Nottinghamshire Newswire Archive

A few summers of protest and direct action have paid off - the BNP's flagship Red, White & Blue festival has folded. The decision was announced at an East Midlands organisers meeting earlier this month.

At lunchtime on Wednesday 26th May two addresses in Belper, Derbyshire, were raided by the North Yorkshire Counter Terrorist Unit.

Banner’s new show, We Share the Same Sky, is now on tour.

The show is based on the real-life stories and experiences of migrant workers, refugees and others who have come to the UK from other countries.

Thursday 10th June at 7pm
Venue: Pakistan Centre, Woodborough Road, Nottingham NG3 1AX
Time: 7pm
Tickets: £6 waged / £3 students & low waged / free unwaged

As the first action alert from the campaign we hope to drive home the message to Willmott Dixon, letting them know that their role in the construction of Leicester University's new animal testing laboratory is unacceptable and that we will stop the construction.

Today the UK Government hosted a conference in Nottingham aimed at helping British arms companies boost their sales. Arms companies from across the country were invited to the swanky Nottingham Belfry hotel in Broxtowe for this one-day event, entitled "Selling to Defence & Security Markets".

According to Leicestershire BNP Regional Meeting Minutes.

This morning the JB SPRAY squat in Radford, Nottingham was served notice of a court date on Thursday 3/6/10. The landlord intends to obtain a possession order to force us from the building. We intend to resist, but we need your help.

Nottingham's Green Festival was held in the Arboretum on a gloriously sunny Sunday May 23rd 2010.

On May 20th at Nottingham Magistrates’ Court, anti-arms-trade activist Kirk Jackson was found guilty of aggravated trespass for his part in a protest that shut down an arms company for a day. Jackson was given a twelve month conditional discharge and ordered to pay £350 court costs.

The charge arose from a February 18th protest at the Nottingham warehouse of international arms company Heckler & Koch. Before dawn, four activists locked themselves to the gates, preventing employees from entering, while Mr Jackson and another activist climbed onto the roof and displayed banners accusing the company of “arming repressive regimes”.

Come along and sample quality ales and beer, with a clear conscience, at the first ever Sumac vegan beer festival.

7pm, Tuesday 25th May at the Sumac Centre, 245 Gladstone Street, NG7 6HX

Survival Tales is a series of small, intimate performance events. Each event has two parts: a performance featuring personal stories and songs; a short workshop about how we make our survival stories. Booking essential.

We today held a demo at Willmott Dixon's office at Coleshill, nr Birmingham, who are dealing with the main construction contract for the new animal testing facility at the University of Leicester.

Activists today spontaneously visited the University of Leicester to oppose their new animal testing laboratory.

Notts Stop the BNP is organising transport from the East Midlands to the anti-EDL demonstration called by 'North East Against Racism' (NEAR) on 29th May.
For more information or to book a place either respond to this email or contact NottmStopBNP (at) yahoo.co.uk

Highlights from the Sumac Diary:

SkillShare; Green Festival; Survival Tales; Vegan Free Food Giveaway and much more!

Critical Mass seems to have gone into hibernation in recent months... which is a shame because it is needed more than ever. All cyclists and other non-motorised transport users are invited to meet in Market Square at 5pm on Friday 28th May to restart this great tradition.

Freshly made vegan pizzas in the Cob stove oven. At the Sumac Center, starts at 7:30pm.

Nottingham Free School presents an "open cafe" style discussion on Anti-Fascism.

Biffa Waste are planning to build an incinerator off Junction 23 of the M1 near Loughborough (Newhurst Quarry Shepshed)

Not only was I bundled to the ground by Nick Clegg's security staff but I was banned for life from the NEC in Birmingham for distributing some leaflets to the Lib-Dem delegates.