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22-04-2009 16:21
They aim to provide a central point for people in the local area to find out how they can make positive changes to their environment, as well as providing an autonomous space for people to use the internet, meet like-minded people and get directly involved with the newly burgeoning Scarborough activist networks.
09-10-2006 22:14
12-03-2006 18:44
After four contested ballots, £millions of taxpayers money spent and five years of resistance to Leeds City Council's drive to demolish 435 council homes and replace them with private housing, the moment of truth has finally arrived for tenants of the Little London housing estate. The Council has just announced in a press statement that tenants have overwhelmingly backed controversial plans for an £85m regeneration scheme under the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) after a highly disputed door-to-door consultation process in February. Despite consistent opposition from both the Little London Tenants and Residents Association and the Save Little London Campaign, Council officers are now expected to make their recommendation to the Council Executive in April to go ahead with the controversial 'Comprehensive Regeneration Option'.
But the PFI scheme is far from a done deal. At a community action day last Sunday (5 March), local residents and campaigners vowed ‘to fight on and win’ regardless of the Council’s decision. Possible courses of action include standing independent candidates in the May local elections, a legal challenge to the alleged irregularities and bias of the Council's consultation process, and alternative proposals for regenerating the area. As part of the fightback, this Tuesday (14 March) at midday, a lobby of tenants and campaigners will march from Little London Community Centre to Leeds Town Hall to make their voices heard outside a Stakeholders Meeting between the Council and tenants representatives.
Short campaign film 'Little London - the story so far'05-11-2005 16:07
The Common Place Social Centre in Leeds has relaunched with an incredible 10 days of radical films, talks gigs and art. Called The Revolution will be Televised, the festival is also the main political fringe of the Leeds International Film Festival. Hundreds of people have passed through the building, a former disused factory in the yuppified Calls district of Leeds city centre .
[Over 100 people attend First Day] [Newsire Details and Programme] Download Programme (RTF format)
14-10-2005 09:57
Queer Mutiny North Invites you to...
the first ever Leeds Queer Film Festival and...
their MAGNIFICENT DRESSING UP PARTY!!
The DIY collective will be showing a diverse range of films by queer film makers and around subjects of queerness, transgender, genderqueerness. On the weekend of the 14-16th October. The event is free. Movie style snacks and refreshments will be availiable for donations.
Later in the month they are holding a Dressing up Party with music, performance and a DRESSING UP RO0M! There are still slots for DJ's and performance so get in contact if you wanna play
For more info:
Movie festival program | Dressing Up Party | Queer Mutiny North website
18-07-2005 19:31
18-02-2005 00:00
Sick of a world that revolves round money not people? Tired of a politics which preaches freedom and choice but offers only bigger cages and longer chains? Fed up with a city that boasts a 24 hour lifestyle – 24 hours dominated by money and power?
You're not alone! Leeds Social Centre just got keys to a new 3 storey building in the city centre. There will be lots happening in the coming days and weeks. Come down and lend a hand and get involved - we hope to have a veggie cafe, radical bookshop, meeting space, health space, members bar/club - its up to us. If you want to put on a gig, event come down and talk to us. Our open weekly organising meetings are THURSDAYS AT 7 PM. We are at 23-25 Wharf Street (2 mins from the Corn Exchange - down Kirkgate and turn right, opposite the Duck and Drake pub).
Read our flyer or visit our website for more info
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14-02-2005 01:14
Residents of Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire have opened a temporary "Pitt Street Social Centre", offering tea, cake, videos, workshops, a Free Shop, and a chance for residents to discuss how to stop council sell-offs and the "gentrification" of the former mill-town.
When the Pitt St building became the most recent of public buildings to be put on the market, frustrated locals asked Calderdale Council for time to put forward an alternative plan to keep it as a community resource. However, in their rush to make a quick buck, the Council steam-rollered opposition, and went ahead with the sale.
"Where has the money gone and who are the new owners? We’ve been asking questions but no-one seems willing to tell us anything. How dare our representatives continue to completely ignore our needs and views? It’s just more council corruption." said Katrina, a local involved in the occupation.
This is the second occupation of a public building that has been sold off by the council, in the last year. For five days in April 2004, hundreds of local people were involved in the occupation of the old Hebden Bridge Tourist Information Centre, turning it into the People’s Information Centre. And residents are well aware that other buildings are in line for possible sell-off, including the library and the council offices.
10-11-2004 23:00
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09-11-2004 15:00
Maelstrom is Leeds' squatted infoshop, located at the old Post Office in Hyde Park Corner. After three succesful weeks of events (read the story so far) a weekly schedule has been set. Regular events will include
Tuesdays: Reading Group from 7.30pm
Wednesdays: Cafe + Discussion and/or film
Thursdays: Subvertising Workshop from 6pm
For info on irregular events or if you are interested in holding an event @ maelstrom just keep checking indymedia or the front door.
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27-05-2004 12:48
The planning for Leeds Social Centre is well underway. Another well attended meeting was held on Thursday 20th May. Discussions included possible building, the funding proposal and planning and licensing issues.
The next Social Centre planning meeting will be held on Thursday 10th June at the Packhorse Pub, Woodhouse Lane at 7pm. This will be followed by a social event including the screening of "The revolution will not be televised" - a documentary about the Venezuealan coup at 9pm.
Please come along and bring ideas and inspiration
The other topic of discussion at the last meeting were possible names for the centre. It was agreed that indymedia could be used as a space to suggest names anonymously.
Below are some names suggested at the meeting, please add your suggestions
RESPIRE
ANOTHER WORLD
PROPER GANDER
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08-05-2004 18:51
27-01-2004 23:39
People from Leeds ARC, the city's new direct action group, have been finding out the low down on big changes to the well loved Kirkgate Market. Last Saturday and Monday, people gave out leaflets, talked to stall holders and got hundreds of people to sign letters of protest to the council about the planned changes which add up to a 'yuppification' of the market.
“I don’t know what I’ll do if the market closes or the shops get more expensive. I rely on it for cheap food, clothes and household goods. It’s just another example of the poorer people being pushed out of the city centre, isn’t it.”
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09-12-2003 17:36
Aspire is rolling ...at Stagmills House, Skinner Lane (off North Street,near Leeds College of Building).... check the website for details of daily events
This Saturday afternoon several people have put together a timetable of talks, discussion and action-planning:
05-12-2003 13:42
A-spire has launched! It is at the Stagmills House, @Skinner Lane (just next to Leeds College of Building). Here's the map, click on it for a bigger version:
Download a detailed map (pdf format) or the same map in a more printer-friendly version
29-11-2003 16:50
A-spire, Leeds' very own squatted social centre will take place on December 5-14 (starting this Friday, that means!)
Events will include:
* vegan banquet * justice for the salonika 7 benefit nite * queer events * cafe * techno * space invaders * monster massive ceilidh * political discussions * incitement 2...films * drama workshops * open mic * health workshops * subvertising * Leeds IMC screenings and workshops * punk * politics of food * healing ...and a lot more!
...why not put up your own event?
Check out the a-spire website for location: it will be there (and Leeds indymedia too!) from 1pm on Friday the 5th of December.
Also check out this week's events at the kickstart cafe in Manchester: they are to be chucked out next week...
20-08-2003 23:35
A report from the UK's biggest direct action gathering.
This years EF summer gathering took place over 5 days from 13th August on an idyllic nature reserve near Ripon in North Yorkshire. These gatherings have been taking place annually now for almost a decade and continue attract around 4 - 500 people each year. There is no hype, no big name speakers to tell you how it is, and no mass marketing campaign advertising the event in cities all over the UK: all very different from say, the SWP's annual 'Marxism' event in London.
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28-07-2003 18:17
The Gathering provides a much-needed space for all those involved in direct action in Britain, Europe and the rest of the world - and for all those who want to be involved in direct action - to meet and talk about what’s been going on and what we’re going to do next.
Ten years on from the first EF! Gathering, some are questioning the usefulness of the Earth First! network which is seen by some as a social club and as not expressing many peoples politics. Many people are saying change is needed.
In response to recent years' events, the content, workshops and discussions of this year's Gathering have been organised so that everything is up for discussion.
For constant updates on venue, events, directions and appeals, see the Summer Gathering website
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07-07-2003 22:00
There is an appeal for witnesses.
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04-07-2003 01:24
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