Stand Up To Racism Manchester will be sending a delegation to Calais later this month to deliver aid and funds, and to demonstrate the city’s solidarity with asylum seekers.
Community radio station All FM 96.6 celebrates its 15th birthday with an open day and fundraiser on Saturday 25th July at its studio in Levenshulme.
Manchester’s Social Centre Subrosa will open this Saturday at a former hair and beauty salon in Moss Side. This “new hub for activism” will be run by volunteers and offer a meeting space, a not-for-profit vegan café, computer work desks and a radical library.
A series of interactive lectures by the Mbari Group, a new local collective of activists and artists, and Sustained Theatre Up North, a membership organisation promoting black, Asian, and minority ethnic artists, starts tomorrow at the Zion Arts Centre in Hulme. Mule caught up with Mbari Group member Hafsah Naib to learn all about it.
The census reveals a Manchester population surge over the last decade, Remploy workers take strike action against factory closures and Sir Richard Leese harks back to the Commonwealth Games (while trying to claim credit for the Olympics). Several investment plans were also rolled out this week – see if you can spot what they have in common…
Manchester’s council tenants face an inflation-busting 6.48 per cent rent hike from April, according to plans signed off by Town Hall chiefs last week. Social tenants across the country face even steeper rises, as the government slashes welfare and pushes through housing reforms.
Up to 13,000 people across Greater Manchester are expected to take part in strikes and protests to defend pensions tomorrow as part of a nationwide “day of action” called for by the Trades Union Congress.
