Student at Manchester Metropolitan University should continue there fight to have MMU cancel their contract with Veolia. Failing that, it is time students started boycotting Manchester Metropolitan University. Not only for their employment of Veolia but also because of the way they have treated the people of Hulme. John Brooks the vice-chancellor, conducted secret deals with Manchester City Council, to build a campus on Birley Fields. This is totally unacceptable behaviour from a Higher Education establishment which boast it serves the community. It does not, it even tells it’s students, even those live in hall of residence in Hulme, not to go into Hulme. They claim to be building a green campus when they have felled scores of trees and want to fell another 50. And their energy plant is to be powered by natural gas, a finite resource, imported and emits CO2. How is this green?
The giant and the boy who threw stones
A blog about the unequal struggle the Palestinians are fighting.
Israel’s Gaza Rampage: It’s Not Just War » Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names
An interview with John Pilger, in CounterPunch, about the conflict in Palestine. How it is an American/Israeli attempt to exterminate the Palestinians.
Israel’s Gaza Rampage: It’s Not Just War » Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names.
letter from Gaza
Anonymous takes down over 9000 Israeli sites, wipes databases, leaks email addresses and passwords | Hang The Bankers | He Who Controls the Money Supply, Controls the World
It was announced on Friday, at the Support Gaza demonstration in Piccadilly Gardens, Manchester, that hackers were going to target Israel.
Protest against bombing of Gaza
Protest against bombing of Gaza, Piccadilly Gardens 16th November 2012
Six Reasons Why Politicians Believe They Can Lie | Psychology Today
An interesting article on why politicians lie. And it is very pertinent to Manchester and the Labour run council. For years now councillor Richard Leese and Howard Bernstein have been trumpeting the success of their regeneration plans for the City. This is despite their are hundreds of office and retails units empty, some for years since being built. Then, there is the high unemployment, deprivation, poverty, fuel poverty and homelessness. Even despite all this evidence, their plans have not succeeded but have been proven to be a waste of tax-payers money. And in some cases, this money cannot be accounted for, but no criminal investigation or charges have been made. Still, their loyal following, including members of Labour’s shadow cabinet, think everything is fine. In the meantime, the real Mancunians (no matter what their colour), suffer. And the reason why, is explained in the article below.
Six Reasons Why Politicians Believe They Can Lie | Psychology Today.
Bibi’s Crazy UN Speech: Medievalist poses as champion of “modernity” | Sabbah Report
An article which puts the case, well, that the Israelis are bent on supremacy and war with it’s neighbour. No doubt sure, they will receive the backing of the US.
Bibi’s Crazy UN Speech: Medievalist poses as champion of “modernity” | Sabbah Report.
Ethex – Blogs
An interesting blog about the Bristol Pound, where local traders are accepting the local currency in preference to using the normal banking system. It is something that has come out of the Transition Towns movement such as Transition Towns Totnes
The first in the country and the first to introduce it’s own currency.
High ambitions for high rise sustainable living | green alliance blog
The link below is a blog from the Green Alliance and a project to involve residents in living sustainably. I think this blog will go some way to debunk the notion of some white middle-class environmentalists, that people who live in council/social housing do not care about sustainable living. Maybe, environmental groups in Manchester will endeavour to involve more people from council/social housing in their work?
High ambitions for high rise sustainable living | green alliance blog.
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