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Leeds Bradford Repression Newswire Archive

State of Mancunia

21-12-2006 01:53

Manchester poet fined under draconian “police state” psuedo laws.

Critical Mass Cyclists Arrested (Leeds)

24-11-2006 21:49

Leeds Critical Mass ends with two cyclists being assaulted by police and driven away to station.

Join the UAF Blackpool protest against the BNP conference

23-11-2006 13:15

Final reminder: UAF protest against BNP conference in Blackpool, Saturday 25 November

Stop locking up our children! TCAR demonstration 18th November

21-11-2006 22:41

On Saturday 18th November Tyneside Community Action for Refugees held a lively demonstration against child detention and deportation in Newcastle city centre. Over 50 activists and their families spread the message about the horrific crime of detaining children through lively chanting, singing, and giving out balloons with messages from the children of TCAR members.

Leeds ABC Benefit in Hull

08-11-2006 17:22

A benefit for Leeds Anarchist Black Cross.

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

02-11-2006 16:17

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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Three jailed for racially-motivated bombing but who cares?

27-10-2006 03:17

Another explosives case that's lipped under the radar...

The McDonaldization of Society ( or would I say McDonaldization of 'Neuro.....

26-10-2006 18:43

The McDonaldization of Society ( or would I say McDonaldization of
'NeuroDiversity', 'Difference', DisAbility.)......

I wonder if the creators of 'The-Borg', within StarTrek; The Next Generation based their ideas on 'The-Borg' (The-Collective), from the ideas of Ritzer and 'McDonalisation', or was it reallly that 'the-truth' is that these ideas came from the 'Ivory-Towers' within East Riding of Yorkshire Council..."Resistance is Futile"..... that's how I feel living 'with' this Oppressive lot here....

Lebanon - eye witness report and slide show

25-10-2006 12:54

Next Monday at the Common Place there will be a special event on Lebanon featuring an eye witness report and slideshow presentation by Indymedia UK activist who was in Lebanon during the recent war and its aftermath.

Media blackout on explosives case continues

23-10-2006 21:00

The silence is deafening...

The Semantics of the Israeli Occupation

23-10-2006 20:56

Colony vs Settlement
Terminal vs Checkpoint

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Public meeting: 'Still in chains? The experience of African asylum seekers and f

23-10-2006 19:54

Next year, 2007, will see the commemoration of the bicentenary of the
parliamentary abolition of the transatlantic slave trade in the British
empire. But has African enslavement really ended? Leeds No Borders & School of Geography have organised a public meeting this Friday to debate the issue.

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Sharon Ebanks and the BNP

20-10-2006 06:02

Worth reading

The Yorkshire Ripper cover up continues to haunt us

19-10-2006 21:47

Nobody wants to see it, least of all the people of Yorkshire. But the Yorkshire Ripper case will continue to haunt the people of England until they face up to it.

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MENWITH HILL Worker Bus Info

19-10-2006 03:51

Menwith hill is the controversial US army base located between Harrogate and Skipton.

THEATRE OF OPPRESSED WEBSITE

18-10-2006 16:01

I beieve this has come about from the work of Paulo Freire's and others work. Has anyone ever come across, or been part, or is involved in the Theater of Oppressed?

Major public meeting on African asylum situation in Leeds

17-10-2006 23:40

Leeds No Borders has announced a major public meeting for Friday 27th October on the critical situation facing African migrants living in Leeds. The meeting aims to uncover what life is like in Africa, why and how its people are fleeing to the UK to claim asylum or work, and how they are treated when here.

Report to UN Disability Convention on use of ASBO's/Injunctions against Disabled

13-10-2006 15:18

There is a continued misue and abuse and 'criminalisation of disabled peoples behaviour' of using ASBO's and Injunctions against all disabled people (both Children and Adults). I myself as a disabled people basic human rights and civil liberities activist and researcher have experienced this here in the East Riding of Yorkshire, UK.

In my voluntary work within the UN Disability Convention I have brought this to the attention (again) of the UN Convention and you can read my emailed report that I have sent today to some of my colleagues and peers within the UN Disability Convention and Disabled People's Movement and also Anne McGuire, Minister for Disabled People