Nottinghamshire Social Struggles Newswire Archive

'Protect the Patients March' NHS Nursing / Unison March against job cuts to NHS staff, services and beds

in the East Midlands.

Met at the Forest Ground between 10.00 - 11.00am on Saturday

'Protect the Patients March' NHS Nursing / Unison March against job cuts to NHS staff, services and beds in the East Midlands.

Met at the Forest Ground between 10.00 - 11.00am on Saturday

An Inconvenient Truth: Film Showing & regional decision makers response at the Broadway

On friday, the Broadway cinema screened 'An Inconvenient Truth'.

Following the screening a panel of local and regional decision makers respond to the film

and answered [or tried to :-))] questions about what's happening here in Nottingham and the

East Midlands already, and suggest how we can do more.

Well almost, Lord Justice Moses, hearing the appeal against sentence of 10 people who blockaded trains taking delegates to the DSEI arms fair in London stated that every one of them had given considerable public voluntary service to the community.

Nottingham Defy-ID are holding a Defy-ID National Gathering on Saturday 25th November 2006 from 11am onwards at The Sumac Centre in Nottingham, to discuss opposition to ID Cards and the National ID Register.

Eastcroft Incinerator: Views of the Monster

This what it looks like now ..... It's monsterous.

If the expansion had gone ahead [or still might, if WRG appeal and are successful] it would have looked even uglier.

Community arts and creative activist collective The Mischief Makers have build a giant syringe in support of UNISON's march to 'Defend the NHS' on Saturday. The syringe will read 'Inject more into the NHS' and is made in an effort to show solidarity to NHS workers as well as acknowledging that the ongoing cuts in and privitisation of the National Health Service is something that should concern everyone. The Mischief Makers also hope to add a more creative element to Saturday's march and rally, organised by UNISON, UK's largest union. The march will start from 10.30am on the Forest Recreation Ground. Come along and show your support!

Wikipedia on the Mischief Makers:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mischief_Makers

ASBO Squat 360 Panorama

ASBO Squat, Burns Street, Nottingham

360 QTVR panoramic vista image

You need Quicktime for this. You can then open this link and you will see a 360 degree panoramic vista, around the ASBO Community Squat in Burns Street, Radford.

.MOV file is 3.6Mb. Please wait a mo, for it to download.

With the new page or viewer open, drag the cursor arround on the image and it will rotate and pan up and down. You can also zoom in and out.

[ Quicktime Download at:  http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/win.html ]

This issue of the newsletter includes articles on the merger of QMC and City Hospitals and the RMT sponsored Trade Union Freedom Bill.

Shimri Zameret: Israeli army refuser and political activist will speak on the Palestinian/Israeli conflict and the anti-war and anti-globalisation movement in Israel

Fundraiser for Nottingham Jenin Friendship Group and to support work of Palestinian Solidarity Campaign.

Nottingham Gay Pride : Pictures 2

Nottingham Gay Pride : Pictures 1

Union officials have announced plans to fight the loss of nearly 1,200 jobs and 186 beds after the merger of two Nottingham hospitals.

Public sector workers' union Unison has joined forces with the Royal College of Nursing in a campaign to halt the cuts.

Nottingham Defy-ID's third bulletin (August 2006) is now available for download and distribution.

Labour's ID scheme is supposedly on the rocks, but let’s not be overly comforted by this news. There are good reasons to continue to build up the pressure. In particular, passport developments in the UK Identity and Passport Service (IPS) and the European Union could result in alternative identity databases, and since the Act is on the statute books, compulsory ID could start at any future date.

Nottingham edition of STWC Emergency demos flyer,
detailing Birmingham, Manchester & London Demos.

Give the Warmonger the Welcome he Deserves!

Saturday 22nd July at the Sumac centre, 245 Gladstone Street, forest Fields, nottingham.(8.00 start), Chimp Biscuit and Skanx (and others) will play help raise money to support the 2006 London to Jerusalem Bike Ride.

An inspirational project set up in Nottingham.

The prison is severely overcrowded. Congestion precipitates the spread of infectious diseases that prevail due to malnutrition and a lack of hygiene, clean water and adequate health care. Prisoners exist in squalor without even the most basic of necessities. However, what the prison is perhaps most notorious for is its problem of gang rape, the existence of which, though frighteningly common-place, is often denied because of attitude towards homosexuality in East African society.