Manchester Social Struggles Newswire Archive

Cuba responds to Bush

posted by F Espinoza, 25-10-2007 16:27

REPLYING to three spurious initiatives for Cuba proposed by George Bush in Washington on October 24, Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Pérez Roque set out 12 points “covering what the U.S. president should propose as aid” to the island. Read more | 5 comments >>

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Manchester NO2ID November Newsletter

Dave Page, 24-10-2007 10:00

Recent news, upcoming events and ongoing campaigns
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Benefit night for Break the Siege - Free Gaza

Break the Siege - Free Gaza, 22-10-2007 18:00

Benefit night for Break the Siege - Free Gaza at the Trades Club, Hebden Bridge on Dec 20th to raise money for the Freegaza campaign. It is 'A Winter Festival Party' featuring Sketch (Maggie Boyle, Gary Boyle and Dave Bowie), Captain Hotknives, Clive Russell and The Bookworms (plus DJ).
Doors open at 8.30pm, £5 or £4 entry. All proceeds go to humanitarian aid. Read more | 1 comment >>

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Manchester nurses continue strikes in defence of suspended colleague

Ed, 18-10-2007 13:39

Manchester mental health UNISON members will be on strike again on Thursday 18th, Friday 19th and Monday 22nd October. Read more >>

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Anti-racism march! Defend all asylum seekers! 3 Nov 2007

NWASDG, 15-10-2007 17:15

There will be an anti-racism march in Manchester on Saturday 3 November 2007, in defence of all asylum seekers, refugees and immigrants and all victims of racism. Read more >>

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Defend NUS democracy - meeting, Sunday 21 October

Education not for Sale, 11-10-2007 14:32

Join the campaign to defend democracy in and win a campaigning National Union of Students! Read more >>

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Benefit events for Nicaragua hurricane appeal

Manchester Bilwi Link, 11-10-2007 10:02

Events in aid of the appeal to help communities on Nicaragua's North Atlantic coast, which was hit at the beginning of September by Hurricane Felix. It has left over 100,000 homeless and several hundred dead in this already poor and remote area. Crops, livestock, homes and health centres were also killed or destroyed. Read more >>

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Take back the night - deterring assault

Doug Horrigan, 10-10-2007 12:12

Helping to deter assaults by using a cameraphone Read more | 4 comments >>

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Manchester NO2ID Welcomes National Identity Fraud Protection Week

Dave Page, 09-10-2007 22:06

PRESS RELEASE
Date: 9th October 2007
For Immediate Release

Local campaign group Manchester NO2ID this week welcomed the Home Office's lightly-publicised National Identity Fraud Protection Week, and called upon the Government to take action to prevent ID fraud by scrapping the expensive, pointless National Identity Scheme and instead buying every household in the UK a cross-cut shredder. Read more >>

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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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First ever Food Not Bombs Manchester - This Sunday 7th October

Food Not Bombs Manchester, 05-10-2007 11:22

Free food and a hot serving of grassroots activism... 4pm, corner of Wilmslow Road/Platt Lane, next to Platt Fields Park. Read more | 2 comments >>

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Anti-racism march in Manchester on 3 November 2007

NWASDG, 04-10-2007 18:11

There will be an anti-racism march in Manchester on 3 November 2007, in defence of all asylum seekers, refugees and immigrants and all victims of racism. Read more >>

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demo at manchester trial

stephenc, 02-10-2007 22:15

RFFJ demonstate at manchester crown court....2 arrests Read more | 3 comments >>

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The Cuban Five: Imprisoned for opposing Terrorism

posted by F Espinoza, 02-10-2007 13:38

The National Lawyers Guild and several legal and human rights organizations have called on the U.N. Human Rights Committee and the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Torture to launch a formal investigation of the United States government’s continuing violation of human rights of five political prisoners known as the Cuban Five. Read more | 2 comments >>

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Manchester NO2ID Newsletter, October 2007

Dave Page, 01-10-2007 12:07

What's new in the world of Manchester NO2ID, Manchester Students Against ID and the struggle against the National Identity Scheme and ID cards in the Manchester area.
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Report: Tyneside March in Solidarity Against Immigration Prisons

TCAR (Tyneside Community Action for Refugees), 24-09-2007 00:05

On 22nd September Tyneside Community Action for Refugees organised a march from the West End to the centre of Newcastle upon Tyne, in solidarity with the international day of actions against immigration prions called by the No Borders network, which in Britain centred on a march against the building of another detention centre near Gatwick airport. Read more >>

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Time to step up the campaign against the BNP conference in Blackpool

Lancaster UAF, 22-09-2007 12:12

Let's get going. Read more >>

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BNP conference to be in Blackpool again - at great expense to the membership

Lancaster UAF, 18-09-2007 23:18

Booze-up time again! Read more >>

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FIT come to manchester

stephenc, 18-09-2007 19:24

FIT arrive in manchester for an important trial Read more | 1 addition >>

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