Manchester Newswire Archive

After Platt Fields/Whitworth Park /take space

heather, 26-05-2004 21:56

picnic loudly, reclaim space Read more >>

---

Big Brothers Little Brother

Winston Smith, 25-05-2004 17:19

Blunkett has announced that a company called PA Consulting Group
(  http://www.paconsulting.com/Home )has signed a 2 year deal to help develop the national I.D. scheme, apparently they offered the most cost effective (cheap) deal.
Read more >>

---

Platt Fields Park:Celebration Picnic

io, 24-05-2004 20:30

A strong campaign by the South Rusholme Residents Association has saved Platt Fields Park.
Read more | 3 comments >>

---

Lovelock and Global Warming

Hermes, 24-05-2004 10:30

James Lovelock, Nuclear Power and Global Warming Read more | 5 comments >>

---

Campaign saves Platt Fields from development

Beanie B, 24-05-2004 09:56

U-turn on green haven car parks
CAR parks will NOT be built on two historic city-centre parks after plans were dramatically withdrawn. Read more | 5 comments >>

---

mcr CM website

Cm'er, 23-05-2004 21:11

xxx Read more >>

---

SAS on streets of Manchester

NATO (Northern Arts Tactical Offensive), 21-05-2004 19:25

The SAS (Speaking Adverts Society), an auxiliary of NATO, have been hard at work on the streets in the North of England of late.
Here is some of their latest work.... Read more >>

---

Manchester Parks Under Threat: Residents Fight Back!

Em, 21-05-2004 11:40

Plans are afoot to build car parks on Whitworth Park and Platt Fields Park, both in the Rusholme area of South Manchester. Large chunks of these popular parks will be concreted over if the plans are approved by the council. Read more | 1 comment >>

---

UHC Goes Corporate

Concerned Subverter, 21-05-2004 11:07

'Radical' Manchester arts collective UHC has given itself a corporate re-branding in a bid to attract a more upmarket clientelle. Read more | 12 comments >>

---

CRITICAL MASS 28th may-free food and fun

Cm'er, 21-05-2004 09:56

Critical mass.......yo! Read more | 2 comments >>

---

Get Clued Up about Climate Change night

DoSummat, 21-05-2004 09:43

Do summat present the third of the monthly get clued up events:
'get clued up bout climate change'

Tuesday 25th may, from 7pm til midnight at the Green Room on Whitworth Street. The event features music.. film.. fun and know-how with the common theme of climate change Read more >>

---

Latest from the Council on Platt Fields er.. Car Park

heather, 20-05-2004 10:47

I've been trying to add this as a comment but it ain't working so i'll try it here instead which makes no sense probably but maybe the server will be fooled into co-operation by my devious tactics - these things are alive u'know :) Read more >>

---

Urgent Mobilisation

Rapid Response, 20-05-2004 10:03

PROMIMENT RACIST IN TOWN Read more | 8 comments >>

---

Marshalls - Ripping the heart out of the Peak District

Red, 18-05-2004 12:23

A small group of dedicated protesters struck another blow at Marshalls PLC at their Mansfield Woodhouse storage depot on Monday 17th May.
A protestor managed to lock on to the gates despite struggling with security guards that Marshalls now have to employ, due to previous actions against them over their plans to quarry at the Nine Ladies and rip the heart out of the Peak District
Read more | 2 comments >>

---

Tactical Anti-Racist Voting

pingupete, 18-05-2004 12:21

Information for Indymedia readers to decide how best to vote to keep out the BNP Read more | 31 comments >>

---

Heres a good idea - Lets build a carpark on Platt Fields Park

heather, 17-05-2004 19:50

Now its building a car park on platt fields park in manchester ....

Heres a good idea, why don't we just cover every last bit of grass in concrete, paint white lines on it, let our kids play on it and then moan when they get hit by cars??

or we could do something to stop it instead. Read more | 12 comments >>

---

Freedom of speech and censorship...

Kai Andersen - One of the censored, denied freedom of speech!, 15-05-2004 17:00

So someone mentions the local elections in Liverpool article on "ALTERNATIVE VOTES", and we inform one another of who's standing where ie the non-mainstream parties, ie the ones without megabucks or media/press backing. Yes so now I know there is a Communist standing, people know there are 6 not 5 SLPers standing, then of course we know there is Democratic Socialist Alliance, then we know there is a party called 'Liverpool Labour Community Party', OK so it's taken off the main page, which I disagree with, then it's taken off the Liverpool Newswire as if it didn't exist, so tell me something what makes Indymedia any better than the capitalist/establishment media/press who deny working class people coverage of our daily lives and struggles, like Thomas McKay who's facing eviction, who deny working class organisations fair and balanced coverage.

The article "Alternative votes", so tell me what makes Liverpool Indymedia any better than the Liverpool Echo / Daily Post, or the BBC or ITV? One of the fundemental UN human rights is the right to freedom of speech, providing it doesn't encroach on the rights of others, ie racist propaganda, anti-muslim, anti-catholic or anti-protestant, sexist, homophobic, ageist, or even that one our wonderful bourgeois (middle class) society chooses to overlook "CLASS PREJUDICE", so tell me Liverpool Indymedia, you block, censor and deny freedom of speech to parties who aren't part of the capitalist system, sure they're hierarchical, just like the family is heirarchical, ie a mother and a father, head of the household. Just like Indymedia is heirarchical, at least I can complain to the press complaint commission if I'm bothered, I can complain to the Liverpool Echo's editor, or I could organise a protest and encourage the press/media to give a issue coverage. So tell me Liverpool Indymedia who are the shadows in the dark deciding what postings get censored, and which one don't get censored??? Who do I appeal to, what's his/her name, etc... Read more | 12 comments >>

---

Last Shout for Height Gate Social Forum Gathering

heather, 14-05-2004 18:45

see below Read more | 1 comment >>

---

Manchester Electricians - One Year On

Eleanor, 14-05-2004 11:51

On Wednesday 19th of May the DAF electricians will have been on strike for a year.
For the last 52 weeks they have continued their struggle against DAF electrics and the collusion of UNISON with their employer at the expense of their so called members! There will be a meeting at the Friends Meeting House 19th May at 7.30 in support of them. Read more | 3 comments >>

---

fairford peace protester finally gets sentenced

laura, 13-05-2004 00:10

fairford peace protester finally gets sentenced.... Read more | 8 comments >>

---