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PCS strike kicks off Sheffield Mayday action

Public Sector strike stalwart | 01-05-2007 16:03 | Mayday 2007 | Workers' Movements | Sheffield

Civil Servants across Sheffield have been on strike in impressive numbers as part of the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) Union's second one day strike against government attacks on pay, job cuts and increasing privatisation of public services.

Squaf: Sheffield Squat Café and Social Centre

Opening tonight, 1st May 2007, for a limited time only (depending on input), is a new squatted social centre and café in the former Tramway pub on London Road, Sheffield.

Mirfield BNP Candidate- Ex Convict?

Information has reached us here at the Kirklees Unity newsdesk that the Mirfield BNP candidate is an alleged convicted fraudster.

BNPs Secret Plan for ‘Apartheid’ in UK

Former British Nationalist Party activist, turned anti-fascist campaigner, Matthew Collins, Director of Searchlight's Operation Wedge, has revealed the inside truth about the BNP’s plans for apartheid in Britain, and how to defeat the far right.

BNP Councillor to face new probe

A BNP councillor who wrote a controversial song about Savile Town will face an investigation after all following a fresh complaint from Labour MP Shahid Malik.

Fraudster stands as BNP candidate

AS IF THE BNP did not have enough councillors with criminal convictions, one of the partys candidates in Barnslev South Yorkshire, turns out to be a disgraced former magistrate with a conviction for fraud.

BNP Candidates Nazi Shame

A BRITISH National Party activist who claims he is a respectable businessman is really a Nazi fanatic who dresses in German uniform and flies a swastika flag.

"The End Game" video stream- the anti-war movement and the Democrats

As the debate intensifies over the Iraq war funding, this new Labor Beat video examines the complicity of the Democratic Party in the war, against the backdrop of recent 4th anniversary of war protests. Video stream and dvd ordering info

Ties With Terror: Western-Al-Qaeda Relations in the Post-Cold War Period

The attached audio file of Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed was recorded at Rep. Cynthia McKinney's congressional briefing — The 9/11 Commission Report One Year Later, A Citizens' Response: Did the Commission Get it Right? on July 22nd, 2005. The following essay was originally submitted as part of the record for the congressional briefing.

The complete transcript and submitted written material from McKinney's briefing is available as a PDF and audio rcordings were available on radio.indymedia.org but this server is currently out of action. However a high quality video of the briefing is available in 3 parts:

Part One - 696Mb avi: Introduction by Verna Avery Brown, Opening Remarks by Cynthia McKinney, blessing by pastor Rebecca West, a critique of the 911 Commission Report read by Lorie Van Auken, accompanied by Monica Gabrielle and Mindy Kleinberg, further critique by John Judge, followed by ex-CIA analyst Mel Goodman's criticism of the very structure of the Commission, Paul Thompson examines NORAD/FAA response, Nafeez Ahmed examines the "al Qaeda" links, John Newman discusses Omar Saeed Sheikh, Marilynn Rosenthal dicusses prior knowledge (forewarnings) - approx. 3.5 hours
Part Two - 697Mb avi: Ann Norton's history of the Neocons and Leo Strauss, Peter Dale Scott on 9/11 and Deep Politics, Nafeez Ahmed extends the theme - examing the Muj specifically, Wayne Smith discusses International Law, Bob McIlvaine discusses his attempts to make a difference after the loss of his son, (the next segments focus on Civil Liberties - comments from Jumana Musa - Amnesty International, Elaine Cassel - Civil Rights lawyer, Rebecca Daugherty on Freedom of the Press), Mel Goodman criticizes the "Intelligence Reform" followed by McGovern - approx. 4 hours
Part Three - 348Mb avi: Former high-level CIA analyst Ray McGovern further demolishes the Commission, ex-CIA analyst David MacMichael gives a short history of useless Commissions, John Nutter talks about Covert ops, concluding remarks by McKinney - approx. 1 hour

Thanks to 911 Blogger for making this material available: Video: McKinney's 2005 Congressional Briefing | Nafeez Ahmed - "Ties With Terror: The Continuity of Western-Al-Qaeda Relations in the Post-Cold War Period".

See also this recording from 2006, Nafeez Ahmed "International Terrorism: The Secret History" and the War on Terror topic.

Sheffield Peace in the Park - Saturday June 2 - Endcliffe Park - 12-8pm

Peace in the Park | 26-04-2007 20:15 | Anti-militarism | Culture | Sheffield

This year’s Peace in the Park festival is set to be the biggest and best ever!!!

Peace in the Park is 5! The festival started as a positive peace protest in 2003, at Devonshire Green, and has been moving and growing ever since.

Due to the huge attendance of last year’s festival in the General Cemetery, Peace in the Park will be moving to Endcliffe Park, Ecclesall road where there is enough space to pack in even more music, people and fun!

maydaymayday - have clowns will travel

clown x | 26-04-2007 13:26 | Climate Chaos | Palestine | Sheffield

we now have only 11 days to go until the first show of a tour that will take us from nottingham to nablus, G8 to gaza and maybe back again?

what follows is the hot off the press latest news on who 'we' is, what we've been doing / plan to do and WHY WE REALLY NEED YOUR SUPPORT TO MAKE THIS WHOLE THANG HAPPEN!!

THERE ARE MANY PEOPLE WHO ARE FOR PEACE AND THIS PROJECT IS ABOUT ACTIVELY TRYING TO MAKE PEACE SO PLEASE SUPPORT IT IN EVERY WAY YOU CAN AND PASS ON TO ALL NETWORKS

ta very much

The Copy/South Reader Response Project vs. WIPO's IP Day

To mark World Intellectual Property Day (26 April), the Copy/South
Research Group calls on you to take up its slogan --'Encouraging
Creativity'-- and send in your creative thoughts and opinions on the
role of copyright law and ideology in the countries of the global South.

Sheffield Food Not Bombs @ Save ESOL Demonstration

Sheffield Food Not Bombs | 25-04-2007 17:08 | Social Struggles | Sheffield

Free Food at City Hall. Safe!

mayday meltdown

the ASBO centre & pedalpoweredclowns invite you to Mayday Meltdown - a day of low impact fun, festivity and exchange

This is to celebrate
that the clownchaos is finally leaving for G8 / palestine, the rising of Spring and our Asbotic community.

may 7th 12 - 12

featuring:-
a winding procession, picnic cabaret, workshops, streetparty, volleyball, soundsystems, bands, cafes, spoken word, chillout spaces, guerilla gardening, info + discussions, cinema, games, spectactors

donations only - all donations help support your local palestine circus :-) the bar proceeds support the asbo community space

MPs call for Government investigation into SOAS Head

Questions raised about suitability of SOAS Chairman Lady Barbara Judge for Nuclear job

Statement from Mutatoes.org and campaigners against Hull’s GM potato trials

On Saturday, over 250 people from around the country attended a rally in Hull in a powerful and vibrant display of resistance to the reintroduction of GM crops to the UK.

Fascist America, in 10 easy steps

On the internet people have been pointing out that the USA (and the UK not that far behind) is sliding into fascism, but this isn't something that the mainstream media will touch, after all they are a part of the problem. The following article by Naomi Wolf, published in the Guardian today is an exception to this and although reposts from the mainstream are rightly frowned upon here this article does deserve being an exception to the rule.

It is interesting to contrast the following article with the view of the USA that some on the UK left have, for example Mark Osbourn of the AWL considers that John Pilger has a "pathological hatred of the western powers which leads to the repeated and idiotic allusion that the US/UK leaders bear a similarity to Nazis":

http://www.workersliberty.org/node/8239 The article by John Pilger that Mark Osbourn is refering to can be read here:

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/02/361472.html

Reclaim Power - 15min film version online

cine rebelde | 24-04-2007 22:44 | Climate Camp 2006 | Climate Chaos | Sheffield

In the summer of 2006, 600 people set up a Camp for Climate Action in the shadow of one of the biggest C02 emitters in Europe: Drax coal-fired power station in Yorkshire / UK. With over one hundred workshops on a wide range of topics, the 10 day camp was a space of collective learning, sustainable living and taking direct action on the root causes of climate change. The gathering that showed practical low energy solutions in action, culminated in a day of protest and mass direct action in an attempt to shut down Drax.

Prison-death demonstration, Derbyshire, 1 May 2007

A demonstration will be held outside HMP Foston Hall, Derbyshire
on Tuesday 1 May 2007, at 1.00 pm for the duration of the afternoon
to protest against the death of mother-of-two Kerry Devereux, aged 32
who died in the 'care' of the jail on 18 April 2007
Reporters/photographers are welcome to attend

Sheffield Mayday Rally - 1st May

Chris | 23-04-2007 18:43 | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | Sheffield

The Sheffield Trades Union Council has called a Mayday march and rally, assemble at 11am at Moorfoot and march to a rally at noon at Sheffield Town Hall.

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