UK Indymedia - Sheffield Newswire Archive

Dealing with trolling - may be of interest!

zarniwoop | 13-06-2011 16:47 | Indymedia | Other Press | Sheffield

Claire Hardaker at the University of Central Lancashire has conducted research into the practice of 'trolling' and come up with suggestions for dealing with internet 'trolls'....

Take the square!!! Take the streets!!! #Globalrevolution 19th June 2011

We are the outraged, the anonymous, the voiceless. We were there, silent but alert, watching. Not gazing upward at the powers that be, but looking from side to side for the right time to unite with each other.

Fight The Cuts: Public Meeting with John McDonnell MP

A public meeting on fighting the cuts, defending our pensions, benefits, services and communities. Speaker John McDonnell MP plus speakers from NUT, PCS and UCU. Organised by Sheffield Anti-Cuts Alliance and South Yorkshire LRC (Labour Representation Committee)

Thu 16 Jun 2011, 7pm Pennine Lecture Theatre, Sheffield Hallam University, Howard St. S1 1WB

British government: We wasted millions chasing wrong terrorist threats

British government's outrageous new "counter-terrorism" measures are receiving a public relations backlash because of their extreme, fascist overtones.

John Pilger writes on 'the extraordinary banning of my film on war and media'

Dear Noam

I am writing to you and a number of other friends mostly in the US to alert you to the extraordinary banning of my film on war and media, 'The War You Don't See', and the abrupt cancellation of a major event at the Lannan Foundation in Santa Fe in which David Barsamian and I were to discuss free speech, US foreign policy and censorship in the media.

World Premier Just Do It audio Q-A

The world premier of the direct action doc "Just Do It" A Tale of Modern Day Outlaws, played to a packed cinema at the Sheffield Doc Fest last night 9th June. I blagged a seat and recorded the the Q&A with Jeremy Hardy, Emily James, Lauren Simpson and James Leadbitter.

Getting Off-Grid 2 - Nick Rosen

Journalist and documentary film maker Nick Rosen has toured Europe and N. America to find off-grid living. His site off-grid.com is a centre for those moving toward a fossil-fuel free life. Why do they do it? We talk motivation and tech in the interview from Radio Ecoshock 110608 29 min.

Getting Off-Grid 1 - Cam Mather

Alex Smith | 10-06-2011 16:43 | Ecology | Energy Crisis | Sheffield

Living off grid 14 years with family, Cam Mather publishes how-to books, including The Renewable Energy Handbook. He loads up this interview with lessons-learned, tips for starting out, solar, all seasons solar hot water heater, geothermal, wood & wind.
From Radio Ecoshock Show 110608 29 min

Ten Years Of Media Lens - Operation Rheinübung

Or: Our Problem With Mainstream Dissidents

Working on Media Lens has given us ten years of first-hand experience of just how tightly discussion can be controlled in an ostensibly democratic society. No matter how carefully we have formulated our questions, no matter how politely we have delivered them, we have been branded angry, irrational, unworthy of attention.

Think before you use Skype or any other audio application - who's listening in?

There is an interesting article in the WSJ about how documents found in Egypt prove the security services were listening to activists conversations which were conducted via Skype, now owned by Microsoft, extracts follow.

Just Do It, chat with Emily James and James Leadbitter

zkt | 08-06-2011 19:40 | Climate Chaos | Sheffield

The Direct action doc "Just Do It" A Tale of Modern Day Outlaws has it's World Premier in Sheffield tomorrow.

Here's a chat I had with the "renowned" director Emily James and the activist and editor of the film James Leadbitter.

Open Splice: an afternoon of short open source documentaries

Access Space | 08-06-2011 13:47 | Culture | Technology | Sheffield

A celebration of docs made using Open source Software; about open source subjects; or created with an open source ethos.

Friday 10th June 4pm-5pm @ Access Space, 3-7 Sidney St., Sheffield S1 4RG

Prevent: A Totally Illiberal Strategy

I have now ploughed through all 120 pages odd of the Government’s new Prevent Strategy, which manages to be even more illiberal and more turgid than the original. It claims that the last Prevent Strategy was misguided – but for all the wrong reasons. Rather amusingly, it starts with a message of endorsement from Lord Carlile – who also endorsed the last strategy which it criticises so strongly. The truth is, Carlile will endorse anything for any government which gives him status – he loves status – “It has my considered and strong support” he concludes his endorsement – you have to imagine saying it with marbles in your mouth and a degree of insufferable pomposity – “It has my considered and strong support”- wanker.

3 New Mark Kennedy Articles: The State Suppressed Key Evidence

The Guardian has today published 3 articles about Mark Kennedy:

Police knew about plans for Ratcliffe-on-Soar break-in before most activists

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/jun/07/mark-kennedy-ratcliffe-on-soar

Police spying: secret tapes that put CPS on the spot

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/jun/07/mark-kennedy-police-spy-secret-tapes

Mark Kennedy case: CPS accused of suppressing key evidence

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/jun/07/mark-kennedy-surveillance-tapes-cps

They have even, *finally*, acknowledged that this story was first broken on Indymedia, in October 2010!

UG#553 - US Interventionism, Then and Now (Noam Chomsky and Tariq Ali)

This week we hear a pair of perspectives from earlier this month on US foreign policy, both from seasoned critics of the US Imperial Strategy. Firstly, Tariq Ali reviews the historical record, from the genocidal expansionism of US colonists up this month's exploits in Libya. Secondly, Noam Chomsky speaksin Syracuse, NY on "What Drives US Foreign Policy & What We Can Do To Change It".

The UAF Hunting Club

More moronic craven keyboard rantings from the UK far right

If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front

If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front will be screened twice during the Sheffield Documentary Film Festival:

Thursday 9th Jun at 15:30 - 17:29 Sheffield Central Library Theatre

Saturday 11th Jun at 13:35 - 15:49 Showroom 3, screening with UK Uncut + Extended Q&A (129mins)

There will also a discussion of the film on Saturday 11 June 2011 at 11:45 in The Crucible Studio.

Nine countries gather to create Latin American Union of News Agencies

News agencies from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Cuba, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Paraguay and Venezuela decided to join efforts to create the Latin American Union of News Agencies (ULAN, Spanish abbreviation), aimed at facing negative campaigns undertaken by communication monopolies from the United States and Europe.

“The main element for us is the possibility of building an information reference for the whole continent, capable of looking at the reality of the Latin American and Caribbean nations with our own eyes, not with the eyes of the North or Europe,” Fernandez said.

Decision Day for Minorca Opencast Mine Application

Leicestershire County Council has announced that a decision on whether UK Coal's application for an opencast mine on the Minorca site can go ahead will be made on Thursday 23rd June. The Minorca Opencast Protest Group in, PR 104, gives more information on this and what MOPG is planning to do to prevent this application from succeeding.

PAUL WATSON Eco-Pirate

Alex Smith | 04-06-2011 18:56 | Ecology | Ocean Defence | Sheffield

Update from Captain Paul Watson, founder of Seasheperd, in this short speech plus Q and A recorded after the Premiere in Vancouver, Canada of new biographical feature film: "Eco-Pirate: The Paul Watson Story". With Trish Dolman writer/director. Victory over Japanese whaling in Antarctic? On to Libya. Lawless seas, overfishing, protection of marine mammals. From Radio Ecoshock 110603 25 minutes.

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