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The Campaign Against Prison Slavery

The Campaign Against Prison Slavery is a group set up to try to expose the reality of prison labour, how little of it teaches skills that can be used after release and which could help reduce the chances of re-offending.

ppc + scroat cinema presents.....

a night celebrating resistance of the occupation of palestine, featuring a showing of the film Arnas Children.

Up and Coming Silent Protest in Nottingham City Centre- Close Guantanamo Bay.

Amnesty International Society- University of Nottingham | 18-02-2007 20:55 | Repression | Terror War | Sheffield

The University of Nottingham's Amnesty International Society's silent protest against the continuing human rights abuses at Guantanamo Bay.

The Trebanos Five - "Ramblers" arrested on route of National Grids Pipeline

This morning ( Wed 31-01-2007 ) five people were arrested on the public footpath running through the construction site in Trebanos, South Wales.

The Battle for Oaxaca

A voice from the inspiring struggle of workers, students and social movements in Oaxaca, Mexico; Andreas Aullet will be speaking in Sheffield as part of No Sweat's national week of action on Thursday 15th February.

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2 Letters from Prisoners in the UK's Guantanamo: HMP Long Lartin

Chris | 21-01-2007 21:17 | Repression | Terror War | Sheffield

The Campaign Against Criminalising Communities (CAMPACC) web site has two letters from detainees at HMP Long Lartin, "Y" and Reda Dendani (formally "Q"), "HMP Long Lartin is UK’s Guatanamo -approved and made legal by SIAC (Special Immigration Appeal Commission) - a secret court with secret evidence". Read on for these letters and an article about them.

Craig Murray: Torture and The "War on Terror"

Former British Ambassador to Uzbekistan speaks of the shocking torture and the knowingly false intelligence produced in the so called "War on Terror".

From The Back Of The Bus To Prison

Stewart A. Alexander | 15-01-2007 20:11 | Repression | Social Struggles | Sheffield

When Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a White passenger on a city bus 51 years ago, it was the spark that brought about the American Civil Rights Movement; changing the lives for millions of Blacks. For a short while, in the mid 60’s and 70’s, Blacks made some social and racial gains, however today many Blacks are wasting away their lives in American prisons due to the unjust practice of the Three Strikes Laws.

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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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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Whose War on Whose Terror? Reclaiming Our Rights

Yesterday, I was fortunate to have been one of the opening plenary speakers at the 'Reclaiming Our Rights' conference at the Human Rights and Social Justice Institute at the London Metropolitan University, organized mainly by the Campaign Against Criminalising Communities (CAMPACC). It was an excellent conference bringing together some of the leading dissident organizations involved in political activism against the anti-terror laws. Speakers included people like Craig Murray, former British Ambassador to Uzbekistan; Mark Thomas, political comedian and journalist; Gareth Pierce, leading human rights lawyer; Brian Haw, the permanent Parliament Square protestor; among many others.

http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/research-units/hrsj/events/conferences/reclaiming-our-rights.cfm

Sheffield Refugees get further police harrassment

Cops arrive at Sheffield house in early morning and threaten violence after being refused entry. After community support arrives and several hours talking they leave promising to return with tools to breakdown the door. The threat turns out to be empty.

Asylum Seekers get an early xmas present

Here is a little snippet of what life is like for a destitute refugee. (see below for definition *)

3 Destitute men have been seeking shelter in some empty council flats. The council are seeking to sell the land on which the flats are built to

Arches Housing.
122 Burngreave Road
Sheffield
South Yorkshire
S3 9DE

Phone: 0114 228 8100
Fax: 0114 228 8150

Web:

http://www.archeshousing.org.uk

Email:

info@archeshousing.org.uk

The council began legal proceedings to regain possession of the flats (court date set for 7th of December). Arches Housing have employed Red Wall construction (Building Contractor) to demolish the flats when they are emptied. On the 28th November 2006 (according to reports via Arches Housing) Red wall construction workers found all the front doors of the occupied flats open and apparently abandoned.

Ultra vires: briefing for student activists

Education Not for Sale | 30-11-2006 23:01 | Education | Repression | Sheffield

Education Not for Sale has produced a briefing for student activists about the "ultra vires" provisions of charities law.

danish pigs attack activists

activists demonstrating against faderhuset, (rightwing fundamentalist christians) who are trying to evict them from ungdomshuset, are brutally attacked by the police. over 80 people arrested
see video here

http://politiken.dk/poltv/?ExtID=1198

deacon dave assaulted by settler

18 Nov 06 Hebron Day

At 11.30 three of us went to the olive groves to protect the Palestinian
families living in isolated homes among the olive trees.

Two settlers came towards us from the Seyaj House yelling abuse at us “Fuck
Jesus. We killed Jesus and we’ll kill you too ! “ We began filming and kept
ourselves between them and the Palestinian homes. They tried to enter Hani’s
house where we knew there was a number of small children and two women. We
refused to let them up the path and they headed off up into the Abu Haikal
olive orchard. We contacted other Human Rights Workers (HRW’s) to make sure
that there were people at the Abu Haikal house in case they made their way
there.

New terror warnings issued to justify policies of war and repression

The overwhelming popular opposition to the Iraq war manifested in the US elections and the resulting weakening of the Bush administration have raised concerns in Britain’s ruling circles. There is fear that the anti-war and anti-Bush vote in America might become a catalyst for popular opposition in Britain to the crisis-ridden Blair government and its policies of war abroad and attacks on working class living standards and democratic rights at home.

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Asylum Seekers - The long walk

Destitute asylum seekers in Nottingham now have to travel to Loughborough to report -under threat of arrest if they don't.

Would you support a campaign to highlight (and hopefully overturn) this policy?

Leeds ABC Benefit in Hull

Leeds ABC | 08-11-2006 17:22 | Repression | Sheffield

A benefit for Leeds Anarchist Black Cross.

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Beatings and Sugar Plums: New Labour's War on the Kurds

Early morning on September 5th security guards burst into the sleeping quarters of Colnbrook detention centre in west London. The guards had come to take thirty two Iraqi Kurdish men away. Barefoot, handcuffed, with the guards swearing at them, the thirty two were taken to RAF Brize Norton. Their threatened forced deportation to Arbil in northern Iraq was imminent. In response, one man slit his throat and up to fourteen others took overdoses or cut themselves in a desperate attempt to avoid "removal". One eye witness described the scene at the holding area at the airport as "carnage with blood on the walls".(1) The Kurds knew the danger of returning to Iraq. They had fled the country years before because of that danger.

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Sheffield Repression Newswire Archive

The Campaign Against Prison Slavery

ppc + scroat cinema presents.....

Up and Coming Silent Protest in Nottingham City Centre- Close Guantanamo Bay.

The Trebanos Five - "Ramblers" arrested on route of National Grids Pipeline

The Battle for Oaxaca

2 Letters from Prisoners in the UK's Guantanamo: HMP Long Lartin

Craig Murray: Torture and The "War on Terror"

From The Back Of The Bus To Prison

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

Opt-out of the national NHS database

Whose War on Whose Terror? Reclaiming Our Rights

Sheffield Refugees get further police harrassment

Asylum Seekers get an early xmas present

Ultra vires: briefing for student activists

danish pigs attack activists

deacon dave assaulted by settler

New terror warnings issued to justify policies of war and repression

Asylum Seekers - The long walk

Leeds ABC Benefit in Hull

Beatings and Sugar Plums: New Labour's War on the Kurds

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