UK Indymedia - Sheffield Newswire Archive

Justice for Palestine Vigil

Lisa | 16-01-2005 12:48 | Repression | Social Struggles | Sheffield

Yesterday there was a vigil outside of Sheffield Town Hall to draw attention to the fact that Palestine is still illegally occupied, and that 1.2 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip remain imprisoned.

Chesterfield Rd Supermarket Protest

Chris | 15-01-2005 13:38 | Health | Sheffield

Protestors gathered today to oppose the planning application to allow the Arnold Laver DIY store on Chesterfield Road, Heeley, Sheffield, to be developed into a supermarket.

'Elections Furore': Second balatacamp.net film from Palestine:

Mika Minio-Paluello | 14-01-2005 16:23 | Repression | Cambridge | Sheffield

Elections Furore [2005; 6min]

The Balata Film Collective have just released their second mini-documentary about the Palestinian National Authority elections.
Download it now from www.balatacamp.net

Sheffield Social Forum : Next meeting

Sheffielder | 14-01-2005 14:34 | Liverpool | Sheffield

Venue and time for next social forum. All Sheffielders welcome.

More than one million people are expected to take to the streets of Los Angeles

sheffjeff | 13-01-2005 00:37 | Anti-racism | Sheffield

Why? To celebrate the life and work of Martin Luther King Jr. USA’s champion of NVDA.
The parade commences on Martin Luther King Blvd at Crenshaw and lasts for two miles until Western. It includes more than 150 floats, 20 drill teams, ten dance groups, celebrities aplenty and the bombastic tunes of a military marching band.

What the corp media aren't saying about relief in Sri Lanka.........

. | 12-01-2005 19:27 | Sheffield

Military intimidation of relief workers escalate in Amparai, Batticaloa - TRO

a very british coup

mr zero | 10-01-2005 23:21 | Sheffield

This is too good not to republish: an incredible story in the Observer of how in the early 70's ruling class figures seriously discussed plotting a coup in Britain and how secret armies were planned to destroy communism in Wiltshire! and how Andrew Lloyd Webber secretly longed for a fascist dictatorship

Yet Another 3G Mobile Phone Mast Planned for Sheffield

Jane | 08-01-2005 18:17 | Ecology | Health | Sheffield

T-mobile have applied for planning permission to put up a 3G mobile phone mast on Psalter Lane, near its highest point, the junction with Brincliffe Hill, within 250 metres of Greystones school. Local people are campaigning to have it stopped.

The power of social forums: 3000 words on why we should fight for them

"Once the logic of power is adopted, the struggle against power is already lost… for what is at issue in the revolutionary transformation of the world is not /whose/ power but the very existence of power." [Holloway / Peláez]
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Throughout the ESF process, I kept on having this dark vision: the European Social Forum office in London as an encampment deep in the Congolese Jungle. Like the Heart of Darkness – Ken Livingstone a 21^st Century Kurtz. Picture him: lurking in shadow, brooding in the last rays of a blood red sunset, deep within his humid, plastic-plant-filled office. Picture him: at the end of a long, dark corridor lined with the heads of SWP members and GLA officials who displeased him…

Correspondence with UK government over server seizures

Correspondence between Yakoub Islam, director of the Tasneem Project website, and the UK government regarding FBI seizure of Indymedia servers this October.

Working Class Victim of the Rich: Blunket, apparently!

pasted from The Observer | 19-12-2004 13:43 | Analysis | Migration | Sheffield

Blunkett: I'm a working class victim of the rich

· Kimberly Quinn 'mesmerised' Budd inquiry
· Former Home Secretary faces 'climate of fear' claims rejected

Shed No Tears For Blunkett 1

In the wake of Blunkett’s overdue resignation a picture is being painted, with himself as the primary artist, of ‘an honourable man brought low by love’. The career of this vain, arrogant, conceited individual was not brought to an end because of Blunkett’s private life, something he has done his utmost to deny the rest of us, but because he is a liar and corrupt, neither of which are new.

Labour website of the year

Voting began last week for this annual competition, which began in 1997, and which allows trade unionists around the world to vote for their favourite union websites. The Labour Website of the Year, sponsored by LabourStart is the only global competition open to all trade union websites and aims to encourage excellence in website design in the international trade union movement.

Nick Griffin Moving To Sheffield

anti nazi | 14-12-2004 15:18 | Sheffield

BNP boss plans to challenge Blunkett in upcoming election.

Outcome of Sheffield Social Forum meeting (December 4th/5th)

Sheffielder | 13-12-2004 21:43 | European Social Forum | Sheffield

People participating in the UK Local Social Forum Network met in
Sheffield on the 4/5th December and found consensus on this document to be brought to the Assembly which is going to be held in Paris the 18/19 Dec 2004.

Invitation to Sheffield Social Forum meeting

Sheffielder | 13-12-2004 21:31 | Sheffield

Letter of invitation to Sheffield and Beyond, to attend our next social meeting.

The Basement - opening night

Chris | 12-12-2004 21:26 | Free Spaces | Sheffield

The opening of new social centre in Manchester, The Basement, was a great success with loads of people browsing the leaflets and book shop, getting fed from the cafe and browsing the net on the recycled computers.

NO2ID : ACTING NOW

Sheffielder | 12-12-2004 08:10 | Sheffield

An extract of the anti-ID campaign newsletter sent to supporters & campaigners by no2id.
Please act now.

end the silence, latest and new meeting

sheffer | 10-12-2004 12:24 | Sheffield

reportback on the successful meeting on disability benefits cuts/changes and new meeting

Local Works Campaign Requires Urgent Support

Sheffield campaigner | 10-12-2004 02:20 | Sheffield

Please join the Local Works Campaign aimed at stopping the current trend to end the provision of local services and facilities which is turning Britain into a "ghost Britain".

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