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Leeds Bradford Social Struggles Newswire Archive

Feministas' Mayday - Guerilla Stickering

01-05-2007 18:03

Feministas Guerilla stickering campaign today...

Mirfield BNP Candidate- Ex Convict?

01-05-2007 11:40

Information has reached us here at the Kirklees Unity newsdesk that the Mirfield BNP candidate is an alleged convicted fraudster.

Hull, rally and protest against GM trials, 21st April 2007

25-04-2007 10:20

A selection of photos of the events of 21st April 2007

G8 Meeting Leeds Uni

23-04-2007 20:46

G8 meeting this Thursday 7pm 26th April
Leeds University - Rodger Stevens Building
Organised by DISSENT!

FRFI takes part in march against NF on Tyneside

17-04-2007 22:52

On Sunday 15th April FRFI activists took part in the counter-protest against the National Front's fourth consecutive annual march through Newcastle, which they claim is to celebrate St George's Day on 23rd April, but which others have suggested is to celebrate Adolf Hitler's birthday on 20th April.

Fascists leafletting in Todmorden

14-04-2007 11:42

Fascist skinheads are currently leafleting Todmorden.
On a door to door basis.
Help need to stop them.

Anti-fascists - Counter National Front Demo This Sunday in Newcastle

11-04-2007 11:10

This Sunday the 15th of April - 10.30 AM

Cafe Politique at the CommonPlace Thursday 12 April

09-04-2007 17:57

What is successful action?

In the run-up to this year's G8 summit and Climate Camp (among other things), it seems timely to ask ourselves what we do (and why we do it), and how we can do it better. Affinity groups? Civil disobedience? Mass blockades? Street stalls and petitions? Demonstrations? Lobbying? And how does what we do relate to the sort of world we want? Can we create that world now? Where do social centres, like the CommonPlace, fit into this?

Fur Shop Shuts Its Doors!

06-04-2007 23:01

A fur shop that has been the focus of a 2 year campaign has finally shut it's doors!

Asylum Seekers Demonstrate on Tyneside as parliamentary committee issues report

31-03-2007 22:02

On Saturday 31 March 2007 activists from TCAR (Tyneside Community Action for Refugees) took to the streets for their latest demonstration against dawn raids and deportations.

Kirklees Unity Day of Action

22-03-2007 20:57

Kirklees Unity Day of Action

Saturday April 7th 2007

Kirklees Candidate Deselected

16-03-2007 00:03

It appears Peter Horsfield,last years BNP candidate for the Liversedge and Gomersal ward has been deselected.

2 Deportations from Tyneside Defeated this Week! - Includes action report

14-03-2007 23:19

This week 2 TCAR families who have both been living in Newcastle for over 5 years were facing deportation. Joy and her daughter had received notification that they would be deported to Jamaica on Wednesday 14th March, despite a pending citizenship claim by her daughter, and Nurhayet and her family, held in Yarls Wood detention centre, had received fresh removal directions for Thursday 15th March, despite their fresh claim. After a massive campaign to the press, local MPs and the Home Office, and the second emergency demonstration outside Government Offices North East in a week, both families are for the time being out of danger.

Kirklees Unity has a new website

08-03-2007 13:18

Anti Fascist organisation Kirklees Unity have a new website.

Save ESOL! March and Rally 3rd March 2007

07-03-2007 03:38

On Saturday 3rd March 2007 Tyneside Community Action for Refugees (TCAR) joined with Newcastle College Student Union and ESOL staff and students to organise a march and rally against the Labour government's proposed cuts to funding for ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages). Under the proposed changes, from September 2007 asylum seekers will be totally excluded from English classes, and other will be expected to pay, effectively excluding many low paid migrant workers.

The 3 latest ALF prisoners

06-03-2007 22:37

Originally From: A Longing For Collapse Press on Myspace.

Erdogan family and TCAR resist deportation from Tyneside

06-03-2007 03:34

Thank you to everyone who came to the emergency demonstration for the Erdogan family this morning. We held a lively protest outside the Government Offices and then handed in our demands to a member of staff (the director of the Government Offices North East was 'in a board meeting').

England First Party's new chairman is convicted electoral fraudster

05-03-2007 06:36

Typical

documentary: Reclaim Power - voices from the camp for climate action 2006

03-03-2007 19:18

In the summer of 2006, 600 people convinced that there is no time to waste set up a Camp for Climate Action in the shadow of one of the biggest C02 emitters in Europe: Drax coal-fired power station in Yorkshire / UK. Cine Rebelde produced a documentary film about the camp.