Manchester Newswire Archive

Photos - Oct 20th - Lancaster protest against the cuts!

LMAC, 21-10-2010 01:52

There was a good turnout - estimated to be between 250 - 300 local people, who assembled to show their outrage against the massive cuts announced today. Read more | 2 comments >>

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Lancaster and Morecambe Against the Cuts!

Lanky, 20-10-2010 21:51

Rally against the cuts at short notice at Lancaster Town Hall, organising meeting after in WMC. Read more >>

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Music, Food & Politics - Weds 27th Oct - Liverpool Social Centre

Next to Nowhere, 18-10-2010 17:24

"Sober Living for the Revolution: Hardcore Punk, Straight Edge, and Radical Politics"
A book presentation and discussion by Gabriel Kuhn
Followed by the riot-folk music of Evan Greer, USA and Al Baker, UK.
Food from 7pm. Talk starts 7.30pm sharp. Music 9.15pm Next to Nowhere social centre, 96 Bold St, Liverpool 1. Donations on the door (£3 if you can) & for food.
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This weekend: Stop Nuclear Power Network Gathering in Bristol

Waylon Smithers, 18-10-2010 16:55

Stop Nuclear Power UK Network Gathering

Saturday 23rd and Sunday 24th, Bristol

Meet, make plans, take action.

There are groups and individuals coming from all over -
Suffolk, London, France, Lancaster, Manchester, Wrexham, Bristol, Cumbria, Ireland, Hinkley, Exeter and more - Come along and get involved in creating a network of active anti-nuclear campaigns across Britain and Europe.
Read more >>

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Stonewall gay marriage survey "flawed"

Peter Tatchell, 18-10-2010 09:35

Stonewall gay marriage survey "flawed"

Marriage equality question buried in long list

Question is headed civil partnerships, not gay marriage

Survey method is "biased and unethical"
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Video: 16 Oct 2010: World Food Day - Kids Action @ Cargill Ghent

globalise hope, 17-10-2010 12:09

A small action to denounce the policy of the worlds biggest soy firm. Cargill mainly produces soy for fodder, that fattens our dairy, poultry, porc and...fish. Read more >>

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British Freedom Party: Fluffy Fascism

'Malatesta', 17-10-2010 10:03

The newly formed BFP are promoting a form of 'fluffy fascism.' Will The Fluffies be a threat to the BNP? Read more | 1 comment >>

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Cumbrian Greenfield Nuclear Sites 'Removed'

Marianne Birkby, 14-10-2010 09:50

Yesterday a leak on the DECC website revealed that Kirksanton and Braystones - two greenfield sites in West Cumbria earmarked for new nuclear build are - "not suitable." Read more | 2 comments >>

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Huntington Lane Coal Mine Eviction?

Dawn Chorus, 13-10-2010 13:05

The eviction process at the Huntington Lane coal mine site near Telford, Shropshire appears to have begun, but no eviction notice has yet been served. The National Eviction Team and local constabulary are currently on site but no arrests have been made. Heavy machinery is now on site and breaking ground. Read more | 1 comment >>

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The Gay Liberation Front’s social revolution

Peter Tatchell, 13-10-2010 10:44

Forty years ago, the Gay Liberation Front challenged society's gender system

GLF’s radical critique of orthodox masculinity and femininity
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EDL & Terrace Culture

'Malatesta', 12-10-2010 10:02

Unpleasant though it may be, it is important to understand the racist attitudes of the EDL in comparison with the BNP and to examine the terrace culture from whence it came. Read more | 45 comments >>

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EDL in Leicester

Genetically Modified, 11-10-2010 13:00

What happened at Leicester and how we can bury this fasicst organisation. Lessons need to be learnt and consistent activity to put down the fash. Read more | 3 comments >>

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Dissident Island in Manchester tonight

Dissident Werewolf, 08-10-2010 18:25

I Bike MCR // Mule Magazine // Manchester Radical History // Manchester anarchist bookfair Read more >>

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Capita, Umbrella Companies and NI evasion

Anon, 08-10-2010 13:37

Capita Education, part of the massive Capita the 'UK's leading outsourcing company' is evading making NI employers contributions by the use of 'Umbrella Company' Key Portfolio. Read more | 2 comments >>

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Panel discussion: Is journalistic impartiality a myth?

The Mule, 07-10-2010 01:06

Join us for a night of films, presentation and panel discussions. With the Mule, the Salford Star, Inside the M60 and the NUJ.

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Manchester Airport protesters appear in Magistrates court

Stop All Airport Expansion, 06-10-2010 07:12

Six Manchester residents from the group Manchester Plane Stupid pleaded not guilty to their charge of aggravated trespass as they claim that in the light of Manchester airports contribution to runaway climate change, it was the necessary action to take. The trial will take place on February 21st 2011 and will be the first climate change trial of its kind in Manchester where expert climate scientists will defend the six against the polluting activities of Manchester airport.
Read more | 9 comments >>

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£400M research - No Nuke Dump Site in W Cumbria

Marianne Birkby, 02-10-2010 15:51

Prof David Smythe (Emeritus Professor of Geophysics, University of Glasgow), an earth scientist who was employed by Nirex to find a nuclear waste repository in West Cumbria, is not opposed to geological disposal in principle but he says the scientific research carried out in the 1990s which cost the public purse £400M shows that -
No site in West Cumbria is suitable for geological disposal of nuclear waste! Read more >>

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Oppose English Defence League in Blackburn Lancs Sat 2nd October 2010

anon, 02-10-2010 01:06

The English Defence League [EDL] are going to be protesting tomorrow Saturday 2nd October 2010 outside Kentucky Fried Chicken [KFC]. They are protesting because KFC serve Halal meat. THe protest will be at KFC Haslingden Road Blackburn Lancashire.
 http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=157451460934608 Read more | 15 comments >>

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‘Not Red Ed’ – reinventing Labour, again and again

William Bowles, 01-10-2010 21:45

Amazing, after thirteen years of neo-Thatcherism, the beaten ‘party of labour’ all of a sudden rediscovers its ‘roots’. Who could trust such people? If the whole charade wasn’t such a miserable and desperate attempt to regain the ‘high ground’, Labour’s attempt to reinvent itself again, it would be nothing short of laughable. Read more >>

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Siempre Antifascista 2010

Siempre Antifascista!, 30-09-2010 13:03

Remembering means fighting!

Violence, murders and pogroms: These expressions of a right-wing attitude, which has long been officially believed defeated, are flourishing.
Violence against Sinti and Roma, anti-Semitism, racism, and homophobia is accepted silently by major parts of our society and the state. Read more | 2 comments >>

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