UK Indymedia - Sheffield Newswire Archive

Fukushima Fact & Fantasy

Wild Net conspiracy theories about Fukushima. Science abused to frighten people (those "maps" were projections that didn't happen say original scientists in Norway & Cologne). America accused by HAARP believers. Japan may have nuclear weapons. Alex Smith investigates. 24 minutes.

EDL To Invade Doncaster

The fascist thugs of the EDL are to invade Doncaster on Saturday the 14th of May 2011, chanting racial abuse and making Hitler salutes. Anti-racists must defend the town centre from the racist scumbags.

Week of Action Against Atos: Call for Solidarity

claimantsfightback | 28-04-2011 11:19 | Cambridge | Sheffield

Disability activists and benefit claimant's groups are calling for protests and actions around the country targetting Atos Origin in the week beginning on 9th May.

Previous days of action against benefit cuts have seen protests, pickets and occupations of Atos Origin across the UK including London, Leeds, Glasgow, Bristol, Liverpool, Edinburgh, Dundee and many more.

UG#548 - What You Don't Know Can Kill You (Dirty Secrets of Nuclear Safety)

An unusually topical show for you this week. We start by adapting an Adam Curtis film on the development of the nuclear industry. Next the scientific secretary of the European Committee on Radiation Risk, Christopher Busby, explains that the nuclear industry relies on a massive underestimation of the health effects of radiation. We conclude with a compilation of recordings on shutting down nuclear power plants from TUC Radio.

EDLers To Appear On Strictly!

Neo-Nazi EDLers are learning to compete on Strictly Come Dancing, inspired by the racism of Tony Beak (Anton du Beke).

Media disinformation and the Syrian protest movement

The determination to generate turmoil in Syria conveys a blunt foreign will to deplete this country which enjoys a key and decisive position in the conflict over the future of the region.

Solidarity With Jock Palfreeman

Show your support for Jock

rotherham remembers chernobyl

local residents marked the 25th anniversary of chernobyl with a message to local town council and nuclear research centre

WE Make Radical Media, You Make Adverts

We Are Radical Media | 27-04-2011 10:16 | Other Press | Repression | Sheffield

A corporate media group has trade-marked the phrase "Radical Media" and is trying to ban Peace News, New Internationalist, Red Pepper and others from using it in the title of a conference...

Rebellious Media Conference, London, 8-9 October 2011

http://www.radicalmediaconference.org

UG#546 - How The Environmental Movement Died of Success (& What To Do About It)

The show this week looks at the soft underbelly of the corporate system - the growing awareness that it is destroying the planet. First we hear from the ALF/ELF spokesman, Steve Best, who advocates any and all kinds of direct action to defend the earth and prevent its plunder. Then it's a talk from John Stauber on how the environmental movement died as a result of cooptation by big corporations.

Sheffield Universities to Charge High Fees

The Fargate Speaker | 25-04-2011 19:11 | Analysis | Public sector cuts | Sheffield

Report and analysis on the recent decision of both of the city's Universities to charge near-maximum tuition fees.

Mayday! Mayday! Save our libraries!

To celebrate International Workers’ Day Library Workers For A Brighter Future and Sheffield Uncut would like to invite you to the opening of the Sheffield Peoples’ Library

http://ukuncut.org.uk/actions/525 . The exact location is yet to be confirmed, but we will meet in Cathedral Square at 1pm and proceed to the venue which we will occupy and transform into a library.

Britain, the traitor nation: Media disinformation and crimes against humanity

The plans for the evisceration of Libya were long laid by the vultures. The myxoma virus of the blackest of black propaganda is being squirted into the nervous systems of homo non-sapiens to allow many to believe the process is benign. 'We are aiding revolution and saving Arabs from themselves'. The State Broadcaster leads the mega-wattage and is fed by serried ranks of able liars in the FCO, the Downing Street Media Unit and the Ministry of 'Defence'. Lying has is now our heavy industry in blood soaked Albion.

The actual axis of evil is very busy. One pole, the dominant one, is in Tel Aviv. The other pole is Washington. In the middle is London, and now Paris. London gives the axis propriety with all the flummery. It also gives its cunning and its historical knowledge of imperialism. The power shifts backward and forward along that axis as busily as those jets carrying the psychopaths who pull the triggers.

Al Jazeera's war on Gaddafi

Based on its recent Libyan and Gulf states reporting (or lack thereof), Qatar-based Al Jazeera's credibility appears extremely compromised. Overall, its Libya misreporting has been deceitful, functioning more as a propaganda arm for Washington, NATO and insurgents, indistinguishable from US and other western media, representing imperial conquest, colonization, and pillaging of another non-belligerent country.

UG#545 - Linguistic & Cultural Hierarchy (Reel Bad Arabs/Translation in Wartime)

Language is a technology that reflects our thinking on a deep level, yet most of us use it without a thought. Similarly, many people watch commercially produced movies without noting how they support an ideological agenda. First this week we adapt Jack Shaheen's film, Reel Bad Arabs on Hollywood's Anti-Arab bias. Next, a few words from John Taylor Gatto on how Henry Ford introduced the metaphor of USA as a 'melting pot' to introduce a complex lecture by Vicente Rafael entitled Translation in Wartime on the connection between translation and imperialism.

Cameron: There is no question of an invasion or occupation of Libya

Cem Ertür | 21-04-2011 12:25 | Other Press | Sheffield

Escalated intervention keeps incrementally building toward sending combat troops against Gaddafi, French and UK leaders signaling what may, in fact, have been planned all along, perhaps including US marines

Bill McKibben Last Stand for Climate

Radio Ecoshock | 20-04-2011 18:12 | Climate Chaos | Ecology | Sheffield

One year after book "Eaarth" new update on climate crisis from 350.org founder Bill McKibben. Selections from speech plus Q & A Vancouver, Canada April 9. Includes civil disobedience, fossil lobby, limiting damage, need to act now.

UG#544 - Living Arrangements Beyond Nation States

We look at the past present and future of the US city, against a backdrop of peak oil. We begin with an interview with James Howard Kunstler on the development of urban design in the 20th century. Then Jeff Tomlin speaks on Alive Transportation, Fitness, Safety, Community and Trust. We conclude with Jeff Vail on transitioning away from hierarchies such as nation states towards "scale free self-sufficiency".

UK Coal PLC - It's level of debt keeps growing

The Minorca Opencast Protest Group, in it's latest press release, again makes clear the need for a Banker's Guarantee to cover the proposed community benefits in case Leicestershire County Council grant planning permission for an opencast mine on the Minorca site in Leicestershire. This is because the company concerned has slipped even further into debt.

Notts, Sheff & W Yorkshire Sabs Sept-March Report

anon@indymedia.org (Sheffield Saboteurs) | 18-04-2011 21:24 | Sheffield

Another busy season...

Publish

IMCs