Liverpool Newswire Archive

01-12-2011 09:10 | 6 comments

Bristol anti- Fracking protesters shut down the country’s only hydrolic fracturi

Activists settle in for long-term occupation of toxic new industry which threatens the West Country. The controversial proposed Fracking site in Hesketh Bank, Lancashire was shut down this morning as 8 Bristol cyclists stormed the drilling rig. Three of the climate justice campaigners from Bristol Rising Tide scaled the Cuadrilla Resources equipment with supplies and have declared their intention to stop work for several days.
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22-11-2011 18:17

Brazil: I have a dream…

But the best part of the dream was that the President commanded down the interest on the public debt to zero, and with it this year alone, remained over two hundred and fifty billion to invest in development, infrastructure, health, education, security and everything else even paying more than five hundred billion of other charges of the same debt. Read more >>

22-11-2011 15:55

Chris Grayling MP in Lpool today

Protest against the Minister for DWP Cuts tonight Read more >>

21-11-2011 13:26 | 1 comment

scottish corrupt justice system

These are the questions that Robert’s legal team should have been asking. Instead Frances McMenamin had tried to reason with Robert that he stood no chance by pleading not guilty. WHY? Read more >>

21-11-2011 09:33

PSC and LFOP presents a night of Palestinian performance poetry and discussion o

PSC and Liverpool Friends of Palestine present the Remi Kenazi UK tour!

23 November · 19:00 - 22:00
University of Liverpool, The Courtyard, Student's Union (Guild)

PSC and Liverpool Friends of Palestine are very excited to welcome Palestinian-American radical performance poet Remi Kenazi to Liverpool for one night only! Read more >>

20-11-2011 22:06 | 1 comment

New Anarchist Initiative Launches in Tyneside

New Anarchist Initiative Launches Read more >>

14-11-2011 23:14 | 2 comments

N30 Strike Day Protests Details

Details below.

Check

http://www.pcs.org.uk/en/campaigns/30-november/n30events.cfm for updates. Read more >>

14-11-2011 12:46 | 3 comments

8 December, Liverpool: Another Census Refuser's Court Hearing

Sarah Ledsom, 56, of Bromborough, Wirral, a grandmother who suffers with a disabling chronic condition, is due to appear at the Magistrates Court in Liverpool on Thursday 8 December to answer a charge of failing to complete the 2011 Census form. Sarah's objections to completing the census relate to the contract with arms manufacturer Lockheed Martin for processing census data. Sarah refers in particular to the use by Israel of deadly Lockheed Martin weaponry on the people of Palestine. Read more >>

13-11-2011 23:19 | 1 comment

More photos from Friday's Census court hearing and Remembrance

Some photos and a short report from Wrexham, where anti-war and anti-Lockheed Martin conscientious census objector Judith Sambrook appeared in court on 11/11/11. Read more >>

08-11-2011 21:37 | 18 comments

Hope Not Hate & Searchlight: civil war?

In the last few weeks there have mean major cracks developing between Searchlight magazine & their cash-cow dummy front organisation 'Hope Not Hate'. Clearly, arguments about money are not exclusive to the BNP... Read more >>

08-11-2011 11:44

Smash EDO: Event dates in North of England and Scotland coming up

Next week and the first week in December speakers from Smash EDO will be touring the north of England and Scotland to tell people about the summer of resistance.
The following dates and venues are confirmed - please spread the word and join us if we are coming to you. Read more >>

03-11-2011 14:26 | 6 comments

Fascists Attack Occupy Newcastle

On Saturday 29 October Occupy Newcastle came under attack, first verbally during the day, from a combined mobilisation of several fascist organisations, and later that night physically, from an unidentified group of racists Read more >>

03-11-2011 03:00

King Eze Onuigbo's deportation Cancelled for now--Please help stop his detention

Mr King Eze Onuigbo’s removal Nigeria for Tuesday 1st November 2011 was cancelled but he is still in detention at Colnbrook. Many thanks to you all who supported in this hour of need. Read more >>

02-11-2011 19:29 | 1 comment

John Moores Uni-sport for the elite only

£70m+ investment of public money leaves Liverpool John Moores students without an affordable and accessible sports centre. Read more >>

22-10-2011 20:09

More Public Subsidy for Peel Holdings

Liverpool City Council (Labour controlled) has announced it will pay 5 million to allow Peel to have a Turnaround terminal.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-14842615 Read more >>

15-10-2011 10:28 | 2 comments

Memo about direct democracy to: Occupy Wall Street and Friends

The Occupy movement, currently active in hundreds of places across the world, must find ways to maintain energy and momentum. One strategy should be to establish our right to citizen-led governance, so that we can propose, change and veto public including economic policy. Read more >>

12-10-2011 22:22

Occupation

A poem to the forthcoming occupations. Read more >>

01-10-2011 16:58 | 1 comment

Bridgwater marchers call for an end to nuclear power

Somerset marches against government plans for eight new nuclear powers stations
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24-09-2011 23:46

Youth Climate Event "Power Shift" Returns to UK

So many inspiring campaigns are taking place at the moment in the climate change movement: Moving Planet (a global day of climate action), campaigns on gas fracking and tar sands, and new climate campaigning films. Now is an exciting time to get involved.
That is what many young people will be doing this October at Power Shift: coming together to build the youth climate movement and take action on issues surrounding climate change. Power Shift will bring together hundreds of young people in Salford, Greater Manchester, for a weekend of workshops, inspiring speakers and cutting edge bands. It will give them the skills, inspiration and knowledge to campaign and communicate around the youth climate movement, and transferable skills for use in other social action campaigns.

For more information and to book tickets (from £10) please go to powershift.ukycc.org

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19-09-2011 15:03

Communique from the Buenos Aires Support Network for Freddy, Marcelo, and Juan

We never forget our imprisoned comrades. We don’t mystify our respect for them but neither are we indifferent to their everyday experience. Solidarity is not, as has been demonstrated on several occasions, just a beautiful word or a slogan, but a practice inseparable from our struggle. This can be expressed in many diverse ways, and there are moments when an idea takes shape with forcefulness and continuity. Given the delicate situation (in court and in prison) that faces our comrades Juan Aliste Vega, Marcelo Villarroel Sepúlveda, and Freddy Fuentevilla Saa, who are currently held captive in prisons of the Chilean state, several individuals from Buenos Aires have decided to form a new support network in order to provide updates and disseminate information about their situation, as well as hopefully assisting in their return to the streets. Read more >>