Showing posts with label Swansea. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Swansea. Show all posts

Saturday, 5 April 2014

ANM News Flash: White Pride Standoff

A demonstration in support of White Pride turned into a fiasco in Swansea on Saturday when it became clear that none of the parties present were singing from the same hymn sheet.

The confusion began this week after Councillor David Phillips had stated his objection to the far right demo taking place in the city and seeking police co-operation to relegate it to a less central location.

Sunday, 2 March 2014

Paving Paradise: Bag Up the Bay

As you'd expect Swansea city council regularly cleans its beaches, but the recent storms have washed up more waste than usual and a special volunteer's day was organised to give the main beach a good once over.

Over 100 people took part and collected an impressive 1,020kg of rubbish.

Wednesday, 19 February 2014

ANM News Flash - ATOS Demo, Swansea

Citizens met outside Atos Offices in Grove Place in Swansea on Wednesday, as they did in cities and towns all over the UK to protest at the manner in which Atos, a French multinational contracted by the Coalition Government to oversea disability assessments and cuts has conducted itself.

Saturday, 12 October 2013

Swansea Commits to the UNCRC - ANM News Flash

While Tories in England lobby to repeal the Human Rights Act, the City and County of Swansea relaunched itself as the Human Rights capital of the UK on Friday, by becoming the first local authority to adopt wholesale the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.