Sheffield Newswire Archive

A political economist and activist who directs the Centre for Civil Society at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban, South Africa, Patrick Bond was a featured guest speaker at the Green Left Weekly Social Change — Climate Change conference (  http://www.greenleft.org.au/conference.php ) held in Sydney in April.

Author of a range of books, including Climate Change, Carbon Trading and Civil Society, Looting Africa: The Economics of Exploitation, and Walk left, Talk Right: South Africa’s Frustrated Global Reforms, Bond is a long-time advocate for radical solutions to the climate and social catastrophe wraught by global capitalism.

Lauren Carroll Harris spoke to Bond at the conference about responses to climate change.

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The problems with dodgy landlords is a growing problem, but Nl won't do anything about it as the free market must rule, so in this area, we are worse off than tenants in the U.S!

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Food, music, fun and FIT, Menwith Hill, 4th July Independence from America Day

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This is the start of regular Lincolnshire demos against Novartis...

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The Peasants Revolt will be a Peaceful Protest of Individuals and Communities that will Represent the Voices of the UK Nomadic Cultures, the UK Homeless and the UK Communities and Individuals that Would Choose to Live a Lifestyle that is in Keeping with the Concept of Sustainable Development

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Get to the Climate Camp by coach: As well as making traveling easy, its also nice for people who are going alone to meet people on the way. We are sharing the coach with Leeds folk. Our bus to the camp is on Sunday 3rd, departing Sheffield at 11.30.

Our bus home again is on Sunday 10th, departs 3pm from the camp and we hope to have it arrive at around 8.30opm traffic permitting.

We are selling tickets for £15 single waged and £10 single unwaged. Please book your ticket as soon as possible, as we need to know numbers. Email  climatecamp2008@yahoo.co.uk and let us know if you want to come.

If the importance of Climate Camp hasn't struck home yet, read on! Please forward this to any groups or individuals who might be interested.

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Media Lens have felt the need to amend their 25th June alert, Selling the Fireball - George Bush and Iran following "repeated threats of legal and police action from Alastair Brett, legal manager of News International’s Times Newspapers on June 28 and July 2". This has now been picked up by The Guardian, in todays issue Peter Wilby has an article titled, publish and be damned. The original Media Lens report, before the amendments were made due to the legal threats can be read on this site and following is the message posted by the Media Lens Editors about the threats.

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This Thursday (the 10th of July: 10am to 7pm), at the home of Leeds United football ground, the infamous British manufacturers of torture equipment and weapons arrive in Leeds, hoping to recruit people to their unethical company, the largest arms producer in the UK who attract perpetual criticism for its sale of military equipment to oppressive regimes and human rights abusing dictatorships

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The first attempt to evict the occupiers of Bodge House on 30th June was a spectacular flop. The registered owner of the site is Harworth Mining International Limited. The outfit applying for a possession order are Harworth Estates (Agricultural Land -Trashing Of) Limited. OK, we added the "Trashing Of" bit to that otherwise bucolic title, but otherwise report what is alleged to be just a change of name yer honour. Their problem was they hadn't bothered to give the court any actual proof of this supposed change of name.

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Later today James Hansen will address the the United Nations University, slides attached, and he has also written a letter to Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda of Japan, also attached, which contains the following dire warning, which, of course won't be heeded -- "business as usual at any cost" appears to be the motto the worlds "leaders" and this is what they intend to follow even if it leads to planetary death.

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Today's news: Virgin Media are sending out letters advising people not to download content from peer-2-peer torrents.
Coming next: the G8 bring on the "Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement" (ACTA).
Could this be the end of the interwebs as we know it or the start of the real war on the G8?

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Report of a the recent speaking tour campaigning for the truth about collusion between British state agencies and Unionist death squads in the killing Irish citizens.

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The BNP's annual 'Red, White, & Blue Festival' is due to take place over the weekend of 15-17th of August. Antifa are determined to stop it taking place.

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Interesting article in the Independent today, "MI5: revealing areas at mercy of collapsing dams is a terror threat"  http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/mi5-revealing-areas-at-mercy-of-collapsing-dams-is-a-terror-threat-854325.html

Some extracts follow, basically if the damn had burst last year Sheffield would have had no electricity for "an indefinite period" and also the "main 42-inch gas main serving Sheffield" would have been taken out.

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NASA scientist James Hansen shakes up Capitol Hill (and the media) with explosive testimony to the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Climate Change. For one thing, he thinks oil industry executives who purposely (and secretly) fund groups to confuse the public about climate science – should be charged with crimes against humanity.

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The time has come for responsible people all over the world to get together to demand an end of the senseless war and furthermore demand an independent international investigation of the September 11 terror attacks.

The questions that are being asked all over the world need to be evaluated by independent experts.

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If a recent article in the New York Times is to be believed, the Bush regime are trying their damned hardest to get their mitts on the personal data of E.U. citizens. Ideally they want your secrets before Bush leaves office. That means your browsing habits and credit card records. The EFF are already onto it, are you?

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There was a good turn out and it didn't rain, it was good.

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Read the article Rising seas threaten west Antarctic, and it’s all but impossible to think, yet again, of all the chances to take serious, desperately needed action on CO2 emissions that we’ve thrown away over the last twenty years. What could trigger such a bout of depressing navel staring?

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Last week papers were served on the occupants at Bodge House to appear in Court on Monday 30th June at Derby Combined Courts, The Morledge Derby.

Come and show your support with a fun little protest at 9 am

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