UK Indymedia - Sheffield Newswire Archive

New hunt sabbing season

Sheffield Hunt Saboteurs | 12-08-2010 13:19 | Animal Liberation | Sheffield

Support Sheffield Hunt Sabotuers as new season of hunt sabotage begins

Shell disrupted - Beat the Boreholes continues

Yesterday at about 2.30pm Shell began to lower "Jack - 1" - one of two survey barges currently in Sruth Fhada Chonn estuary SAC (Special Area of Protection) - in order to tug it to another part of the estuary.

The Rossport Solidarity Camp was ready and willing to claim free passage of the public estuary and in the process upset the operation. Over a dozen Shell security boats and two Garda RIBS couldn't keep the 6 kaykers out, with two of them reaching the moving barge after an hour and a half of chase.

D*I Radio is 3! Download the show here...

dissident chickpea | 07-08-2010 14:22 | Birmingham | Sheffield

Check out the 3rd birthday show from London-based DIY radio crew, Dissident Island...

UG#511 - The Deadly Game of Nation States

Robin Upton | 07-08-2010 08:18 | Anti-militarism | Sheffield

Starting from the recent statement by Nick Clegg that the Iraq War is illegal, this week's show looks at the business of war both for the state and its paid protagonists, adapting a pair of anti-war films by Gwynne Dyer.

"Resisters to the coming cuts are 'Terrorists' says Rotherham Council CEO"

Zoltan K. Thompson | 06-08-2010 12:58 | Social Struggles | Sheffield

Anyone who might think the coming cuts are a tad unfair and is considering opposing the cuts is a TERRORIST according to Martin Kimber CEO of Rotherham Council.

Dissident Island Radio turns 3! Tune in to another jam-packed show tonight...

dissident island | 06-08-2010 10:17 | Birmingham | Sheffield

Raise a toast and celebrate three years of radical radio with Dissident Island...

Statement on the disassociation of Sam (Sheffield group) 5/8/10.

Anarchist Federation (UK) | 05-08-2010 16:34 | Sheffield

Sam of Sheffield Group has been disassociated from the Anarchist Federation due to a pattern of serious sexual misconduct.

English Defence League [EDL] pre Bradford meet & party Sat 7th August in Seaham

The English Defence League are an Islamophobic and racist organisation whose leadership and foot soldiers have links to the BNP, Combat 18, Blood and Honour, White Pride, English Shieldwall, English Nationalist Alliance and UKIP. The EDL have rioted in Stoke, Luton, Bolton, Dudley etc. They have been photographed and filmed giving Nazi salutes and with swastika flags. They are planning yet another riot in Bradford on the 28th August described by them as "the big one" [partly because the UAF have stirred it up as the "big one"]. This Saturday 7th August the EDL or "North East Infidels" are meeting at the Red Star Seaham for a pre Bradford meeting & an EDL party.

Shell drilling stopped for 5 hours – as Beat the Boreholes continues

Yesterday morning 11 people from Rossport Solidarity Camp waded and kayaked out from the camp to again delay Shell’s survey work in Sruwaddacon Estuary. Overall drilling work was stopped for over 5 hours, with one person climbing up one of the legs of the drilling platforms. Several people also attached themselves to the 2 outer drilling poles which are under the platforms.

Smash Edo: 18/01/10 remember gaza demo arrestee needs help

please help to sue the police for their aggressive and fascistic response to a bystander at the remember gaza action in brighton january 18th just gone...

Protesters say 1m Truck Jounney's across SAC Site puts Site at rsk

A new Breifing nNte from the Minorca Opencast Protest Group explains why they argue that planning permission for a new opencast mine on the Minorca Site should be refused because of the risk to The River Mease Special Area of Conservation

BBC 1 Countryfile Investigates Opencast Mining

This press release contains news that John Craven and a Counrtyfile team visited the area on 3/8/10 to investigate issues around opencast mining after choosing the Minorca application as a case example.

Oil Exec Promises over Notts Oil Find

A notts based, canadian oil company, Newton Energy, has said it wants to rip up some ground and start drilling and testing and various other crap in the nottingham countryside...He has actually published his number and title, so maybe a few phone calls from concerned residents telling him to shove it where it dont shine?

Unwelcome Guests #510 - The Race Towards Global Consciousness

Hitting Rock Bottom & Realising The Reunion

This week's show includes three speakers' exciting vision of a single, global, interconnected human family. We start with Jeremy Rifkin's uplifting conclusion of last week's Empathic Civilization talk, before an interview with Charles Eisenstein and concluding with a similarly uplifting call to change the human narrative by David Korten.

J B Spray Squat, Court Hearing Mon. Aug 2nd, CALL FOR RESISTANCE TO EVICTION!

The J B Spray squat, in Radford, Nottingham, is facing another court hearing tomorrow in front of Nottingham Magistrates, and so is calling for support, in terms of people joining the squats efforst to resist any attemots at eviction by the bailiffs or the state...PLEASE COME AND JOIN THE RESISTANCE!
CANT GO, WONT GO!

Planned EDL Counter Protest in Bradford fails to raise eyebrows

Later this month English Defence League supporters hope to parade their hatred through the streets of Bradford but there is a massive campaign underway to legally stop them. But if the EDL do end up coming, should we really allow a counter protest?

The Need for a 500m Buffer Zone around future Opencast Sites

This article provides a link to the 1st article Andrew Bridgen MP has published in support of his arguments for a 500m Buffer Zone around future opencast sites in England

Manchester Antifascist Alliance (MAFA) news, events and actions.

MAFA continues the fight against fascism through the summer and beyond.

Pentagon retaliates against WikiLeaks, Pvt. Manning

In response to the WikiLeaks posting of tens of thousands of secret documents on the Afghanistan war, the Pentagon has launched a manhunt within the military and called in the FBI for possible prosecution of the actual whistleblower who supplied the evidence of US atrocities.

The Afghanistan documents and the struggle against war

The public release of the 92,000 secret documents on the Afghanistan war by WikiLeaks, together with the reaction of the media and the official establishment, has immense political implications for the antiwar struggle in the US and internationally.

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