Manchester Newswire Archive

Rising Tide National Day of Action Against the Royal Bank of Scotland

Manchester Climate Action, 15-10-2007 12:23

Activists target the RBS Regional Headquarters to highlight the companies investment in projects and companies whi directly proift from climate change, as part of the national day of action against RBS called by the Rising Tide Network. Read more >>

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Manchester RBS demo

check, 15-10-2007 10:50

People in Manchester are outside the RBS regional HQ. Read more | 1 addition | 3 comments >>

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a basement, coffee & cake, a 5k rig, noise-core !!!

madge.ickle, 15-10-2007 00:32

class a audio @ next to nowhere Read more | 1 comment >>

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Been approached to make some extra cash?

A Plotholder, 14-10-2007 20:10

Several people have been appraoched while on their allotment to grow some herb for amounts of cash. Read more | 1 comment >>

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Colombia (and Latin America) Solidarity

John Hunt, 14-10-2007 19:09

MONDAY 22 OCT, 7PM. MCR. UNIVERSITY SU, room MR1
HEAR: ANDY HIGGINBOTTOM secretary Colombia Solidarity Campaign
WATCH: MEMORIA DE SAQUEO, extacts from the Argentinian film
DISCUSS: developing a local Latin America solidarity network Read more >>

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Dignity Not Detention: the 3 Day march

Dignity Not Detention, 12-10-2007 15:23

Asylum seekers, refugees, trade unionists and supporters from all over South Yorkshire will march from the Home Office in Sheffield (at noon on Friday to Lindholme Detention centre near Doncaster between 26-28th October
Read more >>

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Food Not Bombs Manchester - events this week.....

Food Not Bombs Manchester, 12-10-2007 09:41

After the success of our first event Food Not Bombs Manchester will be out across the city this week at the below venues. Come say hi.... Read more >>

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Defend NUS democracy - meeting, Sunday 21 October

Education not for Sale, 11-10-2007 14:32

Join the campaign to defend democracy in and win a campaigning National Union of Students! Read more >>

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Benefit events for Nicaragua hurricane appeal

Manchester Bilwi Link, 11-10-2007 10:02

Events in aid of the appeal to help communities on Nicaragua's North Atlantic coast, which was hit at the beginning of September by Hurricane Felix. It has left over 100,000 homeless and several hundred dead in this already poor and remote area. Crops, livestock, homes and health centres were also killed or destroyed. Read more >>

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Take back the night - deterring assault

Doug Horrigan, 10-10-2007 12:12

Helping to deter assaults by using a cameraphone Read more | 4 comments >>

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Anti-war Play on Iraq

Julian Bond, 10-10-2007 10:50

'The boy who dropped an egg on the world', performed by 'Jack's Hard Rub Theatre Company', this coming Saturday 13th at Zion Arts Centre, Hulme, Manchester, uses mythology and the supernatural to look at the horrors of the current conflict in the Middle East. Read more >>

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coffee, donuts & a slice of all-american mischief anyone?

madge.ickle, 10-10-2007 01:39

living the american dream Read more | 6 comments >>

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Sentenced to death - Urgent help needed to save the Wigan's Ruddy Duck

North West Hunt Saboteurs Association, 09-10-2007 22:31

Wigan Council has announced that it is committed to destroying the entire population of Ruddy Ducks at Wigan Flashes and Pennington Flash Country Park, because some have dared to breed with a close genetic relative called the white-headed duck. It is not too late to stop this insane and brutal massacre. Read more | 2 comments >>

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Manchester NO2ID Welcomes National Identity Fraud Protection Week

Dave Page, 09-10-2007 22:06

PRESS RELEASE
Date: 9th October 2007
For Immediate Release

Local campaign group Manchester NO2ID this week welcomed the Home Office's lightly-publicised National Identity Fraud Protection Week, and called upon the Government to take action to prevent ID fraud by scrapping the expensive, pointless National Identity Scheme and instead buying every household in the UK a cross-cut shredder. Read more >>

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Group 4 Securicor and UK plc

Sherman McCoy, 09-10-2007 13:06

Kleins book the Shock Doctrine has been vilified by some as an overblown account of the corporate sectors final push for world domination. Yet Group 4 Securicors website proudly boasted last week that "Private sector involvement is needed to help governments to protect every nation’s critical national infrastructure". Read more >>

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Lancaster anti-supermarket protest camp

Enough (is enough)!, 08-10-2007 17:44

New protest camp goes up in Lancaster with local residents in support - nobody wants a supermarket with a huge parking here!
Pictures and press release: Read more | 7 comments >>

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Photos of Blockade of Manchester airport Terminal 3

imc manchester, 08-10-2007 12:52

These stills show that it is very possible to get into your local airport and blockade the security section for Domestic flights.

Read more | 14 comments >>

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Video of Manchester Airport Blockade

planetary insanity, 08-10-2007 12:18

Video showing the beginning of the blockade of Manchester Airport Terminal 3's domestic security checking zone. Passengers are being denied access to the departure lounge by seven activists locked together using arm-tube devices. Read more | 2 comments >>

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Plane Stupid / Manchester Climate Action blockade Manchester domestic terminal

Plane Stupid / Manchester Climate Action, 08-10-2007 08:49

Activists from Manchester Climate Action and Manchester Plane Stupid have blockaded the security check-in of terminal 3 of Manchester Airport. Read more | 1 addition | 26 comments >>

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Climate Change Activists Blockade Domestic Flights

Plane Stupid, 08-10-2007 08:28

Activists from Manchester Climate Action and Manchester Plane Stupid have
blockaded the security check-in of terminal 3 of Manchester Airport.
Passengers are being denied access to the departure lounge by seven
activists locked together using arm-tube devices. Two banners have been
unfurled reading, “Manchester City Council...supporting climate chaos” and
“Domestic flights cost the Earth”. Read more | 6 comments >>

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