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Sheffield Occupied!

@OccupySheffield #occupy | 05-11-2011 16:40 | Occupy Everywhere | Sheffield

Occupy Sheffield is getting established in front of Sheffield Cathedral — come down and join us!

Sole military Super-Bloc: NATO Issues Daily Reprieves To The World

A Stop NATO feature in August provided an, admittedly incomplete, list of nations that NATO, actuated by its first Strategic Concept for the 21st century adopted at the bloc’s summit in Lisbon last November and its initial implementation in Libya this year, could attack or otherwise intervene in next: Algeria, Belarus, Bolivia, Central African Republic, Chad, Cuba, Democratic Republic of Congo, Cyprus, Ecuador, Eritrea, Iran, Lebanon, Madagascar, Mali, Moldova-Transdniester, Myanmar, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, North Korea, Pakistan, Palestine, Somalia, the South Caucasus (Abkhazia, Nagorno-Karabakh, South Ossetia), Sudan-South Sudan, Suriname, Syria, Uganda, Venezuela, Western Sahara, Yemen and Zimbabwe.

The time is ripe and in fact long overdue for issuing a call for an international anti-NATO initiative addressed to individuals, organizations, political parties and governments to convene an extraordinary session of the United Nations General Assembly to demand the disbanding of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization as a – as the gravest – threat to world peace.

UG#575 - From Oily Sands to Greasy Palms

Focussing on Canada's Tar Sands this week, we examine the murky reality of 'free trade', and interference by the Canadian Government in the European Climate Change legislation. Who makes and enforces these agreements, and who benefits? We look at how the SPP is being revamped for re-introduction after concerted efforts to kill it by citizens' action groups.

Benefit For Antifascist Prisoners In Leeds

A benefit for the six imprisoned UK antifascist prisoners on Saturday 12th November.

Occupy Sheffield Meeting Tonight, 8pm, The Plug, Matilda Street

#OccupySheffield #occupy #sheffield | 02-11-2011 18:22 | Occupy Everywhere | Sheffield

Meet on Wednesday 2nd November at 8pm, The Plug, Matilda Street.

#Occupy London Stock Exchange Photos

Chris @OccupyLSX #occupylondon | 02-11-2011 01:13 | Occupy Everywhere | Sheffield

Some photos from the London occupation at St Pauls taken on 1st November 2011.

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Photos from Occupied Finsbury Square

Chris @OccupyLFS #occupylondon | 02-11-2011 00:40 | Occupy Everywhere | Sheffield

Some photos from the London Finsbury Square Occupation on the morning of 1st November 2011.

Durban Conference of Polluters 1

From South Africa, Professor Patrick Bond lays out the awful truth, where climate talks have gone into the dead zone. Will it be safe to protest in Durban? Bond is from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, and director of the Centre for Civil Society in Durban. A wide-ranging interview on how UN talks became the "Conference of the Polluters" - and the world-wide climate justice movement pointing us in the direction of survival. From Radio Ecoshock 111102

Rally on 10 Nov - Mark Serwotka/Matt Wrack speaking

Sheffield Anti Cuts Alliance are hosting a ""Unite the Resistance meeting on 10 November to build for the N30 day of action for Pensions Justice

Homeless Debacle in North America

Alex Smith | 26-10-2011 22:27 | Repression | Social Struggles | Sheffield

Millions of North Americans are threatened with record homelessness. Bankrupt governments are not responding. Could you hack it? Alex interviews homeless advocates in New York City, San Francisco, Washington D.C. and Vancouver, Canada.

The Week of Auctions: Services under the hammer

The government is planning to sell off ALL our public services - join the ‘Week of Auctions’ to protest!

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Occupy Sheffield General Assembly - 8pm Tue 24th Oct

Occupy Sheffield | 24-10-2011 10:16 | Occupy Everywhere | Sheffield

Lets meet for a general assembly - Tuesday, October 25, 2011, 8:00 PM - The Benjamin Huntsman

More Public Subsidy for Peel Holdings

anon | 22-10-2011 20:09 | Social Struggles | Liverpool | Sheffield

Liverpool City Council (Labour controlled) has announced it will pay 5 million to allow Peel to have a Turnaround terminal.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-14842615

22 years on - new Hillsborough allegation by former police employee

Friday Drivetime | 22-10-2011 00:38 | Sheffield

Friday Drivetime
BCfm’s weekly politics show presented by Tony Gosling
At five: discussing the big stories in Bristol, Britain and around the world
After six: straight talking and investigative reports with Martin Summers

UG#574 - Occupy Wall Street Special (Hip Hop Audiocollage)

A special show this week devoted to Occupy Wall Street. How to make a show of interest both to OWS attendees and to those who know next to nothing about it? Inspired by the popularity of episode 536, we give you an audio collage including live radio interviews with participants and local residents, video soundtracks, historic material and quite a lot of music.

UG#573 - I Spit in The Face Of The Money God (Mike Ruppert, Collapsenik)

We devote the whole show this week to a remarkable talk from 2011-09-11 by Michael Ruppert, who back in episode 95 became the first speaker on this show to question the events of Sep 11th. However, in this talk he says that 9/11 belongs to a 'bygone era' and he focuses instead on the urgent need to transition away from a paradigm of infinite growth and fiat currency.

UG#572 - Monopoly and Money (Contradictions of Capitalism)

If competition is such a good thing, why is it not tolerated in areas of government or law? Or in the money system, which functions as a highly profitable private business? And what about cartel agreements which align the interests of multi-national corporations firmly against the interests of consumers? Are corporations really competing to bring better products to market more cheaply, or are they competing for control of government to grant them privileges?

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UG#571 - Mother Nature Knows Best (Masanobu Fukuoka, Helen & Scott Nearing)

This week we hear about three people who, unimpressed by technological 'progress', quit city life to live successfully off the land - all three of them remained active into their 90's. Although travelling widely, they remained rooted to their homestead farms. In our first hour, Masanobu Fukuoka, who researched no-till farming in Japan for decades before Bill Mollison and David Holmgren coined the word permaculture. In our second hour, an audio adaptation of a film on the life and death of US back-to-the-lander Helen Nearing, and her husband, Scott.

Happy 7th Billion Birthday

With peak oil and climate change, the 7 billionth human coming at the end of October will find things very different from the 6 billion world of 1999. Robert Walker from the Population Institute in D.C. explains, in this Radio Ecoshock interview 2011-10-19. 21 minutes.

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Britain’s Own Pravda-Style Propaganda: Ten Years Of ‘Involvement’ In Afghanistan

Imagine Britain had been invaded and occupied by armed forces from another region of the world with China, for example, as a significant 'partner' in the 'coalition'. Imagine tens of thousands of Britons had been killed, and millions had fled as refugees. This is how the Chinese state broadcaster might report the invasion ten years hence:

'It's ten years this week since Chinese forces first became involved in Britain, and more than five years since they assumed responsibility for south-east England. So what's been achieved in that time?'

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