Fascist group the English Defence League (EDL) announced over the weekend that they were cancelling a planned trip to Bolton on March 6 because of a “Religious hindu (sic) festival on the same day at the same time at the same place to our demo (sic)”.
Bruntwood: Movers and Shakers
Our upcoming print edition takes a detailed look inside the boardrooms of Manchester’s biggest earners. Here Andy Lockhart offers an insight to Bruntwood, the biggest owner of office space in the city, to give you just a taste of what the movers and shakers of Manchester are involved in.
Theatre Review: A Raisin in the Sun
What would you do with a life-changing sum of money? This is the pivotal question of Lorraine Hansberrys’ 1959 play and becomes the lens through which life in fifties America for a black family is starkly highlighted. The Royal Exchanges’ intimate theatre becomes the claustrophobic apartment in which three generations of the Younger family feud, [...]
Adopt a Hasty Lane Resident campaign set to take off
This February will see the launch of ‘Adopt-a-Resident’ at Hasty Lane, an event forming part of the campaign protesting against the expansion of Manchester Airport. Hasty Lane, home to historic cottages and surrounded by acres of open ground and important ecological habitats, is under threat due to the plans and its residents are facing forced [...]
Dispatches from Copenhagen IV: Good Cop/Bad Cop
In our final dispatch from the protests that took place on streets of Copenhagen last December, John Sandiford gives his account of the tactics employed by the Danish Politi (police force).
Gaza’s children: Sarah Irving talks to Manchester artist Jane Lawson
Following the attacks on Gaza by Israeli forces at the start of 2009, Manchester-based artist Jane Lawson responded to the images and stories of death and destruction by creating a series of unique prints of some of Gaza’s children. Capturing acute human suffering and injustice at the hands of oppression, the images will go on [...]
Dispatches from Copenhagen III: Gearing Up for New Politics
In another of our Copenhagen protest articles, Tom Jeffery recounts his experience of the practical side of radical politics: from the barricades to bicycle workshops…
Book review: “Gaza: Beneath the Bombs”
One year on from the carnage of the so-called Gaza war the 1.5 million people of the strip are still prisoners in their own land, trapped by the active efforts of Israel and the silent complicity of her allies in the international community. The lack of any principled attempt to rein in Israel has resulted [...]
Fascist violence in Stoke as the EDL march again
Last year far right group the English Defence League (EDL) whipped up anti-Muslim sentiment across Britain by holding a number of high profile demonstrations against what they see as the creeping Islamification of British society. Last weekend saw their first march of 2010. MULE sent reporter Tim Hunt to his native Stoke-on-Trent to witness events.
Theatre Preview: Re:Play 2010 Season
Throughout the third annual Re:Play Season, new local writing which has already been premiered in non-traditional venues will be revived for another showing at The Library Theatre, bringing the work to new audiences. Spotlighting the best talent from festivals including 24:7, Re:Play is designed to encourage emerging local talents.
Dispatches from Copenhagen II: Being a Protest Medic
The MULE continues its coverage of December’s Copenhagen Climate Change Summit (COP-15) with a dispatch from Manchester’s Sarah McCulloch, who acted as Medic for the Climate Camp group.
End for Manchester Adoption Society approaching?
A celebrity campaign is underway to help a children’s charity raise the quarter of a million pounds it needs to stay open.
Music Preview: Queer Noise
Manchester is often thought of as the queer hub of the North; with it’s own ‘gay village’, the Queer Up North International Festival, and the annual Pride celebrations. Its gay music scene, however, is often below the mainstream radar. Queer Noise: The Hidden History of Manchester’s Gay Music Culture, a one-off celebration of gay music in Manchester, is seeking to change this.
Help at hand for new local food co-ops
If one of your New Year’s resolutions was to live a healthier lifestyle then Sustain, the alliance for better food and farming, are helping to make it that bit easier by advising people on how they can buy local organic produce in bulk.
Dispatches from Copenhagen I: Manchester Climate Action
It may seem like a long time ago now, but the Copenhagen climate talks held in December last year continue to cast a shadow over the future of the planet. Monumental in their failure to achieve anything resembling the kind of agreements needed to tackle climate change, the talks showed how the current global political [...]
Football pitches ditched at Hardy Farm
Campaigners scored a decisive victory in the fight to save Chorlton Meadows on Thursday 14 January, as developers withdrew plans for a sports complex on Hardy Farm at a meeting of the Manchester City Council Planning Committee.
Music Preview: MULE fundraiser with punk from the other Manchester
On Thursday 14 January three local punk bands will dominate the stage at Satan’s Hollow. The event is a fundraiser in support of MULE and features War Coma, Nephew Huzzband and Cash For Your Stories, who will also be launching their EP on the night. In anticipation of a night promising great local music, Alex Gallas reflects [...]
Good migrations: Asylum seeker Lydia Besong avoids deportation
Following a vigil and letters to MPs, the Home Office and airlines Lydia Besong is to be released from Yarl’s Wood and her case re-opened.
Conservatives 2.0
With the Tories still setting the political agenda in the run up to the election, Alex Nunns examines what a Cameron government might actually have in store for us.
Reid It and Weep
Three years ago this month lawyers representing the then Home Secretary John Reid admitted in court that children had been held in detention centres illegally.