Sheffield Other Press Newswire Archive

It is normally impossible for us to regard the leader of a major British or American political party without cringing at their compromised, corporatised, plastic personalities.

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Attached are audio recordings of the opening and closing plenary sessions of the Real Media Gathering 2015 held at the Friends Meeting House in Manchester on 28th February 2015. Speakers at the opening plenary were Kam Sandhu, Donnachadh McCarthy, Samantha Asumadu, Des Freedman and Nafeez Ahmed. The closing plenary included Angela Haggerty, Jamie Kelsey-Fry, Natasha Boojihawon and others.

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This week, a range of speakers contribute complimentary perspectives on life in modern USA. We examine the methods, history, purposes and trace the implications of the mass surveillance state and its accompanying machinery of social domination by perpetuating fear among the US citizenry. How to respond to an amoral government which appears set on establishing a totalitarian state, or of destroying society in the effort?

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Join us in Manchester for a massive independent media fair including big speakers, discussions, networking and media training workshops.

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In July, regular Guardian contributor Nafeez Ahmed examined claims that Israel is seeking to create a 'political climate' conducive to the exploitation of Gaza's considerable offshore gas reserves - 1.4 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, valued at $4 billion — which were discovered off the Gaza coast in 2000.

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Nafeez Ahmed’s account of the sudden termination of his short-lived contract to write an environment blog for the Guardian is depressingly instructive – and accords with my own experiences as a journalist at the paper.

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Live at 5pm Today Saturday 1st november 2014


The cover up of the abuse of grandma b a elderly pensioner in a wheel chair linking this to a Demo about jimmy Saville and the alleged corruption of the city of York officials county of Yorkshire and the police service alleged.

 http://www.freedomtalkradio.net/knights-liberty-show-kersten-england-chief-executive-york-city-council

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Similar in spirit to UG#670, we look at what Charles Eisenstein termed "The Ubiquitous Matrix Of Lies". We examine a range of lies spun by the vast machine as part of its efforts to perpetuate hopelessness, including a particularly obvious fraud from this August, a Nurse Nayirah style effort to drum up support for an attack on Syria. We focus loosely on war propaganda in Syria, but use a wide range of examples to illustrate the interwoven, interlocking nature of the matrix of lies while reflect on its implications for those determined to seek truth.

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Hi George

It's good to know that your email is intended in a 'friendly and constructive spirit'. We hope you will post a link to this response on your home page and via Twitter.

You write that Media Lens is a 'project whose purpose is to engage and persuade progressive journalists by critiquing their work and encouraging people to write to them'.

We do, of course, encourage readers to send polite emails to journalists. But our primary purpose is to raise public awareness by highlighting examples of corporate media bias. What people do with that awareness is really up to them. Our hope is that it feeds into activism, campaigning and the creation of non-corporate media like MediaBite, News Unspun and BS News.

Above all, we're trying to stimulate debate and participation. Engaging with journalists is certainly part of that, but we have few illusions about influencing media employees who often have little room for manoeuvre and who are deeply dependent on the corporate system. We do hope for marginal improvements as a direct result of our work - they do happen and do matter - but it's not a primary concern.

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Sheffield trades union council has voted in favour of holding a demonstration in support of millions of striking workers and students across Europe, on November the 14th. Local pcs branches will call for walk outs and students are expected to join the demonstration outside Sheffield town hall 4pm Wednesday the 14th of November.

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The British media has played a venal role throughout the ongoing efforts to witch-hunt and silence WikiLeaks and Julian Assange. But it has plumbed new depths following the decision by Ecuador to grant his request for political asylum.

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Attached is a recording of the launch of the Radical Routes book, "How to set up a Workers Co-op", an interview with Cath from Radical Routes, some photos of the event and also a PDF version of the book.

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“Our policy is to try to accelerate the arrival of that tipping point” at which the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad is toppled, Assistant Secretary of State Jeffrey Feltman explained last March to the US Senate’s foreign relations committee.

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On May 26th UK activists will converge in Newcastle to march against Animal murderers at Newcastle university.

22 thousand animals are tested upon every year and Newcastle university is one of the last remaining universities to perform testing on primates.

Its time to say NO to animal testing.

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How can we be optimistic, facing global challenges? Publisher of The Mother Earth News & Utne Reader, Bryan Welch explains. Ecoshock's Gerri Williams takes us to the D.C. Environmental Film Festival. Harry Lynch, Director of "Switch" on the search for energy replacements. Alexandra Cousteau on National Geographic film "Blue Planet North America Expedition".

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A round up of campaigns organised by people in their communities including saving the local school, health service, and prevent nuclear waste dumping.

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