Manchester Free Spaces Newswire Archive

Bicycle Social Centre Manchester

Pedal MCR, 24-12-2010 09:49

We are shortly opening a cycling community centre in Manchester. A place where people can socialise over an inexpensive vegan lunch, use the tool library, attend bike maintenance classes, earn a bike and much more! Read more | 3 comments >>

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OKASIONAL CAFE is back in Manchester!

Luther Blissett, 08-12-2010 12:33

After a 8 year absence the OKasional Cafe is back in Manchester!
The squatted space will hold a daily café, regular vegan meals and function as a radical space for meetings, organising, actions, workshops and events.

Read more | 1 comment >>

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Reimagine the University -24th-26th November - Leeds

ROU, 20-11-2010 11:04

Are you a skint student? An overworked member of University staff? A Leodian with a vision of a more inclusive University system?

The Really Open University invites you to ‘Re-imagine the University’, a three-day event dedicated to exploring and demonstrating an alternative educational system.

Download the programme here:
 http://reallyopenuniversity.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/programme-of-events1.pdf Read more | 9 comments >>

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Reimagine the University - 24/11-26/11 - Leeds

ROU, 12-11-2010 09:51

How could we transform the university, how could students and lecturers learn differently through more creative, critical and empowering processes, is it even possible to transform the university, or do we need to create an entirely different system?

We invite you to be a part of exploring and demonstrating an alternative educational system over three days. Be it a workshop, a lecture a discussion a film an event, we are calling... on students, lecturers and staff and others to come together and show another university is possible. Read more >>

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Manchester Uni Occupation

from text, 11-11-2010 14:01

Occupation of Manchester Uni's Finance office to expose planned cuts within the institution Read more | 2 additions | 6 comments >>

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A call out from Amsterdam

amsterdamned, 20-09-2010 12:48

The squatting ban is not a threat - it's an opportunity and a tool. Read more >>

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2nd Leeds Queer Film Fest, September 22-27th

Queer Mutiny North, 18-08-2010 14:38

Five evenings of queer cinema… come for gender-bending cinema that makes you think… queer trash and horror in the campest of settings… features and shorts that take us beyond the queer ‘scene’… take in some history and current struggles in the queer world Read more >>

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J B Spray Squat, Court Hearing Mon. Aug 2nd, CALL FOR RESISTANCE TO EVICTION!

Squatistor Familiarez, 01-08-2010 11:42

The J B Spray squat, in Radford, Nottingham, is facing another court hearing tomorrow in front of Nottingham Magistrates, and so is calling for support, in terms of people joining the squats efforst to resist any attemots at eviction by the bailiffs or the state...PLEASE COME AND JOIN THE RESISTANCE!
CANT GO, WONT GO! Read more | 1 comment >>

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Lewes Road community garden demo (Fri July 9)

gardener, 07-07-2010 22:55

Supporters of the Lewes Road Community Garden are holding a demo outside Lewes County Court, High Street, Lewes, before an appeal hearing against the posession order granted to developers Alburn Minos Ltd and their partners in eco-crime Tesco.
The demo starts at 9.30 with the appeal hearing due to start at 10.30am this Friday. The Big Lemon Bus company is laying on a free bus leaving the garden on Lewes Road, Brighton at 8.30am (donations to the court costs and garden fighting fund).
Read more >>

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Lewes Road Community Garden V Tesco

summer sun, 01-07-2010 00:37

Gardeners and residents on Brighton's Lewes Road Community Garden face the bailiffs in the next few days. THE GARDEN IS OPEN despite sub-contractors Terrins locking up the front gates today (June 30).
More bodies the better over next few days. Gardens By The Community For The Community - Fuck the Corporates...








Read more | 6 comments >>

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Switzerland: Short film on Zurich's Autonomous School

a-films, 23-05-2010 23:44

On 19 April, a barrack on a plot belonging to the freight depot of Zurich's railway station was squatted and revived. The barrack has been empty for more than a year. The Canton of Zurich plans to build a new police and justice center for 570 million Swiss francs (US$ 500 million) on the plot.
Read more >>

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The Logic of Occupation: demand nothing, occupy everything!

Really Open University, 12-05-2010 13:48

Throughout history, and all over the world, people have reclaimed space by taking it, occupying it and putting it to use for ends other than those dictated by capitalism... from the Paris and Shanghai Communes to Reclaim the Streets parties, Guerrilla Gardening and autonomous social centres. Read more >>

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Know Your Airport! Biodiversity Walk - Sun 9th May

Stop Expansion at Manchester Airport, 29-04-2010 14:33

Join us for this family-friendly walk around the areas earmarked for
destruction by Manchester Airport's expansion plans. We'll begin at Hasty Lane and walk round the affected areas to the south. We'll hear from local experts about the different wildlife affected.

Bring your friends and family, binoculars, a picnic, a frisbee/skipping rope/games, and appreciation for what's currently being destroyed by Airport expansion.
Read more >>

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DIY Aye! Radical Festival - This weekend in Newcastle

DIY Crew, 26-04-2010 17:38

DIY Aye! returns Read more >>

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Liverpool Social Centre don't think that the BNP matter

@nnoyed, 19-04-2010 01:17

Some members of the Liverpol Social Forum/Liverpool Social Centre don't think that the BNP are very important, or a threat to our communities.

Who gives a fuck about the BNP? Apparently not the social centre, dub comes first. Read more | 15 comments >>

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Social Centres in a Time of Crisis

Social Centre, 12-03-2010 16:36

A weekend of workshops, discussions and socialising for everyone with an interest in radical autonomous social centres. Read more >>

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“Knife arch” for Piccadilly Gardens

MULE, 21-02-2010 17:32

Greater Manchester Police (GMP) have today erected a temporary “knife arch”, consisting of a metal detector and sniffer dogs, in Piccadilly Gardens for pedestrians to walk through. Read more | 3 comments >>

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The Really Open University: Strike / Occupy / Transform!

ROU, 18-02-2010 11:10

In recent weeks a struggle has begun to emerge at the University of Leeds. The university management is claiming that they need to cut spending by £35 million due to the economic crisis. The lecturers union (UCU) rightfully claims this could cause the loss of 700 jobs. The effects will go beyond just job losses but will continue the degradation of education caused by deep rooted systematic problems. Read more | 4 comments >>

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Resisting the cuts at Leeds University. Strike, Occupy, Transform!

The Really Open University, 16-02-2010 21:55

A group called the Really Open University has been established to help resist the £35 million of cuts being made at the University of Leeds. Read more >>

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Earth First! Winter Moot location announced, 6pm Fri 5th - Sun 7th Feb 2010

EF! Winter Moot Collective, 01-02-2010 11:59

"A weekend of networking, reflection, strategic discussions & campaign planning for anyone involved in ecological direct action who believes in non-hierarchical organisation and directly confronting the forces responsible for the destruction of the Earth and its inhabitants"

6pm Fri 5th - Sun 7th Feb 2010
Dipton Community Centre, Front Street (A692), Dipton, Stanley, County Durham, DH9 9DR Read more | 3 comments >>

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Dissident Island Radio - back in your earholes tonight

Dissident Werewolf, 15-01-2010 17:22

London No Borders // Smash EDO // Cloak & Dinner // NCH Freeshop // xtrats Read more >>

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Ride Bikes, Have fun, Support MCDAS, Give kids presents...awesome.

I Bike MCR, 02-12-2009 16:37

A treasurehunt on bicycles to support Manchester Commitee to Defend Asylum Seekers. The riders, in pairs, will be following a set route and buying and collecting presents that will then be donated to MCDAS Chidren's Christmas Party. Read more >>

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Skelmersdale council tenants fight for their houses

hangbitch, 29-11-2009 18:23

A group of council tenants and council home owners in West Lancashire is fighting plans to demolish their homes and replace them with apartments for private sale. Why do so many regeneration plans do so little for the less well off? Read more | 1 comment >>

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MMU campus plans set to be delayed

MULE, 28-11-2009 14:47

Following last week’s news that 127 support staff are to be made redundant – an “efficiency” measure according to Vice Chancellor Professor John Brooks – Manchester Metropolitan University has announced setbacks in plans over its proposed campus developments. Read more >>

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squatting in Manchester! new social centre

reposter, 20-11-2009 23:53

Squatters in pub fight

November 20, 2009
SQUATTERS have set up home in a historic former pub and now want to highlight the plight of the dilapidated building. Read more | 8 comments >>

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Machines locked-on to at Mainshill again in two days of continuous action

Mainshill Solidarity Camp, 27-10-2009 10:25

At 7.30am this morning, two people locked-on to harvesting machinery attempting to make its way into Mainshill Wood, in an ongoing struggle to stop work at the site and stop Scottish Coal's attempts to turn the site into an opencast coal mine. Read more >>

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