UK Indymedia - Sheffield Newswire Archive

Take Action: Northern Foie Gras Peddlers

NARN | 18-12-2011 22:42 | Animal Liberation | Liverpool | Sheffield

Foie gras is shunned by many and is even illegal to produce in the UK. Ducks and geese have pipes forced down their throats daily and grain pumped in, with ruptured throats being a common occurance. This method of farming creates an artificially diseased and swollen liver, causing birds to become imobile. When slaughtered, the liver is removed and sold as foie gras.

Four Restaurants Drop Foie Gras in the North

NARN | 13-12-2011 13:41 | Animal Liberation | Liverpool | Sheffield

Foie gras is a delicacy produced by force-feeding ducks and geese until their livers become swollen and diseased. Caged or in pens, these birds never get to see the light of day as they live their short and miserable lives in factory farm sheds.

Leicester Drones Demo

Leicester CND | 12-12-2011 18:43 | Anti-militarism | Palestine | Sheffield

Demo on Thursday at 64 Scudamore Road, Leicester outside the Thales factory which makes Watchkeeper drones in partnership with Israeli arms manufacturer Elbit.

Climate Down in Durban

Alex Smith | 12-12-2011 09:45 | Climate Chaos | Ecology | Sheffield

Spineless politicians have sold out our grand kids future at Durban. Hear Prufal Badwai, Indian analyst on why failure was a better option than the window-dressing we got at the UN COP17 Climate conference. A few clips of new James Hansen at the AGU 2011 in San Francisco. Good call on Durban empty promises by Janet Redman of Institute for Policy Studies. Ends with more carbon science interview with Dr. Michael Raupach, CISRO Australia (the national science agency) re increases in emissions and the path we're on. Radio Ecoshock 111214

Audio: YT and Babar Luck Play @OccupySheffield

Chris | 11-12-2011 00:54 | Occupy Everywhere | Culture | Sheffield

YT and Babar Luck played a great set each at Occupy Sheffield on 10th December 2011.

Once again, war is prime time and journalism's role is taboo

The following article by John Pilger starts with a reference to 22nd May 2007 Guardian front page, which was the subject of the following UK Indymedia feature at the time:

Imperial Disinformation: The Guardian's Iran/Iraq Coverage

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/05/371753.html

Winter Gardening, Guerrilla Gardening

Alex Smith | 07-12-2011 19:57 | Climate Chaos | Ecology | Sheffield

As hard times close in, learn how to grow veggies even in UK winter. We'll also need an edible landscape instead of ornamentals and crappy lawns. Tips from Guerrilla gardener Chris Tomlinson to plant public and private spaces.

Sheffield University Occupation - update

Court order obtained

Sheffield University Occupation: Official Statement on the Court Injunction

Sheffield University Occupation has been served with a court injunction which constitutes an attack on the right to protest. The injunction, obtained by the University management, has placed a one-year ban on all protests on University property (which could potentially include picket lines and campaign stalls) that have not been given written permission from the University. It is of course extremely unlikely that they would grant permission for any protest criticising the University over cuts, fees and education reform, hence this constitutes an effective ban on all protest at the University of which management does not approve. This will affect all groups and societies at the University, as well as lecturers and support staff picketing on days of strike action.

Occupy Planet Earth: Resisting the Militarisation of State Power

Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed spent the first half of the post 2001 decade analysing the West's Ties With Terror: Western-Al-Qaeda Relations in the Post-Cold War Period (2005), The Secret History of International Terrorism (2006) and the role of the West in Creating Terror (2006). Following this he moved on to analysing the The Hidden Holocaust - Our Civilizational Crisis (2008) and the Food Crisis & Peak Oil (2008). His latest book is A User’s Guide to the Crisis of Civilization: And How to Save It (2010), has now been adapted into a documentary feature film, The Crisis of Civilization (2011) and it had it's first UK screening in Leeds, in November. Read on for an analysis of the multiple global crisis's facing humanity and the hope that a movement to change the course the 1% have society set on can be changed by the 99%, Occupy Planet Earth: Resisting the Militarisation of State Power by Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed.

Climate Solution: Air to Soil

Alex Smith | 01-12-2011 17:58 | Climate Chaos | Ecology | Sheffield

Alex interviews Allan Savory of the Savory Institute. His project to capture carbon into the soil, using intelligent herd management in Zimbabwe, is on the short-list for the Virgin Earth Challenge. We follow up with Abe Collins, a carbon farming leader in Vermont, USA. Plus organizing for local food in North Carolina (even in hard times) - Aaron Newton at ASPO 2011.

Sheffield against the cuts! N30 strike action

Matt Holmes (LinQ photo's) | 01-12-2011 10:58 | Workers' Movements | Sheffield

Small selection of photographs from photojournalist Matt Holmes covering the N30 strike action in Sheffield, focus on parents with children attending the strike action generating a well spirited and safe environment.

Sheffield Occupation Official Statement

sheffieldstudent | 01-12-2011 02:32 | Education | Public sector cuts | Sheffield

Sheffield Occupation have issued there official statement with demands to the University.

Photos from the Sheffield November 30th Strike Rally

Some photos form the massive rally in Sheffield today.

N30 Reports from WYSF

West Yorkshire Solidarity Federation | 30-11-2011 20:33 | Public sector cuts | Workers' Movements | Sheffield

WYSF attended pickets, marches and rallies across the north, including: Hull, Leeds, Bradford, Newcastle and Middlesbrough. Thousands of workers and students took part.

EveryBody Out

DJ AllOut | 30-11-2011 19:40 | Workers' Movements | Birmingham | Sheffield

DJ AllOut presents:

Sheffield University occupied

Sheffield student occupation - initial statement

Syria: The orwellian "Responsibility to Protect" used to justify all out war

The concept of “Responsibility to Protect” (R2P) essentially posits that a country’s independence is not a right and can be taken away by the international community when the need arises. The international community under the R2P paradigm has the responsibility to intervene in any independent country in order to protect that country’s citizens.

The Syrian Arab Republic now faces the “Responsibility to Protect” (R2P) as a threat. R2P is being prepped to be wielded as a weapon by Washington and NATO. It is a neo-imperialist device under the cover of sheep’s skin that appropriates the language of humanitarianism. The plan is to oust President Bashar Al-Assad from power and install a new client government in Damascus.

Media lies used to provide a pretext for another "humanitarian war"

According to numerous reports from the Western media, human rights organisations, as well as the UN, countless peaceful civilians have been killed by the Syrian forces since the beginning of the unrest in the country in mid March. But where do the numbers come from? Many media reports on the alleged deadly repression by the Syrian government fail to mention the sources of their information, which are very often referred to solely as "human rights groups" or "activists":

The reliance of the mainstream media on information emanating from anonymous groups provides a biased understanding of the Syrian protests, which in turn supports the broader objective of destabilizing the Syrian regime. When information from unknown sources pertaining to the death toll is published either by a mainstream media or a recognized human rights group, it is invariably picked up and considered as "factual evidence" by other news sources or think tanks, without further verification. Moreover, in the process the information is subject to further distortion.

Palestinian Film wins Awards at IDFA

The winners of the various IDFA (International Doc Festival Amsterdam) competition programs were announced Friday, November 25 in Escape, during the awards ceremony of the 24th IDFA.

The Special Jury Award went to 5 Broken Cameras (Palestine/Israel) by Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi, who also won the Publieke Omroep IDFA Audience Award.

See trailer here:

http://vimeo.com/21967570

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