Nottinghamshire Newswire Archive

Tuesday 28th March 2006 will see 1.5 Million workers strike to defend pensions. On the same day there will be a General Strike in France as part of the uprising against the CPE.

A small dedicated (hard core!) group of Sheffield (www.nowideningm1.org.uk) hit 3 Motor way bridges between junctions 30 and 32 of the M1 early this morning.

Fact - EVERY CHILD IN THE UK HAS PLUTONIUM IN THEIR TEETH BECAUSE OF CONTAMINATION BY THE SELLAFIELD NUCLEAR POWER STATION

producer pays? – well no actually Here's the thing thing. I get really pissed of when on the one hand as individual I am told recycle recycle and switch off my lights and don't have baths (blah blah like I need telling........) whilst at the same time corporations are left alone to light and heat corporate building 24/7, water companies make massive profits for shareholders while water pours out of unrepaired mains pipes and manufacturers of stuff, supermarkets and fast food chains produce mountains of unnecessary packaging loads of which cannot be recycled and is destined for landfill or incineration. We pay for the privilege of having a recycling collection service (if we are lucky) or we pay the financial, health and environmental costs of it all being chucked into and landfill or incineration. All to get rid of rubbish we don't need or want in the first place. Now that doesn't seem right.

Just finished a 10 minute short about the NAIL Campaign. Expect a higher quality screening version to be uploaded in a few days time. You can watch it on Youtube here.

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Notts Indymedia needs help. It needs YOU to help! If you want to get involved, there will be an Indymedia meeting on Monday. Please come if you can.

The leader of the pro-animal experimentation group "Pro-Test", whose recent small demo in Oxford captured Press attention, will be addressing a meeting at Nottingham University on the 20th March.

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A troop of Robin Hood and Maid Marian monkeys, were monkeying around the Nottingham Castle and Broadmarsh Shopping Centre, to draw the public’s attention to the plight of primates in laboratories, in Nottingham and other cities throughout the UK and EU.

This Saturday 18th March from 7 – 2pm DEMO are putting on yet another Amazing event at Blueprint nightclub:
Bands, DJ’s, acoustic acts, Drumming, Art, even Fair Trade Tea coffee Cakes & chocolate, and …..issues of Refugees Facing Destitution in Nottingham.

Proseeds going to Nottingham & Nottinghamshire Refugee Forum
 http://www.nottsrefugeeforum.org.uk

please read on....

Middle East Party - Sunday 19th March, Wax Bar, Broad Street, Nottingham, 4-8pm. An exhibition of drawings, photographs and paintings from Palestine by Paul Gent + speakers. Live music from long Journey Home.

here is a list of the contractors bidding for the M1 widening contract 1 junction 25 - 28.

dates for the highways agency public consultations, a good place for you to voice your opposition to these schemes.

Is nuclear power the solution? Public Meeting to be addressed by Michael Meacher writer, MP and Peter Bunyard One of the founders of “The Ecologist” magazine, writer and campaigner on environmental issues. THURSDAY, MARCH 16th, at 7 pm prompt, Chaucer Lecture Theatre 1, Nottingham Trent University, Goldsmith Street.

Nottingham No Widening M1 group went out to Kegworth to spread the campaign message.

A few photos showing a low inpact way of making foundations for a straw bale building.

The idea was to build a multi-person contraption, partly inspired by the famous Rinky-Dink. It is expected that it will bike about with Critical Mass and similar matters ....

As a summary of some of the story so far, I thought I would show these couple of 'slide-show' videos, displaying some of the events, the campaign has been involved with.

Our baby NET is 2 years old today. Nearly 10million jounrneys were made on NET in the last year alone!!!!!

Tagging or tracking of workers using GPS (global positioning), RFID (radio-frequency identification, worn or implanted) or other wireless technology is becoming more widespread, but what kinds of workers are being targeted for this sort of dehumanisation, and what companies are involved? Here are a few examples.