Manchester Repression Newswire Archive

M&S Picket Attacked By Fascists

L.B., 12-09-2004 15:44

The weekly picket of Marks and Spencer in solidarity with Palestine has again been attacked by organised fascists. British and Israeli Zionists opportunistically used the anniversary of the 11th September tragedy to assault the democratic rights of anti-apartheid activists by "kicking" our peaceful protest "off the streets of Manchester". The racists, that include members of Israel's ruling Likud party as well as known British right-wing thugs, numbered more than seventy. Read more | 17 comments >>

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Resisting ID Cards Gathering, Manchester

admin@defy-id.org.uk, 05-08-2004 10:01

A gathering to organise resistance to the Government's plans to introduce identity cards and a national population database is taking place in Manchester on September 11th 2004.
Read more | 6 comments >>

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HMP Forest Bank No Borders Demo

No Borders/No one is illegal, 03-08-2004 21:32

A demo took place last Sunday, 1st August at HMP Forest Bank in salford in support of refugees and migrants detained there following riots at Harmondsworth Detention Centre. This was part of a national weekend of action opposing the governments racist and oppressive asylum and immigration policy. Read more | 3 comments >>

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Noise demo in solidarity with Harmondsworth refugees imprisoned in Salford

No One is illegal: No Borders, 24-07-2004 21:35

Following the recent fire at Harmondsworth detention centre refugees and migrants have been dispersed to prisons and detention centres across the country, including HMP Forest Bank in Salford. On Sunday 1st August there will be a noisy protest in solidarity with those imprisoned. Read more | 3 comments >>

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Big Brothers Little Brother

Winston Smith, 25-05-2004 17:19

Blunkett has announced that a company called PA Consulting Group
(  http://www.paconsulting.com/Home )has signed a 2 year deal to help develop the national I.D. scheme, apparently they offered the most cost effective (cheap) deal.
Read more >>

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Marshalls - Ripping the heart out of the Peak District

Red, 18-05-2004 12:23

A small group of dedicated protesters struck another blow at Marshalls PLC at their Mansfield Woodhouse storage depot on Monday 17th May.
A protestor managed to lock on to the gates despite struggling with security guards that Marshalls now have to employ, due to previous actions against them over their plans to quarry at the Nine Ladies and rip the heart out of the Peak District
Read more | 2 comments >>

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Freedom of speech and censorship...

Kai Andersen - One of the censored, denied freedom of speech!, 15-05-2004 17:00

So someone mentions the local elections in Liverpool article on "ALTERNATIVE VOTES", and we inform one another of who's standing where ie the non-mainstream parties, ie the ones without megabucks or media/press backing. Yes so now I know there is a Communist standing, people know there are 6 not 5 SLPers standing, then of course we know there is Democratic Socialist Alliance, then we know there is a party called 'Liverpool Labour Community Party', OK so it's taken off the main page, which I disagree with, then it's taken off the Liverpool Newswire as if it didn't exist, so tell me something what makes Indymedia any better than the capitalist/establishment media/press who deny working class people coverage of our daily lives and struggles, like Thomas McKay who's facing eviction, who deny working class organisations fair and balanced coverage.

The article "Alternative votes", so tell me what makes Liverpool Indymedia any better than the Liverpool Echo / Daily Post, or the BBC or ITV? One of the fundemental UN human rights is the right to freedom of speech, providing it doesn't encroach on the rights of others, ie racist propaganda, anti-muslim, anti-catholic or anti-protestant, sexist, homophobic, ageist, or even that one our wonderful bourgeois (middle class) society chooses to overlook "CLASS PREJUDICE", so tell me Liverpool Indymedia, you block, censor and deny freedom of speech to parties who aren't part of the capitalist system, sure they're hierarchical, just like the family is heirarchical, ie a mother and a father, head of the household. Just like Indymedia is heirarchical, at least I can complain to the press complaint commission if I'm bothered, I can complain to the Liverpool Echo's editor, or I could organise a protest and encourage the press/media to give a issue coverage. So tell me Liverpool Indymedia who are the shadows in the dark deciding what postings get censored, and which one don't get censored??? Who do I appeal to, what's his/her name, etc... Read more | 12 comments >>

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Night and Day Manchester venue threatened by moaning neighbour

mickfuzz, 12-05-2004 16:04

It's just another rock and roll suicide.
Manchester seems determined to shoot itself in the Northern quarter. The potiential gagging of city centre venue Night and day is another example of the city's cultural suicide.
How a long established city centre venue can come underthreat from one noisy resident beggars belief, but read on to find out the full story. Read more | 2 comments >>

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Sophie & Jocelyn Hurndall nominated for EMMA Award - vote online!

ISM London, 09-05-2004 05:38

Sophie & Jocelyn Hurndall have been nominated for an EMMA Award (Public Figure of the Year). Read more >>

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Guantanamo Bay prisoner reveals shocking account

Rosa Prince and Gary Jones (Mirror newspaper), 08-05-2004 00:03

A British captive freed from Guantanamo Bay today tells the world of its full horror - and reveals how prostitutes were taken into the camp to degrade Muslim inmates.

Jamal al-Harith, 37, who arrived home three days ago after two years of confinement, is the first detainee to lift the lid on the US regime in Cuba's Camp X-Ray and Camp Delta. Read more >>

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Des Warren's Funeral Today

Kai Andersen, 05-05-2004 16:23

Des Warren - Shrewsbury Picket 1972
The key to my cell

A real working class hero and Socialist
10-10-1937 to 24-04-2004 Read more | 1 comment >>

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Des Warren died April 24th, his funeral this Wednesday 5th May

Kai Andersen, 04-05-2004 08:37

Des Warren died on April 24th, his funeral is this Wednesday 5th May 11.15am at Blacon Crematorium Chester. Read more | 9 comments >>

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Opposition to Mandatory ID cards

Zinfandel, 29-04-2004 08:30

David Blunket proposes that by 2012 everybody in the UK should be forced to carry an ID card which carries biomentric data about the owner. Read more | 19 comments >>

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Death on Camera... Christopher Alder - murdered by racist police!

Kai Andersen, 14-04-2004 17:53

On 1st April 1998 Christopher Alder, an ex-paratrooper,
was dragged unconscious into a Hull police station.
Read more | 3 comments >>

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We need to organise a protest against the Falluga massacre in manchester.

Chris, 12-04-2004 00:28

A protest against the Falluga massacre in Manchester? Read more | 1 comment >>

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Video clips from last week's Manchester West Bank Wall Die-In

Chris Edwards, 04-04-2004 14:48

On 28th March 2004, the Manchester Palestinian movement, organised under the umbrella of Manchester Palestine Forum, organised a protest action against the West Bank Wall. The protest took the form of a die-in. Read more >>

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banner hang for miscarriage of justice in Manchester

look up in the sky, 30-03-2004 19:22

man & banner in Manchester - miscarriage of justice Read more | 2 comments >>

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Peace in Palestine? Something to Debate.

Ann, 30-03-2004 13:33

GUSH SHALOM - pob 3322, Tel-Aviv 61033 - www.gush-shalom.org/
In the following you read how Uri Avnery places the assassination of
Sheikh Yassin in context, and in the four forwarded articles of the
Israeli-Palestinian email magazine Bitter Lemons
[(Assassinations and
the
conflict - Ed.12) you find the subject approached from several
significant angles.]
Read more >>

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Memorial service for Tom Hurndall in Westminster Cathedral - an invitation

Thomas Hurndall Foundation, 17-03-2004 21:43

Tom's family and friends would like you to join them in paying tribute to Tom at a special interdenominational memorial service celebrating Tom's commitment to truth and humanity. Read more >>

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Dissidents protest at Labour Party Spring Conference

UHC Collective, 12-03-2004 17:08

People who dissent against an increasingly right-wing government agenda are being victimised for their beliefs. Protesters at this weekend's Spring Labour Party Conference in Manchester decided to take on that role in a manner that echoed Mao's persecution and humiliation of dissidents during China's cultural revolution. Read more >>

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