Nottinghamshire Newswire Archive

A weekend of networking, workshops, discussions, actions and social activities is being hosted by Nottingham Animal Rights and Veggies at The Sumac Centre in Nottingham.

This included a city-wide (and beyond) Day of Action on Saturday, with Fur Free Nottingham, foie gras campaigns, KFC, Greyhound Action, the 'great' British Circus, a vegan free food giveaway & McDonalds demo and a mass hunt sab.

The next in a series of meetings at the Sumac Centre (245 Gladstone Street,Nottingham NG7 6HX) at 8pm.

Nottingham branch of the Palestinian Solidarity Campaign in conjunction with the Nottingham Jenin Friendship Group will be holding a series of film evenings to highlight the plight of Palestinians suffering under Israel's brutal military occupation.

Standing up for our local communities and our interests - how best to organise and take action?

All radical, community-orientated local groups and individuals throughout the country are invited to a UK-wide Community Action Gathering in Nottingham on Saturday 27th March.

The oppression of migrants in Calais continues at the hands of the French and U.K state. A number of nottingham based activists have been down to Calais over the last year to show solidarity in the migrants struggle.

Algerian Cafe night at Small World Cafe at the Square Centre Alfred Street, NG3 1AA on Thursday 18th March

On March 8th, Nottingham City Council met to approve the 2010/11 budget. Like many council budgets this included a series of cuts to services, in this case amounting to £18.8 million. Nottingham City Unison called a lunchtime protest outside the Council House to show their opposition.

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there is now only a couple of months before DMBC plan to take bids for the earth centre, its reported that some 30 organisations are interested, we know some of them to be the Police and RTTG. Its an amazing space and could be used to feed a community and educate many children. The plantlife and wildlife are without a voice but they are essential to preserving our culture and environment and are in abundance in and around the earth centre.

RTTG are having another 'open day' on March 31st get your invites quickly by emailing  mike@therttg.org (the welovetheearthcentre campaigners are not allowed on the guest list again!) please go along and make sure the communities and the earths voice is heard!

On Monday and Tuesday, members of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) will be striking against cuts to the redundancy terms for civil and public servants.

On March 5th, Nottingham Radical History Group organised an event to look back on the struggle against the Poll Tax.

Of the 114 people arrested last Easter during the police raid on the Iona school, Nottingham, 26 have been charged with conspiracy to commit aggravated trespass at Ratcliffe on Soar power station. Over 10 months after their arrest, all 26 entered a plea of NOT GUILTY at Nottingham crown court on February 19th.

'Anarchism, Justice and Cosmopolitanism'? Seminar by Dr. Alex Prichard, University of Bristol, CSSGJ Open Seminar Series, University of Nottingham.

Police have helped install CCTV cameras at a Mansfield mosque following a series of incidents of racist vandalism.

Two Nottingham Freemen on-the-land we unlawfully arrested, kidnapped and incarcerated on Wednesday 24 February, by police who showed no warrant.

Derby Midlands National Front called a 'day of action' in towns across Derbyshire today. Only five 'warriors' of the 'master race' bothered to turn up in Ripley, only to have their union jack and literature taken off them by antifascists. They were then chased out of town.

On Thursday February 25, campaigners held a protest at County Hall, West Bridgford against cuts proposed by the county council.

We're planting 100 fruit trees across Forest Fields on Sunday 28th Feb,and we need some help!

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A peaceful demo is getting underway to secure the release of two freemen unlawfully detained for refusing entry to their home by Eon.

The Nottingham Freeschool are going to be running a workshop entitled
'Working Across Privilege' from 1-3pm, Friday 26 Feb. as part of the No
Borders Gathering.