Manchester Repression Newswire Archive

150 at demo against repression and police brutality

mrsa, 04-02-2007 22:29

On Saturday, 150 young people protested against police brutality and against the repression of the free party scene in Manchester. Read more | 2 comments >>

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Party People Protest: Polite Police Please!

diablo, 04-02-2007 16:27

Rhythms of Resistance Manchester joined up with the Belle Vue ravers and other party loving people to protest against police brutality. Read more | 1 comment >>

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Anti-deportation protest

NWASDG, 29-01-2007 22:47

Anti-deportation/anti-racist protest and stall on Saturday 10 February 2007, 11.30am-1.30pm. Read more >>

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Video of Protest at Manchester magistrates court over Police Rave Riot

Fuzz one, 27-01-2007 03:47

This video shows two things clearly. One is that there were definately a lot of out of control Police actions happening at the break up of the squatted warehouse in bellevue on the 20th Jan. Another is that visiting court nowadays is a privilledge not a right.
Read more | 2 additions | 2 comments >>

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Vigil: Styal Prison, Cheshire - 18 January 2007

Pauline Campbell, 13-01-2007 18:03

A vigil will be held outside HMP & YOI Styal, Cheshire
Thursday 18 January 2007, 1.30 pm - 4.00 pm
to mark the 4th anniversary of the death of Sarah Elizabeth Campbell, 18
who died in the so-called care of HMP & YOI Styal on 18.01.03
Reporters & photographers are welcome to attend Read more | 1 comment >>

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Are your kids lucky enough to be tagged from birth

Croltbopper, 10-01-2007 21:48

A PRIMARY school has become the first to use fingerprint technology.

Read more | 1 addition >>

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Fourth Anglo-Afghan War Shows Signs of Ending Similarly to the First Three

John Brown, 07-01-2007 18:24

Michael Smith reports today in Britain's Murdoch-owned Sunday Times about the increasing difficulty of Britain's occupying army's to recapture and hold once-controlled territory in southern Afghanistan, the first 'Central Front' for Uncle Sam's WarOn Terrorists. Read more >>

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State of Mancunia

Nemo, 21-12-2006 01:53

Manchester poet fined under draconian “police state” psuedo laws. Read more | 3 comments >>

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NW Feminists: Women are not to blame for rape

ror sambista against violence, 09-12-2006 23:30

Saturday, afternoon - Manchester city centre: The North West Feminists took over the city centre with placards, magaphones and info to raise awareness about rape issues. Read more | 2 additions | 3 comments >>

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Manchester Demo Against Deportations and Repression in Ethiopia

Jason, 07-12-2006 10:15

About 40 people, mainly from Manchester's Ethiopian community, joined a protest against all deportations in particualr highlighting repression in Ethiopia Read more >>

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Protest against sacking of JJB Sports rep!

No Sweat!, 06-12-2006 19:03

Following a successful strike by workers at JJB Sport's warehouse in Wigan, the company is trying to sack GMB rep Chris Riley. The No Sweat campaign is organising a protest against this and in solidarity with Chris this Sunday in Shepherd's Bush. Read more >>

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Urgent: Yarl's Wood Quarantined

NWASDG, 30-11-2006 15:10

Asylum seekers at Yarl's Wood have claimed today that Yarl's Wood IRC is quarantined and that visitors are not being allowed in due to the dangerous health conditions there. Read more | 2 additions >>

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Anti-racist/anti-deportation protest - Saturday 25 November 2006

NWASDG, 20-11-2006 18:35

Anti-racist activists from NWASDG and Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism! will be holding another anti-deportation protest on Saturday 25 November from 12-3pm on Market Street in Manchester city centre. Read more >>

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

Stuart Crosthwaite, 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.

Read more | 1 comment >>

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An Army of Yobs!

Og, 02-11-2006 11:23

A classic Problem, Reaction, Solution. Read more | 2 comments >>

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No justice, no peace - Photos from deaths in custody demo, london (Oct28)

r2r, 28-10-2006 18:44

Not really a subject I felt like covering today after waking up to the news that an Indymedia videographer had been shot dead by plain clothes coppers in Mexico last night....

Read more | 2 additions | 3 comments >>

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The Semantics of the Israeli Occupation

Leeds PSC on tour, 23-10-2006 20:56

Colony vs Settlement
Terminal vs Checkpoint Read more | 1 comment >>

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OutRage!-Manchester Imam says" Killing gays is ok"

pirate, 20-10-2006 12:34

OutRage! News Service reveals that an Imam in Manchester (which has a large lgbt community) has said that kiilling gays is ok....
Read more | 17 comments >>

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The Yorkshire Ripper cover up continues to haunt us

Elsie, 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. Read more | 1 comment >>

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Iranian left activists manhandled on stop the war demo

repost, 15-10-2006 13:10

Women rights activists manhandled by the organizers of the Stop the War Coalition in the demonstration in Manchester. Read more | 5 comments >>

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