UK Indymedia - Sheffield Newswire Archive

Nottingham, Sheffield, & West Yorkshire Sabs Sept 2010-March 2011 Report

Another busy season...

Global Petition: End Fukushima's Deadly Radioactive Fallout! Entomb Fukushima No

The people of the world must now demand that the Chernobyl Option

Ratcliffe protesters encouraged to appeal

The 20 protesters convicted of 'conspiracy to commit aggravated trespass' at the Ratcliffe power station are being invited to appeal because of Mark Kennedy's involvement (link below).

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UG#541 - Outing Prison 1 (Mass Incarceration Is The New Jim Crow)

This week we hear author Sasha Abramsky and professors Viviane Saleh-Hanna and Michelle Alexander on the US incarceration industry, or as they call it, the "Prison Industrial Complex". How can a country which used to style itself the "land of the free" lock up far more of its own population than any other country? Why has the US prison population exploded? And what is the connection with racial segregation and Jim Crow?

UG#547 - Outing Prison 2 (FASD and What is Prison For Anyway?)

This week we continue our investigation into the incarceration industry. Firstly, a look at FASD, a congenital brain deficiency caused by mothers who drink excessive alcohol while pregnant. Second, a speech by prison reformer Vivien Stern on how the terrifying reality of the prison system in UK. We conclude with a rebroadcast of a section from Charles Eisenstein on 'life under contract' about the deeper reasons behind the push to incarcerate ever more of the population.

Shell HQ gets attacked

Just before midnight on Monday night some angry souls with paint descended upon the Shell offices at Duckmaster near Bolsover (not far from Chesterfield), They proceeded to paint the doors and windows in red and black, with a hint of green for good measure.

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Save the Harlan Beagles campaign launched!

NAVA | 14-04-2011 13:20 | Animal Liberation | Birmingham | Sheffield

SAVE THE HARLAN BEAGLES - GET INVOLVED

Bramham's GM crops

On 8th April 2011 a public meeting organised by Stop GM

http://www.stopgm.org.uk/ was held in Bramham about the genetically modified potatoe trials being held there. The meeting was chaired by local minister Rev. Menzies and addressed by Dr. Ricarda Steinbrecher, Peter Riley from GM freeze,

http://www.gmfreeze.org/ and Gerald Miles.

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Fukushima: Nuclear Mutiny

Fukushima accident now Chernobyl-style Level 7. Analysis of risk & radiation by Arnie Gundersen, industry insider & whistleblower. Chat w. Calif. activist Ace Hoffman. Our milk, food, water hit. Lots of news clips you never hear. Plus corporate & political intrigue in Tokyo as "disaster capitalism" kicks in.

Jomast / Hartlepool Marina Ban Bobby Roberts!

Oh Happy Days | 13-04-2011 14:38 | Liverpool | Sheffield

ANOTHER VENUE PULLS THE PLUG

delocalized actions no g8

want do something?

Bobby Roberts & Hartlepool Marina - Important Update

On yerr bike | 12-04-2011 10:01 | Animal Liberation | Liverpool | Sheffield

IMPORTANT UPDATE - JOMAST DEVELOPMENTS - HIT 'EM HEAD ON!

Bobby Roberts Circus - Two Month's of Venues Released

Rainy Days | 11-04-2011 16:21 | Animal Liberation | Liverpool | Sheffield

Bobby Roberts Circus on their last legs.

Bobby Roberts Lose Another Venue - Skipton Auction Mart

Bobby Bashing | 10-04-2011 22:19 | Animal Liberation | Liverpool | Sheffield

VENUES DROPPING LIKE FLIES

Fear & Loathing in Fukishima

Radio Ecoshock | 10-04-2011 17:22 | Ecology | Energy Crisis | Sheffield

Will there be more explosions at the damaged nuclear reactors in Japan? What is reaching North America, or Europe? The Fukushima site leaks hi-rad waste while operators dump more into the Pacific. Sea food & sea life affected. Japanese government withholds vital information. News plus interviews with Dr. John Large in UK, and Dr. Krzysztof Starosta who measured emissions on Canada's West Coast (as UC Berkeley did in San Francisco).

Halifax RUFC Ban Bobby Roberts

Bobby's Buggered! | 10-04-2011 12:54 | Animal Liberation | Liverpool | Sheffield

Another venue shows Bobby Roberts the door. It's time to hit them head on!

From Ivory Coast to Libya and beyond: The conquest of Africa

Just as the 1884-1885 Berlin Conference divided the African continent into spheres of influence between the major European powers and the U.S., with Ivory Coast belonging to France and Libya later taken by Italy, so now the U.S. and all the major former European colonial masters, who are now fellow NATO member states - France, Britain, Portugal, Spain, Belgium, Germany, Italy and Turkey - are again planning to establish dominance over what has become the world's second most populous continent.

Young Hearts Run Free Screening and Q + A

Andy | 09-04-2011 18:37 | Sheffield

Screening Showroom Cinema tomorrow 10th April 6.00pm

UG#543 - The Corruption of Money (The Perverse Power of The Price Tag)

Robin Upton | 09-04-2011 17:34 | Analysis | Sheffield | World

This week we look at the psychologically corrupting aspects of money. Our main presentation is a radio adaptation of Robin Upton's presentation "The Corruption of Money", which is accompanied by Beyond Money, a speech by John Taylor Gatto. We also hear words from George Lakoff and Vivien Stern on commodification of justice and morality.

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UG#542 - Sanders Speaks Out (Exposing The Fed's Financial Endgames)

Robin Upton | 09-04-2011 17:05 | Sheffield | World

The show this week is devoted to a single speaker, Bernie Sanders, independent US Senator for Vermont, whose 8½ hour speech he last December protested the "Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010". We hear extracts of his speech, on the multi-trillion dollars bailouts which he forced the Fed to disclose, the increasing size of already 'too-big-to-fail' banks, increasing inequality in US society and global trade.

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