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11-04-2007 20:12
Support Blood Service workers! - IWW leaflet
Here's the link for a leaflet from the IWW in support of NBS staff in dispute with management over service cuts + 600 looming job losses.
11-04-2007 08:34
Who really ended slavery?
Speakers Paul Gilroy, Weyman Bennett
The 200th anniversary of the abolition of the British slave trade has rightly initiated a discussion not simply about the wrongs that slavery brought on millions of Black people, but also about its economic role and how it was abolished.
Birmingham, like many other cities, has both its heroes and villains. The supply of the manacles to the trade is a horrific memory, while those who campaigned against it are to be celebrated.
This public meeting will look at 2 critical elements.
Firstly the role that the slave trade played in financing, and providing the stimulus for, the industrial revolution. Many of the great industrialists of the time were financed by money coming directly from the slave trade.
Secondly, and an element that is far too often forgotten, the role of the slaves themselves in destroying slavery. The rebellion of the slaves in Haiti was the beginning of the end for slavery. The British dominion of Jamaica saw its own uprising by slaves. In Britain freed slaves played an important part in the campaign to abolish the trade, alongside the likes of William Wilberforce MP.
Meeting details:
Wednesday 11th April 7pm
Afro-Caribbean Millennium Centre, 339 Dudley Rd , Winson Green
Who really ended slavery?
200 years since the abolition of the slave tradeWho really ended slavery?
Speakers Paul Gilroy, Weyman Bennett
The 200th anniversary of the abolition of the British slave trade has rightly initiated a discussion not simply about the wrongs that slavery brought on millions of Black people, but also about its economic role and how it was abolished.
Birmingham, like many other cities, has both its heroes and villains. The supply of the manacles to the trade is a horrific memory, while those who campaigned against it are to be celebrated.
This public meeting will look at 2 critical elements.
Firstly the role that the slave trade played in financing, and providing the stimulus for, the industrial revolution. Many of the great industrialists of the time were financed by money coming directly from the slave trade.
Secondly, and an element that is far too often forgotten, the role of the slaves themselves in destroying slavery. The rebellion of the slaves in Haiti was the beginning of the end for slavery. The British dominion of Jamaica saw its own uprising by slaves. In Britain freed slaves played an important part in the campaign to abolish the trade, alongside the likes of William Wilberforce MP.
Meeting details:
Wednesday 11th April 7pm
Afro-Caribbean Millennium Centre, 339 Dudley Rd , Winson Green
08-04-2007 18:40
Last night, members of the Political Association of Iran in the West Midlands (PAIRWM) held a protest against the film "300" from 18:30 till 20:00 in front of Cineworld cinema on Broad Street in Birmingham. They gave out leaflets and tried to give cinema goers information about the film's misrepresentations of Persian history.
Protest against anti-Iranian movie in Birmingham
Last night, members of the Political Association of Iran in the West Midlands (PAIRWM) held a protest against the film "300" from 18:30 till 20:00 in front of Cineworld cinema on Broad Street in Birmingham. They gave out leaflets and tried to give cinema goers information about the film's misrepresentations of Persian history.
07-04-2007 11:50
Over thirty people turned up in the early evening sunshine for mass last night in Birmingham's city centre. The ride was great, with no intervention from the cops and no sign of any psychotic car drivers.
A group of skaters and bmx-ers joined us on Broad Street and we finished up in Balsall Heath at the Epic Skate Park for some refreshments.
Brum's spring Critical Mass
Over thirty people turned up in the early evening sunshine for mass last night in Birmingham's city centre. The ride was great, with no intervention from the cops and no sign of any psychotic car drivers. A group of skaters and bmx-ers joined us on Broad Street and we finished up in Balsall Heath at the Epic Skate Park for some refreshments.
04-04-2007 10:29
No more immigration prisons: National Day of Action
No more detention. Defend the rights of migrant workers. April 21st 2007.
03-04-2007 19:18
Birmingham Indymedia Screening: Iraq For Sale
Birmingham Indymedia will be screening the Iraq for Sale – The War Pofiteers film at the Midlands Arts Centre in Birmingham on 10 April, 8pm. There will also be speakers afterwards from Corporate Watch and Hands Off Iraqi Oil.
03-04-2007 12:44
12th April 2007 outside the immigration reporting centre, Sandford House, 41
Homer Road, Solihull B91 3QJ. 12h00pm.
No deportations to DRC. Demonstrate 12/04/07
Thursday12th April 2007 outside the immigration reporting centre, Sandford House, 41
Homer Road, Solihull B91 3QJ. 12h00pm.
01-04-2007 13:11
Mark McGowan and Aaron Barschak's attempt to burn an effigy of Liam Byrne the Minister of State for Immigration and MP for Hodge Hill, Birmingham, in a protest against the deportation of asylum seekers to area's such as the Congo, Zimbabwe, Darfur, Iran and Afghanistan, to name but a few was shut down by the authorities
Police and Fire Brigade stop effigy burning
Mark McGowan and Aaron Barschak's attempt to burn an effigy of Liam Byrne the Minister of State for Immigration and MP for Hodge Hill, Birmingham, in a protest against the deportation of asylum seekers to area's such as the Congo, Zimbabwe, Darfur, Iran and Afghanistan, to name but a few was shut down by the authorities
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31-03-2007 15:04
A march and rally, organised by the Communication Workers Union (CWU), were held in Coventry city centre today to protest against the planned closure of Coventry's postal sorting office. The Royal Mail management are proposing to combine Coventry's and Northampton's sorting offices at a new site near Milton Keynes (Ml corridor), causing over 500 staff in Coventry to be made redundant. Northampton's sorting office had burned down in 2003 and staff are working from temporary accommodation.
According to Des Arthur from the Coventry Mail Centre Campaign, the Royal Mail management had admitted that the closure had nothing to do with the levels of efficiency and productivity at Coventry, which were excellent. Further, the proposed closure of Coventry, Gloucester and Beading sorting offices were in breach of the National Agreement and no immediate opportunity had been given to the UCW to offer a case for keeping them open.
The UCW has now drawn up a 26-page plan for keeping the Coventry office open and has collected more than 60,000 signatures on its petition. The union has vowed to ballot for industrial action if the management opts for compulsory redundancies.
'Save Coventry Mail Centre' March and Rally
A march and rally, organised by the Communication Workers Union (CWU), were held in Coventry city centre today to protest against the planned closure of Coventry's postal sorting office. The Royal Mail management are proposing to combine Coventry's and Northampton's sorting offices at a new site near Milton Keynes (Ml corridor), causing over 500 staff in Coventry to be made redundant. Northampton's sorting office had burned down in 2003 and staff are working from temporary accommodation. According to Des Arthur from the Coventry Mail Centre Campaign, the Royal Mail management had admitted that the closure had nothing to do with the levels of efficiency and productivity at Coventry, which were excellent. Further, the proposed closure of Coventry, Gloucester and Beading sorting offices were in breach of the National Agreement and no immediate opportunity had been given to the UCW to offer a case for keeping them open.
The UCW has now drawn up a 26-page plan for keeping the Coventry office open and has collected more than 60,000 signatures on its petition. The union has vowed to ballot for industrial action if the management opts for compulsory redundancies.
27-03-2007 15:09
BURNING OF LIAM BYRNE EFFIGY
In an extra ordinary art performance artist Mark McGowan and the comedian Aaron Barschak are to burn an effigy of Liam Byrne the Minister of State for Immigration and MP for Hodge Hill, Birmingham, in a protest against the deportation of asylum seekers to area's such as the Congo, Zimbabwe, Darfur, Iran and Afghanistan, to name but a few. The event is to take place this Saturday 31st March at 12.30am in Birmingham New Street at the junction with Needless Alley, just outside Starbucks.
Mark McGowan Aaron Barschak to Burn Effigy of MP Liam Byrne in Birmingham
BURNING OF LIAM BYRNE EFFIGY In an extra ordinary art performance artist Mark McGowan and the comedian Aaron Barschak are to burn an effigy of Liam Byrne the Minister of State for Immigration and MP for Hodge Hill, Birmingham, in a protest against the deportation of asylum seekers to area's such as the Congo, Zimbabwe, Darfur, Iran and Afghanistan, to name but a few. The event is to take place this Saturday 31st March at 12.30am in Birmingham New Street at the junction with Needless Alley, just outside Starbucks.
27-03-2007 13:56
The demonstration against deportations to the Democratic Republic of Congo at Sheldon Immigration Court in Birmingham has been cancelled, and is being re-scheduled for April.
The other 6 nationally co-ordinated demos are still going ahead.
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/03/365846.html
Demo at Sheldon Immigration Court has been cancelled tomorrow
The demonstration against deportations to the Democratic Republic of Congo at Sheldon Immigration Court in Birmingham has been cancelled, and is being re-scheduled for April. The other 6 nationally co-ordinated demos are still going ahead.
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/03/365846.html
27-03-2007 00:26
A new indymedia mailing list has been created to help facilitate communication and collaboration between photographers working on environmental and social justice reporting. If you regularly go out to document protests etc with a camera, please join this list.
Announcing IMC-UK-PHOTO
A new indymedia mailing list has been created to help facilitate communication and collaboration between photographers working on environmental and social justice reporting. If you regularly go out to document protests etc with a camera, please join this list.
26-03-2007 21:27
Sun 1 Apr 4pm Seminar, 6.45pm Screening
The Drum in association with South Asian Alliance and Sampad presents Seminar & Screening:
The Rising (12A)
First war of independence in the sub-continent
Sun 1 Apr 4pm Seminar, 6.45pm Screening The Drum in association with South Asian Alliance and Sampad presents Seminar & Screening:
The Rising (12A)
23-03-2007 13:55
Public Meeting on DR Congo Deportations
The 'Central African Development Action' (CADA) in Birmingham and the 'Congo Support Project' invite you to a Public Meeting on DR Congo Deportations. Saturday, 24 March, 2007 at 4.30pm to 7.30pm. Venue: Ladywood Art Leisure Centre, 316 Monument Road, Ladywood, Birmingham, B16 8TR.
23-03-2007 13:06
Round up of Darfurians in progress?
At least 8 Sudanese Darfurians were detained yesterday, 22 March, when they went to report at Loughborough Reporting Centre in the East Midlands. All were served notice that their fresh claims were denied.
21-03-2007 20:38
Support Noel Maguire the last Irish Political Prisoner held in an English Jail be Repatriated as is his right as an Irish Citizen to Ireland to be nearer his family and friends
Possibly Help Save an Irish Political Prisoners Life and help reunite a family!
Support Noel Maguire the last Irish Political Prisoner held in an English Jail be Repatriated as is his right as an Irish Citizen to Ireland to be nearer his family and friends
21-03-2007 12:54
While constituents of Siôn Simon MP talked to him in his surgery, supporters of a campaign to keep English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) classes free of charge were outside collecting a petition in Erdington High St. They had a warm welcome from many local residents.
Lobby to keep English lessons free
While constituents of Siôn Simon MP talked to him in his surgery, supporters of a campaign to keep English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) classes free of charge were outside collecting a petition in Erdington High St. They had a warm welcome from many local residents.
21-03-2007 10:08
This week marks the fourth anniversary of the illegal invasion of Iraq. It also signaled the beginning of a tide of civil disobedience that swept across the country. The following pictures show some of what happened on that day on Birmingham University's campus.
Birmingham protests 4 years ago against the invasion of Iraq
This week marks the fourth anniversary of the illegal invasion of Iraq. It also signaled the beginning of a tide of civil disobedience that swept across the country. The following pictures show some of what happened on that day on Birmingham University's campus.
18-03-2007 23:33
BRECON Pipeline Protest - Eviction Starts NOW
Help needed immediately.
16-03-2007 11:57