Manchester Social Centre are trying to raise start-up cash to rent a building in the city, and we’d very much encourage you to donate.

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After about a year of dormancy, which must have led certain officers and councillors at the Town Hall tentatively unclenching, Manchester Climate Monthly – formerly Manchester Climate Fortnightly – has returned to the rainy city, and the first issue is out now.

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For almost two years OurKingdom has been exposing the gap between official rhetoric and practice in the UK government’s appalling treatment of the vulnerable children of asylum seekers. Open Democracy founder Anthony Barnett explains how yesterday they presented a disturbing new dossier by OurKingdom co-editor, the award-winning author Clare Sambrook — Official lying and how it harms our democracy.

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Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York spoke last week to the occupiers outside St Paul’s Cathedral in London, where he argued “one of the things that I think we’re learning over the last few years actually and particularly over the last few months, is that it’s people – on the street, in the squares – that really matters, in the end.”

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We’ll be running one of our training days on Saturday 19 November. Come along to learn about media literacy, writing techniques, research methods for investigative journalism and community reporting.

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Studies over the past ten years consistently demonstrate the callous disregard for human rights and human dignity that accompanies asylum seekers who are being removed from the UK.

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Last November, I wrote an article for MULE regarding the government’s attempts to “censor the language of violence coming from young people” in the wake of the student protests in London. Given the recent spate of riots across the country it seemed appropriate to re-examine the topic, both in light of the new kinds of [...]

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