UK Indymedia - Sheffield Newswire Archive

Photos: Sheffield Gaza Protest - 17th January 2009

There was another protest and march in Sheffield on Saturday 17th January 2009 in opposition to the ongoing massacre in Gaza.

No to Taxpayer guarantees of BAE Systems/ BA debt

According to Robert Peston many of Europes largest companies are approaching the time when they have to renew their loans. But banks and pension funds are reluctant to lend and so it would appear that the Government is preparing to offer guarantees on the debt to 350 of the UKs largest companies including BA and BAE Systems.

Inauguration Day: Ceasefire for Gaza at Menwith Hill

CALL FOR A CEASEFIRE IN GAZA: peace-building for the Palestinians and Israelis.

CAAB and York Palestinian Solidarity Committee are planning a gathering - at Menwith Hill at 1pm on TUESDAY 20 JANUARY, the day of the inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the US.

20 Parallels of Zionism with Nazism

http://underclassrising.net/ | 15-01-2009 13:38 | Sheffield | World

20 Parallels of Zionism with Nazism

Benefit for Gaza Protest against the massacres in Gaza:

http://underclassrising.net/ | 14-01-2009 14:42 | Smash EDO | Sheffield

We are calling on all our supporters to do what you can to protest against the massacres taking place in Gaza. See our events page for details of specific actions; including emergency protests.

Demonstrate against weapons company arming Israel-Mon 19th Jan

lily | 14-01-2009 14:23 | Sheffield

There will be a demonstration outside UAV Engines, of Lichfield, Staffordshire, on Monday 19th January, regarding evidence that has been revealed that the company is building engines that are used in Israel's military drones that are aiding the attacks on Gaza.

Plans for the new Sherwood Forest Visitor Centre

The public consultation for the new visitor centre has begun and ends 23rd Jan. This is a fantastic chance to make the new visitor centre a showcase for low impact sustainable design.
Please get involved and make sure your ideas get heard.

http://www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/home/leisure/countryparks/sherwoodforestcp/sherwoodvisitorcentre

IMEMC Special: White Phosphorus and its use in Gaza

White Phosphorus (P4) is a waxy fat soluble colorless or slightly yellow solid with a garlic smell that is not naturally occurring but is produced in the laboratory. It is highly reactive with oxygen (ignites spontaneously upon drying and exposure to air) producing compounds like P4O6 (phosphorus pentoxide) and P4O10 which upon contact with water becomes oxophosphoric acids (aslternatively direct reaction with water can lead to phosphoric acid HPO4 through some intermediate compounds)

DFEY-NW :: January 18th :: Digital Freedom in Education and Youth - North West

DFEY-NW (Digital Freedom in Education & Youth - North West) is a group focusing on young people and issues of freedom in the digital world, based in the Northwest of England at the moment.

An Eye For An Eyelash: The Gaza Massacre - Part 1

On March 24, 1999, an emotional Tony Blair appealed to the House of Commons and to the people of Britain:

"We must act to save thousands of innocent men, women and children from humanitarian catastrophe."

Stop Government Sound Lelel Restrictions in Live Entertainment Venues

THE NEW LABOUR GOVERNMENT WANTS TO STOP US ALL HAVING A GOOD TIME AS IF THINGS WERE NOT BAD ENOUGH

Photos: Sheffield Gaza Protest - 10th January

The following letter was posted on the very excellent

http://www.kabobfest.com/. Written in 1956, within a decade of the creation of the Israeli State, it provides a painful reminder of the fact that todays events are far from isolated incidents…

Gaza, January 9, 2009

Reports from Vittorio Arrigoni, in Gaza with Free Gaza/ISM. More reports (in Italian) on

http://guerrillaradio.iobloggo.com/

Israel is experimenting new non-conventional weapons in Gaza

PRESS RELEASE
Mounting evidence is emerging that Israel is experimenting new non-conventional weapons on civilian population in Gaza . "It is happening again what we saw in Lebanon two years ago", says Paola Manduca , genetics teacher and researcher at the University of Genoa and member of New Weapons Research Committee (NWRC), "where Israel used white phosphorus, Dense inert metal explosive (DIME), thermobaric bombs, cluster bombs and uranium ammunitions and experimented novel weapons and delivery modalities. Still today there are unexploded bombs and radioactivity on the ground".

Photos: Sheffield Gaza Protest - 10th January

Chris | 10-01-2009 18:57 | Palestine | Terror War | Sheffield

Protesters gathered outside Sheffield Town Hall on 10th January 2009 to oppose the slaughter in Gaza.

HOPI Meeting- Leeds- 12 Jan

Dave | 09-01-2009 12:15 | Sheffield

Hands Off the Peopleof Iran - Leeds.

Open invitation to discuss our activity over the next year.

Headingley Community Centre - 7.15 pm - Monday 12th January
(North Lane, near the library)

No new Coal in Leeds

Yanc | 08-01-2009 19:06 | Climate Chaos | Sheffield

Join the maarch against opencast mining in Leeds on Saturday.

The Transition Town Movement: embracing reality and resilience

Following is a review of The Transition Handbook written by Carolyn Baker. The first version of The Transition Handbook is available on paper, the second version is being developed through open revisions of the first version, see The Transition Handbook 2nd edition. Previous articles on the Transition Initiative on UK Indymedia include, Rob Hopkins on “The Rocky Road to a Real Transition”: A Review , Keith Parkins on Transition Towns and John Michael Greer: Transition Towns movement: Premature Triumphalism?.

The End of Capitalism? Not quite, but nearly....

The following article was originally published in Fourth World Review - A Transition Journal., see also this talk by Nafeez Ahmed, Food Crisis & Peak Oil (Audio).

Gaza Catastrophe: Resource Conflict? Natural Gas, Palestinian Elections, and Israel's Subversion of the 'Peace Process'

Israel claims it is fighting in Gaza to stop Hamas rocket-fire against Israel, the continuation of which constituted a flagrant breach of the six-months ceasefire. Hence, the objective of the military operation is limited by the aim of putting an end to the rocket-fire. In fact, the current outbreak of violence cannot be understood without analysing the asymmetries in military violence between the two parties; the structural dynamic of the conflict in the context of the character of the Israeli occupation; the central role of recent discoveries of substantial natural gas reserves in Gaza; and joint Anglo-American and Israeli attempts to monopolise the lucrative (and strategic) energy resources through a political process tied to a corrupt Palestinian Authority run by Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah Party. Hamas' unprecedented victory in democratic elections in 2006 fundamentally threatened these plans. Operation Cast Lead, the concurrent Israeli military venture, was operationalised as a war plan in early 2008, and already finalised in detail as far back as 2001 by Israeli military intelligence. Its execution in late December 2008 into January 2009 is designed to head-off not only domestic Israeli elections, but more significantly, the outcome of further incoming Palestinian democratic elections likely to consolidate Hamas' power, to permanently shift the balance of geopolitical and economic power in its favour. The long-term goal is the "cantonization" of the Occupied Territories making way for increased Israeli encroachment, and ultimately the escalation of Palestinian emigration.

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