UK Indymedia - Sheffield Newswire Archive

White working class? Is that investigative journalism?

Most local and national journalism defaults to notions of an underclass of 'losers' without any analysis of how these 'losers' have been structurally excluded. The recent discovery of 'working class' and 'white' as a disadvantaged group is for purely cynical and sensationalist reasons.

Leeds street medic training, 28th-30th March

The UK Action Medics are running a 2 1/2 day street medic training in Leeds at the end of this month. This is a 20 hour course that will teach you the basics of general First Aid, as well as skills to deal with medical situations specific to direct action, such as dealing with chemical weapons and the police. The course will involve scenarios and hands-on practice and, although we cannot offer you any official accreditation, the 2 1/2 day training is the minimum standard for membership of the Action Medics, and will equip you for a wide range of situations, from hypothermia to baton wounds.

Do your part in the fight against fascism erm terrorism.

make the middle class history | 06-03-2008 08:18 | Sheffield | World

It has been mentioned Britain's love with extreme surveillance before (see this story

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23391081-details/George+Orwell%2C+Big+Brother+is+watching+your+house/article.do
), which turns every citizen into a would-be criminal. If you decide to spend your vacation in London, say, you'll find it next to impossible to miss the ubiquitous surveillance cameras, installed, as the story goes, to prevent crime (an almost unprovable and thus politically very useful assertion). And indeed the cameras are extremely useful to identify suspects in those very crimes they didn't deter in the first place.

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Sheffield Gaza Vigil Photos and Ilan Pappe Meeting Announcement

Chris | 04-03-2008 23:33 | Palestine | Sheffield | World

Following are some photos of the Sheffield Palestine Solidarity Campaign vigil for Gaza held outside Sheffield Town Hall on Saturday 1st March 2008.

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Camp for Climate Action to target Kingsnorth power station

Today it was announced that E.ON's Kingsnorth power station in Kent will be the site of this summer’s Camp for Climate Action, running from 4 th to 11th of August 2008.

Beyond Hope and Doom: Time for a Peak Oil Pep Talk

Awareness of Peak Oil, Climate Change, impending global economic implosion, topsoil depletion, biodiversity collapse, and the thousand other dire threats crashing down upon us at the dawn of the new millennium constitutes an enormous psychological burden, one so onerous that most people (and institutions) respond with a battery of psychological defenses-mostly versions of denial and distraction-in an effort to keep conscious awareness comfortably distanced from stark reality. I discuss this in "the Psychology of Peak Oil and Climate Change," chapter 7 of Peak Everything, where I conclude that the healthiest response to dire knowledge is to do something practical and constructive in response, preferably in collaboration with others, both because the worst can probably still be avoided and because engaged action makes us feel better.

Hunt Chaos in Derbyshire

Paul Timpson | 02-03-2008 20:20 | Animal Liberation | Sheffield

On Saturday the 1st March the High Peak Hunt meet at 11.30am at the Bulls Head Inn at Monyash, Derbyshire.

During the course of the next three hours the huntsman lost control of his pack on numerous occasions. This resulted in them causing chaos on the roads and in the fields around the area.

asbo squat - end of days

klunkin | 01-03-2008 13:35 | Social Struggles | Sheffield

asbo squat has been given notice to quit which expired on the 27th of feb
the squat is being stripped of its copper and goddies by the "brave resident/president"
its a fitting end to a hard worked and a sometimes loved project in the city of nottingham
to those who did
welldone

Flood Victims blockade Government Office in Leeds

Sam Nexter | 29-02-2008 15:21 | Climate Camp 2007 | Climate Chaos | Sheffield

Flood victims from Yorkshire and Humberside have taken up temporary residence outside the Government Office in Leeds to protest at its continued promotion of airport expansion. The "Climate Camp" style action used pop-up tents to set up camp and blockade the main entrance.

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A Climate Camp visits the Government Office in Leeds

Sam Nexter | 29-02-2008 09:44 | Climate Camp 2007 | Climate Chaos | Sheffield

Residents from flood stricken areas of Yorkshire and Humberside today blockaded the Government Office in Leeds to protest at its continued promotion of airport expansion. Inspired by last year’s camp for climate action at Heathrow, the protestors from Hull, South Yorkshire and the Calder Valley used pop-up tents to set up camp outside the main entrance.

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First ‘work or lose your home’, now addicts are told treatment or sanctions!

geezer | 27-02-2008 20:34 | Sheffield

just saw this on the the SWAN website, some good stuff there, worth a look

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nuclear BAE bomb storage facility at epicentre of "earthquake"

green syndicalist | 27-02-2008 03:16 | Sheffield

Best to close windows & avoid going to work until further confirmation is made
50 km (30 miles) S of Kingston upon Hull, England, UK
70 km (45 miles) NE of Nottingham,

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/eqinthenews/2008/us2008nyae/

http://www.public-interest.co.uk/qinetiq/
Royal Ordnance Faldingworth - nr Market Rasen, north of Lincoln,lincolnshire

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JSA Rights

The statistician | 26-02-2008 13:54 | Education | Liverpool | Sheffield

Here follows a brief analysis of statistics produced by DWP on sanctions imposed on JSA claimants. These confirm what most people already know- that if you appeal to the independent tribunal you will most probably win. And if everybody appeals the sanctions system will collapse.

Beeston meeting on 7/7 March 9th

dh | 25-02-2008 00:22 | Terror War | Sheffield

Speak out on the 7/7 events in the vilified homeland

Process and Form - the Indymedia Conference

Pancho Brigantes | 24-02-2008 23:21 | Analysis | Indymedia | Sheffield

A take on abstract activism in motion, living, breathing, and coming damn close to performing miracles.

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Climate Camp National gathering March 1st-2nd

Notts | 23-02-2008 22:45 | Climate Camp 2008 | Climate Camp 2007 | Sheffield

Next weekend Nottingham will host a national gathering of the Camp for Climate Action, a movement for a sustainable future beyond fossil fuel capitalism. The camp aims to incorporate constructive practical solutions with education and serious direct action to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.

Climate Code Red: the Case for a Sustainability Emergency

The Reality Report interviews Philip Sutton of the Greenleap Strategic Institute and coauthor of a new report called “Climate Code Red: the Case for a Sustainability Emergency.”

http://www.climatecodered.net/ The report reviews disturbing new data and scientific understanding of climate change, explains why existing institutions have failed to respond adequately to the problem, and outlines an appropriate response.

Sheffield Carbon Rationing / Reduction Action Group Meeting

Sheffield CRAG | 22-02-2008 19:39 | Climate Chaos | Sheffield

We are looking for people who live and/or work in the Sheffield area * who are interested in forming a Carbon Rationing / Reduction Action Group or CRAG. Public Meeting, Blue Moon cafe, 5.45 Thursday 13 March 2008

Tree Protest in Leeds Shows Who the Police Back

Save Our Trees | 22-02-2008 13:24 | Climate Chaos | Ecology | Sheffield

The gentrification of Leeds means that more and more urban woodlands and spaces are being sold off by the local council to build flats by corporate developers.

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The End of the Welfare State in the UK?

SWAN | 21-02-2008 13:01 | Sheffield

The assault on benefits and welfare which generations have fought for is relentless, SWAN have provided a briefing/commentary which people can use, there is also a parliamentary Early Day Motion by John McDonnell MP which is worth getting behind, write to your M.P to support it.

Early Day Motion
EDM 877

POVERTY IN THE UK
05.02.2008

McDonnell, John

That this House notes the recent comments by the Government's welfare reforms adviser, David Freud, about those on incapacity benefits, by the newly appointed Work and Pensions Secretary of State on the unemployed and those on incapacity benefits and by the new Housing Minister on eligibility for council housing; further notes two recent reports by the Institute for Fiscal Studies and by the Fuel Poverty Advisory Group, which respectively show the UK income inequality to be at its highest levels since the late 1940s and that fuel poverty targets will be missed, which follows the failure of the Government to meet child poverty targets; and therefore calls upon Government Ministers to concentrate on attacking poverty rather than attacking the poor.

http://edmi.parliament.uk/EDMi/EDMDe...53&SESSION=891

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