UK Indymedia - Sheffield Newswire Archive

Damascus terror bombing: Made in the USA

“Our policy is to try to accelerate the arrival of that tipping point” at which the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad is toppled, Assistant Secretary of State Jeffrey Feltman explained last March to the US Senate’s foreign relations committee.

Anti Opencast Coal Meeting Derbyshire

Mr. Angry | 13-05-2012 13:31 | Climate Chaos | Energy Crisis | Sheffield

Anti opencast meeting

Why Are Forests Dying?

Alex Smith | 13-05-2012 05:17 | Climate Chaos | Ecology | Sheffield

Whole forests around the world are dying from insects, fungus, drought, heat. Drivers are climate change & ozone pollution. New Jersey activist Gail Zawacki on ozone damage to trees, crops & our lungs. University of Illinois scientist Lisa Ainsworth on FACE CO2 impacts study.

Ravi Gill Released

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Badger Protection Fundraiser - Sheffield

Please come to this gig and help raise some funds for the South Yorkshire Badger Group (see link below), starting with folk, ending hardcore punk!

@ Nelson Rockbar, Furnival Gate, Sheffield, S1 4QR

Seitanic Feast Fundraiser for Sheff & Donny Hunt Sabs

A vegan meal of seitan ribs, chips, mushy peas & chocolate pudd for £5.

10 days to go 'til the brighton hosts 2012 International Squatters Convergence

SNOB (AHA) is hosting an international squatters convergence from 17th-19th May! with the imminent criminalisation of squatting in england and wales, squatters are coming from all over europe to plot and party against the ban, right on doorstep of the tory MP who pushed the ban through (mike weatherly).

Is It Too Late for Environmentalism?

Alternative energy expert Robert Rapier explains the oil crisis, & why climate will hit us like a hurricane. Seth Moser-Katz and Justin Ritchie interview law Professor & Greenpeace icon Professor Michael M'Gonigle on "exit environmentalism". Are we leaving Green, or leaving the system?

A Rebellious World or a New Dark Age?

The Occupy movement has been an extremely exciting development. Unprecedented, in fact. There’s never been anything like it that I can think of. If the bonds and associations it has established can be sustained through a long, dark period ahead -- because victory won’t come quickly -- it could prove a significant moment in American history.

Close Newcastle Animal Lab National March

On May 26th UK activists will converge in Newcastle to march against Animal murderers at Newcastle university.

22 thousand animals are tested upon every year and Newcastle university is one of the last remaining universities to perform testing on primates.

Its time to say NO to animal testing.

It's Wrong to Wreck the World

Alex Smith | 02-05-2012 16:41 | Climate Chaos | Ecology | Sheffield

From the University of Oregon, Kathleen Dean Moore delivers an artful talk about our attack on Nature, and hope of reviving love instead. Recorded in Vancouver. With readings from her work & original songs by Libby Roderick and Australia's Tempting Eve. Radio Ecoshock 120502 1 hour.

Sheffield Against Sexism March 28th April 2012

Sheffield Against Sexism | 02-05-2012 13:22 | Gender | Sheffield

Last Saturday around one hundred and fifty people marched through Sheffield City Centre in response to Sexism in our city. Supported broadly across Sheffield under the banner of 'We will not calm down "dear"' women, men and children united in a loud and angry demo against austerity measures and their disproportionate effect on women.

Where We Stand : Formation of a new anarchist communist project in the UK

May Day statement of "Collective Action". In it we outline our analysis of the problems facing the anarchist movement in the UK and offer a call out to all independent anarchist communists to participate in our project to re-visit our political tradition, re-group and re-kindle our political action.

Is the Parole Board deciding on the continued detention of life sentence prisone

George Coombs | 30-04-2012 22:53 | Birmingham | Sheffield

The review process itself, known as an 'Oral Hearing', at which the lifer is present, is conducted like a semi-judicial hearing where reports by social workers, prison staff and psychologists are considered and assessed, and the lifer is given the opportunity to present their own case for release.

Sheffield Against Sexism - Demo Today

Sheffield Against Sexism | 28-04-2012 10:30 | Sheffield

March Today, 12.30 Weston Park

Bobby Robert's Sneaks to sedgefield racecourse: Not If We Can Help It

Bobby Roberts and his sick and evil show is planning to slope off after willington in Durham and go to sedgefield racecourse
we URGE EVERYONE contact the race course demand they do not let bobby use there grounds

Noam Chomsky on America's Declining Empire, #Occupy and the Arab Spring

Last year, the Occupy Movement rose up spontaneously in cities and towns across the country, radically shifted the discourse and rattled the economic elite with its defiant populism. It was, according to Noam Chomsky, “the first major public response to thirty years of class war.” In his new book, Occupy

https://www.alternet.org/alternetbooks/28/occupy/ , Chomsky looks at the central issues, questions and demands that are driving ordinary people to protest. How did we get to this point? How are the wealthiest 1 percent influencing the lives of the other 99 percent? How can we separate money from politics? What would a genuinely democratic election look like?

Trouble, but NOT end of the world

Economic collapse will come before peak oil or climate disruption, says investment guru Chris Martenson, author of "Crash Course". Matthew Stein, author of "When Technology Fails" - how a solar flare could cripple society & set off 400 Chernobyls, and how to fix it. Alex rants against 2012 mythology.

FBI Seize Riseup Server in New York

FBI seizes server providing anonymous remailer and many other services from colocation facility.

Fire! In A Crowded World

Landscape fires appear to be increasing and more fierce. New wave of fires across N.E. North America in early April! Could UK drought bring more fire? Speech excepts from 3 fire experts recorded at 2012 American Academy for the Advancement of Science special session.

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