-%E2%80%93-franco-my-dear-i-don%E2%80%99t-give-a-damn-day-2/

New Social Centre in Sheffield: The Black Rose Centre

Sheffield Social Centre — 2012-02-19T23:10+02:00

The Black Rose Centre is a new social centre project at 268 Verdon Street, established by the Sheffield Social Centre Collective.

Brought to Justice? Rendition, torture, indefinite detention and death by drones

Audiophile — 2012-02-19T15:49+02:00

Audio excerpted from a 2.5 hour Free Speech Radio fundraising special on KFPA. If you can spare a dime to help keep this invaluable resource going, please visit their site for details of how to donate.

Contributors included Andy Worthington who spoke about how courts in DC have watered down the Habeus Corpus rights which the Supreme Court said detainees were entitled to. As a result the only detainees to leave Gitmo in the last 13 months have been in coffins, despite the fact that over half the detained have been cleared for release. Special mention of Shaker Amer, the last British resident still being helf.

UK-wide day of action against workfare – Saturday 3rd March

@boycottworkfare — 2012-02-18T22:49+02:00

In solidarity with Liverpool Uncut’s action against workfare on Saturday 3rd March, Boycott Workfare has called a national day of action against workfare. There’s already actions planned in Birmingham, Brighton, Bristol, Cardiff, London, Leeds, Sheffield and Tunbridge Wells (with Glasgow, Lincoln, Notts and others planning!). Why not visit your high street as well?

Queer - 24th-26th February 2012

Black Rose Art — 2012-02-17T18:54+02:00

QUEER: an exhibition of local artists' work in response to "LGBT History Month" and the first open event to be held at The Black Rose Centre, let's make it a good 'un!

Democracy or Plutocracy?

Emilio de Lima — 2012-02-16T19:50+02:00

3. The means of mass communication, financed by big banks and big business conglomerates,will continue stimulating more unrestrained and irresponsible consumption, until does not remain a standing tree and consequently we get into a insane cycle also, of wars for water.

UN 'Travesty': Resolutions Of Mass Destruction - Part 2

@medialens — 2012-02-16T12:28+02:00

Part one can be found here, part two follows.

ARCTIC EMERGENCY Global Threat

Alex Smith — 2012-02-16T04:52+02:00

Maybe we need a big burst of methane to get real climate action. Recent Russian expeditions to the Eastern Siberian coast find plumes of methane into the atmosphere. Is it worse than our own oil and coal pollution? I ask three top climate scientists: oceanographer Carlos Duarte, ice expert Peter Wadhams, and carbon-meister David Archer.

US navy prepared for war against Iran

Peter Symonds — 2012-02-14T17:44+02:00

The increasingly menacing character of US rhetoric toward Iran was underlined by the comments to the media on Sunday by Admiral Mark Fox, commander of the US 5th Fleet based at Bahrain in the Persian Gulf.

UN 'Travesty': Resolutions Of Mass Destruction

@medialens — 2012-02-14T15:54+02:00

It has been said that compassion is 'the only beauty that truly pleases' (Aryasura, The Marvelous Companion, Dharma Publishing, 1983, p.305). While beauty ordinarily provokes the fiery itch of desire or the sullen shadow of envy, compassion is cooling, blissful, inspiring awe and wonder. It implies an ability to stand outside our own needs as observers, to perceive the suffering of others as of equal or greater importance. But like all forms of beauty, compassion can be faked, exploited.

Calling All Sheffield Anarchists

Theft — 2012-02-14T11:00+02:00

Discussion on setting up a Sheffield Wide Class Struggle Anarchist Group

ISSE opposes extradition of UK student Richard O’Dwyer

Julie Hyland — 2012-02-13T17:07+02:00

On February 7, the International Students for Social Equality held a meeting on campus to oppose the deportation to the United States of Sheffield Hallam University student Richard O’Dwyer.

O’Dwyer is facing a maximum 10 years in prison on charges of copyright infringement. The meeting was addressed by Julie Hyland, assistant national secretary of the Socialist Equality Party and attended by a number of students and lecturers.

A second meeting will be held Tuesday, February 21, at 5:30 p.m., to continue the campaign in O’Dwyer’s defence.

Below we publish Hyland’s remarks.

What the Third National Occupy UK Conference Can Teach Us

Ragnhild Freng Dale — 2012-02-13T11:37+02:00

Occupy Sheffield hosted the third national Occupy UK Conference over the weekend 20-22 January. Around a hundred Occupiers from the north, south, east and west of Britain, plus visitors from Geneva and Australia, came together to share experiences and plan future strategies. The conference was, for many, a much needed fire-lighter, invigorating and inspiring. A place where passionate individuals, usually dispersed around the country, could find each other and create networks.