Nottinghamshire Newswire Archive

Nottingham Stop the War is calling on people to gather outside the Armed Forces Recruitment Centre at 10:30am on Saturday, 11 November.

Early morning on September 5th security guards burst into the sleeping quarters of Colnbrook detention centre in west London. The guards had come to take thirty two Iraqi Kurdish men away. Barefoot, handcuffed, with the guards swearing at them, the thirty two were taken to RAF Brize Norton. Their threatened forced deportation to Arbil in northern Iraq was imminent. In response, one man slit his throat and up to fourteen others took overdoses or cut themselves in a desperate attempt to avoid "removal". One eye witness described the scene at the holding area at the airport as "carnage with blood on the walls".(1) The Kurds knew the danger of returning to Iraq. They had fled the country years before because of that danger.

I usually don't write anything til I feel I have a 'proper' newsworthy article, which generally means I almost never write anything, but after learning today is the Celtic New Year I thought sod it I am the mediA!

Stuart White of Jesus College Oxford will be giving a talk about one of the best known anarchist writers of recent years - Colin Ward. The talk is part of the CSSGJ open seminar series. All welcome!

Join thousands worldwide to let Shell know what you think of their abuse of the environment and people.

Activists in Nottinghamshire dropped banners off several M1 bridges as part of a co-ordinated banner drop along the length of the M1 to object to plans to widen it.

Banners were unfurled across M1 motorway bridges from Luton to Sheffield today as the Stern report on climate change was published. The M1 is due to be widened from Luton to Leeds, at a cost to the tax payer of £3.74 billion. The widening will allow traffic to grow and cause more CO2 emissions. Road transport is currently 21 per cent of UK emissions and rises every year.

Protestors from Luton, Nottingham, Luton, Derby and Sheffield today dropped banners with slogans such as "Stop Climate Change" and "More Cars = More CO2" from bridges over the M1 motorway today in protest at the governments plans to widen 115 miles of the road to 4 lanes in both direction.

I am writing this article to start working on a response from Nottingham to the brutal killing of Indymedia volunteer Brad Will, while filming at a demonstration in Oaxaca, Mexico on Friday. While Brad worked with New York Indymedia, these issues effect us all and solidarity actions have already taken place in New York, San Fransisco, Chile, Brasil, Canada, and have been planned to happen all over. What could Nottinghams response be? Some people from the Oaxaca region came to speak in Nottingham nearly 2 years ago when their situation grew from bad to worse. Now the situation is one of state assassins, violence and continues repression. What shall we do?

Ministry Of Defence (East Midlands)
Eight town tour in recruitment drive for Navy Reservists

Critical Mass Bike Ride happening this friday 27th of October. Meet at the Savoy cinema on Derby Rd in Lenton at 5.45pm.
Bring Banners, Sounds, Halloween Costumes, Friends, And Any Non-Motorised Transport

Come and help brighten up the Sumac Social Centre this weekend (28-29th Oct), plus people's kitchen provide great, cheap, vegan food from 6pm on saturday.

Nottingham's first possible wind farms need your help.

ACT NOW & JOIN US.

On Saturday 28th October at 12pm
Mansfield, Near McDonalds on the High Street.

Iraq: Spiralling to Civil War? What Role for the Workers' Movement? Discussion and Film Showing.
Tuesday 31st October 7.30pm in the International Community Centre, Mansfield Road

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

University of Westminster shows the way in ID card enforcement! This university's marketing slogan is most revealing - "educating for a professional life", they say. With a basic principle of compulsory carrying of cards, a 'three strikes' policy to deny you entry to premises & services if you forget your card, and making it a disciplinary offence if you refuse to show one, this kind of education will most certainly be invaluable for future life if the government gets away with introducing its national ID policy.

Jeroen Merk, Sussex University academic and an organiser of the UK Clean Clothes Campaign wil be speaking at the CSSGJ Open Seminar series at Nottingham University on 26 October. all welcome.

Second part of the pictures from Attenbrough

Photos from the big draw at attenbrough.

Some people from the Notts Indymedia collective will attend a national UK Indymedia network meeting in London on 4-5 November. Please comment on the agenda and come up with some ideas and suggestions. What do you think of the site, the way it looks and works? How about the UK Indymedia website? Have you got an idea to bring to the network? Let us know and we'll take it on board.