Nottinghamshire Newswire Archive

Escape the Election Night madness to Small World Cafe this Thursday 6th May

Saturday 8 May, 10am-5pm, University Park Campus, C Floor, Portland Building, University of Nottingham. Free admission, everyone welcome.

NAVA today Received the following report:
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There was a new edition of the local Anarchist Federation's rebel bulletin, The Nottingham Sparrow, available at Mayday. For the latest on fighting the cuts and class struggle (not to mention the gossip on Jon Collins) it's well worth a read.

Notts Indymedia are pleased to announce the first edition of the Notts Indypendent, an offline community newspaper reporting on local campaigns.

The publication was unveiled at Nottingham's Mayday demonstration. Further copies will be distributed to homes in Nottingham in the run-up to the general election. Copies are also available from the Sumac Centre and the Sparrows' Nest. Alternatively, you can download the pdf copies below and print your own.

Chesterfield Mayday is traditionally one of the largest celebrations of International Workers’ Day in the region if not the country. Although substantially smaller than at its peak, the event continues every May bank holiday weekend.

Northampton’s Lib Dem run Borough council has been accused of stirring up homophobia by dispersing the gay community and describing them as ‘cottagers and cruisers’ in official documents.

A new campaign has been launched to oppose and stop the construction of a new animal testing laboratory on Lancaster Road at the University of Leicester.

This year, organisers of Nottingham Mayday have faced the full force of Notttingham City Council’s bureaucratic machinery, and had to jump through any number of legal and financial hoops. Despite these obstacles, the event went ahead on Saturday May 1st with perhaps a couple of 100 people turning up to celebrate International Workers' Day.

On Thursday 29th April and Friday 30th April, Nottingham Animal Rights held a vegan bakery skill-share at the Sumac centre, followed by one of our monthly free food giveaways in Nottingham market square.

With Mayday coming soon the Nottingham Free School decided to arrange an open discussion on some of the issues surrounding the day. This discussion took place at the Sumac last Sunday night and is scheduled to be the first in a series which will take place on the final Sunday of each month. The hope is to create a regular space in which we can learn collectively and share our ideas and understandings of issues which strike us to have a particular relevancy. On Sunday we hoped to discuss the nature of class struggle today, as well as the different forms that resistance to capitalism can take, and this was in many ways a success.

Nottingham branch of the Palestinian Solidarity Campaign in conjunction with the Nottingham-Jenin Friendship Group will be holding a public meeting to hear from a visitor from Palestine relating his own experiences of Palestinians suffering under Israel's brutal military occupation.

Still we struggle for the libation of humanity. Twenty four years ago 26 April 1986 , The Number 4 reactor exploded at Chernobyl. It was the worst nuclear accident the world has ever seen, The musical output of these times was also significant – The Human League, Cabaret Voltaire Heaven 17 ABC all come to mind.

You may have noticed the new Tory ad campaign that has erupted like a rash on the phone boxes here in Nottingham. There are at least four different ads, each containing a slogan with 'Vote Conservative' in the bottom panel. The good news is that they are quite easy to deal with.

The location of the building site for the Leicester animal lab is highlighted below in red.
The buildings to the north of the site are homes and a fire station and the building to the East is the existing animal lab. To the west is a Railway track and the south a cemetery.

Vegan Cake, demos, film shows, animal rescue work and more.

... and Vegan Cake!

Following the news Leicester Univestity has started work on a new animal testing facility a new nation campaign will be launched in the next few days, please keep an eye on Indymedia for more info and in the meantime contact Leicester Uni on - 0116 252 2522 to complain

Organising May Day this year has brought us face to face with how local protest may look in the future. And it looks expensive. And corporate.

The next Small World Cafe at the Square Centre, Alfred Street North, NG3 1AA is this Thursday 29th April.

The Leicester Mercury has revealed that BNP candidate for North West Leicestershire, Ian Meller, was a member of the NF until 2000. He has a conviction for carrying an offensive weapon related to an incident where he wielded a roofing lath at gay rights march in Leicester.