Nottinghamshire Social Struggles Newswire Archive

Break out the masks and hoodies!

Heckler & Koch Campaign :: Spread the Word. Meeting in the Market Square, Nottingham, on Monday 11 May, folks from the Campaign gathered at a stall and gave out leaflets and spoke to passers-by.

Nottingham's Annual MayDay march and rally, held on Saturday May 2nd. The theme this year : A Celebration of Resistance.

Nottingham's Annual MayDay march and rally, held on Saturday May 2nd. The theme this year : A Celebration of Resistance.

In 2006, Nottingham City Council commissioned a report by Hardmoor Associates into the way the council works. When the report was delivered it described the institution as "dysfunctional." The council made numerous attempts to prevent the release of the highly critical report. However, in February the Evening Post was able to obtain a leaked copy and now the document has made its way onto a publicly available filesharing site, so its criticisms can be seen by everybody in the city.

'Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force'
George Bernard Shaw

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Nottingham City Council claim to be 'closing in' on fraudsters and have shelled out on a prime site advertising campaign in the city to tell us so.

Area 4 Neighbourhood Management Team of Nottingham City Council has proposed a CCTV scheme for Forest Fields. Supported by the police a public meeting was held from 6.30pm until 8pm on Thursday April 23 at Djanogly City Academy on Gregory Boulevard.

On Saturday 18th April, the ex-pat Zimbabwe Community from around the UK, came together to discuss the ‘Death of Democracy’

If the 114 climate campaigners who were arrested in Nottingham on 13.4.09
had been planning to shut down a coal-fired power station, we support them
wholeheartedly. Coal is one of the dirtiest fossil fuels and if we are to
fight climate change we need to kick our addiction to it - and all of them
- now. Direct action of the sort that breaks laws to prevent the
terrifying impacts spelt out in worst-case climate change scenarios is
absolutely necessary.

On the show - lots of anti-militarist campaign updated info and more...

In one of the best reports on the incident so far, Daithai asks some pertinent questions about the police raid involving more than 200 officers from Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Staffordshire and British Transport Police which saw 114 people arrested for conspiracy at the Iona School in Sneinton Nottingham shortly after midnight on Monday.

Arrested for conspiracy, 114 people alleged to have been planning to shut down E-On's massive Ratcliffe coal fired power station have apparently found themselves voiceless, advised not to issue any statements to the media or friends. Unrelated groups however have been stepping into the void to express support for the alleged action and remind people that taking direct action to cut greenhouse emissions is something we should all be doing. Groups such as Rising Tide, Plane Stupid, Climate Rush, the Camp for Climate Action and others have already issued such statements and no doubt it would be great if a diverse range of groups did likewise.

Unison public service union has paid for a few of these posters around Nottingham.

Many people will have seen the news on Monday morning that 114 people were arrested in Nottingham ahead of an alleged protest at E.ON's Ratcliffe-on-Soar coal-fired power station..

20 years ago I was on the way to a Roy Harper gig in Leeds totally unaware of what was unfolding in Sheffield.

Come and get skilled up, learn practical skills for putting on large scale convergences and find out more about the Activist Tat Collective!! 8th May-9th May, Nottingham, email for more info.

forest recreation nottingham,  http://www.nottinghambikers.co.u/viewtopic.php?t=12787 A date for your diary for 2009 is April 5th for the "Nottinghamshire Motorcycle Easter Egg Run, hosted for the third consecutive year by Nottinghamshire Fire & Rescue Service. Event starts from Goose Fair Site (same as last year) and travels to Mansfield Fire Station where there is free tea and coffee etc. Start time is 0930hrs for a 1000hrs ride-off. Distance approx 14 miles. ALL WELCOME, WHATEVER YOU RIDE. "

There have been ominous signs ( http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/feb/23/police-civil-unrest-recession) of it coming for some time but it seemed protesters were still unprepared for the level of police violence ( http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/04/426091.html) that was unleashed in London yesterday. The infamous kettling tactics of the British police have claimed their first life
( http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/04/426078.html) and there are numerous reports of head wounds, crushing and unprovoked attack. Today the convergence centre and Ramparts have been raided ( http://london.indymedia.org.uk/articles/1002) by riot cops and there are reports of further arrests. When we attack capital the defenders of capital will hit back, viciously.