UK Indymedia | Leeds Bradford Newswire Archive

Lecturers at Leeds College of Art are on Strike over failures to honour a pay deal from 2004.

BNP advance is a dangerous time for us all and we must get our act together and wake up and stop being in denial before it is to late.

With the election of a British National Party (BNP) Yorkshire & Humber MEP, BNP leader, Nick Griffin, has suggested that former mining areas like Doncaster are now hotbeds of right wing politics. Of the European elections he has said “we’re here to look after our people because no one else is”. He said that feelings were particularly strong in Yorkshire, where former pit communities felt “at the bottom of the heap”.

Hyde Park Unity Day is just around the corner. An announcement of the date will be made 2 weeks before the event at http://leedsbradford.indymedia.org.uk and at http://www.unityday.org.uk/.

Here is a list of upcoming fundraiser events, and a call out for people to get involved and support Unity Day 2009.

IMC Northern (formerly IMC Leeds/Bradford) will be providing a "Be the media" stand at this years event so come along and meet us there.

Troops Out Movement Annual Delegation to Belfast
Thurs 6th – Sun 9th August 2009

The Troops Out Movement continues to campaign for British withdrawal from Ireland

On Thursday 4th June 2009 campaigners targeted Marks and Spencer’s Newcastle store with a series of actions intended to raise awareness of the company’s links to Israel and build pressure for a total boycott, as part of the international Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement. Pickets continue weekly in Newcastle, Thursdays from 5-7pm on Northumberland St