Liverpool Feature Archive

13-01-2005 23:22 | 5 comments

Local Anti-ID Group Formed - Identity Card Bill Being Rushed Through Parliament

The Governments proposed Identity Card Bill has now entered the comittee stage where a comittee will spend just two and half weeks examining it before it goes on to the third reading. Despite having major implications for every person in the UK, this bill is being rushed through parliament. Liverpool Defy-ID has been formed to organise local resistance and action to stop the proposed bill becoming law. This is part of a growing nationwide network of resistance to a bill which would give the state unprecedented surveillance powers over all of us. In the current climate of eroding civil liberties and lack of democratic accountability, it seems obvious that these powers will be used to extend government invasion into our daily lives, re-inforce social inequalities and stifle political dissent.

16-12-2004 15:13

Liverpool - MerseyFin Benefit Gig

If not You, Who? If not Now, When?

Merseyside Free Information Network is celebrating years of creating alternative media in Liverpool with a party to raise money for printing issue No 8.
The event will be held on Saturday Dec 18th , 8pm til 2am, at Mount Carmel Social Club, High Park St, Toxteth, Liverpool, L8, Admission £3
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22-08-2004 23:00 | 11 comments

Liverpool - Social Housing Crisis

Leaflets have gone out inviting Liverpool council tenants to a special
exhibition at St Georges Hall on Tuesday 14 September as part of a
council 'consultation' exercise called 'Your Home,
Your Future'. Read more >>

29-07-2004 23:00 | 3 comments

Oxton Festival to go ahead

Wirral Community Arts are pleased to announce that last thursday night the oxton festival was given permission to take place on 11/12 sept on storeton rd playing fields oxton Read more >>

17-07-2004 23:00 | 49 comments

Save Newsham Park

Whilst I am not directly involved in this campaign I felt it necessary to highlight it as it is something that has been misreported in the local press but is a fine example of how local people can join together to fight for what's right. Read more >>

24-04-2004 15:00 | 1 comment

News From Nowhere is 30!

News From Nowhere Radical Bookshop in Bold St, Liverpool, will be celebrating its 30th Birthday in style with an unusual programme of events. The women’s collective which runs the shop as a workers’ co-operative is proud of their success in surviving everything from fascist attacks to the rise of internet bookselling. Read more >>

20-03-2004 22:40 | 5 comments

City Post Offices Facing the Axe

11 post offices are to close and six more could join them. One of the "most impressive" post offices in the North West is to be closed as part of a restructuring plan. The Lyceum Post Office, in Liverpool city centre, is to be shut along with 10 sub-post offices in the city. Read more >>

02-03-2004 13:14

FAIR TRADE FOR LIVERPOOL!!!!

Liverpool is just days away from being awarded Fairtrade City Status, but before this can happen a few more targets must be met. CAN YOU HELP? We need any information on any workplaces, shops or cafes that currently stock Fairtrade products. Read more >>

22-01-2004 00:44 | 13 comments

Culture of Capitalism - “WELL, what a year it’s been!” says Mike Storey

“WELL, what a year it’s been!” says Mike Storey in a very “Carry On” comedy style in the Merseymart letters page 8.1.04. “Liverpool won the competition...” says Mike, but not without spending over £14million pounds of council tax payers money without consulting us. Money spent on PR, propaganda and thousands of window stickers, regalia, enamel badges and even jackets for the selected few. Read more >>

20-01-2004 13:01 | 4 comments

the picket Liverpool

the picket music venue in Liverpool is in danger of being closed down. Read more >>

10-12-2003 09:35 | 16 comments

The Duke of Westminster Plans to Take Over Liverpool City Centre

The Duke, the council and Business elite to 'privatise' central Liverpool and exclude the working class.

In the city of culture, the real culture is excluded. Read more >>

01-12-2003 23:04 | 3 comments

Liverpool : Knowsley Council try to ban Kirkby Times

The Liverpool based Independent website The Kirkby Times was effectively censored by its ISP Blueyonder on the 28th Nov. Blueyonder, informed them that they had had recieved serious legal threats off Knowsley Council which led to Blueyonder pulling the plug on the Kirkby Times. The Kirkby Times have been fighting against local corruption in Liverpool for over two years. It takes a satirical view of the councils ineptness which has obviously upset some people in high places. The Editor was able to mirror the website and now has it hosted abroad.

The Kirkby Times | Urban 75 - Kirkby Times Website banned!(local community website in Liverpool) | Liverpool.indymedia.org.uk |

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24-11-2003 00:00 | 2 comments

Nook Off !

Following the destruction of the woodland at Park Nook in Toxteth last Tuesday, a determined group of local campaigners gathered at the site for a show of defiance.
They pledged to try and prosecute the developers for their illegal behaviour on the day of destruction. They also decided to campaign to create a new space to replace the lost wildlife area. Read more >>

09-11-2003 16:12 | 3 comments

Campaigners Sleep Out in Solidarity with Asylum Seekers, Liverpool

Campaigners spent 24 hours in freezing conditions on St. Georges Plateau Liverpool to highlight the plight of asylum seekers left destitute in the UK. Read more >>

22-10-2003 23:00 | 2 comments

Justice for Andrew Kernan

Two years ago Andrew Kernan was shot dead by Merseyside Police, there's still no justice.... Read more >>

26-09-2003 11:59 | 2 comments

ANTI-GM CAMPAIGNERS RAISE FLAG AT BAYER CROPSCIENCE, WIDNES

A group of protesters yesterday raised their own anti-GM flag at the Bayer CropScience factory in Widnes, to hammer home the message given by the British public in the government’s recent consultation – NO to GM crops in the UK! Read more >>