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World Social Forum Bamako

The first Social Forum on African soil took place in January in Bamako, Mali [Photos | Video]. Around 10,000 activists from Africa and Europe mainly discussed issues of global trade justice, migration and neo-colonialism during the four-day get-together. A large-scale demonstration marked the opening the WSF. The Youth Camp and some media activists participated with a soundsystem bus. Slight troubles were caused by clashes between Moroccan and Western Saharian nationalists at the end of the ceremony [Video].

Before this the stadium witnessed the opening talks of Malian associations, remembering the quest of WSF to tackle the poverty in the world and create solidarity among the people.

"We have to talk about why our young people dreams are all about leaving Africa, why do they want to go to Europe and prefer the risk to die?"

Migration related workshops played a major role in the WSF and several statements were published about the pressing issue.

World Social Forum 2006 opens in Bamako, Mali | World Social Forum 2006: Bamako (Mali) | Caracas (Venezuela) | Karachi (Pakistan)

Film Listings for Sheffield Indymedia ALT.DOC.FEST 2

20-11-2005 19:00 | Culture | Indymedia | Social Struggles | Sheffield

The full list of films is now out for the Sheffield Indymedia's second alternative documentary festival: Alt.Doc.Fest 2: Films from the Frontline 24-26th November at Matilda Social Centre, 111 Matilda Street.

You can download the programme as a PDF file below

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Nottinghamshire (Notts) Indymedia born in cyberspace!

06-08-2005 20:43 | Indymedia | Sheffield

After Birmingham, Notts Indymedia is now IMC UK's new baby. With the website live, there's nothing stopping the new and enthusiastic collective, itching to get the project going. For years it was felt that Nottinghamshire could really do with a open, independent and community-orientated media space. Well, now it has finally arrived.

Notts Indymedia produced a short film about the G8 Justice Ministers meeting in Sheffield, back in July. It can be downloaded here. There are plans to open a media centre in the city and various other film projects are in the pipeline.

alt.doc.fest

30-10-2004 17:01 | Indymedia | Sheffield

Friday 12th to Sunday 14th November 2004 - 3 days of films from the frontlines of the fight against capitalism

....Political and social commentary, satire, agitprop, direct action, counterculture.....

@ Sheffield Independent Film, 5 Brown Street, S1 2BS, just down the road from the Showroom where the Sheffield International Documentary Festival is taking place.

Donations on the door appreciated, see the server appeal for why funds are needed!

Come down and watch some films and hang out - also books and direct action info.

FILM TIMETABLE: Friday | Saturday | Sunday

PROGRAM PDF print version (129kb)

The IMC Server Mystery

14-10-2004 13:03 | FBI Server Seizure | Indymedia | Repression | Sheffield

Last Thursday the FBI seized the hard disks from the web server that runs Sheffield IMC. This is likely to have been given the go ahead from Sheffield Brightside MP and Home Secretary, David Blunkett. Seven days on and neither the FBI, the Government nor the police have offered any explanation to Indymedia as to why their servers were seized. The Sheffield MP Richard Allan is planning to ask a question about this in the House of Commons on Friday, more info on his blog.

The seizure of the server has affected around 20 IMC sites around the world, including Uruguay, Andorra, Poland, Western Massachusetts, Nantes, Marseille, Belgrade, Portugal, Prague, Italy, Brazil, UK, and the global Indymedia Radio site.

Sheffield Indymedia's presence on the web was quickly reinstated due to there being backup servers, but all the other IMC sites were not so fortunate. It has taken a huge amount of work to get things in the UK running again, and the knock on effects of the server being seized are likely to be felt for a while yet. We hope that users of the Sheffield site will bear with us through this time.

Please sign the Solidarity Petition and also support the Server Appeal.

Sheffield IMC press release

Main UK IMC Story | Glogal FBI / Legal page | EFF Indymedia Page | The Register: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5

Sheffield Indymedia Radio links live to Baghdad

15-07-2004 14:46 | Indymedia | Sheffield

On Wednesday 14th July, Sheffield Indymedia participated in a live link-up to the first Internet radio stream from Baghdad.

Media activists from Radio LoRa in Zurich and the StreamTime Foundation have travelled to Iraq to set-up a number of community radio initiatives starting with a stream on 30th June from Halabja in the Kurdish region of Iraq. Halabja was the scene of chemical genocide on the 16th of March 1988, which saw 5000 dead and 10000 injured, and the remaining 36000 inhabitants were forced to flee their homes. The program was produced by Streamtime in collaboration with the Kurdish Communist Party and can be be heard here.

'The Fourth World War' erupts in Sheffield on Sunday 2nd May

29-04-2004 19:39 | Indymedia | Sheffield

This is the Sheffield Indymedia's first ever screening of the latest film from Big Noise Films who also made Zapatista and This Is What Democracy Looks Like at 6pm on Sunday 2nd May at The Showroom Cinema.

The Fourth World War was shot by the award-winning New York film collective Big Noise Films on the frontlines of struggles spanning five continents. It is the untold human story of men and women who resist being annihilated in the current global conflict.

Whilst the US media was crowded with talk of a new world war, narrated by generals and filmed from the noses of bombs, the human face of the so-called "War on Terror" was rarely seen. The Fourth World War weaves together images and voices of the war on the ground - from the front lines of struggles in Mexico, Argentina, South Africa, Palestine, Korea, to Seattle and Genoa, New York and Iraq.

"The Fourth World War"
Big Noise Tactical Media
USA 2003
80 mins.

Sheffield Social Forum Launch

25-03-2004 23:14 | Indymedia | Sheffield

On Saturday 27th March the Sheffield Social Forum is holding a launch event (wiki) from 1000 - 1700, At the Royal Institute for the Blind, Mappin Street.

There are lots of workshops (wiki) planned and an Indymedia Lab (wiki).

Free software / Indymedia / Wireless Networking / Hacktivism

Sheffield IMC (Wiki) with help from SlugBug and ShefNet, will be running a day-long media activist / free software / wireless workshop. There are plans to link up with WTF?! via IRC, #esp on irc.freenode.net (web interface).

The collective will also be running a workshop The grassroots go global - the emergence of Indymedia during the day with help from Penni of the London-IMC collective.

Sheffield IMC would encourage folks who participate in the event to post their reports to the Sheffield IMC newswire. We would really like to write a good feature about this after the event.

Free Software Matters

21-07-2003 00:00 | Indymedia | Technology | Sheffield

Sheffield Indymedia is screening Revolution OS at The Showroom Cinema on Saturday 26 July at 4.00pm. It's a film about the anti-microsoft rebellion, the Free software movement and GNU/Linux, the Free alternative to Windows.

Read on for some more information about the Free software movement and why it matters and for some news from the Sheffield Linux community.

Sheffield - Indymedia

World Social Forum Bamako

Film Listings for Sheffield Indymedia ALT.DOC.FEST 2

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Nottinghamshire (Notts) Indymedia born in cyberspace!

alt.doc.fest

The IMC Server Mystery

Sheffield Indymedia Radio links live to Baghdad

'The Fourth World War' erupts in Sheffield on Sunday 2nd May

Sheffield Social Forum Launch

Free software / Indymedia / Wireless Networking / Hacktivism

Free Software Matters

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