UK Indymedia - Sheffield Newswire Archive

Occupy Sheffield: Press Statement

@OccupySheffield | 13-01-2012 00:45 | Occupy Everywhere | Sheffield

Occupy Sheffield started 2012 in determined fashion; unlike banks, parliament and many corporations we did not suspend activity or trading over Christmas and New Year. Instead we continued working for the many, expanding our Occupation and opening Sheffield’s Citadel of Hope.

Climate May Force Human Evolution

Alex Smith | 10-01-2012 07:47 | Climate Chaos | Ecology | Sheffield

We journey into the deep past, to find the future, with Dr. Andrew Glikson, former Principal Research Scientist, for the Australian Geological Survey Organization. He's an expert on past extinction events, climate, and asteroid hits. Full length interview. Then neurobiologist Dr. William Calvin from Washington University, author of "Global Fever, How to Treat Climate Change" plus remarks by Dr. Colin Campbell.

Benefit cuts to make 800,000 more UK homes unaffordable

Dennis Moore @WSWS_Updates | 09-01-2012 23:06 | Occupy Everywhere | Social Struggles | Sheffield

Welfare cuts will put a further 800,000 homes out of reach of those claiming housing benefit, according to study by the Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH)

http://www.cih.org/news-article/display/vpathDCR/templatedata/cih/news-article/data/Housing_benefit_cuts_will_put_800000_homes_out_of_reach .

Eviction - Press Release: 9/1/12 from Occupy Lancaster!

There are over 1 million empty properties in the UK, 350,000 of these have been vacant for over a year. Money is being spent on keeping these places empty with no benefit to communities and with negative devaluation of properties in the surrounding area. Criminalising squatting in the middle of a housing crisis, as the Con-Dem government plan to do, is only going to make matters worse.

#Occupy and the Church

“What would Jesus do?” asked a pithy placard at the Occupy the London Stock Exchange protest recently. It seems rather obvious in a way. For some the answer was given in another St Paul’s placard, carried by a man dressed as Jesus “I threw out the money-lenders for a reason”. Of course we’re not in Jerusalem, nor are we technically in a temple.

Sheffield Somali Community Protest at Social Services Removal of 13 Year Old

There was a protest on 9th January outside Sheffield Family Court, by members of the Somali community about a police / social services raid which involved about 20 police battering down the front door of a family home in Broomhill and the forceful removal of Nimo from her family.

UK Indymedia and Twitter

@ukindymedia | 08-01-2012 00:16 | Indymedia | Sheffield

Since Indymedia started over a decade ago, the web has undergone major changes, with many more people and campaigns using their own blogs and sites. Corporate sites such as facebook and twitter have also become players in the exchange of information. Recent convictions of Facebook users have shown that using corporate sites can mean an increased risk for users, and whilst twitter has been more assertive about challenging police requests for user information, it remains another database which the state can potentially mine for information, for example the recent court request to Twitter for Occupy users IP addresses in the US. At Indymedia UK we still strive to find ways of getting out information about actions and campaigns to as wide an audience as possible, whilst bearing in mind the need to maintain anonymity and to reduce the risks to our users. We are currently reviewing our twitter strategy with a view to expanding the user base and getting information out to as wide an audience as posssible.

Leeds: Rossport Talk & Film - Tuesday 10th January

$h311h8r | 07-01-2012 14:41 | Rossport Solidarity | Sheffield

There will be a film and talk about the struggle against the Corrib gas project on Tuesday 10th of January at 7pm at the Space Project in Leeds.

The Crisis of Civilization January Screenings

Details of January screenings of The Crisis of Civilization: a documentary feature film investigating how global crises like ecological disaster, financial meltdown, dwindling oil reserves, terrorism and food shortages are converging symptoms of a single, failed global system.

We will be adding yet more screenings as they are confirmed, so keep an eye out for further details!

B&K Universal March - Hull - This Saturday!

NAVA | 05-01-2012 00:50 | Animal Liberation | Sheffield

Campaigners are preparing to march and rally in Hull this Saturday against the
plans to construct a laboratory beagle breeding farm in the area.

Oil Shock - The No Growth World

The price of oil hits you at the pump, in your food bill, and everything you buy. What if you can't afford it? Radio Ecoshock 120104 Oil Shock the Post-Growth World with Jeff Rubin, Charles Maxwell from ASPO 2011 and interview with Italy's Ugo Bardi on climate change vs. peak oil.

UK antifascist prisoners Sean Cregan and Andy Baker released

Two antifascist prisoners released 30/12/11

Leeds ABC 2011 Report

The annual report of Leeds Anarchist Black Cross

Which way forward for the 99%? General Strike 1st May 2012!

Build Power & Show Power through Mass Participatory Bold Action

To show our power, on May 1st, 2012, we will be organizing for such a mass participatory and bold collective action: a national general strike, mass boycott, student strike/ walk-out and mass day of action. We will be organizing within our unions- or informal workplace organizations where there’s no union or the union isn’t supportive- to hold a one-day general strike. Where a strike is not possible, we will be organizing people to call in sick, or take a personal day, as part of a coordinated “sick-out”. Those who are students will be walking-out of their schools (or not showing up in the first place). In the community, we will be holding a mass boycott and refusing to make any purchase on that day.

We, the 99%, will build our power and show our power until we've occupied our workplaces, our communities, our schools, our lives, our world... until we've occupied everything!

Leeds Antifascist Film Festival

Coming in February...

Fukushima: The Big Lie

Japan declares a fake "cold shutdown" saying the Fukushima accident is "over". Arnie Gundersen interview plus world reaction. Then: did Fukushima radiation kill 14,000 Americans? Interview with study co-author Janette Sherman, plus comments from Joseph Mangano. Added clip from Japan-German speaker Kazuhiko Kobayash on the secret of Japanese power.

Occupy Sheffield Statement on the occupation of the Citadel Of Hope

Occupy Sheffield have issued the following statement regarding the occupation of the former Salvation Army Citadel in Sheffield City Centre.

Salvation Army Citadel Occupied and renamed Citadel Of Hope

@OccupySheffield | 28-12-2011 11:03 | Occupy Everywhere | Free Spaces | Sheffield

Early on 28th December 2011 the long abandoned Salvation Army Citadel on Cross Burgess Street, Sheffield, was occupied and renamed the Citadel Of Hope.

Occupy and the meaning of Christmas

As the world awaits the celebration of the birth of the Christ child -- and as, on the eve of this celebration, municipalities around the United States clear out Occupy encampments, pepper-spray peaceful protesters, and threaten them with felony convictions and two-year jail sentences -- it is worth remembering what the historical Jesus actually told people to do: he told them precisely to behave like Occupy protesters.

Green Music

Alex Smith | 20-12-2011 06:28 | Climate Chaos | Ecology | Sheffield

The annual Radio Ecoshock Green Music Festival. Best of eco-music, many you won't find on Itunes. Some sent in by listeners, or the artists, not on albums, etc. Playlist at ecoshock.info. Plus 2 new Occupy songs ( Makana and David Rovics). A little inspiration for the heart.

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