Nottinghamshire Newswire Archive

Bolivarian Revolution, Coal Mining and Indigenous Resistance
Wednesday 1st March, 7.30pm, The Sumac centre
245 Gladstone Street, Nottingham

The content of this lot shows that CM is important for local transport, personal fitness, safer cities. Right up to the global scale of stuff with pollution, climate change, big business.

CM is just yet another manifestation of the [very] old adage

"Think Globally -- Act Locally" I think it is important that we do so act locally!

Further actions by Nottingham people in support of Rossports resistance to Shell

Today a Critical Mass and blockade shut a Shell Petrol Station on Woodside Road and the A52 in Nottingham.

12.00 - 14.00, Saturday 18th. February, Main Entrance at Chetwynd Barracks, Swiney Way, Chilwell

TROOPS OUT OF IRAQ NOW! END THE OCCUPATION OF IRAQ!

This is where most of the Reservists and Territorials are mustered before they are sent to Iraq and Afghanistan. Nottingham Stop the War Coalition are demonstrating both against more British military personnel being sent to Iraq (and Afghanistan) to oppress and kill more Iraqis (and Afghanis) and against the lives of more British servicepeople being sacrificed in this imperialist adventure.

Saturday afternoon saw the first stage, of layout and 'sketch-in', of an illustation on the walls of the ASBO Centre at 35 Burns Street, Nottingham.

17th Feburary - Last Friday before the last Friday! (this Fri!!!!)
5:30pm - 6:30pm Upstairs at The Peacock 11 Mansfield Rd

(Its hired for free so this gathering is FREE, you will not be asked for name or details be as annonymous as you like)

Followed by an evening of fun making banners, and other such items to make ourselves feel less invisible and creatively safer on the roads at:

[To Be Confirmed, will let you know closer to next Friday. We will head off together from The Peacock if so]
ASBO Community Space
35 Burns St - 7:00pm
 http://asbo.squat.net/

So bring paints and scraps and all things bright and fun!

Nottingham East Midlands Airport a draft plan proposes a quadrupling of freight.

'Wild Geese'

Featuring the stories of refugee cleaners in London¹s Canary Wharf, Chinese cockle-pickers in Morecambe Bay, Iranian asylum seekers and Irish, African/Caribbean and South Asian immigrant communities

Wild Geese is a video ballad interweaving interviews, documentary film and animation with live music and song. It features the musical styles of Africa, America, Asia and Europe ­ from reggae, rap and rock to folk, flamenco and klezmer ­ with strong messages about the human costs of globalisation.

CLARENDON COMMUNITY THEATRE,
NEW COLLEGE NOTTINGHAM,
PELHAM AVENUE (off Mansfield Road)
THURSDAY 9TH MARCH @ 7:30PM
£5 WAGED / £2 LOW WAGED / FREE TO UNWAGED, STUDENTS, REFUGEES & ASYLUM
SEEKERS
(All proceeds will go to the Destitution Fund)
For more information contact Stuart on 07891 701133

Tickets available for debate

Protests will be held this weekend against the Great British Circus, which arrives shortly at the Japanese Water Gardens in Stapleford.

Camp for Climate Action gathering in Nottingham this weekend, 11th -12th February. A monthly orgainising meeting to prepare for the Camp for Climate Action, 26th August - 4th September, is been held at the Sumac Centre in Nottingham.

Critical Mass is a bikeride, where lots of cyclists get together to take over the street, just once a month. In Nottingham these bikerides have happened for a few years now. On Thursday 9th Feb there will be a meeting/discussion about how to move forward with the ride. How to make it more positive and how to get more people involved. Previous article about the discussion:

Where is Nottingham Critical Mass heading?
 http://indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/nottinghamshire/2006/01/332500.html

The meeting will start at 7.30 at the ASBO Community Centre, 33-35 Burns Street, Arboretum, Nottingham.

See previous reports on Critical Mass with photos:

 http://indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/nottinghamshire/2006/02/332729.html
 http://indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/11/328535.html
 http://indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/11/328514.html
 http://indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/10/326823.html
 http://indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/10/324826.html
 http://indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/04/310149.html
 http://indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/02/305420.html
 http://indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/02/305893.html
 http://indymedia.org.uk/en/2004/06/292966.html

Attended a session on Recycling, Art and Banner making at the Sumac centre on sunday.
It was shown that with a little creativity, it is possible to put alsorts of material, that most would normally discarded, applied to other use. Here are some we made earlier.

today saw the launch of the campaign to stop the M1 being expanded near nottingham.

As part of a new pilot scheme, Nottingham's 'police support officers' (PCSO's) will be getting powers to 'detain a person for up to 30 minutes to allow for the attendance of a police officer or until the reason for detention no longer applies'.

The press release by Nottinghamshire Police also states that: 'The power to detain occurs where the PCSO is dealing with a person for an offence where the name and address is withheld or believed to be false. The sort of offences this covers includes fixed penalty offences such as cycling on the footway, dog fouling and litter; also any offence involving injury, alarm or distress to any other party; the loss of, or damage to, any other person’s property; acting in an anti -social manner including the consumption of alcohol by young people in public places and an order to disperse under Section 30 of the Anti-Social Behaviour Act 2003'.

Press release:  http://www.nottinghamshire.police.uk/news/thurs.htm#2

The Britisch National Party managed to get over 30% in a local byelection in Derbyshire. The party came second with just 159 votes behind Labour in Heanor and Loscoe in Derbyshire's Amber Valley borough.

The BNP seems to get more active in the Midlands region, with Notts Indymedia recently reporting on a wave of abuse towards the organisers of a community arts event in Coalville, North East Leicestershire.

Links: Guardian article | Previous Indymedia article on abuse towards Coalville arts group | Stop the BNP (website full of facts and research) | Wikipedia on the BNP | Previous articles on Indymedia on the BNP

The Japanese Water Gardens in Stapleford, Nottingham have repeatedly hosted the Great British Circus, which has a record for animal cruelty. Nottingham Animal Rights are asking the owners of the Gardens to ban this circus from their land until it stops using animals in its acts.

Imagine living on ‘death row’ … in Britain. Being allowed to walk around, but not knowing which day you’ll be seized and sent back to your enemies. This is the story of a failed asylum seeker in Nottingham. He's lived in the shadows for 5 years. He can't stay and he can't go back. What is he to do?

Anti-war protestors gathered in Nottingham, holding up the names of all 100 dead British soldiers.