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Earth Quake Delegation. Kamsar refugee camp.

GS | 06-01-2006 22:21 | Health | Sheffield | World

In 1990 during the war with India thousands of Muslim refugees crossed the border into Pakistan. For years they were kept in squalid refugee camps by the Pakistan military and paraded in front of the world’s media as a propaganda tool against the Indian government. Eventually they settled in a part of the Neelam Valley in a place near Musafrabad that came to be known as Kamsar. Then as if their luck couldn’t get any worse Kamsar turned out to be situated on the epicenter of the earthquake.

Earthquake delegation. The Cuban doctors of Bakot.

Tash Truner (words) GS (pictures) | 05-01-2006 12:28 | Health | Sheffield | World

One thing that really shows up the inept international response to the Kashmir disaster ,is the fact that much of the aid is being provided by some of the worlds poorest countrys. Bush and Blair constantly go on about how Pakistan is a vital partner in the so called 'War on Terror'. So where are they in their hour of need??

On many occasions we saw the flag of Cuba flying in the NGO camps of the earthquake zone. Didnt meet any Americans.....

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Earthquake delegation. The langurbura refugee camp.

Tash Truner (words) GS (pictures) | 05-01-2006 11:46 | Health | Sheffield | World

The Langurbura refugee camp is situated just outside the ruined city of Musafrabad. It is one of hundreds in the surrounding area.

Earthquake delegation. How it happened.

Maxine Bowler (words) GS (pictures) | 05-01-2006 11:20 | Health | Sheffield | World

Sheffield has one of the highest populations of Kashmiri people in the country. Maxine Bowler explains how eight people from the town came to spend xmas in the earthquake zone.

Earthquake delegation. The ruins of Balakot.

GS | 03-01-2006 19:17 | Health | Sheffield

Balakot is a small town based at the bottom of a large rural valley in North Eastern Pakistan. Its income was moderate - catering mostly as a stop off point for travellers and tourists heading into Kashmir. Many people comment on how it was previously one of the most beautiful towns in the area. One of our delegation studied here as a young man and had planned to spent his honeymoon here in the picturesque surroundings.

It now looks like it has been hit by an atom bomb.

Earthquake delegation. A meeting with the JKLF.

GS | 03-01-2006 19:06 | Health | Sheffield | World

Before heading into the area affected by the earthquake we meet with Amanullah Khan chairman of Jamal Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF). Most of the region we plan to visit is in Kashmir and local knowledge is essential. The JKLF are a peaceful organization dedicated to gaining independence for Kashmir from India, Pakistan and China all of whom occupy portions of the country. They want a secular independent state that facilitates all the religions and cultures that exist in Kashmir. They have a wide base of support despite being banned from standing in elections. They are not allowed to participate in any ballot due to their refusal to swear allegiance to Pakistan’s military government.

Member of Parliament Calls for Ban on Aspartame

Tara Wells | 15-12-2005 18:49 | Health | Sheffield

Italian peer reviewed study shows aspartame (marketed as an artificial sweetener) to be a multi-potential carcinogen. Click on the link below to hear how Donald Rumsfeld used politics instead of science to get aspartame approved when the FDA said NO!

http://www.soundandfury.tv/pages/Rumsfeld2.html

Big demonstration to protect NHS in Huddersfield

Private Eisenhower Existence | 11-12-2005 20:09 | Health | Social Struggles | Sheffield

Protection of the National Health Service, in Huddersfield and nationally. Opposal to closures, privatisation, redundancies.
Oodles of people marched in Huddersfield on Saturday 11th December, so many I couldn't see the end of the column, and everyone cheered us on.

Meeting on incapacity benefit reform

The date of the next Sheffield Welfare Action Network meeting has been set for Saturday the 26th of November, from 12pm to 3.30pm. The meeting is to discuss action around forthcoming incapacity benefit reforms.

G8 medics acquitted

Two street medics arrested at the Carnival For Full Enjoyment during the anti-G8 protests last July were acquitted of Breach of the Peace in court on Friday. The trial took place in a Sheriff’s court in Edinburgh, and lasted for around 4 hours.

Indymedia - growing pains or symptoms of decay

Over the last couple of weeks a battle has been raging and opening fissures that threaten to drive apart the United Kollectives of Indymedia on this island. Unless you subscribe to the Sheffield IMC mailing list you are likely to be unaware about the arguments over claims of lack of communication, transparency and the existence of hidden hierarchies within the network.

No Widening M1

Sheffield No Widening M1 Group | 20-09-2005 23:16 | Ecology | Health | Sheffield

The M1 carries huge volumes of traffic (some sections up to 160,000 vehicles per day). There is congestion at peak times. The widening is proposed to "reduce congestion and improve both safety and journey time reliability". But the plans are already flawed. When the proposals for the widening were originally agreed, it was noted that the only way to lock in the benefits would be to employ road-use charging. This has not been mentioned in the current documentation. In addition, independent research has shown that you can't build your way out of congestion, road widening and new roads simply encourage more traffic. The government's own studies confirm this. With traffic already predicted to increase by 50% by 2011, there is an urgent need for more long-term sustainable solutions rather than a road building programme that will further accelerate this increase.

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Important information for anyone living near Parkwood landfill

Parkwood Landfill Action Group | 08-09-2005 11:40 | Ecology | Health | Sheffield

Following is an independent assessment of Viridor’s Planning Application to extend active waste tipping at Parkwood in Sheffield.

See also the Local Residents Fight Parkwood Landfill Expansion Proposals feature article from May 2005.

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Another Roy Meadows?

Down but not out! | 21-07-2005 12:29 | Health | Sheffield

An excellent and inspiring article by members of the M.E community which identifies the similarities between that of the case of Sir Roy Meadows (and the professions attitude to him) and that of a another controversial 'world expert' who makes massive 'unprovable claims about the condition and which have had major consequences for PWME.

Killer-cola linked to London Bomber [update]

In interviews widely reported in the mainstream media last week, links between the men thought to behind the London bomb attacks and the Coca-cola company were exposed....

Nottingham Against Incineration and Landfill [NAIL] Protest against expansion

On friday afternoon, the residence of Snienton and surrounding areas of Nottingham, came to protest against an Incinerators expansion plans. The company, Waste Recycling Group Ltd [WRG], are preparing a planning application for expansion. We went along to make our feelings known.

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Parkwood Landfill Site Photos

Helen | 06-05-2005 09:59 | Ecology | Health | Sheffield

Sheffield Council are to decide whether the Parkwood Landfill site should be expanded and include a gas utilisation plant and leacheate treatement plant.

Critcal Mass Bike About in Nottingham :: Pictures

Critcal Mass is a regular event. The meeting point is the Savoy cinema on Derby Road in Lenton on the last Friday of every month now at 5.30pm. We even got a police helicopter, to look over us, for our safety you understand ......

Councillors powerless in face of corporations?

Corporate Watch | 21-03-2005 00:05 | Ecology | Health | Sheffield

A re-post from www.corporatewatch.org.uk - about another incinerator being passed.

We're watching the incinerator extension being built, and we know its insidious health effects. We know there are waste and recycling alternatives, that the dioxins produced will be with us forever more, and that once in operation it needs feeding with waste - destroying any genuinely sustainable waste strategy.

Isn't it time we began to think about getting the thing stopped?

Fight Psychophobia: Join the EADP

Join the last great civil rights movement. Fight psychophobia! End the barbarism done in the name of psychiatry! Join the European Association for Democratic Psychiatry (EADP)

Sheffield Health Newswire Archive

Earth Quake Delegation. Kamsar refugee camp.

Earthquake delegation. The Cuban doctors of Bakot.

Earthquake delegation. The langurbura refugee camp.

Earthquake delegation. How it happened.

Earthquake delegation. The ruins of Balakot.

Earthquake delegation. A meeting with the JKLF.

Member of Parliament Calls for Ban on Aspartame

Big demonstration to protect NHS in Huddersfield

Meeting on incapacity benefit reform

G8 medics acquitted

Indymedia - growing pains or symptoms of decay

No Widening M1

Important information for anyone living near Parkwood landfill

Another Roy Meadows?

Killer-cola linked to London Bomber [update]

Nottingham Against Incineration and Landfill [NAIL] Protest against expansion

Parkwood Landfill Site Photos

Critcal Mass Bike About in Nottingham :: Pictures

Councillors powerless in face of corporations?

Fight Psychophobia: Join the EADP

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