Nottinghamshire Palestine Newswire Archive

come and see the film they tried to ban

Five years after George Bush declared victory on the deck of an aircraft carrier, Iraq is still a mess, and it's obvious his invasion, supported by his loyal yes-men in Britain, has been a disaster. That's why we marched in London on Saturday.

Activists this morning targeted a Marks & Spencer's store, to send a clear message that companies who profiteer from occupation and oppression are not welcome on this island.

An opportunity for Nottingham to hear from women living under Israeli occupation.

The Israeli ambassador will be giving a lecture at Nottingham University on 29th January.

Yesterday, a protest occurred outside the Hallward Library on the University Park Campus, to raise awareness about the Israeli West Bank barrier, aka 'the wall'.

Nottingham University Palestinian Society presents:
'Peace and Apartheid: Israel's 'peace process' from the Quartet to One Million Voices', by Ben White
December 5th, 6.30pm

hi up nottingham crews,
if you be interested theres fresh clown storiess from de westbank on the website
miss you all and very happy to hear news and blabbers from yous;
(especially infos about the ASBO really miss it and i only heard rumours)
big hugs
matt

We is into Palestina after many -ings: waitings, stressings, questionings, searchings....
We are meeting many active Israelis up for going through walls,
we did play with clown army friends in Jerusalem
and now we are proper starting with a 2 week project in Bethlehem tomorrow.
Thanks to everyone in Europe for all your support (even the knockers, the anti clowns, the zionist stooges and the negative energy vampires - you inspired us to keep doing this and never give up - so perversely thankyou too)
X

Update from the Pedal Powered Clown to Palestine Project taken from their website  http://www.pedalpoweredclowns.org/

For more information about the project, see the previous article:  http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/nottinghamshire/2007/05/370963.html

Four activists left Nottingham today to travel into Europe and to G8 summit in Germany and eventually Palestine. Their project is all about cycling, communicating, taking action and general clowning about. Where are they going? What will they be doing? Why go to Palestine? Why is it important to go to the G8 summit in Germany? Last week I got my audio device out and invited them around for tea and cake.

The beginning of the recording is slightly disturbed by one of the younger clowns... Download the individual soundfiles or listen to the entire interview (38,4 minutes) via the stream:  http://www.archive.org/download/pedal_powered_clowns/pedal_powered_clowns_64kb.m3u

This morning 4 activists, based at the ASBO Community Centre in Nottingham got on their bikes and set off for an epic journey to mainland Europe. The project 'Pedal Powered Clowns to Palestine' brings together performance, clowning, action and pedal power to raise awareness of the situation in Palestine as well as entertaining and supporting the Palestinian Community through play. In the last few months the group raised money through benefit events in Nottingham to fund their trip. The first leg of the journey will be by train to Hull and then onto the ferry to Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Once in Europe a few dates have been planned to work with other groups and visit some social centres. From then on the route will lead North into Germany to the G8 summit in early June. The idea is to join the G8 protests and add a creative element to the planned actions. At the end of June the group will set course for Palestine.

Here are some photos of the groups departure. Of course some of it was last minute but all set of with a feel of excitement. When we arrived at the train station some of the transport bobbies showed interest in the trailers, which I thought would never make it onto the train, but after some chat with the conductor they were all boarded on...

For more info, see their website:  http://www.pedalpoweredclowns.org/

Report from the Palestine solidarity rally in Sheffield on May 12.

Report from the Palestine solidarity rally in Sheffield on May 12.

we now have only 11 days to go until the first show of a tour that will take us from nottingham to nablus, G8 to gaza and maybe back again?

what follows is the hot off the press latest news on who 'we' is, what we've been doing / plan to do and WHY WE REALLY NEED YOUR SUPPORT TO MAKE THIS WHOLE THANG HAPPEN!!

THERE ARE MANY PEOPLE WHO ARE FOR PEACE AND THIS PROJECT IS ABOUT ACTIVELY TRYING TO MAKE PEACE SO PLEASE SUPPORT IT IN EVERY WAY YOU CAN AND PASS ON TO ALL NETWORKS

ta very much

the ASBO centre & pedalpoweredclowns invite you to Mayday Meltdown - a day of low impact fun, festivity and exchange

This is to celebrate
that the clownchaos is finally leaving for G8 / palestine, the rising of Spring and our Asbotic community.


may 7th 12 - 12

featuring:-
a winding procession, picnic cabaret, workshops, streetparty, volleyball, soundsystems, bands, cafes, spoken word, chillout spaces, guerilla gardening, info + discussions, cinema, games, spectactors

donations only - all donations help support your local palestine circus :-) the bar proceeds support the asbo community space

On May 12th a coalition of Northern PSC branches is organising a major rally and festival calling for an end to 40 years of Israeli occupation and for justice in Palestine.

The Vanunu Freedom Ride (VFR), cycling from Faslane to London, visited Nottingham on April 16 to raise awareness of the plight of Israeli dissdent Mordechai Vanunu.

a night celebrating resistance of the occupation of palestine, featuring a showing of the film Arnas Children.

Shimri Zameret: Israeli army refuser and political activist will speak on the Palestinian/Israeli conflict and the anti-war and anti-globalisation movement in Israel