UK Indymedia - Sheffield Newswire Archive

Creative activism by the Mischief Makers - a short history

One making mischief... | 07-01-2007 13:32 | Art and Activism Caravan 2006 | Culture | Sheffield

The Mischief Makers are a group of activists and artists based in Nottingham (UK) who formed early 2005 as a creative response to the G8 Summit, held at Gleneagles Hotel, Scotland in July that year. The collective uses creativity to support community, environmental and social justice campaign and activist groups. The groups aim is ''to inspire people and empower them to identify challenges and take action in their local environment''. (1) Here follows a short overview of their first 2 years in action...

Martin Luther King “One death is one death too many!”

Dr King has been reduced to the syrupy sweet of the Hallmark cards genre where he is no longer prophetic.

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Sheffield Demo for better Bus services

Chris | 06-01-2007 15:23 | Social Struggles | Sheffield

Protestors took to the streets of Sheffield today to protest at the expensive, unreliable but very profitable, bus services in the City which are mainly run by First.

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What has happend to Urban75?

DWP | 05-01-2007 09:02 | Analysis | Sheffield

QUOTE=Ninjaboy That's exactly what happens when someone posts a thread about 9/11 on the general forum of urban75. it draws our activism away from the real and ongoing crimes of the state from

http://www.urban75.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=191015

The "Demonization" of Muslims and the Battle for Oil

The US led war in the broader Middle East Central Asian region has the purpose of gaining control over more than sixty percent of the world's supplies of oil and natural gas. The Anglo-American oil giants also seek to gain control over oil and gas pipeline routes out of the region.

Against the repression in Oaxaca, Anti-capitalist class struggle!

For several months the town of Oaxaca, capital of the Mexican State of the same name, has been the center of important struggles which have or suffered repeated attacks by the forces of repression (police, army and paramilitary) with many victims: at the end of November the toll was 22 dead and 34 disappeared.

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Support Lindhurst Wind Farm

Bryan | 02-01-2007 16:23 | Climate Chaos | Sheffield

Supporters of Lindhurst Wind Farm will be getting more signatures of support in Nottingham on the 13th of January 2007,letting the planners of Mansfield and Newark & Sherwood understand the full support from the people of Nottinghamshire.

Sheffield Mapping Party

hawkeye | 02-01-2007 16:10 | Technology | Sheffield

OpenStreetMap is planning a Mapping party in Sheffield on 24/25th March 2007 -- look at the current maps they have of Sheffield! It's not a one steet town!

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Sheffield

Following is an email sent to the Linux users lists in Sheffield:

Demonstrate against First's latest bus fare rises

alistair tice | 02-01-2007 15:34 | Social Struggles | Sheffield

Bus campaigners We Want Our Buses Back have organised a protest demonstration aginst First's latest fare rises. This takes place on Saturday 6th January assembling at 11am at City Hall for a march and rally.

What to do with a 'gift' from the US government

Lindis Percy | 31-12-2006 12:49 | Anti-militarism | Sheffield

Lowered US flag at USAF Croughton in 2000, not theft, wrote to US Ambassador requesting appointment to return and discuss presence of US Visiting Forces etc each year, December - given the flag..........what to do now!

Cancel 2007

Ernio Mambanero | 28-12-2006 04:18 | Sheffield

All consumerism must stop now!

Critical mass this Friday 29th Dec

The next critical mass bike ride in Manchester is Friday 29th December
We suspect lots of santa's will be on bicycles!

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The Anarchists' Ball - 3-Sided Football Endcliff Park 30 12 06 12pm

urban paranoia | 21-12-2006 13:39 | Culture | Sheffield

Three goals, hexagonal pitches...The rules have changed over the years, but FIFA would have a field day with this lot. Goal shrugs off the shackles of organised leagues and hangs out with the anarchists.

It is unlikely that Luther Blissett is even aware of the fact that he's the inspiration behind three-sided football, a form of the game that 'deconstructs the mythic bipolar structure of conventional football'. But then Watford is not a hotbed of class war and, although it is rumoured that he organised a three-sided football league during his playing days, Blissett probably isn't attending Hackney Anarchist Week in east London. Goal is, however, and it is here that we encounter the Luther Blissett 3-Sided Football League, named after the man himself. The game has been further developed by anarchist group the London Psychogeographical Association (LPA).

Played on an hexagonal pitch between three sides, each defending one goal, the aim is not to score the most goals, but concede the least. Goals are conceded when the ball 'is thrust through a team's orifice', so dissolving 'the homoerotic/homophobic bipolarity of the two-sided game'. Put simply, three-sided football is, ideally, an exercise in co-operative behaviour, with one side persuading another to join in a campaign against the third - thus breaking down the very basis of capitalist organisation - and all before teatime.

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Festive Season heightens deprivation for the Underclass

Chinese waste in UK landfill sites | 20-12-2006 00:30 | Sheffield

Chinese waste ends up in UK landfills and the underclass pay for it!

Opt-out of the national NHS database

nobody | 18-12-2006 23:13 | Health | Repression | Sheffield

The NHS database promises to be the biggest of the states big brother databases, but of course those with money won't be one it since they use private doctors, it's for the rest of us... There is a campaign to encourage people to opt out, read on.

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Lets have a Sheffield Oaxaca / Zapata protest, Sheffield ....

James Hadfield | 18-12-2006 16:32 | Oaxaca Uprising | Social Struggles | Sheffield

Do you like Zapatistas, ermmm lets have a protest in Sheffield (when we want, it maybe not in the indymedia date, but im sure indymedia, doesnt control us in someway !

The Liquid Terror Bomb Mastermind - Aquitted

Rashid Rauf, the proclaimed mastermind behind the "liquid terror bomb" plot from the summer of 2006 is not to be proscuted for terror offensives due to a lack of evidence:

Pakistan drops terrorism charges against key suspect in Heathrow bomb plot

On December 13, in an extraordinary turn of events, a court in Pakistan dropped terrorism charges against British-born Rashid Rauf.

Rauf is the alleged “ringleader” of the most infamous terror plot ever apparently uncovered in Britain—the plan to explode a number of transatlantic airlines en route from London’s Heathrow airport.

Details of the court hearing are extremely limited. But according to reports, a judge at an anti-terrorism court in Rawalpinidi said that the case against Rauf did not “fall into the category of terrorism.”

Rauf’s lawyer, Hashmat Habib, said no evidence had been provided to back up claims that his client was part of a conspiracy to hijack airplanes, and the judge agreed to strike out the two charges against Rauf relating to terrorism. “That practically means that Rashid Rauf has been acquitted of charges relating to terrorism,” Habib said.

http://wsws.org/articles/2006/dec2006/plot-d16.shtml

Craig Murray, who spoke in Sheffield recently on:

Legality, Morality and the War on Terror

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/sheffield/2006/10/354417.html

Has written the following article about Rashid Rauf.

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Shell education in Barnsley

RORS | 16-12-2006 20:10 | Rossport Solidarity | Ecology | Sheffield

On Saturday 16th December potential customers at a Shell petrol station in Barnsley were given information about the activities of Shell in Mayo and encouraged to boycott the company.

asbo solstice celebration - all day community party 22:12:2006

asbo crew | 13-12-2006 16:53 | Free Spaces | Sheffield

To celebrate our DIY community roots and the shortest day of the year, (from here on in we’re moving onwards and upwards into the light;) we are having a day of workshops, bands, soundsystems, food, performance, subversion, films, projections, dancing…….in and around the asbo.

Children and Britains housing divide

“Against the Odds: An investigation comparing the lives of children on either side of Britain’s housing divide,” published by the British homeless charity Shelter, highlights the terrible problems faced by children forced to live in temporary accommodation.

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