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(Re)Founding Statement Of Sheffield Activist Network

As collectively agreed by the SAN collective:

Barnsley BNP "Off Our Streets"

100 trade unionists and anti-fascists challenged the Barnsley BNPs "right" to give out their racist and anti-working class rubbish in the town centre today, Saturday May 18th.

Caoimhe Butterly (Quiva) talk on continuing Isreali war crimes in Gaza

Caoimhe Butterly (Quiva) has been the Freegaza movement,

http://www.freegaza.org/, coordinator in Gaza since November 2008. She witnessed the devastating consequences of the Israeli Attacks on the Palestinian people. Quiva will share with us her experience during the horrific time which the Palestinian people suffered.

Spoof stickers against rising fares on Leeds Buses.

Those pests have struck again.

After their spoof of the local paper was so well received the people behind the Yorkshire Evening Pest have responded to yet another rise in the fares on First buses by producing stickers which helpfully inform passengers of both the rise in prices and what the company really thinks of them.

CELEBRATE MAY DAY in Jarrow

A North Eastern event to warm your soul in Credit Curnched times.

Sheffield Palestine Solidarity Campaign Film Festival: Cinema Palestino!

cinemaPalestino is a season of films exploring issues that effect us all falling in love, making a home, caring for a family, freedom- but under the shadow of a military occupation that distorts all aspects of daily life for the Palestinian people. cinemaPalestino is a celebration of Palestinian culture through drama and documentary film - despite 60 years of unimaginable oppression, Palestinians have retained a vital, creative and powerful identity. Join us in our celebrations!

* Every Thursday in May and the first Thursday in June

* All Sheffield PSC profits will got to children's projects in Gaza.

DIY newspaper hits the streets of Leeds

Free copies of the Yorkshire Evening Pest are being handed out to
thousands of people across Leeds, in a format that mimics the city's
Yorkshire Evening Post – albeit with articles on the collapse of the
city centre, climate change, the role of public transport and the
financial turmoil at Elland Road.

Hillsborough 1989 Remembered

20 years ago I was on the way to a Roy Harper gig in Leeds totally unaware of what was unfolding in Sheffield.

New Tesco for Crookes (round 2) - Fargate Speaker

Sheffield Anarchist Federation | 08-04-2009 10:45 | Free Spaces | Social Struggles | Sheffield

Despite a previous planning application being thrown out by hundreds of objections from local residents Tesco are once again putting forward proposals to build another superstore in Crookes. Not to be bested the Fargate Speaker is once again on the case.

Keep Alpha Mbodi and his family safe in Sheffield

Alpha Mbodi and his family are from eastern Congo. He fled DR Congo with his two sons in 2005, fearing the war there would claim the lives of his family. Unfortunately the family were unable to escape together and he was forced to leave his wife and young daughter behind. Alpha and his sons were accommodated in Sheffield by NASS shortly after their arrival in the UK.

Campaign To Stop The Deportation Of PriviledgeThulambo And Her Daughters

http://underclassrising.net/ | 27-03-2009 16:09 | Repression | Social Struggles | Sheffield

CAMPAIGN TO STOP THE DEPORTATION OF PRIVILEDGE THULAMBO AND HER DAUGHTERS

No2ID Sheffield Meeting

NO2ID is getting organised in Sheffield. There was a successful meeting in Sheffield at the Harlequin Pub last night, with plans being made to raise the awareness of the campaign and the the threats to our privacy.

Rally for Gaza: support the people of Palestine, stand behind the occupation

Show Your Solidarity!

Sheffield Students Occupy Hicks Building

Sheffield students showing solidarity with the people of Palestine have staged an occupation of the Hicks Building, close to the centre of the campus of the University of Sheffield.

Iraqi Kurds demonstrate against Kurdish Government!

The Kurdish Regional Government has an agreement with the UK (and other European) Government to receive the 100's of Kurdish asylum seekers that the UK forcibly deports.
On Sunday 15th March the families of some of those people forcibly deported will demonstrate in Kurdistan to end this agreement.

Safe From Who? Issue #5 The Fargate Speaker

The Fargate Speaker - Sheffield's antidote to crappy local news rags.

In this Issue: The Economic Crisis for Dummies, Bus Fare Hikes, Identi-kit stores, Starbucks, Fargate poses the question..., Sport

Hope Happening - 2nd Palestine Cafe Event

Radical Hope Happened at the YOMA Cafe in Southampton for Palestine
add your responses / thoughts for zine making please

Social Capital and the Obama Administration

In the late 1990s, while he was a member of the Illinois Senate, Barack Obama was also a member of the Saguaro Seminar -- a brainstorming group organized by Robert Putnam on how to remedy the decline in social capital in the United States. Social capital refers to the collective value of social networks: when people are embedded in networks and can draw upon the norms of cooperation and reciprocity the networks embody there are a variety of measurable benefits both to them and to the community as a whole. These benefits can include more effective government, faster economic growth, improved health, and increased happiness.

Release Delshad Zorab and grant him asylum in the UK

On the morning of Friday February 13th Delshad Namiq Zorab was taken from his home in Doncaster to a police station and then to Campsfield IRC. Many of you will have met Delshad: he has been an active campaigner for the right to asylum. Now, locked in Campsfield IRC, he fears that he will be forcibly deported to Iraqi Kurdistan where he has every reason to believe that his life would be in real danger. This is despite the fact that his appeal for asylum is still pending: Delshad should not - even under this Government's asylum laws - be detained or deported.

Community hit by New Deal funding crisis

http://underclassrising.net/ | 19-02-2009 12:19 | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | Sheffield

A SHEFFIELD regeneration agency slammed for wasteful spending has almost run out of money two years early - leaving community projects with a sudden cash shortage and putting 120 jobs at risk. Burngreave New Deal for Communities has just £400,000 left of its £52 million Government-funded budget, supposed to last 10 years between 2001 and 2011.

Sheffield Social Struggles Newswire Archive

(Re)Founding Statement Of Sheffield Activist Network

Barnsley BNP "Off Our Streets"

Caoimhe Butterly (Quiva) talk on continuing Isreali war crimes in Gaza

Spoof stickers against rising fares on Leeds Buses.

CELEBRATE MAY DAY in Jarrow

Sheffield Palestine Solidarity Campaign Film Festival: Cinema Palestino!

DIY newspaper hits the streets of Leeds

Hillsborough 1989 Remembered

New Tesco for Crookes (round 2) - Fargate Speaker

Keep Alpha Mbodi and his family safe in Sheffield

Campaign To Stop The Deportation Of PriviledgeThulambo And Her Daughters

No2ID Sheffield Meeting

Rally for Gaza: support the people of Palestine, stand behind the occupation

Sheffield Students Occupy Hicks Building

Iraqi Kurds demonstrate against Kurdish Government!

Safe From Who? Issue #5 The Fargate Speaker

Hope Happening - 2nd Palestine Cafe Event

Social Capital and the Obama Administration

Release Delshad Zorab and grant him asylum in the UK

Community hit by New Deal funding crisis

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