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Sheffield University Occupation - update

Court order obtained

Sheffield University Occupation: Official Statement on the Court Injunction

Sheffield University Occupation has been served with a court injunction which constitutes an attack on the right to protest. The injunction, obtained by the University management, has placed a one-year ban on all protests on University property (which could potentially include picket lines and campaign stalls) that have not been given written permission from the University. It is of course extremely unlikely that they would grant permission for any protest criticising the University over cuts, fees and education reform, hence this constitutes an effective ban on all protest at the University of which management does not approve. This will affect all groups and societies at the University, as well as lecturers and support staff picketing on days of strike action.

Occupy Planet Earth: Resisting the Militarisation of State Power

Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed spent the first half of the post 2001 decade analysing the West's Ties With Terror: Western-Al-Qaeda Relations in the Post-Cold War Period (2005), The Secret History of International Terrorism (2006) and the role of the West in Creating Terror (2006). Following this he moved on to analysing the The Hidden Holocaust - Our Civilizational Crisis (2008) and the Food Crisis & Peak Oil (2008). His latest book is A User’s Guide to the Crisis of Civilization: And How to Save It (2010), has now been adapted into a documentary feature film, The Crisis of Civilization (2011) and it had it's first UK screening in Leeds, in November. Read on for an analysis of the multiple global crisis's facing humanity and the hope that a movement to change the course the 1% have society set on can be changed by the 99%, Occupy Planet Earth: Resisting the Militarisation of State Power by Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed.

Photos from the Sheffield November 30th Strike Rally

Some photos form the massive rally in Sheffield today.

Sheffield University occupied

Sheffield student occupation - initial statement

Palestinian Film wins Awards at IDFA

The winners of the various IDFA (International Doc Festival Amsterdam) competition programs were announced Friday, November 25 in Escape, during the awards ceremony of the 24th IDFA.

The Special Jury Award went to 5 Broken Cameras (Palestine/Israel) by Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi, who also won the Publieke Omroep IDFA Audience Award.

See trailer here:

http://vimeo.com/21967570

UG#576 - Is 5000 Years Enough? (Debt, Morality & Fiat Currency)

Robin Upton | 18-11-2011 18:06 | Analysis | Social Struggles | Sheffield

This week in hour 2 we start a new series of readings, from David Graeber's Debt, The First 5000 Years. We start the show with ex-financial regulator, William Black, telling his experience of systemic financial fraud in US since the S&L fraud. Then an explanation of fiat money, inflation and central banks by Edward Griffin.

UG#577 - Money = Debt = War (The Rothschild Formula and The Myth of Barter)

More of money's dark secrets this week. We begin with Edward Griffin on the connection between debt, central bankers and their direct financial interest in perpetuating war and the threat of it. We conclude by reading The Myth of Barter, chapter 2 of David Graeber's Debt, The First 5000 Years.

Billy Bragg at Occupy Sheffield

Billy Bragg spoke and sung a few songs at Occupy Sheffield on 14th November 2011.

UG#575 - From Oily Sands to Greasy Palms

Focussing on Canada's Tar Sands this week, we examine the murky reality of 'free trade', and interference by the Canadian Government in the European Climate Change legislation. Who makes and enforces these agreements, and who benefits? We look at how the SPP is being revamped for re-introduction after concerted efforts to kill it by citizens' action groups.

Rally on 10 Nov - Mark Serwotka/Matt Wrack speaking

Sheffield Anti Cuts Alliance are hosting a ""Unite the Resistance meeting on 10 November to build for the N30 day of action for Pensions Justice

Homeless Debacle in North America

Alex Smith | 26-10-2011 22:27 | Repression | Social Struggles | Sheffield

Millions of North Americans are threatened with record homelessness. Bankrupt governments are not responding. Could you hack it? Alex interviews homeless advocates in New York City, San Francisco, Washington D.C. and Vancouver, Canada.

More Public Subsidy for Peel Holdings

anon | 22-10-2011 20:09 | Social Struggles | Liverpool | Sheffield

Liverpool City Council (Labour controlled) has announced it will pay 5 million to allow Peel to have a Turnaround terminal.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-14842615

UG#574 - Occupy Wall Street Special (Hip Hop Audiocollage)

A special show this week devoted to Occupy Wall Street. How to make a show of interest both to OWS attendees and to those who know next to nothing about it? Inspired by the popularity of episode 536, we give you an audio collage including live radio interviews with participants and local residents, video soundtracks, historic material and quite a lot of music.

UG#573 - I Spit in The Face Of The Money God (Mike Ruppert, Collapsenik)

We devote the whole show this week to a remarkable talk from 2011-09-11 by Michael Ruppert, who back in episode 95 became the first speaker on this show to question the events of Sep 11th. However, in this talk he says that 9/11 belongs to a 'bygone era' and he focuses instead on the urgent need to transition away from a paradigm of infinite growth and fiat currency.

UG#572 - Monopoly and Money (Contradictions of Capitalism)

If competition is such a good thing, why is it not tolerated in areas of government or law? Or in the money system, which functions as a highly profitable private business? And what about cartel agreements which align the interests of multi-national corporations firmly against the interests of consumers? Are corporations really competing to bring better products to market more cheaply, or are they competing for control of government to grant them privileges?

#OccupySheffield 15th October Solidarity Protest #15O #ows

Chris | 15-10-2011 21:04 | Occupy Everywhere | Social Struggles | Sheffield

On 15th October 2011, in solidarity with protests around the globe (see

http://15october.net/ ) activists gathered on the City Hall steps in Sheffield.

UG#570 - The Fundamental Wrongness of 'Rights' (Law as Fiction)

The show this week looks at the ideas of 'law' and 'rights'. As George Carlin says, if the government can take it away, it isn't a right, it's a privilege. A disturbing but important thought in these days in which governments worldwide are becoming more open about their subservience to expediency. We hear from a range of speakers, and our material ranges from the comic to the deadly serious.

UG#569 - The Light Within (Can Technology Make The Handicapped Whole?)

This week we introduce a new author, Jacques Lusseyran. As a teenager, although completely blind, he organised some of the most effective French resistance to the Nazi occupation. We begin with a reading of Steve Talbott's Can Technology Make The Handicapped Whole? about techno-fixing human beings, which focuses on Lusseyran. Next, we read one of Lusseyran's essays, The Blind in Society. Finally, an interview with Laura Fogg, author of "Travelling Blind -- life lessons from unexpected places", on her experience of helping the blind to navigate.

[video] 9/11: A conspiracy theory

James Corbett's humorous take on 9/11 has gone completely viral, amassing 500,000 views in just 5 days on youtube. This 5-minute satire of the 'Official Conspiracy Theory' uses factoids and hilarious graphics to drive home its points in what can only be called a masterpiece of reductio ad absurdum. Whatever it is, it's working. A half-million views in 5 days speaks for itself.

Sheffield Social Struggles Newswire Archive

Sheffield University Occupation - update

Sheffield University Occupation: Official Statement on the Court Injunction

Occupy Planet Earth: Resisting the Militarisation of State Power

Photos from the Sheffield November 30th Strike Rally

Sheffield University occupied

Palestinian Film wins Awards at IDFA

UG#576 - Is 5000 Years Enough? (Debt, Morality & Fiat Currency)

UG#577 - Money = Debt = War (The Rothschild Formula and The Myth of Barter)

Billy Bragg at Occupy Sheffield

UG#575 - From Oily Sands to Greasy Palms

Rally on 10 Nov - Mark Serwotka/Matt Wrack speaking

Homeless Debacle in North America

More Public Subsidy for Peel Holdings

UG#574 - Occupy Wall Street Special (Hip Hop Audiocollage)

UG#573 - I Spit in The Face Of The Money God (Mike Ruppert, Collapsenik)

UG#572 - Monopoly and Money (Contradictions of Capitalism)

#OccupySheffield 15th October Solidarity Protest #15O #ows

UG#570 - The Fundamental Wrongness of 'Rights' (Law as Fiction)

UG#569 - The Light Within (Can Technology Make The Handicapped Whole?)

[video] 9/11: A conspiracy theory

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