Manchester Social Struggles Newswire Archive

NATIONAL DAN ACTION IN MANCHESTER - EARLY NOTICE.

Colin Revell, 20-08-2006 14:50

In unity with other local and national groups of disabled people acting
against the Government's proposed incapacity benefit cuts, members of the
disabled people's Direct Action Network are discussing and planning to bring
our skills to a demonstration which will coincide with the Labour Party
Conference. Read more >>

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Countryside Properties- Mayfield...and a field in May 2004...

Save Spodden Valley, 17-08-2006 11:53

Countryside Properties have gone into advertising overdrive with its new housing development at the former Mayfield rugby club in Castleton.

After being criticised for illegal flyposting earlier this year:  http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/manchester/2006/03/336159.html

Countryside Properties have now paid Rochdale Council for road signs and half page colour advertisements in the Council's newspaper "Local matters" delivered to every home in the Borough.

There has also been a huge advertising spend by Countryside Properties with the Guardian Media Group in their Homesearch sections of the Rochdale Observer, Manchester Evening News and TV station Channel M.

It is a pity that Countryside Properties' budget doesn't cover the destruction of Woodlands in the Spodden Valley.

Mayfield and a field in May... here is the connection... Read more | 2 comments >>

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Manchester NO2ID Monthly Meeting, Wednesday 16th August 2006

Dave Page, 15-08-2006 20:59

The next Manchester NO2ID monthly meeting is tomorrow, from 7:30pm to 9pm, in Room 3 of the Friends Meeting House, Mount Street, Manchester. This venue is wheelchair-friendly, and everybody is welcome. An agenda follows. Read more >>

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Fight back for women's liberation - Feminist Fightback conference

Feminist Fightback, 14-08-2006 13:27

Feminist Fightback is a conference for feminist activists, sponsored by the Education Not for Sale Women's network, which will be held in London on Saturday 21 October (venue tbc).

Read more | 6 comments >>

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The BNP's dating agency

Tom the gossip, 09-08-2006 15:25

Let's all go out with Mark Collett. You know it makes sense! Read more | 17 comments >>

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Taxing Times for Inland Revenue Strikers

Joe Hill, 01-08-2006 19:51

Tax offices in Bootle, Glasgow, Newcastle, Salford, Wrexham, Cardiff, Portsmouth, Leicester, Bradford and Edinburgh were closed yesterday as up to 8,000 workers came out on strike against plans to make them fill in forms accounting for each hour they work. Read more | 5 comments >>

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Ebanks goes at last - but costs taxpayers a cool £100,000 plus

Tom, 28-07-2006 00:32

Senior High Court judges have finally got around to confirming that Sharon Ebanks was elected as the first British National Party councillor on Birmingham City Council by mistake, and ordered her replacement by the real winner of the vote in May, Labour's Catherine Grundy. Read more | 3 comments >>

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Leeds PSC: Film Night 7pm 2nd August

Leeds Palestine Solidarity Campaign, 26-07-2006 11:00

Join us for a fortnightly film and discussion night
At the Common Place, Wharf Street (off Kirkgate) Leeds City Centre

Wednesday 2nd August 7 pm:
Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land
Read more >>

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Anti-Asbestos campaigners to 'go bananas' against Countryside Properties PLC

Save Spodden Valley campaign, 26-07-2006 01:19

Wednesday 26th July:

Anti-Asbestos campaigners are to ‘go bananas’ this evening outside Rochdale Town Hall from 5.45pm – 6.15pm.

Strict council rules ban placards and banners inside the Town Hall so the campaigners hope to get their point across with Fairtrade soft fruit.



They say the planning system is ‘bananas’ where local council taxpayers have to pay up to £80,000 for a report that heavily criticises the past actions of property speculators who wish to build a £100 million development with a planning fee of just £5500. Read more | 1 comment >>

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Manchester NO2ID Dates for your Diary

Dave Page, Manchester NO2ID Co-Ordinator, 25-07-2006 14:19

Upcoming events, meetings and actions from Manchester NO2ID. Feel free to join us at any of these. Apologies for the short notice for tomorrow's flyering.

If you can't make any of these events (or even if you can), please sign up to the Manchester NO2ID e-mail list at  http://www.no2id.net/mailman/listinfo/no2id.manchester - it's low traffic and will help keep you informed as to what's going on. Read more >>

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Minutes of Manchester NO2ID Meeting, Tuesday 18th July

Dave Page, 25-07-2006 00:21

On Tuesday, Manchester NO2ID had another productive meeting at the Town Hall Tavern. We were joined by several new faces as a result of our flyering campaigns, as well as many of our regular supporters.

We discussed our progress since our last meeting. Since then, we have had our first Manchester Day of ID Register Opposition, and started our fortnightly evening flyering campaign. We've seen more people subscribing to our e-mail list and attending our meetings, as well as stopping to ask us about the National Identity Register. This is the kind of awareness raising which we really need to do, and we seem to be doing pretty weill at it.
Read more >>

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Manchester NO2ID Meeting tonight 7:30pm Town Hall Tavern

Dave Page, 18-07-2006 15:39

Manchester NO2ID and Manchester Defy-ID will be meeting tonight at 7:30pm in the upstairs function room of the Town Hall Tavern, Tib Lane, Manchester.
Read more >>

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Lecomber murder plot. Six months on and still no arrest. Why?

Lancaster UAF, 18-07-2006 08:08

No arrest or even questioning for a known terrorist who proposes to murder public figures, in a racially-motivated conspiracy - yet he isn't even questioned... Read more | 25 comments >>

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Confronting Racism, Head On: WHY I WEAR MY ZIDANE JERSEY

Dave Zirin, 13-07-2006 10:01

Now the great mystery is what set Zissou off. What could Materazzi have possibly said to send him over the edge? Answers are beginning to filter out. According to a FIFA employee transcribing what was said during the match, Materazzi,s called Zissou a "big Algerian shit. A Brazilian television program that claims to have used a lip-reader said Materazzi called Zissou,s sister "a whore. The highly respected French anti-racist coalition SOS Racisme issued a press release stating, "According to several very well informed sources from the world of football, it would seem [Materazzi] called Zissou a 'dirty terrorist'." Read more | 6 comments >>

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Leeds PSC: Visit Palestine Film Night 19th July

Leeds Palestine Solidarity Campaign, 11-07-2006 14:47

Join us at the Common Place Leeds from 7pm for a presentation from an activist about life in the Tel Rumeida area of Hebron and resistance to the illegal wall from Palestinian villagers. THEN see the amazing film "Visit Palestine".
Light refreshments provided! Read more >>

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Ribble Campaigners Call For Objections To Preston Quarry

Riversider, 08-07-2006 11:46

Local campaign group "Save The Ribble" are calling for people and organisations to object to proposals for a Quarry at Lower Brockholes, intended to supply concrete to the 'Riverworks' Ribble Barrage. Read more >>

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Rhythms of Resistance Manchester: Summer Samba Workshop

RoRSambista, 07-07-2006 12:08

Samba workshop: creative activism! come and join the summer fun! Read more >>

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The African Prison Project

Kate Gibbons, 07-07-2006 04:12

An inspirational project set up in Nottingham.

The prison is severely overcrowded. Congestion precipitates the spread of infectious diseases that prevail due to malnutrition and a lack of hygiene, clean water and adequate health care. Prisoners exist in squalor without even the most basic of necessities. However, what the prison is perhaps most notorious for is its problem of gang rape, the existence of which, though frighteningly common-place, is often denied because of attitude towards homosexuality in East African society. Read more >>

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London CM free to ride

Billy Big Bike, 30-06-2006 16:41

Cyclist win a high court decision against the Metropolitan Police


Read more | 1 comment >>

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Leeds Palestinian Film Nights 5th & 19th July

Leeds Palestine Solidarity Campaign, 30-06-2006 14:10

Leeds PSC presents Arnas Children 7pm 5th July and Visit Palestine, 7pm 19th July at The Common Place, Wharf Street (off Kirkgate), Leeds City centre. Read more | 3 comments >>

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