Supporters of South Manchester Law Centre are to hold a protest outside the full Manchester City Council meeting this coming Wednesday 8 December, Albert Square at 9am as part of the campaign to save the law centre and restore its funding.
After an eight year absence, the temporary squatted social centre ‘OK Cafe’ has re-opened in the Lord Nelson Pub on Newton Street in the Northern Quarter.
Controversy has erupted around the invitation to Professor Ken Zucker, best known for his contentious work on Childhood Gender Identity Disorder (GID) and the ‘gender repair clinics’ he runs in Toronto, to a prestigious conference in Manchester.
Students have been occupying a lecture threatre at the University of Manchester for almost a week following the first decentralised national day of action against education cuts and tuition fees.
Lib Dem and Labour councillors flung accusations at one another last week following news that the Collyhurst social housing project – which would have reconstructed and refurbished a total of 1,300 homes in one of the most deprived parts of the country – is to be scrapped by the Department for Communities and Local Government.
A call to action on Tuesday November 30 has been launched by university and college students as the struggle against tuition fees and cuts to education builds.
MULE has joined a list of signatories calling for funding to be reinstated for the People’s History Museum in Manchester and other ‘non-national’ museums whose existence is threatened by swingeing government cuts on the arts and culture.
