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4th Anniversary of Depleted Uranium used in Iraq arriving in the UK

Thursday 29th March 2007 is the 4th anniversary of the uranium aerosols from the 'shock and awe' bombing of Iraq, reaching the UK. Today David Wilson, Press Office for the Stop the War Coalition, published an article on DU, which follows.

Unwelcome Guests: #351 - Death Squads and Empire

Attached is the Unwelcome Guests radio show from 25th March 2007, entitled For The Love of Tyranny, Banannas, Bad Apples, Death Squads and Empire. It features Dahr Jamail, William Blum and John Taylor Gatto (reading).

Announcing IMC-UK-PHOTO

A new indymedia mailing list has been created to help facilitate communication and collaboration between photographers working on environmental and social justice reporting. If you regularly go out to document protests etc with a camera, please join this list.

M1 Activists Go Down To The Yard

Sam Nexter | 26-03-2007 15:38 | Climate Camp 2006 | Climate Chaos | Sheffield

Local residents concerned at plans to increase congestion and pollution on the M1 have paid a visit to one of the Climate Criminal Organisations involved. They stop work at the site near Mansfield for a morning and then pop home for a late breakfast.

New 'Writing To Prisoners' Leaflet

Leeds ABC | 26-03-2007 13:29 | Repression | Sheffield

Leeds ABC have produced a new 'Writing To Prisoners' laflet. Basic text follows, and it can also be downloaded as a PDF, or a hard copy can be obtained by sending an SAE to Leeds ABC at the address below.

Creative Sheffield? Debate

sheffieldfirstandlast | 26-03-2007 11:41 | Sheffield

This is an opportunity for you to to say what you think about the arts in Sheffield(however defined) regeneration, the crisis in representation, community, , etc.

Developing Social Centre - Sheffield

squatter | 24-03-2007 13:44 | Free Spaces | Sheffield

Anybody want to help develop a social centre ..

45 Marlborough Road, Broomhill S10

Empire as a Way of Life, Part 3

The current imperial slaughter in the Middle East, justified by the "Global War on Terror", that has resulted in at least 600,000 deaths in Iraq, is nothing new — the U.S. Empire has a long and sordid history of genocidal mass murder.

The history of the US imperialism and Empire is the subject of a series of ten monthly seminars from Dr John Marciano, "Empire as a Way of Life". Attached is a recording of the third of these seminars and the text upon which it was based. The first 6 of these seminars have taken place and the intention is to have the whole series published on this site; the last 4 will take place between now and June.

This seminar, recorded on 21th November 2006 by the L.A. Sound Posse, runs for 36 minutes and includes the discussion following. It has been made available under a Creative Commons license. If this recording is broadcast please let the L.A. Sound Posse know. This recording was originally made available on the A-Infos Radio Project site.

The following text has been reproduced here with the kind permission of Dr John Marciano and he can be contacted at johnmarciano@mac.com. He introduced this series of seminars in the following way:

A fundamental purpose of our meetings is to understand the systemic nature of the U.S. Empire and the economic and military imperialism that is its lifeblood. The historian William Appleman Williams argues that empire became "a way of life" in the U.S., a "combination of patterns of thought and action that, as it becomes habitual and institutionalized, defines the thrust and character of a culture and society." This "way of life" has convinced many U.S. "Americans" they have a right or "manifest destiny" to impose their political and economic policies upon others.

Dr John Marciano is Professor Emeritus, State University of New York at Cortland, where he taught courses on social and historical foundations of education and class, gender and race.

Previous parts of this series:

Welfare Reform: The ‘unthinkable’ may be about to happen!

swanner | 22-03-2007 16:41 | Workers' Movements | Sheffield

biggest changes in welfare for over 60 years about to come...

AR Activists - Read and Digest

AntiNazi | 21-03-2007 15:31 | Animal Liberation | Sheffield

Police informer - Please read

Palestinian Solidarity: Film and Falafel night - Sat 31st March

stopthewall | 21-03-2007 14:42 | Palestine | Sheffield

Film and Falafel night, Saturday 31st March, 7.30pm

Come to St. Matthews, Carver Street, for a night of delicious Palestinian food. We will show a film - to be announced. All proceeds from this event will go to the childrens projects in Gaza.

Taking Aim: The Fake Confession of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed

One hour radio show from Ralph Schoenman and Mya Shone titled: A Study in Disinformation: The Fake Confession of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.

Leeds Stop the War People's Assembly 24th March

Pazz | 20-03-2007 13:11 | Iraq | Terror War | Sheffield

Leeds Stop the War People's Assembly

Demilitarize the World!

War is Just a Racket: Take a Stand; Dismantle the War Machine; Demilitarize the World!

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/774011915

Sheffield AF Anti-Recruitment Centre - March 17th

Sheffield AF | 19-03-2007 20:42 | Anti-militarism | Iraq | Sheffield

IAF DAY OF ACTION March 17th --- Sheffield AF ANTI-RECRUITMENT CENTRE

Sheffield on t’ up

A few questions for the residents of our fair city about the rejuvenation of Sheffield. In your opinion, what do you think is the best feature of Sheffield? Tell me what excites you about Sheffield old and new.

Making Mayhem: Sheffield Suffragettes

alice | 16-03-2007 16:43 | History | Social Struggles | Sheffield

Sheffiled Popular Arts, a community based arts organisation presents:
'Making Mayhem: Sheffield Suffragettes.'
The story of Sheffield suffragettes' struggle for the vote told in drama and song

Empire as a Way of Life, Part 2

The current imperial slaughter in the Middle East, justified by the "Global War on Terror", that has resulted in at least 600,000 deaths in Iraq, is nothing new — the U.S. Empire has a long and sordid history of genocidal mass murder.

The history of the US imperialism and Empire is the subject of a series of ten monthly seminars from Dr John Marciano, "Empire as a Way of Life". Attached is a recording of the second of these seminars and the text upon which it was based. The first 6 of these seminars have taken place and the intention is to have the whole series published on this site; the last 4 will take place between now and June.

This seminar, recorded on 17th October 2006 by the L.A. Sound Posse, runs for 35 minutes and includes the discussion following. It has been made available under a Creative Commons license. If this recording is broadcast please let the L.A. Sound Posse know. This recording was originally made available on the A-Infos Radio Project site.

The following text has been reproduced here with the kind permission of Dr John Marciano and he can be contacted at johnmarciano@mac.com. He introduced this series of seminars in the following way:

A fundamental purpose of our meetings is to understand the systemic nature of the U.S. Empire and the economic and military imperialism that is its lifeblood. The historian William Appleman Williams argues that empire became "a way of life" in the U.S., a "combination of patterns of thought and action that, as it becomes habitual and institutionalized, defines the thrust and character of a culture and society." This "way of life" has convinced many U.S. "Americans" they have a right or "manifest destiny" to impose their political and economic policies upon others.

Dr John Marciano is Professor Emeritus, State University of New York at Cortland, where he taught courses on social and historical foundations of education and class, gender and race.

Previous parts of this series:

Empire as a Way of Life, Part 1 | mp3 | doc

Troops Out of Iraq! 17 March.

Mark four years of war, invasion and occupation of Iraq this Saturday 17 March,
12 - 3pm Piccadilly Gardens, Manchester

Global Warming: Truth or Dare?

NOT THE GREATEST POTENTIAL THREAT TO HUMANITY

Global warming is often presented as the greatest potential threat to humankind and as the greatest environmental and ecological threat on the planet. It is also presented as a problem that could be solved or contained by determined international collaboration - by political will if it were present.

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