UK Indymedia - UK Culture Newswire Archive

UG#556 - Redefining Poverty (Needs and The Spirit Level)

25-06-2011 08:54

This week we challenge modern ideas about wealth and poverty. Our main piece is by two English professors, Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett on their 2009 book, The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better. But first, we conclude the Ivan Illich reading from episode 554.

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T'Other Stage Wants You !

22-06-2011 17:38

T'OTHER STAGE IS RETURNING TO SHEFFIELD PRIDE ON SATURDAY 16TH JULY 2011.

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Poster/flyer for July's OARC film screening

18-06-2011 15:13

Who are these people that call themselves hackers? Those that believe that technology exists to be appropriated and subverted for whatever purpose? Those who oppose corporate control over inventions? If you part with good money for something, is it not yours to do what you will with it? Not according to the likes of Microsoft, Apple, Sony and their ilk…

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Refugee Week - World Over Concert

17-06-2011 03:02

A World Music Concert celebrating Sheffield - Britain's first City of Sanctuary

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Let's Stop a Bad Drugs Law Getting on the Books in the UK!

14-06-2011 02:42

The so-called Police Reform and Social Responsibility Bill, currently under discussion in the House of Lords, is already under scrutiny for various suspected threats to civil liberties, most notoriously clamp-downs on rights of public assembly and protest in response to the actions at Parliament Square. But let's not overlook the section that would actually REMOVE the need for experts of any kind to advise the government about drugs policy!

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Grayling talk disrupted

11-06-2011 11:36

Anthony Grayling, founder of the controversial 'New College of the Humanities', which will charge £18 000, was interrupted while speaking at St. Antony's college yesterday by protesters who tried to give him all their stuff in exchange for some education.

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John Pilger writes on 'the extraordinary banning of my film on war and media'

11-06-2011 09:34

Dear Noam

I am writing to you and a number of other friends mostly in the US to alert you to the extraordinary banning of my film on war and media, 'The War You Don't See', and the abrupt cancellation of a major event at the Lannan Foundation in Santa Fe in which David Barsamian and I were to discuss free speech, US foreign policy and censorship in the media.

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World Premier Just Do It audio Q-A

10-06-2011 21:51

The world premier of the direct action doc "Just Do It" A Tale of Modern Day Outlaws, played to a packed cinema at the Sheffield Doc Fest last night 9th June. I blagged a seat and recorded the the Q&A with Jeremy Hardy, Emily James, Lauren Simpson and James Leadbitter.

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Open Splice: an afternoon of short open source documentaries

08-06-2011 13:47

A celebration of docs made using Open source Software; about open source subjects; or created with an open source ethos.

Friday 10th June 4pm-5pm @ Access Space, 3-7 Sidney St., Sheffield S1 4RG

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WORLD PREMIERE of Just Do It

03-06-2011 22:46

Finally, Just Do It- a tale of modern-day outlaws will be heading to the big screen! This exciting new film follows a cohort of climate activism from groups Climate Camp, Plane Stupid and Climate Rush as they put their bodies in the way; attacking coal plants, chaining themselves to parliament and more. Don't miss the WORLD PREMIERE on June 9th at 6:35 pm at the Showroom Cinema.

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Chronicle of Protest Screening in Birmingham

03-06-2011 10:53

Friday 03 June | 7.30pm | Birmingham Library Theatre

The screening will be introduced by director Michael Chanan and followed by discussion.

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The Pipe

27-05-2011 15:31

Showings of the Pipe in Scotland

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Green Festival 20th yr. Arboretum Park. Nottingham

25-05-2011 13:55

Sunday 22 May 2011

The 20th Green Festival, Arboretum Park. Nottingham

Exhibits, Info, Stalls, Bands etc

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Sheffield Social Centre: Why? What? Where?

24-05-2011 11:35

Attached is a recording of a meeting held at the Sheffield Anarchist Book Fair on 21st May 2011 titled, Sheffield Social Centre: Why? What? Where?

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Anarchist Studies Network Book Launch

24-05-2011 11:08

Attached is a recording of a meeting at the Sheffield Anarchist Book Fair held on 21st May 2011 at which the editors of 3 books discussed their publications:

All three books are edited collections of contemporary anarchist theory, with contributors from around the globe offering some unique and original perspectives on anarchism.

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Oops, Schillings Did It Again!

23-05-2011 23:04

A couple of weeks ago, I posted in genuine admiration of Ryan Giggs

http://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2011/04/ryan-giggs/#comments . Now Schillings have set out to destory his reputation, and rook him of several hundred thousand pounds at the same time. Guido has a good graph:

http://order-order.com/2011/05/20/schillings-idiocy-goes-global/

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Swindon Town FC appoint Fascist manager

23-05-2011 20:42

Swindon Town Football Club have appointed outspoken Fascist Paulo Di Canio as Swindon's new manager. Paulo Di Canio described Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini as "a very principled, ethical individual", and Paulo Di Canio has been filmed giving Nazi salutes. Di Canio's views provide huge reinforcement for violent Fascist groups in his native Italy. Now his appointment by Swindon Town FC provides a huge morale boost for violent racist groups in the UK.

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Echo and the Bunneymen headline Headstock Festival, near Nottingham September 9-11

23-05-2011 12:03

Details of the not for profit Headstock Festival

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Sheffield Temporary Autonomous Arts 2011: Saturday Fashion Show

22-05-2011 21:07

On Saturday night of the Sheffield Temporary Autonomous Arts weekend there was a DIY fashion show.

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Free Love and Socialism Cycle Ride: 17th June

22-05-2011 16:39

Fiday 17th June is the longest Friday of the year and we will be kicking off Bike Week for CycleSheffield. The theme of this ride is Free Love and Socialism: a ride to see the Millthorpe house where Edward Carpenter (1844-1929) - a nationally and internationally renowned radical, socialist activist, writer and thinker, advocate of free love, early gay activist and ‘bohemian’, – and sandalmaker – lived from the 1880s to the 1920s.