UK Indymedia - Sheffield Social Struggles Newswire Archive

Public Meeting: Cre8 in Lancaster

acorn | 15-03-2005 01:57 | G8 2005 | Social Struggles | Sheffield

100 people in a public meeting organised by a voluntary association of citizens in Lancaster's Town Hall about the G8 meeting in Scotland in July. People shared ideas in working groups about how to get practically involved in opposing the summit after a presentation about the G8 and global democracy.

Co-housing conference: an individual’s view

Dan Aktivix | 27-02-2005 20:07 | Free Spaces | Social Struggles | Sheffield

This weekend (25th to 27th February 2005) a hundred people descended on Lancaster for the first UK co-housing conference. This is one person’s view of how it went, and how it was for me.

Royal Television Society party poopers

Activists from NOTES FROM THE BORDERLAND staged a lively protest at the Royal Television Society journalism awards 24th Feb in London protesting about the dire state of investigative journalism in Britain - much fun was had by all and top BBC executives including the Director General had to scuttle in through the back door!

BENEFIT CLAIMANTS ARE FACING MORE INTIMIDATION!

Note the following article on Sheffield Indymedia:

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/sheffield/2005/02/304633.html

The above article was the first time I've seen anything at all on this issue, there are many people here in Liverpool and elsewhere on social security benefits both in work and out of work, disabled, sick or retired. Many claimants have had the pressures put upon them, I for one have been getting letters pressuring me for months and months into accepting payment firstly into a Post Office (P.O.) card account.

Sheffield Social mini-Forum 17th Feb: Why Don't You...?

Dan Aktivix | 10-02-2005 14:01 | Free Spaces | Social Struggles | Sheffield

Thursday 17th Feb
7 to 9.30pm
St. Andrew's Church Hall
Upper Hanover Way
(Call 07968 997861 for more details...)

Activist Scenes Are No Safe Space for Women

Hippie | 09-02-2005 12:34 | Gender | Social Struggles | Sheffield

Activist Scenes are No Safe Space for Women: On Abuse of Activist Women by
Activist Men

By Tamara K. Nopper

Photos from the Silver Squat

Bilbo | 01-02-2005 21:16 | Free Spaces | Social Struggles | Sheffield

The Silver Squat, a free space in Sheffield was evicted on Monday 24th January. It recently burst into life as an autonomous punk venue hosting two really fun gigs and an anti- G8 event before closing.

PCS Union in massive row over benefit payments

sheffer | 01-02-2005 18:13 | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | Sheffield

the PCS union reacts as claimants are denied payment unless they agree to be paid into a bank/post office

Meeting Sat 29th: World Festival of Students and Youth, August 5-13th, 2005

Maria Vasquez | 25-01-2005 23:45 | Globalisation | Social Struggles | Sheffield

If you are interested in going to the festival, or supporting a Sheffield delegation, please attend the following meeting. By working together to raise money, we are hoping that some of the costs involved would be covered, to enable anyone who is interested to attend - ALL ARE WELCOME.

"shadows of occupation": third balatacamp.net film from Palestine

Shadows of Occupation [2005; 3min]

"Balata camp children prepare a shadow puppet theatre production. During the performance, the characters of their imagination move from the screen onto the streets."
Download it now from www.balatacamp.net

Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration

sheffjeff | 23-01-2005 22:11 | Anti-racism | Social Struggles | Sheffield

“They will not be judged by the colour of their skin!”
Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration

Maelstrom needs more help

Call out for involvement in squatted infospace

Justice for Palestine Vigil

Lisa | 16-01-2005 12:48 | Repression | Social Struggles | Sheffield

Yesterday there was a vigil outside of Sheffield Town Hall to draw attention to the fact that Palestine is still illegally occupied, and that 1.2 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip remain imprisoned.

The power of social forums: 3000 words on why we should fight for them

"Once the logic of power is adopted, the struggle against power is already lost… for what is at issue in the revolutionary transformation of the world is not /whose/ power but the very existence of power." [Holloway / Peláez]
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Throughout the ESF process, I kept on having this dark vision: the European Social Forum office in London as an encampment deep in the Congolese Jungle. Like the Heart of Darkness – Ken Livingstone a 21^st Century Kurtz. Picture him: lurking in shadow, brooding in the last rays of a blood red sunset, deep within his humid, plastic-plant-filled office. Picture him: at the end of a long, dark corridor lined with the heads of SWP members and GLA officials who displeased him…

Labour website of the year

Voting began last week for this annual competition, which began in 1997, and which allows trade unionists around the world to vote for their favourite union websites. The Labour Website of the Year, sponsored by LabourStart is the only global competition open to all trade union websites and aims to encourage excellence in website design in the international trade union movement.

Yes Men Score A Hit for Bhopal

sheff_imcista | 03-12-2004 18:13 | Social Struggles | Sheffield | World

The BBC has been forced to apologise after falling for the latest stunt from by The Yes Men (

http://www.theyesmen.org/) who impersonated a Dow Chemical spokesman and said the US company accepted responsibility for India's Bhopal disaster.

Good news for anti-ID campaign

A press release from Financial Times, at ft.com, published today December 1st.
Good news for anti-ID campaigners.
Anti-ID views from a traditionally "respectable" lobby.

Sherwood Forest Camp on High Eviction Alert

Sherwood Forest protest camp at Mansfeild Woodhouse, Nottinghamshire are on high eviction Alert after they have been issued new Papers earlier this week, Balifs and unmarked security vans are now patrolling the area and equipment is being delived to site.
The camp expects to be evicted very soon. They need people to act now, get on camp

Protest at Coca-Cola's Violence In India

FAX ACTION: Coca-Cola: STOP Destroying Lives, Livelihoods and Communities in India

Council Tenants

Sheffield tenant | 24-11-2004 02:19 | Social Struggles | Sheffield

Enquiry about letter and voting paper for December. This letter is being sent to tenants of council houses in Sheffield.

Sheffield Social Struggles Newswire Archive

Public Meeting: Cre8 in Lancaster

Co-housing conference: an individual’s view

Royal Television Society party poopers

BENEFIT CLAIMANTS ARE FACING MORE INTIMIDATION!

Sheffield Social mini-Forum 17th Feb: Why Don't You...?

Activist Scenes Are No Safe Space for Women

Photos from the Silver Squat

PCS Union in massive row over benefit payments

Meeting Sat 29th: World Festival of Students and Youth, August 5-13th, 2005

"shadows of occupation": third balatacamp.net film from Palestine

Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration

Maelstrom needs more help

Justice for Palestine Vigil

The power of social forums: 3000 words on why we should fight for them

Labour website of the year

Yes Men Score A Hit for Bhopal

Good news for anti-ID campaign

Sherwood Forest Camp on High Eviction Alert

Protest at Coca-Cola's Violence In India

Council Tenants

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