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Taking photos of Police to be considered a crime..

http://underclassrising.net/ | 28-01-2009 09:25 | Policing | Repression | Sheffield

I joke not..

The relationship between photographers and police could worsen next month when new laws are introduced that allow for the arrest and imprisonment of anyone who takes pictures of officers 'likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism'.

May Day Solidarity Conference

Advance notice of a working conference on Saturday May 2nd on the theme of "Trade Unions for Asylum and Migrant Rights" in Barnsley, South Yorkshire.
Organising meeting 7pm this Thursday 29th Jan at UNISON office in Barnsley.

Obama: Regime Rotation

The arrival of the Obama administration will not fundamentally alter the course of military expansion accelerated during the Bush era. The origins of these policies do not lie uniquely in neoconservative ideology. While the election of President Obama may offer new opportunities for progressive forces to delimit the damage, their space for movement will ultimately be constrained by deep-seated structural pressures that will attempt to exploit Obama to rehabilitate American imperial hegemony, rather than transform it.

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ACTION AGAINST CLASSISM

http://underclassrising.net/ | 25-01-2009 10:35 | Sheffield

As reported on {1}Snookcocker the {2}Runnymede Trust have released the findings of a new study on classism in the UK. The paper, entitled ‘Who Cares About The White Working Class?’, the report states…

Photos: Sheffield March Against Israel's Attack on Gaza

Photos from the march from Ellesmere Green to Devonshire Green held on Saturday 24th January 2009 to protest against Israel's Attack on Gaza.

Public Demonstration Against Israel's Attack on Gaza.

http://underclassrising.net/ | 24-01-2009 14:05 | Sheffield

SATURDAY 24th JANUARY

Sheffield Gaza Protest Photos and Saturday Demo Details

Supporters of the Sheffield Palestine Solidarity Campaign leafleted people outside Sheffield's train station on the evening of 23rd January 2009. Tomorrow there is march from Ellesmere Green to town, details follow.

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Anarchy: What's really going on in Greece

Sheffield Anarchist Federation | 23-01-2009 21:14 | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | Sheffield

Public meeting hosted by Sheffield Anarchist Federation

Photos: Sheffield Gaza Protest - 23rd January

http://underclassrising.net/ | 23-01-2009 19:32 | Palestine | Social Struggles | Sheffield

Photos: Sheffield Gaza Protest - 10th January

Lloyds TSB blocks aid to Gaza

Outrage | 22-01-2009 10:51 | Palestine | Terror War | Sheffield

Lloyds TSB threatens Islamic Bank of Britain with withdrawal of its services as a clearing bank unless they agree to closure of Interpal's account. Chairman of LLoyds TSB, Sir Victor Blank, has some interesting interests! What you can do to protest.

Day of Solidarity with the Palestinians and the Greek Anarchists and Anti-Authoritarians

Julia Smedley | 21-01-2009 19:52 | Globalisation | Sheffield

An International Day of Solidarity is being called for January 23, 2009, for the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and the Greek Anarchists and other anti-authoritarian activists in Greece. There are many overlaps between these two struggles, and those similarities are explored below. The date of the demonstration is to also commemorate the anniversary of the Riots in the Warsaw Ghetto in Poland, during the period of Nazi Germany (1943), where 70,000 Jewish people took this city back, and held it for a long time before the Germans took over. The date and the atrocities exposed in this article are highly ironic, given that the Jewish people of Israeli have experienced a genocide of their own: the Holocaust.

Gaza: the nightmare goes on

Sheffield Palestine Solidarity Campaign | 21-01-2009 10:49 | Palestine | Sheffield

For the moment the bombing has stopped, although we hear that Israeli gunboats continue to shell from the sea and Israeli forces are able to recommence attacks at any moment they choose. The situation for all those inside the Gaza strip remains appalling; the siege has not been lifted and aid convoys continue to be impeded by Israel. More evidence of Israeli war crimes is being uncovered every hour and the response of our Government remains hopelessly inadequate. The lesson to Israel, from most of the world's governments, is that they continue to do whatever they like. Meanwhile there is a growing voice within Israel pleading to the world to support the Palestinian call for sanctions against Israel.

http://www.freegaza.org/en/home/658-a-call-from-within-signed-by-israeli-citizens

Audio: Two Sides, One Story - Cageprisoners National Tour - Sheffield

On Tuesday 20th of January 2009 the Cageprisoners "Two Sides, One Story -- Guantanamo From Boths Sides of the Wire Tour" -- a tour to mark seven years of unlawful detention, abuse and torture, came to Sheffield. Christopher Arendt (former Guantanamo guard, Iraq Veterans Against War,

http://ivaw.org ), Moazzam Begg (former Guantanamo prisoner, spokesperson for Cageprisoners,

http://cageprisoners.com/ ) and Omar Deghayes (former Guantanamo prisoner,

http://www.save-omar.org.uk/ ) were introduced by Jillian Creasy on behalf of the Sheffield Guantanamo Campaign. It was an outstanding and very moving event and the audio of the meeting is attached and some photos follow.

While Israeli children return to school, kids in Gaza sift through rubble to find bodies of friends

Israeli media reported Monday that Israeli children from the town of Sderot have returned to school and normalcy. Meanwhile, children in every part of the Gaza Strip are either bleeding in overcrowded hospitals or sifting through the rubble of what used to be their schools, mosques and homes.

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Israel in Gaza: Beyond Disproportionate

Marching amid the 50,000 protesters in London bearing witness against the Israeli offensive on Gaza, I spotted a hand-made placard inscribed with the words of the radical Brazilian educator Paolo Freire: “Washing one’s hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.”

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Why Israel won't survive

The merciless Israeli bombardment of Gaza has stopped -- for now -- but the death toll keeps rising as more bodies are pulled from carpet- bombed neighborhoods.

What Israel perpetrated in Gaza, starting at 11:30am on 27 December 2008, will remain forever engraved in history and memory. Tel al-Hawa, Hayy al-Zeitoun, Khuzaa and other sites of Israeli massacres will join a long mournful list that includes Deir Yasin, Qibya, Kufr Qasim, Sabra and Shatila, Qana, and Jenin.

Photos: Sheffield Gaza Protest - 17th January 2009

http://underclassrising.net/ | 19-01-2009 11:25 | Palestine | Terror War | Sheffield

The action was marred when a placard held by AWL supporters at the protest against the imperial genocide in Gaza in Sheffield on 17th January 2009, which read, "No To IDF No To Hamas" was taken down by the Chair of the Sheffield Palestine Solidarity Campaign.

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Sheffield: Row over "No To IDF No To Hamas" Placard

A placard held by Alliance for Workers Liberty (AWL) supporters at the protest against the imperial genocide in Gaza in Sheffield on 17th January 2009, which read, "No To IDF No To Hamas" was taken down by the Chair of the Sheffield Palestine Solidarity Campaign.

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