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The attached audio gives you an idea of what i mean. But, as of thursday 15th November, one of them will be in post, replacing the current arrangement of oversight from the Nottinghamshire Police Authority.

The facilitator of the meeting, the political editor of the Nottingham Post, asked the audience for thier opinion on the likely turnout. A few hands went up over 80% [amazing eh?] Most put their hands up for varios figures between 20 - 40%. I and many others though somewhere around the 10-15% mark. Some predicting as few as one in ten people in Notts would vote next Thursday. But Mr Tipping said: "There are about 800,000 voters in Notts and if you get 10 per cent that's 80,000 people – that's a bigger mandate than any other politician in Notts."

God god!! as ever ..... that sound like some pretty weak democracy to me.

One of their main jobs will be administer £42m in cuts in the police budget. .... so, there you have it.

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ALAN LODGE

Photographer - Media: One Eye on the Road. Nottingham. UK

Email: tash@indymedia.org

Web: http://digitaljournalist.eu

Member of the National Union of Journalists [NUJ]

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"It is not enough to curse the darkness.

It is also necessary to light a lamp!!"

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National Anti-Fur Demonstration

07-11-2012 16:32

Take to the streets and smash the bloody fur industry!

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Sussex University The Badger Newspaper Lies To Readers

07-11-2012 15:51

'You have literally white-washed my contribution out of existence. Who gives you the right to mis-report living facts? Who authorised this and what do you have to say for yourselves? This is a shocking abuse of journalism.'

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Picardie, First World War, a mother’s grief.

07-11-2012 13:46

The poem 'PICARDIE' was written by the mother of a young man Lieutenant A.N. Trotter who was killed in Bethune, France during the First World War. In it she recalls a holiday they had spent as a family in the same district when her son was just a lad of fourteen.

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Solidarity across prison walls: Harmondsworth demo for Prince

07-11-2012 12:58

Following the suspicious death in Harmondsworth last Tuesday, and the release of an important statement by Ghanaian detainees claiming the man had been beaten, stripped naked, and left to die in an isolation block (see here:

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2012/11/502181.html), No Borders and other groups held a noise demo outside the detention centres.

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Don't Dance with Israeli Apartheid - Boycott Batsheva Dance in Birmingham

07-11-2012 11:27

Protest outside Birmingham Hippodrome on Tuesday 13th November and Wednesday 14 November at 18:00

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'Sworn Enemies'? A Response To George Monbiot from Media Lens

07-11-2012 11:04

Hi George

It's good to know that your email is intended in a 'friendly and constructive spirit'. We hope you will post a link to this response on your home page and via Twitter.

You write that Media Lens is a 'project whose purpose is to engage and persuade progressive journalists by critiquing their work and encouraging people to write to them'.

We do, of course, encourage readers to send polite emails to journalists. But our primary purpose is to raise public awareness by highlighting examples of corporate media bias. What people do with that awareness is really up to them. Our hope is that it feeds into activism, campaigning and the creation of non-corporate media like MediaBite, News Unspun and BS News.

Above all, we're trying to stimulate debate and participation. Engaging with journalists is certainly part of that, but we have few illusions about influencing media employees who often have little room for manoeuvre and who are deeply dependent on the corporate system. We do hope for marginal improvements as a direct result of our work - they do happen and do matter - but it's not a primary concern.

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Film Night & Talk - Justice For The Shrewsbury 24

07-11-2012 10:58

The Shrewsbury 24 were builders who took part in pickets of building sites during the first ever national building workers strike. Six of the pickets were stitched up on conspiracy charges and sent down for up to 3 years. Their crime was to be part of a trade union campaign to get a decent rate of pay and safer working conditions for all building workers.

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Anti-Eviction Guide Hambach Forest

07-11-2012 10:57

The Hambach Forest is occupied since half an year now. The forest will get cutted for the coal-open-cast-mine "Hambacher Tagebau". This is together with two morge open-cast-mines in the region and the power plants that burns the coal, europes biggest producer of CO2. They have already started to cut the forest, and the eviction of the camp can happen every day. So read this anti-eviction-guide and see what you can do!

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Student Finance Leave Boy in Poverty

07-11-2012 10:55

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South African Shack Dwellers Talk

07-11-2012 09:42

A talk by Lindela Finglan from Abahali baseMjondolo, the South African Shack Dwellers Movement. Thursday 8 November, 7.30pm
At the Sumac Centre, 245 Gladstone Street, Nottingham

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Real clothes for the Emperor: Facing the challenges of climate change

06-11-2012 20:40

On 6th November 2012 Kevin Anderson, Professor of Energy and Climate Change, University of Manchester, Tyndall Centre spoke at Explore, At-Bristol, Bristol Harbourside on Real clothes for the Emperor: Facing the challenges of climate change, the talk was advertised here:

http://www.bristol.ac.uk/cabot/events/2012/194.html and a recording of it is attached. The slides are here

http://www.bristol.ac.uk/cabot/documents/anderson-ppt.pdf

Following is an transcript of a skype interview that Rob Hopkins conducted with Kevin Anderson prior to his talk, which has been reposted from

http://transitionculture.org/2012/11/02/an-interview-with-kevin-anderson-rapid-and-deep-emissions-reductions-may-not-be-easy-but-4c-to-6c-will-be-much-worse/