Sheffield Newswire Archive

NUJ members and supporters of the Sheffield Palestine Solidarity Campaign held a vigil outside BBC Sheffield on 30th May 2007 to call for the immediate and unconditional release of the respected BBC journalist.

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whats happend

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schools plan animal slaughter.at mansfield

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Bradford University Students held a Super Strident Sleepover this thursday to prepare for the upcoming 'Students Against Trident' (Strident) event which is occuring late this june.

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Weds 30th May outside BBC Sheffield, 1pm

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Attached is a flyer for a public meeting organised by the Sheffield Guantánamo Campaign titled, "Voices from Guantánamo, How the War on Terror terrorises the innocent". The meeting is to be held on 7 June at the Quaker Meeting House in Sheffield. The full details follow, please print and distribute this flyer.

For background information please see the National Guantanamo Coalition,  http://www.guantanamo.org.uk/ Cageprisoners,  http://www.cageprisoners.com/ and Justice for Omar Deghayes,  http://www.save-omar.org.uk/

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Sheffield Food Not Bombs in solidarity with IWW

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Attached is an audio interview with John Pilger that was conducted by Flashpoints and broadcast on 17th May 2007.

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Nazdrove Benefit Night in aid of PEACE IN THE PARK

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Here is a copy of a press release sent widely to the mainstream media - for info and interest.

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Anthony's is the last restaurant in Leeds City-Centre selling foie gras, a 'delicacy' made from the force feeding of ducks and geese until their livers swell ten times the natural size. Foie gras is that cruel it is illegal to farm animals for its production in the UK, but it is still imported. Imagine the impact it would make on the catering industry if the UK's fastest growing city did not have a single place serving this disgusting and cruel dish. Please politely contact Anthony's Restaurant and help make foie gras history:

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Statement of John Bowden for the International Day of Solidarity in Defence of Himself and the ABC: Friday 25th May 2007

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Arwa Abu Haikal will be speaking in;
Manchester on Tues 22nd May at 7.30 and Sheffield on Thurs, 24th May at 7.30.

Arwa is in England for 3 weeks, speaking about the experience of her family living alongside an extremist Jewish settlement in the middle of the Palestinian town of Hebron.

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Flash Radio is a podcast from and about the G8 2007 in Heiligendamm Germany. Subscribe to our podcast about the actions against the G8 or listen to it online. From the 2nd June through till the 10th our 30 minute podcast will contain selected material recorded by our embedded citizen reporter teams.

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"We are at War
against International Terrorism,
defending our Values
and our Civilization."

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the rich get richer, the poor get poorer: PFI the corporate scandal

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On Thursday 24th May Anti-Trident protestors old and new, students and non-students will join togehter to enjoy an eveing of preparations and fun in Bradford.

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Dr. Steven Jones has published a new paper called "Revisiting 9/11/2001 --Applying the Scientific Method" at the Journal of 9/11 Studies, the introduction follows, download the attached PDF for the full article.

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As a taster for what the York Ride is about we have organised two showings of the 2005 film by Johnny Zapatos film _WORLD NAKE BIKE RIDE_. This is a short documentary about the 2005 London ride, narrated by Channel 4 newsreader and President of the Cyclists' Touring Club, Jon Snow.

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The current imperial slaughter in the Middle East, justified by the "Global War on Terror", that has resulted in at least 600,000 deaths in Iraq, is nothing new — the U.S. Empire has a long and sordid history of genocidal mass murder.

The history of the US imperialism and Empire is the subject of a series of ten monthly seminars from Dr John Marciano, "Empire as a Way of Life". Attached is a recording of the third of these seminars and the text upon which it was based. The first 8 of these seminars have taken place and the intention is to have the whole series published on this site; the last 2 will take place between now and June.

This seminar, recorded on 20th March 2007 by the L.A. Sound Posse, runs for 44 minutes and includes the discussion following. It has been made available under a Creative Commons license. If this recording is broadcast please let the L.A. Sound Posse know. This recording was originally made available on the A-Infos Radio Project site.

The following text has been reproduced here with the kind permission of Dr John Marciano and he can be contacted at johnmarciano@mac.com. He introduced this series of seminars in the following way:

A fundamental purpose of our meetings is to understand the systemic nature of the U.S. Empire and the economic and military imperialism that is its lifeblood. The historian William Appleman Williams argues that empire became "a way of life" in the U.S., a "combination of patterns of thought and action that, as it becomes habitual and institutionalized, defines the thrust and character of a culture and society." This "way of life" has convinced many U.S. "Americans" they have a right or "manifest destiny" to impose their political and economic policies upon others.

Dr John Marciano is Professor Emeritus, State University of New York at Cortland, where he taught courses on social and historical foundations of education and class, gender and race.

Previous parts of this series:

• Empire as a Way of Life, Part 1 | mp3 | doc
• Empire as a Way of Life, Part 2 | mp3 | doc
• Empire as a Way of Life, Part 3 | mp3 | doc
• Empire as a Way of Life, Part 4 | mp3 | doc
• Empire as a Way of Life, Part 5 | mp3 | doc
• Empire as a Way of Life, Part 6 | mp3 | doc

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