UK Newswire Archive
Drummer gets a Ticket!
05-07-2011 15:55
Performing just near Speakers Corner off the Market Square in Nottingham .... A Drummer / Busker sets up to entertain. He's good at it and attracts an appreciative crowd. .......
Well, you know what happens next ..... Community Protection Officers .... [well, we all need our community protecting from drummers], start to talk to him about licences, public liability insurance, health & safety .... and the rest.
Personally, I've always appreciated music and performance, juggling, street acts and general exhuberance to lighten the day as you go about in your biz. I mean, we've done it for thousands of years, a little spontineity. But now it all has to be contrived, licenced by an official, paid for, commercially valid, appointed places and it's knocking the creativity out of society. This is not hot news really ,,,, you can see it every day of the week. But I am getting crosser about such oppressive behaviour and I hope you are too. The audience watching this drummer, gave a collective sneer at these officers behaviour, some tried to speak to them to point out there was nothing wrong here. But it's their job you see ....
In short .... community Protection is not what I see happening here [like many others]. Perhaps they could be found something more useful to do .... like enabling things to happen for the public good, rather than an extension of the usual authorities actions that 'like to say no!' Just a thought!
G4S housing consultation disrupted
05-07-2011 12:39
Activists in Cardiff disrupt a G4S consultation aimed at G4S running migrant and asylum seeker accommodation. And a call out for further action.Full article | 1 addition | 1 comment
Eviction in A'dam: 120 arrested
05-07-2011 12:20
Police is still going through time to kick people out of squats. Resistance and lock ons at the Schijnheilig squat near Leidseplein meant the kettling and arrestation of more than 100 personsSowing in Sneinton, Planting Soon!
05-07-2011 11:55
On the way back from Sneinton Carnival .... spotted this piece of waste ground at Dale Terrace, Sneinton, Near the Green's Windmill.
As you can see, people will be planting it soon and invite volunteers.
If you want to help ..... email 'em at:
sneintongardening@yahoo.co.uk
Have you thought of identifying similar plots near where you live? and doing sommat about it? If not you ..... who should?
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ALAN LODGE
Photographer - Media: One Eye on the Road. Nottingham. UK
Email: tash@indymedia.org
Web: http://digitaljournalist.eu
Member of the National Union of Journalists [NUJ]
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"It is not enough to curse the darkness.
It is also necessary to light a lamp!!"
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Nonviolent Resistance in Australia to U.S. War on Afghanistan
05-07-2011 11:25
Every two years, 20,000 U.S. miitary arrive for live fire joint exercises "Operation Talisman Sabre" with approx 7,000 Australian troops, primarily based in central Queensland but also involving bases throughoout Australia and the U.S. Australia has a long history of seeking peace and security in the service of empire - British & U.S.Privatisation Of Homecare
05-07-2011 08:55
Bristol City Council is planning to privatise homecare services; and Unite have accused BCC of both lying and picking on the most vulnerable in society to save money.
Unite, Britain's biggest union, has expressed outrage that everyhomecare assistant currently employed directly by Bristol City Council
will lose their job as the work is contracted out to cheaper private
sector providers. Unite regional co-ordinating officer, Steve Preddy, said:
"Hundreds of homecare workers, mostly women who have dedicated much of their working lives to serving older people who are housebound, terminally ill or otherwise unable to care for themselves, have been lied to and have now found out they are to lose their jobs. "It is shameful that Bristol City Council has decided to abandon
providing services directly to older people who are in need of care at home." Homecare assistants were personally assured in meetings last October, by the Executive Member for Care Services, Cllr John Rogers that the Council would not cease to provide vital homecare services and all jobs were safe.
| Full article. | Cuts News |
Zapatista community of San Marcos Aviles faces eviction, aggression and threats
05-07-2011 06:05
The Zapatista supporters in the community of San Marcos Aviles have had their land, crops and possessiona stolen from them and face daily aggressions and threats because they set up an autonomus school.Full article | 1 addition | 2 comments
Peace and Ecology Festival, Liverpool, 16 July. Free event.
05-07-2011 05:51
The 2011 Merseyside CND Peace and Ecology Festival will be held on Sat 16 July from noon until 6pm at St Luke's Church (top of Bold Street, City Centre).PHILIPPINES: The Rough and Rugged Road toward Change
05-07-2011 04:51
J30 Strike against the cuts. Nottingham Events 2
05-07-2011 00:55
Thursday 30th June 2011
On June 30th, members of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL), National Union of Teachers (NUT), Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) and University and Colleges Union (UCU) took part in coordinated strike action. This is the first major coordinated strike against the cuts and various activities for the day included a march, rally & speeches etc ......
a busy timetable of events on the day:
Early morning onward – pickets outside workplaces
8am – Notts Uncut. Meet up at Nottingham Railway station to feed pickets and engage in solidarity action.
8.30am – Unison demonstration against major cuts to social care provision – assemble County Hall, West Bridgford.
11am – NUT, ATL, UCU, PCS joint strike march – assemble from 11am, Forest Recreation Ground (Goose Fair site).
11.30 am – Marchers leave The Forest, march down Mansfield Road, on to Milton Street and then in to the Trinity Square.
12 noon/12.30pm with the arrival of the march in Trinity Square. Speakers, stalls, refreshments and more in Trinity Square. There will be face painting and other activities for younger people.
13.30pm – March continues along Burton Street, South Sherwood Street and Parliament Street to the Albert Hall just off Derby Road for speakers and debate on the way forward for the dispute. There will be live music provided by Banner Theatre, Trade Union speakers and an opportunity to contribute from the floor. Ending 3pm approx.
J30 Strike
http://www.j30strike.org
Notts SOS
http://www.nottssos.org.uk
Notts Uncut
http://www.nottsuncut.co.uk
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ALAN LODGE
Photographer - Media: One Eye on the Road. Nottingham. UK
Email: tash@indymedia.org
Web: http://digitaljournalist.eu
Member of the National Union of Journalists [NUJ]
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"It is not enough to curse the darkness.
It is also necessary to light a lamp!!"
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J30 Strike against the cuts. Nottingham Events 1
04-07-2011 23:55
Thursday 30th June 2011
On June 30th, members of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL), National Union of Teachers (NUT), Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) and University and Colleges Union (UCU) took part in coordinated strike action. This is the first major coordinated strike against the cuts and various activities for the day included a march, rally & speeches etc ......
a busy timetable of events on the day:
Early morning onward – pickets outside workplaces
8am – Notts Uncut. Meet up at Nottingham Railway station to feed pickets and engage in solidarity action.
8.30am – Unison demonstration against major cuts to social care provision – assemble County Hall, West Bridgford.
11am – NUT, ATL, UCU, PCS joint strike march – assemble from 11am, Forest Recreation Ground (Goose Fair site).
11.30 am – Marchers leave The Forest, march down Mansfield Road, on to Milton Street and then in to the Trinity Square.
12 noon/12.30pm with the arrival of the march in Trinity Square. Speakers, stalls, refreshments and more in Trinity Square. There will be face painting and other activities for younger people.
13.30pm – March continues along Burton Street, South Sherwood Street and Parliament Street to the Albert Hall just off Derby Road for speakers and debate on the way forward for the dispute. There will be live music provided by Banner Theatre, Trade Union speakers and an opportunity to contribute from the floor. Ending 3pm approx.
J30 Strike
http://www.j30strike.org
Notts SOS
http://www.nottssos.org.uk
Notts Uncut
http://www.nottsuncut.co.uk
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ALAN LODGE
Photographer - Media: One Eye on the Road. Nottingham. UK
Email: tash@indymedia.org
Web: http://digitaljournalist.eu
Member of the National Union of Journalists [NUJ]
____________________________________________
"It is not enough to curse the darkness.
It is also necessary to light a lamp!!"
___________________________________________
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This is a FITwatch Call-out.
04-07-2011 22:25
PRO-CHOICE DEMO Saturday 16th July, 1-2pm, outside the Guildhall, Market Square
04-07-2011 22:13
No Borders blockade Calais detention centre
04-07-2011 18:31
A New Declaration of Independence, July 4, 2011
04-07-2011 18:29
Palestine Today 07042011
04-07-2011 16:49
Dale Farm eviction notice served -- Camp Constant to be set up from Sat. Aug 27
04-07-2011 16:39
Today, some 90 families at Dale Farm, the UK's largest Traveller community, were hand-delivered a final notice of eviction giving families until midnight on August 31 to abandon their homes, or face their entire community being bulldozed. The central government and Basildon Council have set aside over £18m for the eviction battle that could last three weeks. It will be the biggest clearance of its kind involving the ploughing up of 54 separate plots created on a former scrap-yard purchased by the Travellers ten years ago.Hundreds Of Thousands – Public Sector Workers Pensions Strike
04-07-2011 13:31
Anarchism: the A word
04-07-2011 12:30
Mindless, violent thugs, hell-bent on sowing chaos.’ That’s the kind of press anarchists often get. Uri Gordon provides a more sympathetic take on a growing yet still little understood political movement.Call for an end to violence and impunity in the DRC
04-07-2011 11:18
Demonstration Manchester Saturday 16 July 2011Assemble: 12:00 noon
All Saints Park ( opposite BBC-Manchester)
Oxford Road
Manchester M15 6BH
