Liverpool Feature Archive

14-09-2008 21:54

Pulling in the crowds - vegan food fayre

The vegan food fayre, held at Liverpool's social centre Next To Nowhere, drew the crowds last Saturday. Read more >>

18-08-2008 15:32 | 5 comments

Cameron ambushed

Cameron visited the Wirral on 14th August for a Q&A session and "faced a dozen protesters opposing (hunting) reintroduction on the way in, and one fierce questioner on the issue within the hall." - Liverpool Daily Post Read more >>

21-06-2008 20:31

New Nerve Magazine Examines Migration

The new edition of Nerve - Liverpool's grassroots arts and social issues magazine - is out, and this time the focus is on migration. Read more >>

15-06-2008 15:44

dodgin shiny mercs on dale st

13 bikes, 1 man on wheels & a million angry drivers... Read more >>

28-04-2008 16:31

May Day On Merseyside

This week, people on Merseyside and around the world celebrated International Workers' Day - or May Day - an event that has been held every year since 1890. It was originally established as a strike day, commemorating the 'Haymarket martyrs', who were framed and then killed by the state of Illinois for their part in the struggle for the eight hour working day. Read more >>

21-04-2008 15:28

Orang-utans protest at Unilever's HQ and Factory

Greenpeace folk dressed as Orang-utans have climbed all over Unilever's London HQ and Merseyside factory to tell the company to stop destroying rainforests for palm oil. Palm oil is used in products like Dove and Persil, and the companies Unilever buys from are destroying valuable rainforest and peatland areas - bad news not only for the millions of people who depend on them for their way of life and endangered species such as the orang-utan, but also for the global climate. Read more >>

11-04-2008 13:32

Another TOTAL demo in Chester

Members and supporters of Wrexham Women for Peace and Wrexham Peace and Justice Forum visited the TOTAL petrol station in Hoole, Chester again last night as part of the continuing calls for TOTAL to get out of Burma. Read more >>

09-04-2008 18:17

Free public transport for all? Liverpool activists are having a laugh!

Early on the morning of April 1st, a group of Liverpool activists carried out a banner drop and distributed leaflets and dummy tickets outside Lime Street Station, telling the public that they could travel for free. Read more >>

01-03-2008 17:04 | 2 comments

Report on Sefton Park 24th February 2008

On a visit to Sefton Park looking for a location (amongst others being considered) for Merseyside CND's 2008 Peace and Ecology Festival tree felling was very obvious, logs still left around and saw dust. Read more >>

27-02-2008 00:36

Interview With A Hacktivist

I recently conducted an interview with 'Shai', Liverpool's resident hactivist. He's organising a hactivism evening at the city's social centre, Next To Nowhere, on Wednesday 5th March. I talked to him about his plans for the event, his ideas for improving activists' use of technology, and asked what's so damned exciting about all those zeroes and ones anyway... Read more >>

04-01-2008 02:24 | 1 comment

Liverpool's Culture Of Capitalism

As the sun rises on Liverpool's European Capital of Culture reign, it's time to look at the positives and negatives that have come the way of people in the city since the award was made in June 2003. Read more >>

04-12-2007 19:54

Calendar Of Resistance Launched

Nerve magazine introduces Liverpool’s Capital of Culture year with a Merseyside Resistance Calendar 2008.

The calendar records and celebrates the region’s rich tradition of radicalism and dissent. History is for the most part written by and for the rich and powerful and ‘official’ histories of Liverpool are no exception. But an essential part of our history are those people and groups who put themselves on the line for their communities and what they believed in and who ‘had a go’ without waiting for society’s approval.

24-11-2007 22:59

Posties Consider Ballot Result

This summer and autumn, Merseyside postal workers have been on the front line of action against Royal Mail's proposed new contracts, which threaten jobs, pensions and working conditions, whilst opening the door to a sell-off of the postal service. Now they've seen the mixed results of the ballot on the Communication Workers Union's sell-out agreement, and are pondering their next move. Read more >>

14-09-2007 19:59 | 1 addition | 13 comments

Say Hello To Liverpool's New Social Centre

At 7pm on Saturday 15th September, the door was unlocked at Next To Nowhere in Bold Street, and Liverpool's new social centre was 'officially' opened, although there weren't any mayors or anything like that. However, there was a whole week of great events, starting with a party and ending with a film night.

05-09-2007 22:07 | 2 additions

You are Cordially Invited to Next To Nowhere!

At 7pm on Saturday 15th September, the door will be unlocked at Next To Nowhere in Bold Street, and Liverpool's new social centre will be 'officially' opened, although there probably won't be any mayors or fancy ribbons. What there will be is a week-long programme of events to celebrate the space, starting with a party and ending with a film night. It's been nearly two years in the planning, but Next To Nowhere is finally ready! Read more >>

04-09-2007 18:50 | 2 additions

Indymedia Oaxaca Tour In The UK, Second Stage

A second round of Indymedia Oaxaca infonite in the UK is starting, focussing on the experiences and struggless the people of Oaxaca's rebellion. The tour will begin in Cardiff at the PAD social centre on the 9th where it will also visit people who are fighting the Brecon Beacons gas pipeline. In London it will take part in the Disarm DSEi mobilisations, as well as a planned infonite at the LARC on the 12th. Then it will visit Nottingham on Friday the 14th at the Sumac Centre to continue to Liverpool on the 16th to join in the celebration of the new social centre Next To Nowhere, the Common Ground Community Garden in Reading on the 18th, and it will end at the No Border Camp in Gatwick on the 21st.

There will be talks and discussions with our compañero from Indymedia Oaxaca as well as the presentation of 'True To My Pledge', a video made by MALDEOJOTV to rise funds in support of the women made widows in Oaxaca due to state repression. Click at the Full article link for background information, and see IMC-UK Oaxaca topic page for reports on the Oaxaca Uprising.

Reports: Nottingham (with audio) | Liverpool

18-07-2007 00:52

Up with the Posties!

Following failed talks with Royal Mail management, postal workers on Merseyside and across the country are taking industrial action against Royal Mail's cost-cutting plans, which are based on the European Union Postal Services Directive. A campaign of walkouts has been planned by the Communication Workers Union leadership, spread over various sites at different times. Liverpool hosted a regional march and rally in support of the posties on Saturday, 21st July.

11-06-2007 15:29 | 3 comments

Liverpool Demonstrator Nearly Blinded by G8 Police

A British demonstrator at the G8 summit was badly injured by German police water cannon on Thursday 7th June. Read more >>

03-05-2007 21:50

Nerve 10 - Injustice For All?

Catalyst Media have published issue 10 of their FREE cage-rattling and rebel-rousing Nerve magazine. As always, the team have combined a dedication to social justice with a passion for art and culture, to create an issue which no self-respecting individual should be without. Look out for it at all fine local cafés, cultural venues, and especially News From Nowhere. Read more >>

27-04-2007 17:22

1st May Is Your Day! (Probably)

Unless you make money off other people's hard work, 1st May each year is YOUR day! Yes, it is a day to celebrate YOU, and all YOUR struggles against the profit system! It also helps us remember our predecessors, many of whom died so that we could live better lives. Read more >>