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Our investigation into the demolition of the Market Tavern on Exchange Street came good this week, as Sheffield City Council finally admitted it had been misleading us, heritage campaigners and the public.
The council had agreed to a request from conservationists to give the historic building a temporary reprieve, but then claimed that part of it fell down by itself. But after we spoke with eyewitnesses and obtained video footage showing that this was not true, the council admitted to Sam Gregory that "the demolition company were instructed in error... to continue with demolition."
This week we also put out a call for article pitches for Give Over, our Now Then sibling project, which uses border abolition as a way to dramatically reframe media reporting of refugees and immigration.
We're looking for reflections on lived experiences of borders; explorations of the abolition of borders as a vision for a more just future; expressions of borders away from state lines (for example, in the workplace); and articles that consider the impact of racist reporting on immigration.
We’re interested in working with writers who understand that mainstream journalism is often a propaganda tool designed to manufacture consent for colonial, racist and dehumanising immigration policies. We have a budget and we don't expect people who put forward ideas to be established journalists.
If you're interested, don't worry about writing the perfect pitch - just get in touch for a chat.
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Council officers emailed a national heritage organisation about an offer of help – but did not tell them that demolition had already begun hours earlier.
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“We will be launching an internal investigation to understand exactly what went wrong.” |
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The move would mirror the 1980s, when Sheffield became
the UK’s first city to reject racial segregation in South Africa.
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“We ask Sheffield to declare itself an Israeli apartheid-free zone” |
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The launch event for the collective's Leftovers report will be a celebration of the power of community change, with takeaways to help shape the future of food in Sheffield and beyond.
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Yorkshire Bylines takes a fascinating look at the miners' strike through the medium of news cartoonists of the time. As Nicholas Jones puts it: "No cartoonist could have asked for more: a cast of larger-than-life characters in a fight to the death. There were plenty of opportunities to poke fun at the leading protagonists, but the overarching challenge was to keep pace with the anger and disarray that erupted during a dispute from which there seemed no way out." |
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Campaign group Save Our Parks has organised a protest tomorrow about the multi-use games area at Hillsborough Park, saying that Sheffield City Council is ignoring a petition signed by 2,000 local residents. Campaigners object to council plans to bring in an external company, Courtside CIC, to run it. The group argue that this move "amounts to privatisation of park land" and will lead to park users being charged for some facilities. The demo is tomorrow (9 February) at 2pm. |
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It's HIV Testing Week, and the BBC spoke to Sheffield woman Becky about being diagnosed unexpectedly. There has been a significant rise in the number of heterosexual people contracting the virus. This week you can get a free at-home HIV testing kit. |
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This vital article on why resisting borders is inherently linked to the climate crisis is worth your time. As GND Media say: "It is important not to play into the alarmist rhetoric about migration being a threat. There were over 100 million people displaced because of conflict and persecution globally in 2022, and if the climate crisis continues there could be over 1 billion environmental refugees by 2050. People are facing a life or death choice, where migration is the only option to keep them and their families safe. This level of human suffering demands a humane response. Not just in the future, but today." |
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