UK Indymedia - Sheffield History Newswire Archive

Close Newcastle Animal Lab National March

On May 26th UK activists will converge in Newcastle to march against Animal murderers at Newcastle university.

22 thousand animals are tested upon every year and Newcastle university is one of the last remaining universities to perform testing on primates.

Its time to say NO to animal testing.

Noam Chomsky on America's Declining Empire, #Occupy and the Arab Spring

Last year, the Occupy Movement rose up spontaneously in cities and towns across the country, radically shifted the discourse and rattled the economic elite with its defiant populism. It was, according to Noam Chomsky, “the first major public response to thirty years of class war.” In his new book, Occupy

https://www.alternet.org/alternetbooks/28/occupy/ , Chomsky looks at the central issues, questions and demands that are driving ordinary people to protest. How did we get to this point? How are the wealthiest 1 percent influencing the lives of the other 99 percent? How can we separate money from politics? What would a genuinely democratic election look like?

Obama Justice Department indicts ex-CIA agent for exposing torture

Thursday’s indictment of John Kiriakou for exposing CIA torture of detainees confirms yet again that the Obama administration is continuing and deepening the crimes carried out by the Bush White House. Kiriakou, a CIA agent for 14 years, is being prosecuted for speaking to two journalists about the waterboarding of Abu Zubaydah.

UG#578 - Disconnecting the Dots (9-11 Commission and theToronto Hearings)

Our first hour this week is a presentation by Peter Dale Scott on the events leading up to Sep 11th, focusing on the individuals within the CIA and FBI. In our second hour, we hear Phillip Shenon on the hidden history of the 911 commission. We conclude with another reading from David Graeber's Debt, The First 5000 Years.

UG#579 - Financial Consolidation (Wars for Profit and More on Primordial Debt)

This week we continue our detailed look at money and debt. In our first hour, Edward Griffin speaks on the history of banking in USA. In our second hour, we conclude last week's reading of Primordial Debt, chapter 3 of David Graeber's Debt, The First 5000 Years.

UG#581 - Unmasking the Genocide of Business As Usual (The Hidden Worlds of Comm

The show this week unmasks the moral pretensions of globalized imperialism run amok. Professor Anthony J. Hall speaks on the coming home to roost of USA's history of imperialism and globalization through force of arms. In our second hour, we begin reading A Brief Treatise on the Moral Grounds of Economic Relations, the next chapter of David Graeber's Debt, The First 5000 Years, on how the mentality and language of 'exchange' is used both to cloak such predatory hierarchical relations and to obscure our innate drive towards communistic relationships of mutual aid.

Review Of Leeds Antifascist Film Festival

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/

The Invention of Ancient Israel, the Silencing of Palestinian History

Chris | 09-02-2012 00:24 | History | Palestine | Sheffield

On 8th Feburary 2012, Professor Keith Whitelam addressed a packed room at the Friends Meeting House in Sheffield, on the subject of "The Invention of Ancient Israel, the Silencing of Palestinian History", the meeting was organised by the Sheffield Palestine Solidarity Campaign.

No Pasaran! Leeds Antifascist Film Festival A Storming Success

A report on last weekend's film festival.

Crashing Through Capital: An Introduction to Economics

The Space Project presents a course in economics in Leeds.

Remembering Auschwitz

Chris @sheffindymedia | 05-02-2012 00:08 | Anti-racism | History | Sheffield

A talk from the Leeds Antifascist Film Festival held on 4th Feburary 2012 in Leeds.

This Weekend - Leeds Antifascist Film Festival!

Only a few days to go until No Pasaran! - Leeds Antifascist Film Festival. It'll be a great weekend with films, talks, food, books, a quiz, raffle, even some comedy! Get yourself along!

Cooperatives, Credit Unions and Experience of a Social Care Coop

On Saturday 21st January 2012 John Halsted spoke at a session on Cooperatives, Credit Unions and Experience of a Social Care Coop at the 3rd National Occupy Conference in the Citadel of Hope in Sheffield.

Search for audience members from re-enactment to attend unique film screening

My research is trying to find out what art works like Jeremy Deller's 'The Battle of Orgreave' - mean to the people who were directly affected by the events portrayed and I would very much like to reach them to invite them to the free screening on 28 Jan in Leeds.