Manchester Newswire Archive

Basement special Meeting

The Basement, 16-11-2007 20:53

A meeting to discuss the future of the Basement, Manchester's radical bookshop and social centre. The Basement has been shut for the last few months following a fire on Lever street. This meeting will dicuss what should happen next, and be a chance for anyone, from old volunteers, to those who've heard about it, to share ideas, offer support, and socialise! Read more | 1 comment >>

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Urgent: National Grid to close Woodhead Tunnel

Lewin, 15-11-2007 22:55

National Grid, the owners of the Woodhead Tunnel near Longdendale, are to put the Tunnel beyond use in February 2008. Although the Tunnel and attendant railway line have been formally closed for 26 years, they could be resurrected very quickly if cheap, fast, sustainable transport was really important. We must act to stop the closure of the tunnel. Read more | 1 addition >>

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Blackbird & The Blackhole

sherman mccoy, 15-11-2007 14:56

During the Northern Rock bank run, the press were blamed by banking executives for scaring depositors. Since then public criticism has been scant, despite the massive taxpayer bail-out of 'Blackbird' ( the Rocks codename) -a patient that remains catatonic. Meanwhile, the broader 'subprime lending crisis' is likely to be exposed soon as the response to global mortgage fraud. Read more >>

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URGENT: Manchester NO2ID promote Identity Fraud Protection TOMORROW, 1:30pm

Dave Page, 14-11-2007 23:40

Tomorrow, officials from Get Safe Online will be at Manchester Central Library running workshops on identity fraud on the Internet. The National Identity Register, a giant database with everybody's personal information, is a golden opportunity for identity thieves and fraudsters, and unlike Facebook it'll be illegal not to sign up. Read more >>

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Shell to Sea - New 10-minute film - Policing The Pollution

Mary, 13-11-2007 20:59

Film:
 http://current.com/items/87156551_policing_the_pollutio...water



Read more | 1 comment >>

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Northern HLS Collaborators - All Listed Here!

SHAC Yorkshire Division, 13-11-2007 19:19

Every single person has a part to play in closing down Huntingdon Life Sciences. Going on a march or two isn't going to stop the animal abuse. Listed below are the Northern companies dealing with HLS. Politelty contact them and demonstrate outside your local sites.

Form a local SHAC division and help bring attention to HLS in your area.

Hand out leaflets in the high street on a saturday afternoon and make everybody aware of Huntingdon and that companies such as GlaxoSmithKline, whomake products they may buy including Lucozade and Ribena, are involved in killing animals every single day inside HLS. As HLS's biggest client, GSK fund an experiment inside the lab 365 days a year - it only makes you wonder how many animals die for this sick company.

During weekdays and Saturday mornings hold demo's outside companies in your area propping up HLS and increase awareness about the 500 animals who die every day.

As Roche, an ex-HLS client and one of the largest pharmaceutical firms in the world, said - It's not a question of if Huntingdon close down, but when. Make it happen - for Greg, Natasha and Heather and for the animals dying inside the labs.

SHAC Yorkshire Read more | 11 comments >>

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The summit debate...

posted by F Espinoza, 13-11-2007 15:35

Never before had a dialogue of this nature taken place between heads of State and government, most of whom represented nations that had been pillaged by colonial and imperialist powers for centuries. Nothing could have been more instructive... Read more | 2 comments >>

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Manchester petrol station blockaded in Burma protest

Max, 13-11-2007 13:44

Yesterday, up to 20 human rights campaigners blockaded a TOTAL garage on Oxford Road, Manchester. This was in protest at Total Oil's investment in the military regime of Burma. Read more | 2 additions | 4 comments >>

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Rant or Reality?

Mike Lane, 13-11-2007 01:37

Gentrification of all inner city areas is the name of their game! Read more | 10 comments >>

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Protest Against Fascist BNP Conference In Blackpool Sat 17th Nov

Barry Kade, 12-11-2007 23:07

The BNP are holding a conference in Blackpool this weekend. A protest against them has been called by local anti-fascists. Your support is needed. Help us resist the poison of racism and fascism! Read more | 1 addition | 2 comments >>

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Protesters beaten & pepper sprayed at No Borders Camp - Mexicali.

Ms Luscious, 12-11-2007 19:14

Uk activists report from No Borders Camp Mexicali/Calexico.
Peaceful protesters beaten & pepper sprayed. Read more | 1 addition >>

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Harold Pinter: Free the Cuban Five...

posted by F Espinoza, 12-11-2007 14:34

British dramatist and political activist Harold Pinter, recipient of the Nobel Prize in literature in 2005, added his voice to the demand for liberation of the antiterrorist Cuban Five imprisoned in the US for more than nine years. Read more | 5 comments >>

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photos of Critical Mass ride to TAA squat

Critical Mass, 11-11-2007 16:46

some very belated photos of the October Mass that ended up in the beautiful Temporary Autonomous Arts squat. Final picture is of the extraordinary barn dance! that evening. Read more >>

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the Great Aviation Debate- Manchester 15th November

Marc Hudson, 08-11-2007 23:22

On Thursday 15th November representatives from Manchester Airport and Manchester Plane Stupid will be among six panellists debating the future of aviation in Manchester. The meeting, which is free to attend, is at the Friends Meeting House, 6 Mount Street, starting at 7.30 sharp. Read more >>

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Thought-crime conviction

Sherman McCoy, 08-11-2007 13:16

Samina Malik has been convicted of thinking or writing unacceptable things under the Terrorism Act 2000. This invasion of the mind by the authorities and the courts is yet another example of the annihilation of civil liberties. Whilst Georgians and lawyers in Pakistan rise up to challenge their governments why is it that we are so accepting of the assault on our freedoms. Read more | 8 comments >>

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Turning debate into action

Dick Tracey, 08-11-2007 12:01

On December 11 2007 at the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester a private conference is being held and run by the Information Commissioner whose opic is the dangers of a surveillance society. Places for delegates are limited to a decidedly undemocratic 130 places. This is an ideal opportunity to challenge the domination of this debate by 'sensible liberals'. Read more | 1 comment >>

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IWW Manchester Branch Meeting

knightrose, 07-11-2007 22:07

The Industrial Workers of the World, Manchester. Read more | 2 comments >>

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Ding - Rooley Moor, valuing our South Pennine habitats and biodiversity

Say NO to Ding Quarry, 07-11-2007 17:09

Campaigners challenging the reopening of Ding Quarry are investigating the ecological importance of Rooley Moor.
To some it appears a bleak, perhaps barren hinterland. However, there is far more to this area of the South Pennines than meets the eye:
Read more | 2 comments >>

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National Conference of US Lawyers Approve Resolution in Favor of the Cuban Five

posted by F Espinoza, 07-11-2007 15:57

The 70th Annual Conference of the National Lawyers Guild which took place from October 31 to November 4 in Washington, DC approved "Resolution Endorsing the Call for an International Investigation into the Failure of the United States Government to Address and Remedy the Denial of Justice in the Case of "The Cuban Five", and for Further Education and Related Actions". Read more | 1 comment >>

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Challenging the Boundaries: A Single State in Palestine/Israel - 17/18 November

London One State Group, 07-11-2007 14:13

We would like to draw your attention to an innovative approach to the resolution of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Challenging the Boundaries: A Single State in Palestine/Israel will be explicitly addressing the fundamental causes of the conflict by examining an idea that is generating more widespread interest than ever – a single state for all in the area. Read more | 1 comment >>

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