UK Indymedia - Sheffield Newswire Archive

Tesco(poly) comes to Mottram

Lewin | 02-01-2008 14:39 | Sheffield

Tesco have been invited to build a store in Mottram, near Hattersley, part of Tameside. The local authority and the Highways Agency (HA) have asked them to delay planning permission until after Easter 2008, a time period which exactly matches that for a delay requested by the HA into the Public Inquiry for the Longdendale Bypass.

Northern Anti-Racist March calls for support on 19th January

Tyneside Community Action for Refugees | 30-12-2007 14:53 | Anti-racism | Migration | Sheffield

Tyneside Community Action for Refugees (TCAR) would like to invite all local and national anti-racist groups and organisations to support our march against racism on 19th January (information below).
Stop Criminalising Immigrants! Freedom to Work! Freedom to Stay!

Rockwood Harriers Cancel Last Meet of the Year

Leeds Hunt Sabs | 29-12-2007 02:11 | Animal Liberation | Sheffield

THE ROCKWOOD HARRIERS HAVE CANCELLED THEIR LAST MEET OF '07

York & Ainsty South Hunt Sabbed - Hunt Slash Tires Following Sab Success

York Hunt Saboteurs Group | 27-12-2007 00:19 | Animal Liberation | Sheffield

SABOTEURS FROM THE YORK HUNT SABS GROUP TODAY MONITORED THE YORK AND AINSTY SOUTH HUNT, SAVING LIVES AND CONFRONTING THEIR ILLEGAL ACTIONS

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How do Community Gardens and Agriculture adapt to Peak Oil and Climate Change

Transition Town | 23-12-2007 15:31 | Climate Chaos | Sheffield

Peak oil will present many different challenges in the coming years but will also offer several opportunities for local growers. A need for localised markets will make community gardens a vital part of the city economy but will we be able to cope with our new found demand.

Dignity Not Detention: Emergency Protest

Demonstrate: Saturday 22nd December 1pm outside Sheffield Town Hall

Eid Charity Comedy Event 2/1/2008 Sheffield USIC

Hamza Abdullah | 20-12-2007 13:20 | Health | Sheffield

United Colours of Islam presents:

Jeff Mirza
Mustaqim Sahir
The Sound of Reason
Prince Abdi
Ahmed & Suhalia

A celebration of Eid.

Hamza Abdullah | 20-12-2007 12:54 | Other Press | Sheffield

Islamic Comedy 'Baba Ali os' YouTube fame.

Save the Woodhead Tunnel//Climate Change demonstration

Save the Woodhead Tunnel | 20-12-2007 11:41 | Climate Chaos | Ecology | Sheffield

Save the Woodhead Tunnel have organised a demonstration to further our campaign.
DATE: Saturday, 12th January 2008
TIME: 1.00 p.m. until 3.00 p.m.
PLACE: Woodhead tunnel, Western entrance (map link below)
Speakers (to be confirmed) plus Samba bands. All we need now is clement weather!

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UK students and education workers support jailed Iranian students

Please add your or your organisation's name to this statement; it will be translated and sent to activists in Iran. Email your name to Daniel at

skillz_999@hotmail.com

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Fossil Fools Day, April 1st 2008

Rising Tide International is calling for a day of action against the fossil fuel industry on April 1st 2008...

FOSSIL FOOLS DAY!

Menwith Hill - Illegal and Indecent Surveillance are Routine

Old Jinglebollocks | 16-12-2007 23:43 | Analysis | Social Struggles | Sheffield

If you shout too loudly about sensitive issues, The Boys up at Menwith Hill may make their presence felt in your life.

International Anarchist Conspiracy Communique # 4

International Anarchist Conspiracy (IAC) | 14-12-2007 23:34 | Culture | Social Struggles | Sheffield

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Peter Power doorstepped by We Are Change

dh | 14-12-2007 23:14 | Terror War | Sheffield

Peter Power, organiser of the 7/7 exercise which posited the'precise same bombs in the precise same tube stations' gets buttonholed by campaigners and does a runner.

Beyond The Point Of No Return -- It's Too Late To Stop Climate Change

As the pace of global warming kicks into overdrive, the hollow optimism of climate activists, along with the desperate responses of some of the world's most prominent climate scientists, is preventing us from focusing on the survival requirements of the human enterprise.

The environmental establishment continues to peddle the notion that we can solve the climate problem.

We can't.

We have failed to meet nature's deadline. In the next few years, this world will experience progressively more ominous and destabilizing changes. These will happen either incrementally -- or in sudden, abrupt jumps.

Under either scenario, it seems inevitable that we will soon be confronted by water shortages, crop failures, increasing damages from extreme weather events, collapsing infrastructures, and, potentially, breakdowns in the democratic process itself.

Lecture on aerial warfare invaded

Sheffield University invited Air Marshal Stuart Peach (CBE) to give a lecture on aerial warfare, a group of around 12 activists disrupted it in protest.

Blunkett told: 'You're a fucking greedy bastard'

Blade supporter | 13-12-2007 14:15 | Sheffield

Blunkett's finances exposed at public meeting

Growing Food When The Oil Runs out

Peter Goodchild | 13-12-2007 12:43 | Ecology | Sheffield

Most people in modern industrial society get their food mainly from supermarkets. As a result of declining hydrocarbon resources, however, it is unlikely that such food will always be available. The present world population is nearly 7 billion, but food supplies per capita have been shrinking for years. Food production will have to become more localized, and it will be necessary to reconsider less-advanced forms of technology that might be called "subsistence gardening."

Public Meeting: How Safe is Sudan? The Case for Asylum

The saga of Gillian Gibbons and the teddy bear showed how dangerous the Sudanese Government/military/judiciary can be. Darfuri asylum seekers in the UK are in real danger from the Home Office and the Sudanese Government

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Moazzam Begg and Andy Worthington on Human Rights in The War on Terror

Moazzam Begg, Guantanamo Survivor and author of Enemy Combatant, Andy Worthington Journalist and Author of Guantanamo Files, a student from the Amnesty Society and Shazia Rashid from the Stop Islamophobia Society all spoke to a public meeting titled Human Rights in The War on Terror at Sheffield University on 10th December 2007.

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