This interview is published in Using Space seven [http://northern-indymedia.org/zines/2656]

about the police violence over civilians at the 15 Sept anti-austerity demo in Lisbon, Portugal.

The latest LAON press release explains why the BBC's Counrtyfile programme is investigation a planning recommendation made by a Planning Inspector after a Public Inquiry over the Halton Lea Gate Opencast Mine in Northumberland has implications for all similar mineral planning applications in England.

Those of us calling ourselves Anarchist were almost to a person critical of the Olympics, too expensive, too jingoistic, too much emphasis on winning rather than co-operating. Once London won the consensus was "they will fuck it up, it will go wrong, it will go over budget, nobody will turn up, it will be late.

Come on down, it's sunny

The situation in Melilla is getting worse everyday. Being one of the doors to Europe, many Africans try their luck jumping the double fence with the hope to get a better life. Jumping the fence is extremely dangerous so those who cannot afford an open boat face this option. But the police and the army from both sides, Spain and Morocco are worse than the sharp razors of the 6 meters fence.

This wednesday 5th Sept, Cumbria County Council will be asked to "slam the door shut" on the nuke dump plans for Cumbria.  Radiation Free Lakeland and others will be speaking at the last Council meeting before the decision is made to continue on the toxic slide to a nuclear sacrifice zone. The proposals are for the worlds largest nuclear dump under wild Ennerdale or towns and villages in Allerdale…

The 7th Press Release from the Loose Anti Opencast Network explains why a Planning Inspectors decision on an Opencast Site Planning Application in a remote part of England has implications for all mineral planning applications across the country and not just those 5 pending for opencast coal.

Local anti Fascists outnumber the British National Party's national call out demonstration in Pallion, Sunderland. 

The protest in Centenary Square outside City Hall, Bradford on Monday 13th August 2012 against the Killing of Rohingya people in Burma attracted a large crowd of mostly young people from Bradford and its surrounding areas. This short notice demo with its large crowd is a testament to the way George Galloway reaches out to people. Credit also goes to the young people who worked behind the scen…

Boycott Israel Network is a member of Don’t Dance with Israeli Apartheid campaign, which is organising demonstrations against Israeli State-funded Batsheva at the Edinburgh International Festival and across the UK in November.  Batsheva is part of the Brand Israel effort to shift attention away from Israel’s crimes: ethnic cleansing and mass violence against the Palestinian people.

A severely disabled single mum from leeds is facing losing her children, job and even her home after government agency motability told her that the heavily adapted vehicle she relies on to get out and about makes her "too independent".

Kirsten Battle, 38 who uses a specialist electric wheelchair qualified as the first disabled youth worker in Yorkshire in 2009 has qualified for the scheme, the o…

The latest LAON July review of prospective opencast sites, mainly in England provides evidence that such is the financial plight of UK Coal that it is actively seeking to sell sites it is trying to gain planing permission for in both Durham and Northumberland

Tyne and Wear Metro cleaners go on strike over low pay conditions and the sacking of a fellow employee.



For more info visit: www.rmt.org.uk

Or search 'Campaign for Tyne and Wear Cleaners'

On the 12th July we squatted Scottish Coal's new opencast site in the Douglas Valley at Glentaggart East for a week-long action camp. Folk came from all over to stand in solidarity with local people and to stop the destruction and injustice of opencast coal mining. The film below documents a few of the actions that took place during the camp including a mass action that shut down Mainshill Open Ca…

Northern Indymedia is short of people and needs new volunteers if it is to continue as a viable project. The collective running this website needs people to step up and take over. Unless this happens, this newswire will soon have to shut down.

This area between Gateshead and Co Durham already has already had to contend with one recent opencast application for the Birklands site as well as the prospect of more opencastin g on the proposed Marley Colliery Reclamation site. Now it seems local people could soon face a third application

Hi from Mayo!

Since the last update we've had the annual June Gathering, dug in at the camp after an eviction scare and had a week of action against Shell. Local Shell to Sea spokesperson Terence Conway appealed his prison sentence and remains free to work against Shell but joins the other campaigners who got suspended sentences in February. Lots of events coming up soon on the camp and around the …

The June Review od Developments affecting Opencast Mining from the Loose Anti Opencast Network provides new evidence that Surace Coal Mining Workers in the USA contract 'Black Lung' disease or Pneumoconiosis even though they never venture down an underground mine. This is just one item of new evidence which raises questions about how safe such mining activity is in the UK. Secondly the Press Relea…

In two weeks we’ll be setting up for 6 days of resistance to corporate rule in the Douglas Valley. We’ll be taking on the UK’s largest opencast coal mining company, landlord-aristocrat-banker Lord Home and South Lanarkshire Council – together they conspire to make a few people very wealthy, whilst communities are left disempowered, disenfranchised and to suffer all the impacts that living next to …

This, the 1st press release form the Loose Anti Opencast Network, list 12 sites in England where there have been expressions of interest in opencast for coal on the site. The press release also indicates why this will be a continuing 'itch' in the English planning system, as up to 97% of the surfaceminable coal in England is located within 500m of where people live. England, unlike Scotland or Wal…

The next working class  bookfair will be on Saturday June 16th 11 till 5pm in the Museum Vaults, Sunderland. 33 Silksworth Row Sunderland Tyne And Wear SR1 3QJ.

A broad range of literature, mags, books and ephemera, and different groups will be represented, and this mixture will hopefully strengthen the progressive movement and its politics. We aim to have an open and tolerant atmosphere, wher…

Dogs4us is a puppy warehouse. It has branches in Leeds and Manchester.



Dogs4us was exposed in 2009 buying puppies from puppy mills and telling a customer who’s puppy became sick to ‘take it back for a refund’ as treating the puppy would cost to much

Fracking is Dead - Hurrah!  Long Live Radioactive Fracking with Bells On?  While the Forests Sell Off and the Fracking campaigns recieved really sympathetic , whipping in, and at times almost blanket media coverage, the media support for the campaign to stop the dumping of high level wastes under Cumbria has been low key to say the very least.  

The World Weeks for the Abolition of Meat (WWAMs) are intended as a means of promoting a political debate around the idea of abolishing the production and consumption of sentient beings and other animal products.

Opencast coal mining in the Douglas Valley is about the ruling class destroying communities for their own financial gain. Its about ecological destruction on a massive scale for capitalism’s unquenchable thirst for cheap energy. Its about absentee fat-cat land-lords making millions off land that shouldn’t be theirs. Its about morally corrupt local (and national) government putting profit befo…

Residents from the Fylde gathered on Sunday at St Cuthbert's in Lytham to discuss and question the proposed hydraulic fracturing (fracking) in the area. Drilling company Cuadrilla Resources is seeking the green light to go ahead with fracking at Preese Hall farm, Singleton. A further 800 sites are also being considered in the area for fracking.

PRESS RELEASE: ATOS declared unfit for work



Occupy Newcastle Activists target ATOS' discrimination against the vulnerable and disabled.

Here's the schedule for the antiprison gathering to be held in Nottingham at the Sumac Centre on the 28th of April.



Breakfast, Lunch and dinner will be provided, as will accommodation on Friday and Saturday night.



On Friday night the Zounds  http://www.zoundsonline.co.uk/gigs.html will be playing at the Sumac, so come along to that if you can.

A round up of news from November to March for the Sheffield, West Yorkshire & Doncaster Sabs.

For our last report see [1]