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05-11-2005 16:07
The Common Place Social Centre in Leeds has relaunched with an incredible 10 days of radical films, talks gigs and art. Called The Revolution will be Televised, the festival is also the main political fringe of the Leeds International Film Festival. Hundreds of people have passed through the building, a former disused factory in the yuppified Calls district of Leeds city centre .
[Over 100 people attend First Day] [Newsire Details and Programme] Download Programme (RTF format)
19-10-2005 23:01
The EU Development Ministers meet in Leeds on 24 – 25 October at the Queens Hotel. In response to the EU policy enforcing neoliberalist policies on poorer states, using aid and debt relief as a political tool and the effects of 'free trade deals' there were several protests in Leeds. Calling were for a thousand people to take to the streets against the EU's neo-colonial policies in Africa and across the global south.
14-10-2005 09:57
Queer Mutiny North Invites you to...
the first ever Leeds Queer Film Festival and...
their MAGNIFICENT DRESSING UP PARTY!!
The DIY collective will be showing a diverse range of films by queer film makers and around subjects of queerness, transgender, genderqueerness. On the weekend of the 14-16th October. The event is free. Movie style snacks and refreshments will be availiable for donations.
Later in the month they are holding a Dressing up Party with music, performance and a DRESSING UP RO0M! There are still slots for DJ's and performance so get in contact if you wanna play
For more info:
Movie festival program | Dressing Up Party | Queer Mutiny North website
03-10-2005 22:31
As part of an international week of protest, there were two major events in West Yorkshire.
On Saturday the 8th ther was a 'Keep Space for Peace' called by the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space (GN) and organised by the CAAB. It took place at NSA MENWITH HILL, near Harrogate North Yorkshire.
Guest speakers were Bruce Gagnon - Coordinator of GN Drum Circle with Steve Hill of Daftasadrum. Fine grub as ever from Veggies
Yorkshire CND hosted a Conference on Saturday October 1st to launch Keep Space for Peace Week 2005. Speakers included Bruce Gagnon, founder of The Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space, Stacey Fritz, coordinator of No Nukes North Alaska. [Full Report]
03-10-2005 13:45
Over 500 marched in Bolton on Saturday in solidarity with the Sukula family, against Section 9 of the 2004 Asylum & Immigration Act and for an end to all immigration controls.
The Sukula family is one among many who after the proposed introduction of Section 9 is threatened to be separated and have their children taken into care. Their pledge for asylum was rejected and they do not receive any benefits. Bolton City Council still refuses the implementation of Section 9, currently tested in a few northern councils which would oblige them to take the kids of the Sukula family into care on the grounds that their parents cannot support them. The council argues that this would violate Section 20 of the 1989 Children Act and the cost of it would be higher than continuing paying benefits to the family. The support of the Sukula family and the opposition against Section 9 brought together groups and unions from various northern cities and towns. Two unions decided in a consensus vote of their members to refuse to participate in implementing Section 9. Speakers reminded the crowd of the importance to build local and regional networks of solidarity and resistance aganist the racist policies of the British and EU governments.
UK Indymedia feature: Oct 1st: Migrants and Supporters Protest Against Deportations
03-10-2005 00:40
On October 7-9 the 1in12 Club in Bradford will host the Films on the Edge Festival, featuring: The Fourth World War, Emma Goldman, The Take, The Cockettes, Well Done - Now Sod Off, De Toda La Vida, An Injury To One, Can Dialectics Break Bricks? and Aurora de Esperanza.
There will be talks on What s An Anarchist Peace?, beyondTV, Workers Control and more.
Full listing
12-08-2005 14:55
Saturday, 13th August, saw the 10th Annual Hyde Park Unity Day. It has grown and grown. This year's was an exciting mix with music, stalls, sports and more.
[ Pictures | Background ]
18-07-2005 19:31
04-06-2005 23:00
Technopolis will be at Buckingham Road off Headingley Lane, Leeds LS6 1BP (map)
Three days of learning, discussion and games to explore new technologies of control and our resistance to them.
Welcome to the Machine!
The machine is all around us, omnipresent and omniscient. It's the camera on the street corner, the chip in your debit card and the number allotted to your child at birth. The machine is without and within. It's in the way we have been trained and domesticated since birth to fit into a mechanical world dictated by capital and the tick, tick, tick of its clock.
Those who want to increase control and domination over our lives have invented increasingly pervasive technologies. From biotech to nanotech, through RFID, gait analysis and new 'non lethal' weapons to aid crowd control: they are all further attempts to quantify and standardise our lives.
We see these 'new technologies of control' as part of a wider project of a new wave of enclosure by capital.
We are calling this gathering in order to discuss and analyse the implications of these new technologies of control, alongside potential responses of resistance that do not merely fall into playing out stock responses, and fulfilling the role of 'loyal opposition'.
[click on "read more" for the gathering's topics and how to find out its location]
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02-06-2005 16:23
Following the John Ross talk, the following weekend will also see a number of Zapatista solidarity events happening in Leeds.
Both events are at the Common Place
27-05-2005 15:52
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06-05-2005 19:17
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14-04-2005 13:39
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18-02-2005 00:00
Sick of a world that revolves round money not people? Tired of a politics which preaches freedom and choice but offers only bigger cages and longer chains? Fed up with a city that boasts a 24 hour lifestyle – 24 hours dominated by money and power?
You're not alone! Leeds Social Centre just got keys to a new 3 storey building in the city centre. There will be lots happening in the coming days and weeks. Come down and lend a hand and get involved - we hope to have a veggie cafe, radical bookshop, meeting space, health space, members bar/club - its up to us. If you want to put on a gig, event come down and talk to us. Our open weekly organising meetings are THURSDAYS AT 7 PM. We are at 23-25 Wharf Street (2 mins from the Corn Exchange - down Kirkgate and turn right, opposite the Duck and Drake pub).
Read our flyer or visit our website for more info
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14-02-2005 01:14
Residents of Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire have opened a temporary "Pitt Street Social Centre", offering tea, cake, videos, workshops, a Free Shop, and a chance for residents to discuss how to stop council sell-offs and the "gentrification" of the former mill-town.
When the Pitt St building became the most recent of public buildings to be put on the market, frustrated locals asked Calderdale Council for time to put forward an alternative plan to keep it as a community resource. However, in their rush to make a quick buck, the Council steam-rollered opposition, and went ahead with the sale.
"Where has the money gone and who are the new owners? We’ve been asking questions but no-one seems willing to tell us anything. How dare our representatives continue to completely ignore our needs and views? It’s just more council corruption." said Katrina, a local involved in the occupation.
This is the second occupation of a public building that has been sold off by the council, in the last year. For five days in April 2004, hundreds of local people were involved in the occupation of the old Hebden Bridge Tourist Information Centre, turning it into the People’s Information Centre. And residents are well aware that other buildings are in line for possible sell-off, including the library and the council offices.
03-02-2005 21:27
PROJECTILE is a major event taking place between 11th - 13th February 2005 in central Newcastle. The festival will feature rare and radical films. The evenings will have music and entertainment, the daytimes will have talks and discussions between the films. It will also be an occasion where anarchists and left libertarians from all over the UK can get together, and where those interested in ideas can find out much more. Check out what is happening (.pdf summary) | Films | Talks and Discussions | Anarchists in Academia Conference | Cabaret
"Films to hound the anarchist consciousness": a report from projectile
22-12-2004 12:12
On Saturday 11th December the Leeds No Sweat Group along with the National Group on Homeworking presented the Asda store in Pudsey with a Giant Christmas card asking them to improve Rights and Respect for UK Homeworkers. This was part of a national campaign of action outside stores over the country.
28-11-2004 23:00
Resisting the G8 summit 2005: meeting 7.30 pm Thursday 2nd December, Holy Trinity Church, Boar Lane, City Centre, Leeds.
Called by Leeds ARC/ Leeds University Social Forum/ Leeds Mayday Group/ Green Action/ Underground Resistance (Leeds)/ Leeds Peaceniks/ CIRCA (clandestine insurgent rebel clown army) and Leeds/Bradford Indymedia.
[Report]
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10-11-2004 23:00
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10-11-2004 23:00
Opposition to the mindless and bloody onslaught in Fallujah was marked in Leeds by several events. This banner was one of many actions taken in the city. Others included:
In York a demonstration called on the day the troops walked in attracted around 30 people at a few hours notice. The image of the death of civilians, with a mother mourning, was reprinted in the local paper the next day. [Report]
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