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BPP LOSE LEEDS MAILBOX

The 635 Group | 16-01-2006 17:41 | Anti-racism | Sheffield

Antifascists force closure of BPP’s Leeds accommodation address.

Slaughter in Bajaur

This indiscriminate attack on the villagers in Pakistan is just one more example of collective punishment and it is another event that is, by any standards, a significant and major war crime.

Class struggle at The Common Place

commoner | 15-01-2006 10:44 | Free Spaces | Social Struggles | Sheffield

You think we're all just a bunch of middle class do-gooders escaping from actual social struggles. You're right. But today at The Common Place, we are dedicating our cinema and talks to class struggle in Britain over the centuries. Alas, the L'pool Dockers can't make it but we'll wack on another film.

Saving Iceland Gathering Sheffield

Saving Iceland Gathering
Sheffield 21-22nd January 2006
Matilda Social Centre, Matilda Street Sheffield

Sheffield Keep Our NHS Public! meeting

idealist | 12-01-2006 13:04 | Sheffield

Keep the NHS Public is a new nominally grassroots campaign to stop the creeping privatisation of the NHS and to keep it public. they are holding their first meeting in Sheffield on 26th January.

Mohammad Arrian dusk protest

Chris | 12-01-2006 01:23 | Migration | Sheffield

There was a good turn out in front of Shheffield Town Hall from 4pm on 11th January 2005 to oppose the threatened deportation of Mohammad Arrian.

14th January Benefit Gig in Matilda: Independent Beats

Benefit for an Independent Media Centre at the World Social Forum in Bamako
In January 2006 activists from all over Africa and Europe will get together in Bamako for the first World Social Forum (WSF) to be held on African Soil.

No Nazis In Leeds – Antifascists Picket BPP Mailbox

The 635 Group | 10-01-2006 16:49 | Anti-racism | Sheffield

West Yorkshire antifascists demonstrate against the Nazi British People's Party

Some soul searching in the USA as the Martin Luther King Holiday approaches

Sheffjeff | 10-01-2006 14:50 | Anti-racism | Social Struggles | Sheffield

No More Business As Usual Time to challenge our hidden racism!

ICELANDIC MINISTRY OF INDUSTRY INVADED

15 teenage activists stormed the Icelandic Ministry of Industry today (9 January) and staged a sitdown and noise demo inside the ministry for well over an hour. This was to demonstrate against numerous hydro dam projects that are to power the international aluminium invasion in to pristine Iceland.

National No Sweat Week of Action

No Sweat, the campaign against sweatshop labour, is holding a week of action from 11th to the 18th February.

‘STOP THE DAMS!’ international benefit gig in Iceland.

An awesome mega-benefit gig for the fight against the Kárahnjúkar dams and the aluminium corporate invasion into Iceland was played to a bursting stadium in Reykjavik last night (7 January.) Björk, Zeena Parkins, Sigur Ros, Ghostigital, Damon Albarn, Damien Rice, Lisa Hannigan, Mugison and Mum were amongst the artists that performed at the gig.

Leeds Urban Exploration Meeting

Chester Wren | 08-01-2006 17:46 | Sheffield

Meeting at the common place on the 17th of January to set up an urban exploration group in Leeds.

UK's first dedicated biodiesel garage now open in Mcr!!

chipfatmatt | 08-01-2006 00:45 | Ecology | Sheffield

We dont encourage anyone to drive, but if u have to...

Mohammed Arrian Protest

Chris | 07-01-2006 21:46 | Anti-racism | Migration | Sheffield

There was a protest outside Sheffield Town Hall on Saturday 7th January 2006 against the threatened deportation of Mohammed Arrian.

Demo Against the Deportation of Mohammed Arrian

There was an assembly today outside Sheffield Town Hall to express support for Mohammed Arrian who is facing deportation back to Afghanistan on the 17th Jnauary

Earthquake delegation. Incredible survival story exposes media apathy.

For 64 days Naqshah Bib lay in the ruins of her kitchen. The earthquake flattened her house and the rest of the refugee town of Kamsar. She survived by drinking stream water that had trickled through the ruins, scraps of rotten food were found around her. She was discovered barely alive by her cousins and pulled from the rubble. Before being found she was just another of the many missing people from the town.

The nurses caring for her at Rawalpindi hospital are unsure of her chances. Her body has wasted and she is unable to communicate, barely aware of her surroundings. We don’t stay long, wishing her well and leaving some flowers. Her father who also survived has lost both his legs.

Earth Quake Delegation. Kamsar refugee camp.

GS | 06-01-2006 22:21 | Health | Sheffield | World

In 1990 during the war with India thousands of Muslim refugees crossed the border into Pakistan. For years they were kept in squalid refugee camps by the Pakistan military and paraded in front of the world’s media as a propaganda tool against the Indian government. Eventually they settled in a part of the Neelam Valley in a place near Musafrabad that came to be known as Kamsar. Then as if their luck couldn’t get any worse Kamsar turned out to be situated on the epicenter of the earthquake.

Earthquake delegation. The Cuban doctors of Bakot.

Tash Truner (words) GS (pictures) | 05-01-2006 12:28 | Health | Sheffield | World

One thing that really shows up the inept international response to the Kashmir disaster ,is the fact that much of the aid is being provided by some of the worlds poorest countrys. Bush and Blair constantly go on about how Pakistan is a vital partner in the so called 'War on Terror'. So where are they in their hour of need??

On many occasions we saw the flag of Cuba flying in the NGO camps of the earthquake zone. Didnt meet any Americans.....

Earthquake delegation. The langurbura refugee camp.

Tash Truner (words) GS (pictures) | 05-01-2006 11:46 | Health | Sheffield | World

The Langurbura refugee camp is situated just outside the ruined city of Musafrabad. It is one of hundreds in the surrounding area.

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