UK Indymedia - Sheffield Newswire Archive

Sheffield Green New Deal Conference

A Green New Deal Conference was held in Sheffield on 28th Feburary 2009 -- From Global Challenges to Local Solutions.

Our Next urban exploration will be Ranmoor Hall Sheffield: (read on)

http://underclassrising.net/ | 02-03-2009 15:38 | Sheffield

Fucking scum and so named solicitor Ian Firth, whose South Yorkshire firm made £78 million from sick miners‘ compensation is splashing out on a palatial new pad in Sheffield.

Irish Women Campaign for Truth & Justice

Mary Pearson | 02-03-2009 13:43 | Sheffield

Public Meetings - Justice for the Ballymurphy 11

Birmingham Trade Union Council Thursday 5th March 7.30pm
Council House, Victoria Square, City Centre B1 1BB

Coventry Trade Union Council Saturday 7th March 1.00pm
Four Provinces Social Club 19 Allesley Old Road CV5 8BU

The police need help, but they're frightened to ask

The article below taken from the Torygraph demonstrates the justifications the police aim to use in order to back moves to give them full access to all digital communications and insist on full data retention. This obviously has relevance to the recent indymedia server seizure and the arrest that followed.

Northern Climate Rush visit to UK coal headquarters

suffragette | 27-02-2009 21:23 | Climate Chaos | Sheffield

Around 15 climate activists from the North of England visited the headquarters of UK Coal near Doncaster yesterday in a protest against new coal and calling for tougher measures to control CO2 emissions.

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Keep Sheffield Station open to the public!!!

http://underclassrising.net/ | 27-02-2009 21:22 | Sheffield

Images from March/protest 27 2 09 all copyleft to underclassrising,net

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No Losar

crosteif | 27-02-2009 20:35 | Sheffield

The statement issued by the Central Tibetan Administration, the Tibetan government in exile, regarding the Tibetan new year reads as follows: "The CTA will hold only customary religious programs to mark Tibetan New Year, taking into consideration the continuing repression in Tibet and the ruthless crackdown last year (2008) which resulted in the deaths of hundreds of Tibetans and thousands imprisoned. We appeal to all the departments concerned and offices of the administration not to organize any lavish celebrations such as hosting feasts, dance parties and lighting firecrackers."

Britain 2009 (are we in a police state?) update:

http://underclassrising.net/ | 27-02-2009 14:43 | Sheffield | World

update:

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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

Sheffield University ignores student opinion regarding army recruiters!

Although there have apparently been discussions where several students have voiced their opinion supporting a ban of army recruiters from University campus, the University of Sheffield Careers Service could not care less. They have circulated an almost provoking email and have once more allowed army recruiters to hold interview sessions with students, which might even take place on campus.

The Other Israel: Israeli refuser speaks in Sheffield - Wednesday 11th March

Daniel Randall | 23-02-2009 18:54 | Anti-militarism | Palestine | Sheffield

Tamar Katz, an Israeli student recently released from prison, speaks in Sheffield about the struggle of Israelis to resist and undermine their government's war-machine and its colonial project in the occupied territories.

Wednesday 11th March, 7:30-9pm @ Arts Tower Lecture Theatre 6, University of Sheffield

We are all extremists now

For most of the past century, Britain's secret state bugged, blacklisted and spied on leftists, trade unionists and peace campaigners, as well as Irish republicans and anyone else regarded as a "subversive" threat to the established order.

Waking the Dead

Hildy Johnson | 23-02-2009 09:55 | Sheffield | South Coast

According to the FT, the Government has decided to extend more credit to Northern Wreck as a way of propping up the falling housing market. The bank is also to be broken up into a good bank and a bad bank with taxpayers left to cover the losses on the toxic waste, whilst the private sector will no doubt be allowed to pick up the healthy part on the cheap.

Urban Explorers Denounce Sheffield City Council:

http://underclassrising.net/ | 22-02-2009 12:06 | Sheffield

Samuel Osborn became a town councillor (1869), Master Cutler (1873), alderman (1890) and Mayor (1891). Because of ill health he was only able to attend a few council meetings and became the first Mayor of Sheffield to die during his year of office.

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.

BBC Covers Peak Oil: A Farm for the Future

Most would agree the subject of peak oil has not received the mainstream media coverage its importance warrants. On Friday the BBC will be broadcasting an excellent peak oil documentary; it focuses on farming. Presenter and co-producer Rebecca Hosking explores the importance of oil in farming and the potential impact of peak oil. The film has a passionate narrative centred on Rebecca’s small family farm in South West England; can she make her farm fit for the future?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00hs8zp
Fri 20 Feb 2009, 20:00 on BBC Two, repeated Sun 22 Feb, 17:00 on BBC Two (and also available on iPlayer).

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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.

Release Delshad Zorab and Grant Him Asylum Rights

Doncaster resident and Kurdish communist, Delshad Zorab, has been detained at Campsfield Detention Centre. He fears deportation to Kurdistan where his life will be threatened. He's fought all his life against dictatorship, big business and bigotry. Now he needs you support.

Keep Sheffield Station open to the public!!!

www.rasc-sheffield.com | 19-02-2009 14:28 | Sheffield

Date:Friday, February 27, 2009
Time:3:45pm - 6:00pm

Location:Assemble City Hall, Barkers Pool, then march to Station City/Town: Sheffield:

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.

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