UK Indymedia - Sheffield Newswire Archive

Shell's security company revealed

The illegal destruction of Glengad beach in Ireland is being overseen by I-RMS, a private security company with a background in military training. Last week 13 residents were arrested when they tried to question the legality of the work. There have been numerous complaints against unidentified security videoing families using the beach for swimming.

ClimateCycle - Woodhead High Peak - Saturday 2nd August

Save the Woodhead Tunnel | 28-07-2008 17:17 | Climate Camp 2008 | Climate Chaos | Sheffield

This year we have a unique opportunity to re-open the Woodhead rail line between Manchester and Sheffield.
Midday, Saturday 2nd August 2008

Join the Save the Woodhead Tunnel Campaign in demanding the Government hold to their promises on sustainable transport and climate change and re-open this historic and important line.

We are holding a demonstration at The Woodhead Tunnel, near Glossop in the High Peak.

Community Assemblies – a revolutionary devolution?

Council Ax | 26-07-2008 14:43 | Analysis | Sheffield

In the dulcet tones of a charging bull, Paul Scriven, leader of Sheffield Council and chief commandant of the local Liberal Democrats, ushered in a new era at Sheffield Council. The big idea is to change Area Panels, the twelve erratic local government love children that are dotted around Sheffield, into seven Community Assemblies.

Troops Out Movement Delegation to Belfast 7th - 10th August 08

Mary Pearson | 25-07-2008 22:16 | Liverpool | Sheffield

This is to inform people of the Troops Out Movement's annual visit to Belfast which co-insides with the final weekend of the West Belfast Community Festival - Feile an Phobail

Police try and enter Bodge House

Earlier today (25 July) several police turned up to look at a hole in the field, in actual fact it is a tunnel, but hey!

U.S style Workfare coming to the U.K...

SWAN | 23-07-2008 11:51 | Workfare | London | Sheffield

The 'Workhouse' comes closer…

Yet another Welfare Green Paper will mean cheap labour, reducing costs, a Victorian notion of the ‘undeserving poor’ and creating a new market off the the backs of some of the most vulnerable in the UK,

Northern Animal Rights Coalition set up!

Blue | 20-07-2008 03:15 | Animal Liberation | Sheffield

After months of not very much happening in the way of AR activism in the north-eastern regions of England (I'm talking about you Newcastle!) we decided to get a new network sorted out. I bring you the Northern Animal Rights Coalition (NARC...yeah, I know, it's a bit lame :)

Eviction gets go ahead - Bodge House

Activists fortify Bodge House against UK Coal open cast mine and the eviction squad

The group of direct activists occupying Lodge House opencast site since 18th June have declared that they are ready to resist eviction.

Climate Camp demo - Save the Woodhead Tunnel

Save the Woodhead Tunnel | 19-07-2008 10:19 | Climate Camp 2008 | Climate Chaos | Sheffield

This year we have a unique opportunity to re-open the Woodhead rail line.

Join the Save the Woodhead Tunnel Campaign in demanding the Government hold to their promises on sustainable transport and climate change and re-open this historic and important line.

http://savethewoodheadtunnel.blogspot.com/

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?f=q&hl=en&time=&date=&ttype=&ie=UTF8&cd=2&geocode=0,53.495117,-1.830297&om=1&msa=0&msid=100950118038398329239.000441a586b51a597a528&ll=53.478239,-1.897888&spn=0.122593,0.274658&z=11&source=embed
www.climatecamp.org.uk

Cycle from Hadfield, meet train station, midday

Kentucky Fried Cruelty...

To highlight the incredible suffering inflicted on millions of animals by KFC, including a staggering 960,000 chickens every hour, the Nottingham Animal Rights crew spent a productive Thursday evening leafletting outside KFC.

Is the 9/11 "Pentagon Hole" a Psyop to Distract from Real Questions?

It's understandable some believe "no 757" hit the Pentagon due to the heavy promotion of that idea, but there's no actual evidence. The theory is being used to mock and discredit the 9/11 Truth Movement, & to give Congress and the media a reason to avoid real questions about 9/11. The military drilled for 9/11-style attacks, & they came after years of warnings that Al Qaeda intended to hijack planes for missiles.

UNISON Local Government Members Strike Over Pay

Chris | 16-07-2008 15:31 | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | Sheffield

UNISON members in Local Government started a national 48 hour strike on 16th July 2008 against their "final" 2.45% pay offer.

Call out for help at Shipley Bodge Site

sooty | 16-07-2008 14:45 | Sheffield

The people on site at the squatted farm at the Shipley Lodge Open Cast Coal mining site have put a call out for help!

They are in court on Friday (10 am Derby), and it is possible that they may be evicted at anytime after that.

URGENT - Protest against the BNP meeting in Southey

Sheffield Unite Against Fascism | 14-07-2008 22:47 | Anti-racism | Gender | Sheffield

The BNP are to hold a public meeting in Sheffield on Wednesday, 16th July. Sheffield Unite Against Fascism is calling a protest against these racists and fascists organising in our city.

Leeds Fascists Tony White & Kevin Watmough Arrested! Simon Sheppard On The Run!

Auntie | 14-07-2008 18:23 | Anti-racism | Sheffield

Tony White & Kevin Watmough have been taken into custody today. Simon Sheppard and Steve Whittle (AKA Luke O'Farrell) are on the run.

Dear Camp for Climate Action

make the middle class history | 14-07-2008 11:07 | Sheffield | World

Firstly thank you for contacting me. I'm hopping mad about what I've
heard, but I may not have been told the whole story. I can tell you too
the mining community whats left of us feel utterly betrayed by rumours
about you swinging all your efforts to close down what remains of the coal
industry. There are debates about counter-demonstrations etc and press
statements from the power workers and miners. So its vital we do not take
up cudgels over this unless and until and at least that we know where each
other stand. I was a matter of interest with the National General
secretary of the NUM and the Yorkshire Area Leadership last weekend and
they are spitting feathers about the Drax demonstration. The slogans on
the demonstration and the statements made to the press by the protestsrs
demonstrated no concern for the miners, railway workers or power workers.
There was no consultation with us, no debate with us, no seeing what we
wanted or how we see the world or how we can see if there is anything is
common. 'Leave It In The Ground' was the banner which was unfurled at
Drax, 'it' being the coal, and the miners ? where do we leave them ? that
bit wasn't answered. We know where John Major and Maggie Thatcher and
Harold Wilson left us, on the dung heap, and most of us are still there.

The Sun Did Shine (The 11th SHARROW FESTIVAL 2008) in images..

unerclasriseing | 13-07-2008 11:27 | Sheffield | World

Images taken using a pentax k100d operated by deck chair hippy, The changes are done in Gimp free open source image manipulation program, with the help of zero seven four two see more here

http://www.flickr.com/photos/0742/ all work copy left to

http://pretentiousartist.com/ last years indymedia

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/sheffield/2007/07/376305.html

Help Save Wensley Hillside Peak District National Park

Save Wensley Hillside Group | 11-07-2008 16:05 | Ecology | Sheffield

Glebe Mines, owned by INEOS (the multi-billion pound company that owns Runcorn chemical works) have put in an application to the Peak District National Park Authority (PDNPA) to build an open pit quarry on Wensley Hillside. The site, which is 6 miles from Bakewell, is within the Peak Park and is 2 miles away from the scene of the well-known Stanton Moor quarrying disputes.

Reminder: Noise demo UK Coal this Monday 14th July

Leave it in the ground | 11-07-2008 11:12 | Climate Chaos | Sheffield

Keep up the pressure on UK Coal to stop their profiteering from climate destruction. Tell them we can’t live with their new open cast sites.

Stop the BNP’s Festival of Hate

Anti-facist | 10-07-2008 20:29 | Stop the BNP's Red White and Blue festival | Anti-racism | Sheffield

South Yorkshire meeting to mobilise for the protest against the BNP’s Red White and Blue Festival

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