Nottinghamshire Social Struggles Newswire Archive

A local meeting to discuss campaigning against them

Thu, 29th June, 7.30pm, International Community Centre

Military Corporate Fascism (Military Corporatism) and the fall of the USA from world dominance.
Corporate Capitalism is run by SATAN through the use of WAR.
Satan loves a bomb. Collateral damage is his term.
Military Corporate Capitalism is Godless.

Mona Media in partnership with The Lord Mayor’s Earthquake appeal are delighted to announce an exclusive performance of ‘Deep in the Frozen Night’ at the Theatre Royal Nottingham – for one night only on Tuesday, July the 18th at 7.00 pm.

Waste Recycling Group, owners of Nottingham's polluting incinerator, are accused of trying to influence the planning decision on their proposed £50million extension, in a dirty tricks campaign.

Jerry Springer The Opera is coming to Nottingham next week, and with it a whole bunch of religious pro-censorship protestors. It's time to stand up for freedom of expression, and resist censorship on the grounds of "offensiveness" and religious sensibilities.

The Matilda Social Centre in Sheffield,  http://www.matilda.aktivix.org/ is being evicted today, Wednesday 14th June and a request for people to come down to resist this has been made to the matilda email list.

Nottingham Arboretum celebrates with a Green Festival embracing all things green. Live bands, fun for children and sustainable produce. Stalls, including crafts, plants, local produce, energy conservation demonstrations, wind and solar power, social struggles and human rights issues etc and plenty of other organic, eco-friendly activities.

Nottingham Arboretum celebrates with a Green Festival embracing all things green. Live bands, fun for children and sustainable produce. Stalls, including crafts, plants, local produce, energy conservation demonstrations, wind and solar power, social struggles and human rights issues etc and plenty of other organic, eco-friendly activities.

This another yet another event in Sneinton event, designed to draw attention to Nottingham's lamentable lack of recycling facilities. This event was to highlight this fact, and further, to show that many items, thoughtlessly discarded, might have a 'second life' if people just thought about it.

Hands Across the Hill :: Sharphill Woods, Nottingham. Piccys

Local people call for protest against the proposed Sharphill housing development in West Bridgford.

On Sunday (21st May) at 11am folks met up at Sharphill Woods and joined hands for the 'Hands across the Hill' protest.

Sustainable Communities Bill Public Meeting

Date: 25th May 2006
Time: 7:30pm (duration ~ 2 hours)
Venue: Queens Walk Community Centre, Queens Walk, The Meadows, Notts NG2 2DG

Have you noticed the following things happening in your community?:

Closure of local independent shops

Closure of the local Post Office

Closure of the local bank branch

Decline of local street markets

Closure of the local pub

Closure of local services e.g. health centres

Green spaces being built on

More traffic and less people walking on the streets

Less public transport services

More "clone" branded shops and huge superstores

Local Works is the campaign that aims to change this situation that is known as Ghost Town Britain. Instead we want local sustainability, which has these 4 measurements:

1. Thriving local economies
2. Environmental protection
3. Social inclusion
4. Active democratic participation

Please come along to the Public Meeting to discuss the Sustainable Communities Bill. Guest speakers include Alan Simpson MP and Jon Beresford from NAIL ) Nottingham Against Incineration and Landfill)

A brief tale of how a hard-working man is systematically stripped of his dignity by the system in order to soften him up for deportation .

Went for a walk with Tim around the fields, so he could show me, on the ground, what area the development will affect.

The BBC having gone, here are some pictures of folks at the camp. Chillin' on a sunday afternoon.

If you go down to the woods today ...... you'd be sure of a big surprise...... well no bears found, but the cameras of the BBC 'Politics Show' in the East Midlands were there.

Students of the Nottingham Student Peace Movement held a die-in on May 9 to protest at the University's lack of progress in switching its investments to funds that are ethically managed.

On Saturday Afternoon, protesters opposing the construction of 1,200 homes in a wooded area near Nottingham held a musical protest at the city's main square.

just a link to coverage of a noisy demo today against a housing plan

On Saturday 29 April, Nottingham held its Mayday March and Rally. Folks assembled 12.00 at the Brewhouse Yard Museum on Castle Boulevard.

On Saturday 29 April, Nottingham held its Mayday March and Rally. Folks assembled 12.00 at the Brewhouse Yard Museum on Castle Boulevard.