UK Indymedia - Sheffield Newswire Archive

The Battle of Nabi Saleh: Soldiers vs. Kids

When Israeli soldiers entered the embattled Palestinian village of Nabi Saleh on July 2, they were immediately confronted by over a dozen small children. While the IDF is accustomed to firing teargas canisters, percussion grenades, rubber bullets and even live .22 caliber ammunition at adolescent boys, members of the Nahal unit and Kfir infantry brigade tasked with suppressing the weekly Nabi Saleh demonstration were frustrated by the children who surrounded and taunted them. At one point, the division commander became so upset he barked into his radio, “I need backup!”

UG#506 - Wage Slavery & Moral Dumbing Down

Robin Upton | 04-07-2010 18:19 | Sheffield

John Taylor Gatto has documented how business interests instituted forced schooling to 'dumb down' active citizens into consumers passive enough to work for the man and accept what they were given by corporations. This show looks at the moral component of dumbing down, the undermining of people's innate altruism and moral sense, making them easily manipulable by money.

Message For Family Court Victims In The U.K

Eng65 | 03-07-2010 12:01 | Social Struggles | Liverpool | Sheffield

INNOCENT PARENTS WHO HAVE LOST CHILDREN UNFAIRLY, UNJUSTLY, UNLAWFULLY, NOW .PRESS RELEASE INSIDE. READ ON...

Annual demo at Menwith Hill July 4th with Mark Thomas and Peter Tatchell

CAAB | 02-07-2010 16:39 | Anti-militarism | Terror War | Sheffield

Independence from America annual demonstration at Menwith Hill Sunday 4th July 2.00-7.00pm with Mark Thomas, Peter Tatchell Roy Bailey and loads of live music.

350.org - Circle this Date: 10/10/10

Bill McKibben | 02-07-2010 10:01 | Climate Chaos | Sheffield | World

Dear World,

It’s been a tough year: in North America, oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico; in Asia some of the highest temperatures ever recorded; in the Arctic, the fastest melting of sea ice ever seen; in Latin America, record rainfalls washing away whole mountainsides.

So we’re having a party.

Medialens: McChrystal - Death Squad Poster Boy

The sacking of the head of NATO’s military command in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal, caused a surge in coverage of the man described by political analyst James Petras as “Cheney’s chief assassin”.

Show your support for the 500 Metre Buffer Zone Bill

An MP through a Private Members Bill is aiming to restrict further the possibility of opencast mining in England

TESCO Fuck Off From Sheffield (stage two)

underclassrising.net | 01-07-2010 12:37 | Sheffield

The decision came through this week on the appeal by Tesco against Sheffield City Council’s planning decision refusing permission to erect a two-storey building on the site of 218 Springvale Road, formerly belonging to Hollies Filling Station.

After the oil rush: BP news

Doubt rises that BP relief wells won't work. Beyond oil, is transition to a clean economy - if we don't crash first. Dr. Kessler just back from the Gulf talks methane. Will the BP spill damage the climate, as much as the oceans? Alex wraps up the big picture - including record heat, extreme floods, record Arctic ice melt, & the dying economy.

UG#505 - The Matrix Deconstructed (Why Strict Fathers teach "Economic Liter

This week's show attempts to deconstruct the matrix of illusion that surrounds money and economics that is used to disorientate citizens and keep them working hard for their corporate masters.

The anguish of the age: Emotional reactions to collapse

We live amidst multiple crises -- economic and political, cultural and ecological -- that pose a significant threat to human life as we understand it.

There is no way to be awake to the depth of these crises without an emotional reaction. There is no way to be aware of the pain caused by these systemic failures without some experience of dread, depression, distress.

To be fully alive today is to live with anguish, not for one’s own condition in the world but for the condition of the world, for a world that is in collapse.

Petraeus signals escalation of US military violence in Afghanistan

In testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday, General David Petraeus, Obama’s new commander in Afghanistan, said he would reconsider the rules of engagement as part of an intensification of the US assault on the Afghan people. He also made clear that American troops would remain in the country well beyond the July 2011 date set by the administration to begin a withdrawal.

#504 - Just Cause, Just Laws & Just Wars (On The Desperate Edge of Now)

Robin Upton | 30-06-2010 15:53 | Anti-militarism | Sheffield

Unwelcome Guests episode 504, about how WW2 was justified (Adam Curtis), the Reality of War (David Halpin) & the legal status of the Attacks on Iraq & Afghanistan (Chris Coverdale).

Private Members Bill to set light to a smouldering controversy

Steve Leary | 29-06-2010 20:01 | Climate Chaos | Energy Crisis | Sheffield

A Member of Parliament is about to introduce a Private Members Bill, which if successful, would significantly reduce the amount of opencast coal produced in England. It will also reduce impacts on local communities by bringing policies in England into line with those operating in Scotland and Wales by introducing the need for 500 metre Buffer zones between opencast sites and areas of settlement.

EDL Hijack British Armed Forces Week

The EDL hijack the British Armed Forces home-coming parades throughout the whole of the United Kingdom, latching onto official mayoral welcomes, marching down streets cans and bottles in hand, deluded into believing that all the councillors, the town and city mayors, the soldiers and their friends and families who turn out are giving their tactit approval for everything the neo-Nazi rabble stand for.

Spending cuts in Britain worst since World War II

After detailed examination of the UK coalition budget measures, the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) said the country faces the “longest, deepest, sustained period of cuts to public services spending at least since World War II”. It is the first time that a British government has proposed six consecutive years of spending cuts.

Government to tell unemployed to ‘get migrating!’

A spoof of recent announcements by UK government which fail to address the reality for those in oppressed communities.

Explosive Evidence at WTC Cited by Former CDI Employee

Having had the privilege of speaking with Tom Sullivan, an actual explosive-charge placement technician, we have some new insights to pass along as to how controlled demolition works, where it started, and the effect that 9/11 had on the demolition industry. Sullivan gained his experience as an employee of the leading firm in this field, Controlled Demolition, Inc. (CDI)

http://www.controlled-demolition.com/ . Sullivan stresses though “I do not in anyway represent CDI and what I have to say is based on my own experience and training,”

G8/G20 Toronto Community Mobilization

underclassrising.net | 27-06-2010 06:27 | Sheffield | World

This week, thousands of people will be protesting in Toronto, Canada against the G20 summit, as part of the deepening global war against capitalism.

http://news.infoshop.org/ will be posting stories, accounts and updates here about the protests.

Anti-G20 protests erupt in Toronto

TORONTO in Canada has today erupted with massive and angry protests against the G20 meeting of the global neoliberal elite.

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