At the Allerdale Borough Council Meeting last night Councillor Joe Sandwith called on fellow councillors to “formally withdraw Allerdale’s expression of interest” in "volunteering for geological disposal of high level nuclear waste.

5th episode of the Radio Interference programme, broadcast on the 4th Friday of each month at 8pm.

This one is extra special as there were technical problems on the night that stopped it from going out live. The post-production-pixie has stitched the pieces back together with his magic bodkin, although you might still be able to notice a few rough edges.

Whitehaven CID rang up a home address last week to ask if Cumbria anti nuclear groups were planning large protests at Sellafield. Thought for the day was "chance would be a fine thing!"

Despite massive protests  [1|2|3|4]  and against the declared will of the population, the German government in September rammed through parliament an extension of the operating periods of German nuclear power stations.

On 5 November the next consignment of processed nuclear waste is due in Gorleben, a village of 600 people located roughly equidistant between the northern cities of Hanover and H…

Reflections on Michael Albert, Gabriel Kuhn, Piracy, Economics and so on…

The M62 Corridor (as planners doubtless think of it) - or at least a short stretch of it – had the good fortune last Thursday to host both Michael Albert and Gabriel Kuhn, hearing them talk on their respective expert subjects.

Your correspondent, equipped with a bicycle and railcard, was able to encounter both speaker…

The critical mass in Leeds celebrated Halloween on Friday.  The monthly celebration of cycling round had a good number of cyclists who braved the mass of cars to make a mass of bicycles.  The atmosphere was friendly with a few drivers asking, "What are you protesting about?", to which the mass replied that we were just riding our bikes.

Beating The Fascist Reviewed.

4th episode of the Radio Interference programme, broadcast on the 4th Friday of each month at 8pm.  Featuring folk sessions and interviews live from Treehouse Cafe/Bradford Centre For Non-Violence, plus crunchy goodness from Dj Big Bickies.

Total running time: 1 hour 54 minutes

Michael Albert, activist, Z Communications founder and co-founder of Participatory Economics theory delivers a talk on a participatory left response to our "economic crisis".

3rd episode of the Radio Interference programme, broadcast on the 4th Friday of each month at 8pm

The comprehensive spending review announced last week will have a worse impact on people with below-average income. Now it's been shown that the North of England will be hit worse than the South.

Manchester Demonstrators Rage at Government Cuts.

A short rally organised by the TUC at the Peace Garden in St Petrs Square was followed by a rally and march from the BBC building on Oxford Road through the city centre.

Today, Thursday 21st October, protesters targeted RBS branches across Leeds. Early this morning the RBS headquarters on East Parade and the main NatWest branch on Park Row were attacked with paint, sand and glue. The buildings and pavement were sprayed with the messages “Banks get Bailouts, We get Cuts” and “Cut This!”

Are Cumbrians  a soft and willing host for 'geological disposal' of high level nuclear waste?  Is compensation possible for loss of a viable future? The many Cumbrian groups who have already expressed opposition to the geological disposal of nuclear waste think not.

A few months ago, Hebden Bridge became a Transition Town.

Britain's government unveils the harshest cuts for decades today, slashing billions of pounds in public spending and axing half a million jobs in a bid to tackle a record deficit.

Forest defence is needed now more than ever

Yesterday a leak on the DECC website revealed that Kirksanton and Braystones - two greenfield sites in West Cumbria earmarked for new nuclear build are - "not suitable."

Following the greenfield site nominations all people's energy and outrage has gone into opposing the Kirksanton and Braystones proposals, taking attention away from the extraordinarily flawed reasoning of proposing new nuclea…

Sunday 10th October 2010 saw a group of volunteers from around the city and beyond descend on West Bowling community orchard for the 10th birthday of Bradford's Apple Day. Celebrating the apple picking season in England, it was a chance to try a wide variety of apples grown locally and to meet others in the community.

Will the EDL evolve into a legitimate political party or just get pissed instead?

4.30pm Urban Scrumping competition

Met at the free school with bikes and went to collect some apple :-)

Last weekend's Northern Queer Film Festival gave all the money it raised to Bent Bars. After showing the film 'Cruel and Unusual' members of the collective gave a talk about the project.

'Russia Today', a TV channel broadcast in English, has laid into the US mainstream media today. In a video piece called "News or sensation: Who trusts the mainstream?" first broadcast over UK terrestrial TV at 1022h, it was reported that 57% of Americans do not trust their media to accurately report the news.

Prof David Smythe (Emeritus Professor of Geophysics, University of Glasgow), an earth scientist who was employed by Nirex to find a nuclear waste repository in West Cumbria, is not opposed to geological disposal in principle but he says the scientific research carried out in the 1990s which cost the public purse £400M shows that -  No site in West Cumbria is suitable for geological disposal of n…

The latest meeting of the Convention of the Left took place in Manchester at the weekend, within yards of the barricades around the Labour Party conference. The Convention's first meeting was in 2008, also in Manchester. Its purpose was, and is, to unite all factions on the Left. I have not attended any of the previous conferences but they do not seem to have achieved much more than enable Left ac…

International Radioactive Waste Action Day is 29th Sept. The date was chosen to commemorate the worst known radioactive waste disaster -- a reprocessing storage tank explosion, following loss of cooling water, in the Ural Mountains of Siberia on Sept. 29, 1957 . An entire region contaminated, hundreds immediately killed and the poisoning and death of many more since, due to the lingering radioacti…

From Thursday to Sunday in Leeds there was a queer film festival at a squatted location in Leeds organised by Queer Mutiny North.  The festival was held to bring Queers together to a safe space in Leeds and open up issues for discussion.  Five years after Leeds first queer film festival at Hanover Square the event organisers opened up an empty building in Chapeltown for the second queer film …

How do we connect all this great activism in Leeds together?  How do we grow as a movement so that we can demand, not ask, for change?  How do we build our power?  And how do we get from A to B?

Who in their right mind would oppose "Managing Radioactive Wastes Safely" ?The cleverly (Orwellian) titled: Managing Radioactive Wastes Safely Partnership is designed to stifle any opposition to thegeological 'disposal' of high level nuclear waste.