Manchester Newswire Archive

Earth First! Winter Moot location announced, 6pm Fri 5th - Sun 7th Feb 2010

EF! Winter Moot Collective, 01-02-2010 11:59

"A weekend of networking, reflection, strategic discussions & campaign planning for anyone involved in ecological direct action who believes in non-hierarchical organisation and directly confronting the forces responsible for the destruction of the Earth and its inhabitants"

6pm Fri 5th - Sun 7th Feb 2010
Dipton Community Centre, Front Street (A692), Dipton, Stanley, County Durham, DH9 9DR Read more | 3 comments >>

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Adopt a Hasty Lane Resident!

MULE, 01-02-2010 11:48

This February will see the launch of ‘Adopt-a-Resident’ at Hasty Lane, an event forming part of the campaign protesting against the expansion of Manchester Airport. Hasty Lane, home to historic cottages and surrounded by acres of open ground and important ecological habitats, is under threat due to the plans and its residents are facing forced removal from their homes. Read more >>

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B and K RALLY report plus pic

b and k blood on your hands, 01-02-2010 02:02

demonstrators braced the freezing cold to tell b and k universal ltd to stop supplying animals for death
Read more >>

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A major legal victory over Kent Police

Climate Camp Legal Team, 31-01-2010 11:46

A major legal victory by climate camp protestors may now pave the way
for a multi million pound compensation bill for Kent police after it
admitted for the first time today of operating an unlawful stop and
search operation at Kingsnorth power station in the summer of 2008.
Read more >>

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Gaza’s children: Sarah Irving talks to Manchester artist Jane Lawson

MULE, 30-01-2010 11:30

Following the attacks on Gaza by Israeli forces at the start of 2009, Manchester-based artist Jane Lawson responded to the images and stories of death and destruction by creating a series of unique prints of some of Gaza’s children. Read more >>

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Book review: “Gaza: Beneath the Bombs”

MULE, 30-01-2010 11:28

One year on from the carnage of the so-called Gaza war the 1.5 million people of the strip are still prisoners in their own land, trapped by the active efforts of Israel and the silent complicity of her allies in the international community. Read more >>

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CLASS WAR POLL TAX SPECIAL - 20th Anniversary

Wat Tyler, 30-01-2010 11:28

Getting ready for the reunion events and to mark the 20th Anniversary of the infamous Poll Tax Riot. Class War Classix is reissuing the "CLASS WAR POLL TAX SPECIAL". Read more | 1 comment >>

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Peel Holdings Profiting from Public Investment

anon, 28-01-2010 15:07

Peel Holdings, ownners of Mersey Docks, are profiting from major public investment without any real return for the people of Liverpool. Read more >>

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Ghana and Afrika trapped by IMF/World Bank

Kwame Osei, 27-01-2010 14:55

Contrary to what is written in the Westn racist press about corrupt Afrikan politicians "mis-managing" their countries, it is rather the draconian and vile policies of the Western owned IMF/World Bank that IS responsible for Afrika's woes by imposing bad policies like SAP's HIPC that have crippled Afrikan economies and made them the basket case of the world. Read more | 1 comment >>

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Footie fans in revolt

Freedom Press, 27-01-2010 14:31

Fans of Manchester United stepped up their campaign against the club’s corporate owners who have continued to borrow heavily against the premier league team, taking it to the verge of financial collapse. Read more | 14 comments >>

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Hogmanay in Parliament Square

Paul O'Hanlon, 25-01-2010 09:48

A 1,000 word report of December 31st (Hogmanay) 2009 in Parliament Square, London. The other Parliament Square (in Edinburgh) is also featured. 20 photos are included. Read more | 7 comments >>

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Protocol Temp Agency Implements Overt System of Age Discrimination

Anon, 24-01-2010 17:31

Protocol is a temp Agency used up and down the county by public sector employers to provide temp staff- primarily to avoid staff accruing pension rights- it is therefore especially insidious that they are allowed to discriminate on the basis of age.
Read more | 2 comments >>

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EDL Riot In Stoke by ‘Malatesta’

'Malatesta', 24-01-2010 11:23

Following the violence, vandalism and arrests in Stoke yesterday the EDL have very mixed feelings about what happened. Despite a strong turnout the trouble has created a lot of bad publicity and schisms amongst supporters. However, there are also serious lessons for anti-fascists. Read more | 6 comments >>

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EDL Stoke

Filkaler, 24-01-2010 00:16

The English Defence League (EDL) clashed with police as anti-Muslim protest turned violent. Read more | 4 comments >>

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The EDL In Stoke

'Malatesta', 23-01-2010 07:42

The English Defence League is holding a demo in Stoke today which, whilst inevitably causing disruption, will get support from the Stoke football firm the Naughty 40 and associated hooligans, unaffiliated youths looking for trouble and BNP supporters in one of their key areas. Read more | 1 comment >>

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BLOOD on the hands of B and K universal

newcastle A.R, 21-01-2010 21:58

blood on the hands of b and k universal protest

northern activists will be protest outside the gates of b and k universal to call for an end to them Supplying the Disgusting of h l s and sequani and other vile labs
Read more | 1 comment >>

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Autonomous Struggles in Latin America - The Common Place, Leeds

Thomas Muntzer, 16-01-2010 13:56

Join us for an evening of discussions on the global nature of horizontalidad (horizontality) and the construction of autonomous horizontal relationships - From Argentina to Cuba, the UK and beyond. Read more | 2 comments >>

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Dissident Island Radio - back in your earholes tonight

Dissident Werewolf, 15-01-2010 17:22

London No Borders // Smash EDO // Cloak & Dinner // NCH Freeshop // xtrats Read more >>

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Climate and Capitalism – Manchester Day School - sat 23rd January

Barry Kade, 15-01-2010 01:48

Climate and Capitalism – Day School
Saturday 23rd January - 10.30am - 5.30pm.

Manchester Metropolitan University,
John Dalton Building, Oxford Road, Manchester.
Organised by the Green Left and Socialist Resistance. Read more | 2 comments >>

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Hammers, War Coma and the Autonomads: Sounds from the other Manchester

MULE, 12-01-2010 11:42

Today ‘Manchester’ is an international brand designed to attract students and tourists, young professionals and enterprises, footballers and musicians with big ambitions. Punk has become part of this branding exercise. Allegedly, it was a Sex Pistols gig in June 1976 that kick-started the Manchester music scene. And thanks to them, a grey, impoverished, post-industrial wasteland was transformed into the hip and hedonistic second city of Britain. Read more >>

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