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One Family in Gaza

An amazing and powerful short film by Jen Marlowe of donkeysaddle.org.
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Scale of Opencast Mining in England Revealed

A group in Leicestershire has produced evidence about the current and possible future locations for opencast coal mining.in England. In all it identifies 23 Current sites and 43 potential sites.The evidence is in the form of a two part review and it has been produced to support the arguments for the 500 Metre Buffer Zone Bill which gets its 2nd Reading in the House of Commons on 11/2/11.

Wikileaks: a Political-Economic History

Despite blanket media coverage of Wikileaks and Julian Assange, there has been little discussion of the fact that Assange is merely one leader within a large and complicated social movement.

EDL Nonce Division

Forget the EDL's tokenistic "uncle tom" Sikh, Womens and Gay Divisions. A brand new subgrouping within the English Defence League has been formed (void of all publicity), the EDL Nonce Division, offering fascist kiddie fiddlers the opportunity to protest against the unfairly tough stance meted out to child abusers in hardline Islamic states. Children and young people plentyful on EDL marches, put away your stained raincoats and purchase the brand new range of EDL merchandised paedophile gear.

Wikileaks: 1990 cable details crucial meeting on eve of Iraqi invasion of Kuwait

A previously secret US diplomatic cable from 1990, published by WikiLeaks on New Year’s Day

http://www.wikileaks.ch/cable/1990/07/90BAGHDAD4237.html , provides a detailed account of a crucial meeting between the US ambassador to Iraq and Saddam Hussein on the eve of Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait.

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Wikileaks are now Wikidrips?

Chris | 06-01-2011 11:09 | Analysis | Repression | Sheffield

So far this year there have been 12 Cablegate cables released in six days (based on the deoxy rss feed, 8 cables released on 2nd January and 4 on the 4th January 2011) at this rate it won't take 35 years to leak them all it will take 350 years...

Wikileaks cables reveal how US and UK sought to plunder Zimbabwe’s resources

The US diplomatic cables published by WikiLeaks contain revealing details of how the United States and Britain sought to further their commercial interests in Zimbabwe.

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Protests as Clegg holds secret town hall meeting

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg looked shaken leaving Sheffield Town Hall this evening, as an impromptu demonstration chanted and hurled abuse.

Nick Clegg Sheffield Demo

Anne Thrax | 05-01-2011 21:12 | Public sector cuts | Social Struggles | Sheffield

At short notice a spontaneous group demonstrated Nick Clegg's attendance at Sheffield Town Hall

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Students Against Cuts defends the HSBC 3

On 30th December 2010, Students Against Cuts held a protest to defend the HSBC 3, three political activists who were unreasonably arrested for peacefully protesting outside a branch of HSBC bank at our last demonstration on 18th December.

Clegg visiting Sheffield 5 January 2011

none | 05-01-2011 17:29 | Sheffield

Nick Clegg is visiting Sheffield Town Hall

Urgent: Clegg visits Sheffield 6 30 today

Michael | 05-01-2011 17:18 | Sheffield

I have it on good authority that Nick Clegg will be visiting Sheffield town hall at 6 30 today. Spread the word and help organise a flash protest!!!

Judge sentences 18 of Ratcliffe defendants

At 2pm today, 18 of the 20 defendants were sentenced after being found guilty of conspiracy to commit aggravated trespass in December. The judge addressed each defendant individually, commenting on their previous convictions and the strength of their character, before passing their sentences. The judge spoke broadly about the defendants’ qualities as a whole – commending them for their references, which repeatedly described them as ‘honest’, ‘dedicated’, ‘committed’, ‘intelligent’ and ‘caring’.

Obama’s reign of terror in Afghanistan

2010 was the bloodiest year of the now nine-year conflict in Afghanistan and the tribal border regions of Pakistan. Under the command of General David Petraeus, a massively expanded US and NATO force is waging a campaign of extermination against various ethnic Pashtun and Taliban-linked insurgent movements that have not accepted the foreign invasion of their country.

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Biodiversity: Peak Nature?

The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts. —Aldo Leopol

Sheffield Council chief execs resist calls for pay cut

sheffieldpolitics.com | 04-01-2011 23:28 | Public sector cuts | Sheffield

Communities minister Eric Pickles is said to be furious that almost all top earning council bosses, including Sheffield council’s Chief Executive, have ignored his order to take a pay cut.

Media Lens Alert: Tilting Towards Israel

Journalist Jonathan | 04-01-2011 17:06 | Palestine | Sheffield | World

Towards the end of last year, we sent out two media alerts - Put The Palestinians On A Diet and Too Toxic To Handle? - about the corporate media's failure to report the release of documents detailing Israel's deliberate policy of near-starvation for Gaza. "The idea", explained a senior Israeli official, "is to put the Palestinians on a diet, but not to make them die of hunger." The human rights group Gisha published explicit Israeli formulas for the amount of food, animal feed and poultry to be allowed into Gaza, and the cold calculation of "breathing space": the number of days before these essential supplies would run out.

Wikileaks: Israel Plans Total War on Lebanon, Gaza

The Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten

http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/uriks/wikileaks/article3969332.ece has summarized an Israeli military briefing by Israeli Chief of Staff Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi of a US congressional delegation a little over a year ago and concludes that

"‘ The memo on the talks between Ashkenazi and [Congressman Ike] Skelton, as well as numerous other documents from the same period of time, to which Aftenposten has gained access, leave a clear message: The Israeli military is forging ahead at full speed with preparations for a new war in the Middle East."

Transforming Power for Climate Action

A powerful speech by Judy Rebick, as she describes lessons from the women's movement, and the transition from anti-globalist protests - to climate action. Rebick a well-known Canadian feminist & broadcaster, finds hope & leadership from aboriginal people, especially Bolivia.

Sheffield to Import Waste?

It's always interesting when councils and their major contractors run public consultations nicely placed over the Christmas period, as if to catch the public unaware of a deadline for responses on, let's say, 15th January. This is the case with the proposal to ship in up to 50,000 tonnes of waste for Bernard Road Incinerator. It would come from surrounding towns and counties, by heavy lorries presumably. That's not likely to be controversial is it?

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