Seven activists today held a mobile demo against the University of Bradford's animal testing facilities and highlighting the barbarism happening inside them.

Community members rallied in front of former Royal Park school to voice support for its transformation into a community centre, and to oppose bids to Leeds city council that would turn the space into businesses or more student flats. Watch the video here.

Members of No Borders North East unfurled a banner from a rooftop in Newcastle city center this morning (6th March 2010). They were showing their support for the women from Yarl's Wood detention center, who have been on hunger strike for several weeks, and demanding an end to immigration detention.

Below is an audio report on the demonstration held on Thursday 25th February in Leeds by staff and students against education cuts.

This years EF! winter moot was held in Dipton Community Centre, which looks over the proposed site for an open-cast at Bradley. Members of the local campaign against the mine have asked if people who attended the moot, (as well as those who didn't) would write in their objection to the development.

Activists from the Northern region yesterday took part in a huge blockade of AWE, Aldermaston, which builds nuclear warheads for the UK's Trident Submarines.

Links: Zombies Take To The Streets Of Bradford | Zombies For A Nuclear Apocalypse | Aldermaston Big Blockade

Sanctuary for Mireille Mbimbo (Very urgent support needed)

Today, Friday 12th February at 9am, 66 people in Bradford, West Yorkshire began a hunger strike in solidarity with hunger strikers in Yarl's Wood Detention Facility, Bedfordshire over the imprisonment of children and general conditions of detained asylum seekers. The solidarity strike will continue until 9am tomorrow, Saturday 13th.

Money grabbing UK coal have overcome one of the largest barriers in their plans to opencast the PONT VALLEY,

OPPONENTS of a large opencast mine in a picturesque valley fear the worst now that planning permission has been granted to move a colony of Great Crested Newts – a protected species.

A demonstration is currently underway at the headquarters of B&K Universal in Hull, which is a company that specialises in breeding animals for laboratory research. Most notably, they are the chief supplier of animals for the widely targeted vivisection laboratory, Huntingdon Life Sciences in Cambridgeshire.

Leeds University is facing 700 job cuts and the UCU is balloting on strike action.  The University is cutting £35 million of spending of which 60% will be from staff cuts.  It gets £30.8 million in tuition fees.  The Leeds student union, LUU are against the strike and have not come out against the job cuts.

After seven months of occupying woodlands in South Lanarkshire the Mainshill Solidarity Camp is preparing for an eviction on Monday the 25th. The camp called a pre-eviction gathering after receiving a tip-off.

Leeds residents are celebrating after Leeds City Council voted to cut city-wide carbon emissions 40% by 2020.

SAVE OUR SALFORD GREEN BELT!!!

STOP SALFORD CITY COUNCIL DEVELOPMENTS ON SALFORD GREEN BELT  

Health professionals demonstrated outside the Leeds General Infirmary at on the last day of Copenhagen climate change talks to stress huge negative impacts on global health if agreement is not reached.

Yorkshire and Humber's unelected assembly wants to hasten the day when Leeds is a port on an inland sea. They must be stopped!

Leeds critical mass has had a revival.  For the past three months double figures have been turning out to cycle the center of town and show card drivers how it could be done.

After a long session in court this morning the District Judge has made a ruling that is final, we must vacate the caretakers house and grounds by 12:00pm Wednesday 2nd December 2009.

On Saturday 28th November over 200 women marched through Leeds to reclaim those spaces which may be threatening or home to violent attacks against women. The first section of the march was women only while the latter half was open to all. The march then made it's way to the civic hall where several short speeches were made and stalls from local concerned groups could be perused.

A self-organised group a cyclists from Leeds, Bradford, and other locations along the route departed from Bradford on Monday morning, en route for London on 5th December, to participate in the march there which is itself part of the countdown to Cop15.

Ten years have passed since the first Indymedia site came to life in November 30th 1999. Media activists came together for the first time during the amazing anti-WTO summit protests that took place in Seattle (US), kickstarting the emergence of a global 'movement of movements' that has spent this decade struggling against neoliberalism, war and environmental destruction.

Residents of Royal Park School facing eviction - Case to be heard at Leeds Magistrates Court Monday 23rd, 1000h

The team of residents who have taken occupation in the neglected Royal Park School with the hope of reclaiming it for the community may be ordered to leave this Monday by Leeds City Council. If the court rules to evict the residents they could be forced to leave by the next day.

After his arrest this week for taking part in anti-war protests against military orders, York showed its support to Lance Corporal Joe Glenton, a son of the city, with people queueing to sign a petition during a massively successful city centre stall and vigil. The signatures rolled in, news cameras rolled on, and the brave stand of soldier against mindless imperialism was taken to new audiences.

A group of people have taken over Royal Park School to use as a community center! Come and show your support! Bring yourself, food, bedding cleaning materials, and anything that would make the place look pretty!