Sheffield organisations

Other organisations in Sheffield.

Sheffield Against War
The Sheffield Stop the War Coalition is a broad based organisation of people opposed to military retaliation for the attacks on September 11th. It is affiliated to the National Stop the War Coalition.

The website for the SSTWC is http://www.sheffieldagainstwar.org.uk/, and it has regular meetings and a discussion email list, http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/sheffield-anti-war-coalition/ and an announcements email list, http://lists.riseup.net/www/info/sheffieldagainstwar.

Sheffield Indymedia
Sheffield Indymedia is a part of the UK and global network of Independant Media Centres established since the first one was set up in Seattle in 1999.

Sheffield Indymedia has a open publishing news website, http://sheffield.indymedia.org.uk/ and an events site, http://www.protest.net/imcsheffield/ and organises stuff using an open email list, http://lists.indymedia.org/imc-sheffield and the Indymedia wiki, http://docs.indymedia.org/view/Local/ImcUkSheffield.

There is an overview of Indymedia on the Wikipedia.

Sheffield Samba Band
The Sheffield Samba Band was formed in December 2001 by the coming together of a variety of people who had been inspired by the power of radical Samba on protests and demonstrations, notably that of London's Rhythms of Resistance.

They have a website, http://www.rhythmsofresistancesheffield.org.uk/.

SlugBug
The Sheffield Linux Users Group and BSD Users Group - the SSFWiki web site is running using Free software and SlugBug is a place to get help for users of Free software.

SlugBug has a website, http://www.slugbug.org.uk/ and, most importantly (this is where you can ask for Linux help...) an email list, http://www.email-lists.org/mailman/listinfo/slugbug and there is also a SlugBugWiki, http://wiki.slugbug.org.uk/.

Sheffield Kitwe Society
Established (1989) to encourage friendship links between Sheffield UK and Kitwe (Zambia), an affiliate of SILC: Sheffield International Linking Committee, http://www.sheffield.gov.uk/facts-figures/twinning-links/silc/.

The Sheffield Kitwe Society is aimed at helping Children in Distress, http://www.cindi.org.zm/

A site where international poets record poems against war and inhumanity especialy in the context of Africa, it also contains links to sites on genocide in Africa: http://www.voicesforafrica.homestead.com/index.html

Active Learning for Active Citizenship
Home office funded, ALAC's aim is nevertheless to empower people to change their own lives and put pressure on lawmakers to change the law. Recently, for example, it took a group of refugees to Gleneagles for the G8 protests and alternative forums hosted there. More information from this page: http://www.alacsy.org.uk