Manchester Globalisation Newswire Archive

Decentralised Day of Action for Squats and Autonomous Spaces

Nancy, 11-02-2008 13:32

On Friday the 11th and Saturday the 12th of April 2008, there will be two days of demonstration, direct action, public information, street-party, squatting... in defence of free spaces and for an anti-capitalist popular culture. Come to an organisational meeting to get involved in Manchester!
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Mr Tesco avoids a green wash

Campaigns Collective, 23-01-2008 17:56

Chief Exec. of Tesco, Terry Leahy, today evaded various campaigners at Manchester's Whitworth Art Gallery who were anxious to discuss his company's recent £25 mil. investment in Manchester University's "Sustainable Consumption" Institute, yet another Tesco green-wash............... Read more | 2 additions | 2 comments >>

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Cubans are coming to Manchester!

Rock around the Blockade, 18-01-2008 11:49

On 24th February 3 Cuban revolutionaries will be arriving in Manchester for the local leg of a national speaking tour in Britain. They are: Orlando Borrego - Che Guevara's deputy and closest collaborator from 1959-65; Jesus Garcia - People's Power assembly delegate and philosopher; and Yoselin Rufin Diaz - a young woman student leader. This speaking tour is a once in a lifetime opportunity to hear about the Cuban revolution from people who are part of it! Read more | 6 comments >>

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"Northern Rock"

Blackbird, 28-11-2007 15:31

Northern Rock, Northern Wreck, Northern Crock, Northern Crook or whatever they're calling it this week was last week leaking deposits at a rate of £200 million per day. Hence the anxiety to get a big brand name on board in the shape of the Virgin conglomerate. And so the zombie staggers on to continue devouring the newly printed money being fed to it by Browns Bank of England. Read more | 1 comment >>

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Free Manchester and the Buy Nothing Balloons

grrr, 28-11-2007 12:57

Balloon banners, free stuff and alarm bells at the Trafford Centre... Read more | 3 comments >>

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The Shape of things to come

Sherman, 21-11-2007 12:53

The use of biometric ID cards in Fallujah perhaps gives an insight into the likely reasoning behind their introduction in UK society. A return to feudal city states me thinks!
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Blackbird & The Blackhole

sherman mccoy, 15-11-2007 14:56

During the Northern Rock bank run, the press were blamed by banking executives for scaring depositors. Since then public criticism has been scant, despite the massive taxpayer bail-out of 'Blackbird' ( the Rocks codename) -a patient that remains catatonic. Meanwhile, the broader 'subprime lending crisis' is likely to be exposed soon as the response to global mortgage fraud. Read more >>

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Shell to Sea - New 10-minute film - Policing The Pollution

Mary, 13-11-2007 20:59

Film:
 http://current.com/items/87156551_policing_the_pollutio...water



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Demonstration - Tesco Turtle Slaughter, Liverpool

Care for the Wild International, 24-10-2007 11:23

A leafleting event has been organised by Merseyside Animal Rights on behalf of Care for the Wild International outside the lecture theatre where Tesco's CEO Sir Terence Leahy will be speaking about the economic benefits of operating in China.
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Colombia (and Latin America) Solidarity

John Hunt, 14-10-2007 19:09

MONDAY 22 OCT, 7PM. MCR. UNIVERSITY SU, room MR1
HEAR: ANDY HIGGINBOTTOM secretary Colombia Solidarity Campaign
WATCH: MEMORIA DE SAQUEO, extacts from the Argentinian film
DISCUSS: developing a local Latin America solidarity network Read more >>

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coffee, donuts & a slice of all-american mischief anyone?

madge.ickle, 10-10-2007 01:39

living the american dream Read more | 6 comments >>

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Group 4 Securicor and UK plc

Sherman McCoy, 09-10-2007 13:06

Kleins book the Shock Doctrine has been vilified by some as an overblown account of the corporate sectors final push for world domination. Yet Group 4 Securicors website proudly boasted last week that "Private sector involvement is needed to help governments to protect every nation’s critical national infrastructure". Read more >>

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Lancaster anti-supermarket protest camp

Enough (is enough)!, 08-10-2007 17:44

New protest camp goes up in Lancaster with local residents in support - nobody wants a supermarket with a huge parking here!
Pictures and press release: Read more | 7 comments >>

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faslane ppl NEEDED

dave, 01-10-2007 19:33

blockades need ppl now- lets keep this going!!
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Public meeting on Che Guevara

Rock around the Blockade campaign, 30-09-2007 22:58

Film showing and discussion Read more | 2 comments >>

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CUBA Calls for End to Insensitivity...

posted by F Espinoza, 26-09-2007 14:45

Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Pérez Roque spoke on Monday, September 24, at a UN high-level event on climate change in New York, United States. We offers here the full text of the Cuban diplomat's speech. Read more | 1 comment >>

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Deliberate Lies, Strange Deaths and Agression to the World Economy

posted by F Espinoza, 19-09-2007 20:15

Fidel Castro denounced that the United States government is using unimaginable economic means to defend a right that violates the sovereignty of all the other countries. Read more >>

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West Urged to Abandon Maliki

Reuters, Iraq Solidarity Campaign, 15-08-2007 12:05

"The U.S. administration should rectify its position in Iraq and stop depending on puppets... who have proven their failure," Read more >>

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gathering anticivilization 2007

llavors d'anarquia, 25-07-2007 21:33

FIRST DRAFT OF PROGRAMME FOR THE 2007 ANTICIVILIZACION GATHERING Read more | 1 comment >>

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Haiti: Workers Protest Privatisation Layoffs and Fuel Prices

Inter Press Service (IPS), 24-07-2007 18:05

IPS has published two new articles on labour organising in Haiti. Read more >>

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