UK Indymedia - Sheffield Newswire Archive

Earth First! gathering, 4-9 August, programme & location announced

The full details of the Earth First! summer gathering is up on the website, how to get there, progamme and all.

Calls for Home Secretary to Ban the EDL from Bradford

The Telegraph & Argus, trade unions, Bradford University, political parties, faith leaders, the Chamber of Commerce, dozens of community groups and Bradford Council have all spoken out against the proposed English Defence League demonstration calling for it to be banned.

Bother In Bradford by 'Malatesta'

'Malatesta' | 27-07-2010 13:08 | Anti-racism | Sheffield | World

The EDL are to march in Bradford. But all is not well.

Afghanistan casualty rate highest of war

Eight months after the Obama administration announced a “surge” of 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan to crush the Taliban-led insurgency, the rate of US and allied casualties has soared to the highest level of the nearly nine-year war and is beginning to match the bloodiest stages of the occupation of Iraq.

Afghan War Leaks Expose Costly Folly

The brutality and fecklessness of the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan have been laid bare in an indisputable way just days before the House of Representatives is scheduled to vote on whether to throw $33.5 billion more into the Afghan quagmire, when that money is badly needed at home.

UG#509 - Gift Economy (1) - Reconceiving The Market

The show this week looks at the gift economy. We look at a range of reasons to challenge the cynical, capitalist view of the human as 'red in tooth and claw', listening to evidence from speakers including Alfie Kohn, Genevieve Vaughan & Jeremy Rifkin.

Bradford, 28 August: mobilise against the EDL!

Leeds Antifascist | 24-07-2010 23:03 | Anti-racism | Sheffield

Leeds Anti-fascist Network is calling a independent counter demonstration against the English Defense League. Mobalise from 11AM on the 28th of August in Bradford city centre. Details TBC.

Local authorities face devastating cuts and rationalisation

Stephen Alexander | 24-07-2010 19:48 | Other Press | Workers' Movements | Sheffield

A report by the New Local Government Network (NLGN) has warned that local authorities could lose at least a third of central government funding over the life of the current parliament. It warns that the £1.165 billion cuts to local authority grants already announced by Chancellor George Osborne will be small “compared with the tsunami of funding cuts that will hit councils.”

Sheffield Indy Radio Show #2 - Deportations, The EDL and Divide and Rule

The second Sheffield Indy Radio Show, features a discussion about the recent EDL confrontation at a Sheffield Indymedia meeting, the campaigns to oppose the deportations of two women from Sheffield, Odette Sefuko and Lem Lem Hussein Abdu, a listing of upcoming events from Alt-Sheff, news about the BP gulf oil spill via Democracy Now. If you missed it the first Sheffield Indy Radio Show came out on 17th June 2010.

Mr Ian Tomlinson you will never be and must not be forgotten

underclassrising.net | 23-07-2010 05:09 | Sheffield

The other day at an important London wide organising meeting, just 5 people. Then at the Colin Ward memorial ( and i was a fan so I am not knocking Ward) over 200! I utterly fail to comprehend people who profess any sort of revolutinary or radical politics and then do not do anything, or fuck all, about it. whats the point? No doubt they can all qoute

SOS - West Yorkshire Hunt Sabs

We Need YOUR help to get a new Landy!

Freemovement - Say No to Removals/Deportations

Important Information for Refugees granted leave to remain for 5 years in 2005

From 30 August 2010, those granted refugee leave or humanitarian protection in 2005 for 5 years will start to come to the end of their 5 years leave.

They will need as a matter of urgency to renew their application for indefinite leave to remain.

Someone who does not do so before his/her 5 years leave expires may suffer several problems - including losing any entitlement to work or receive benefits, or that any application for indefinite leave to remain is dealt with more restrictively, could also lead to their status being revoked and removal from the UK.

The UK Border Agency has published information about making applications for indefinite leave to remain for these people. See:
Refugees and those with humanitarian protection - route to settlement

http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/asylum/outcomes/successfulapplications/leavetoremain/

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For information on how to apply for indefinite leave to remain before your leave expires, you should go to:
Completing application form SET (Protection Route)

http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/settlement/applicationtypes/completing_set_protection_route/

Stop the Deportation of Lem Lem Hussein Abdu

Protestors gathered outside the UK Border Agency office in Sheffield on 20th July 2010 to protest against the threatened deportation of Lem Lem Hussein Abdu to Ethiopia, which could happen on the 21th July on flight BD913 (BMI airlines) from Heathrow to Addis Ababa at 13.50 hours unless her MP, Meg Munn or the Home Secretary intervene.

"Peace Envoy" Blair gets an easy ride in The Independent

Last month, the Independent carried an interview with Tony Blair, the former British prime minister and now "the international community's Middle East envoy." (Donald Macintyre, 'Tony Blair: Former PM urges Israel to ease Gaza blockade', Independent, June 4, 2010;

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/tony-blair-former-pm-urges-israel-to-ease-gaza-blockade-1991105.html)

EDL Terrorists Prepare For Bradford's Armageddon

As the countdown to the EDL's violent invasion of Bradford approaches, the EDL's hardcore nutzi and racist football hooligan activists preparing to "hit Bradford" for "The Big One", their chance to inflict permanent hatred, fear and terror into the heart of multicultural Britain, the EDL are testing the patience of the police in preparation for "the mother of all race riots", as the Facebook EDL supporters like to call it.

Omar Deghayes Complains About "Highly Selective" Disclosure of Documents

Last week, when the High Court ordered the release of documents relating to alleged British complicity in the torture and ill-treatment of British nationals in US custody, as part of a civil claim for damages filed by six former Guantánamo prisoners, 16 pages of those documents related to interrogations by British agents of one of the six, Omar Deghayes, who was released from Guantánamo in December 2007.

Calling All Future-Eaters

The human species during its brief time on Earth has exhibited a remarkable capacity to kill itself off. The Cro-Magnons dispatched the gentler Neanderthals. The conquistadors, with the help of smallpox, decimated the native populations in the Americas. Modern industrial warfare in the 20th century took at least 100 million lives, most of them civilians. And now we sit passive and dumb as corporations and the leaders of industrialized nations ensure that climate change will accelerate to levels that could mean the extinction of our species. Homo sapiens, as the biologist Tim Flannery points out, are the "future-eaters."

Stop the Deportation of Lem Lem Hussein Abdu

Pete | 19-07-2010 18:29 | Anti-racism | Migration | Sheffield

Demonstration for Lem Lem Hussein Abdu's right to stay

Tuesday 20th 3-5pm outside Vulcan House UKBA HQ, 2 Millsands S3 8DT (over the road from Howell's by the river)

Story in Star tonight

http://www.thestar.co.uk/news/Last-minute-bid-against-deportation.6426651.jp

From Dudley to Bradford

War of Attrition | 18-07-2010 17:24 | Birmingham | Sheffield

This was Dudley 17 7 2010 could Bradford be next?

UG#508 - Truth & Lies of The Financial "Crisis" (Peak Oil and Peak Ponzi)

The show this week looks at the financial crisis from two angles. Most of it is given over to a talk by Nicole Foss about the implications for expansionary debt-based money of hitting the planet's ecological limits. We conclude with a reading of Michael Hudson's 2009 article, The Language of Looting, which explains how the term "free market" is now used to mean the opposite of its historical meaning.

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