UK Indymedia - Sheffield Free Spaces Newswire Archive

Asylum Seekers get an early xmas present

Here is a little snippet of what life is like for a destitute refugee. (see below for definition *)

3 Destitute men have been seeking shelter in some empty council flats. The council are seeking to sell the land on which the flats are built to

Arches Housing.
122 Burngreave Road
Sheffield
South Yorkshire
S3 9DE

Phone: 0114 228 8100
Fax: 0114 228 8150

Web:

http://www.archeshousing.org.uk

Email:

info@archeshousing.org.uk

The council began legal proceedings to regain possession of the flats (court date set for 7th of December). Arches Housing have employed Red Wall construction (Building Contractor) to demolish the flats when they are emptied. On the 28th November 2006 (according to reports via Arches Housing) Red wall construction workers found all the front doors of the occupied flats open and apparently abandoned.

' Stage Movement' Political Theatre Workshop at Mooreen Social Centre

Actorvist | 28-11-2006 15:56 | Culture | Free Spaces | Sheffield

Creative resistance in the form of a political theatre workshop

danish pigs attack activists

activists demonstrating against faderhuset, (rightwing fundamentalist christians) who are trying to evict them from ungdomshuset, are brutally attacked by the police. over 80 people arrested
see video here

http://politiken.dk/poltv/?ExtID=1198

IT'S MOOREEN I NEED YOUR HELP..

Mooreen | 27-11-2006 18:00 | Free Spaces | Sheffield

it's going to go off like chicken in the vegetable draw (well, almost)..

Now restrain yourself dear and stick to subject matter er that was chickens do you do they now do a wicked chicken wing at devonshire chip shop for a pound to you and knowing it was killed so i could eat it makes it taste all the better oh you twisted mother 0742..

Cops illegal search and arrest refugees

squatter | 27-11-2006 00:08 | Free Spaces | Migration | Sheffield

20:00 hours Sheffield Cops illegally enter, search and arrest 2 refugees from squatted house

Mooreen - Sheffield Social Centre

burntout | 16-11-2006 11:40 | Free Spaces | Sheffield

Mooreen
Coming to Sheffield Soon Nov 29 – Dec 13

Mass callout to help build the climate camp

We are calling for all people who can to arrive in Leeds from Monday August 21 and head to the Common Place, 23-25 Wharf Street, Leeds LS2 7EQ. This is to build all the infrastructure ready to occupy the site. This is a mammoth task and the more people we have the more infrastructure is ready when we occupy the site and the less has to be built there. No DIY knowledge is needed as the highly skilled site practicalities group will be there to make sure everything goes smoothly!

Saving Iceland

The Icelandic highlands are the last great expanse of true wilderness left in Western Europe. Now the country's hydroelectric potential has been targeted by multinational corporations, who intend to establish large-scale heavy industry in these hitherto pristine hinterlands. Join the protest camp.

The Street Piano - full story!!

Piano Liberation Army | 07-08-2006 12:31 | Free Spaces | Sheffield

"....Don MacLean famously sang: 'I met a girl who sang the blues/ And I asked her for some happy news/ But she just smiled and turned away. I went down to the sacred store/ Where I'd heard the music years before/ But the man there said the music wouldn't play... And the three men I admire most, the father son and the holy ghost - they caught the last train for the coast, the day the music died'.

But that day never came!! Here's what happened....."

!!!Act now to save Stag Works!!!

chiapas | 25-07-2006 16:32 | Free Spaces | Social Struggles | Sheffield

Hot on the heels of the proposed development of the General Cemetary is a planning application that has been submitted to build two 5/6 storey blocks of flats, containing 299 bedrooms right next door to Stag Works on John Street in Sheffield. Stag Works is used 24 hours a day by bands and artists to make amazing music, yet the planning application makes no provision for acoustic protection.

OCCUPIED SPACE: 120 (PARTY THIS FRIDAY..)

OCCUPIED SPACE: 120 | 24-07-2006 17:04 | Free Spaces | Sheffield

Our name comes from 120 bands that played at 111 Matilda Street, formaly known as Matilda, now under occupation of Yorkshire Foroword.. We have taken some time in getting this space open, 120 also comes from the fact of 120 people killed in Iraq on the day we occupied the space.

Sheffield Street Piano SAVED!!

Piano Liberation Army | 07-07-2006 10:04 | Free Spaces | Sheffield

Sheffield's first free community Street Piano was set to be removed by the City Council. But after a concerted campaign of popular resisdence, the authority has changed its tune. Realising that this piano is a contribution not a threat to neighbourhood life, they have decided: The Street Piano CAN STAY!!

This is a victory for autonomous DIY grass-roots bottom-up initiatives.

Save The Cemetery free event - Sunday 9 July

To raise awareness and register opposition to the planned development of luxury flats on the site a free party (with license) will take place in the general cemetery on Sunday 9th July.

J B Spray Building Occupied / Evicted / Reoccupied

fellow squatter | 04-07-2006 15:16 | Free Spaces | Sheffield

On Wednesday 28th June the J B Spray building in Radford was squatted. It was illegally evicted by the police on Friday 30th June and reoccupied on Saturday 1st July. A new squat is born in Squattingham!

MATILDA now YF have it

burntout | 30-06-2006 17:33 | Free Spaces | Social Struggles | Sheffield

yorkshire forward have put in a security guard, cameras, and remote monitoring equipment.

'Our Cities are Not for Sale' - two public meetings in Leeds

Two major anti-privatisation meetings have been announced for July as part of efforts to create a city-wide anti-privatisation campaign network of trade unionists, tenants, health, education, and other public service workers and users.

Documenting Matilda

A near complete listing of all the events hosted at Matilda. In addition lots of campaign meetings were held, regular socialising and eating together and artists did art on the top floor! A range of photos that don't capture fully the broad range of stuff that went on, but hope gives a flavour.

Matilda the Departure

Mark | 28-06-2006 06:29 | Free Spaces | Sheffield

Predictably YF failed to turn up to repossess "their" building

Sheffield Street Piano faces Eviction

The Piano Liberation Army | 27-06-2006 22:37 | Culture | Free Spaces | Sheffield

Grass roots autonomous bottom up initiatives such as this should be encouraged, not cracked down on.
The following is local coverage (text taken from the Sheffield Star) of the impending doom of Sheffield's first free community street piano. Visit www.streetpianos.org.

RIP Matilda

A few folk have written about MATILDA and what it meant to them so here are my thoughts.

Sheffield Free Spaces Newswire Archive

Asylum Seekers get an early xmas present

' Stage Movement' Political Theatre Workshop at Mooreen Social Centre

danish pigs attack activists

IT'S MOOREEN I NEED YOUR HELP..

Cops illegal search and arrest refugees

Mooreen - Sheffield Social Centre

Mass callout to help build the climate camp

Saving Iceland

The Street Piano - full story!!

!!!Act now to save Stag Works!!!

OCCUPIED SPACE: 120 (PARTY THIS FRIDAY..)

Sheffield Street Piano SAVED!!

Save The Cemetery free event - Sunday 9 July

J B Spray Building Occupied / Evicted / Reoccupied

MATILDA now YF have it

'Our Cities are Not for Sale' - two public meetings in Leeds

Documenting Matilda

Matilda the Departure

Sheffield Street Piano faces Eviction

RIP Matilda

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