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Best Way to Celebrate Death of Thatcher
09-04-2013 18:55
We Didn't Pay Poll Tax, Don't Pay Council Tax!
The death of Margaret Thatcher brings back memories of the only significant defeat she suffered at the hands of the people: the Anti-Poll Tax Campaign. Millions of people refusing to pay helped bring about her removal as Prime Minister. In old Market Square on Monday leaflets were distributed urging people not to pay Council Tax as a protest against the cuts. These were well-received by many people who had fond memories of defeating the Poll Tax.
After Thatcher we have her political heir, David Cameron, imposing severe austerity measures attacking ordinary people, especially poor ones. The best way in which we can celebrate Thatcher's death is to develop a new campaign of mass refusal to pay up, not to pay Council Tax. You don't have to go to London to do something but can start here in Nottingham by helping at the Don't Pay Council Tax stall in Hyson Green on Saturday
Pictures of Maggie - An Artist Remembers
09-04-2013 18:41
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special comemorative free maggie colouring in printable poster!!
09-04-2013 17:40
eviction of the famous "Z.A.M"(Autonomy Zone Milano) in Milan
09-04-2013 12:17
here you can find the public notice in English, Spanish, French, Deutsch versionUKIP poster subvertised
09-04-2013 11:47
Baroness Thatcher - have a word with the Daily Mail
09-04-2013 09:25
If They Cannot, We Can!
08-04-2013 22:55
Workers of the Viomichaniki Metalleutiki (Vio.Me) factory in Thessaloniki, Greece, a subsidiary of “Filkeram & Johnson”, stopped being paid in May 2011, and subsequently the management abandoned the factory. After a series of assemblies, the workers decided to manage the factory themselves.
Glasgow's dancin, thatcher's dead
08-04-2013 22:46
Amid the huge outpouring of tributes and expressions of condolence, critics of Thatcherism were equally vocal in their views.Atos Mass Read
08-04-2013 15:55
A performance of the Atos Monologues will take place at Bonn Square at 11.30 am tomorrow. If you'd like to take part, rehearsal will be at 10.30 in the churchAnti-fascist Pavel Krivonosov from Nizhni Novgorod needs help!
08-04-2013 13:05
Sabotage at Powharnal OCCS
08-04-2013 12:55
At some point over the past weekend multiple items of plant machinery at an extension to the Powharnal open cast coal site in East Ayrshire were put beyond working use. High value targets including a prime mover and bulldozer were also targeted to cause maximum disruption to workings at the mine.
State Funeral for Margaret Thatcher?
08-04-2013 12:20
Should tax-payers be forced to pay for such an insult?
Ding Dong the Witch is Dead!
08-04-2013 11:53
Maggie Thatcher's finally bit the dust!Loughborough - Axe the Tax
08-04-2013 08:55
Loughborough's first bedroom tax protest.
Yesterday Leicestershire against the Cuts mounted a bedroom room tax protest in Loughborough. It started with the scurrying of the organisers whilst they built their little bedroom set-up with a good 15-20 of people massing right off the bat. Both the Socialist and the Labour party wandered on over not long after, with Labour being particularly conspicuous in this Tory Council (Loughborough being covered by Charnwood Council, also home to a lone BNP Councillor). There were several rather rousing speeches made, along with the unfortunately familiar tales of personal woe due to yet another unjust attack upon us, which garnered plenty of attention from passing shoppers on a heaving market day with many taking the time to discuss the issue, take a leaflet or sign the petition. Unfortunately there was some unpleasantness with a stallholder who threatened to burn a woman (when the police arrived he claimed he threatened to burn her leaflets) in front of her daughter when asked if she could put some leaflets on his stall. Despite this blip all in all it was an excellent demo with a well-organised demo with a fantastic turnout of local activists for a largely conservative town.
Protest & Stall opposing the Grand National
08-04-2013 08:55
Saturday 6 April 2013
Saw a dozen Nottingham activists stage a peaceful protest outside Ladbrokes betting shop in Nottingham city centre, to raise public awareness about the dark side of the Grand National, and also the wider horse and greyhound racing industries. The message was that there is no such thing as a harmless flutter, as if you bet on animal racing then you are literally betting with their lives.
Campaigners were out with banners, placards and visual displays to make sure that the message reached as many passers-by as possible. One activist was dressed in a dead horse costume splattered with blood, a very shocking image designed to have a real emotional impact on the public, and to help them make connections between the bets they place and the tragic consequences this can have for horses.
They say:
"The Grand National is a deliberately hazardous race for 'excitement' and entertainment value.
Since 2000, 22 horses have died on the Grand National course and, over the course of the three-day meeting, 38 horses have been killed in that same period.This year two horses sadly died in the run-up to the big race, Battlefront and Little Josh, despite changes that were meant to improve the safety of the course.
Aside from the Grand National, hundreds of beautiful animals are raced to death on British tracks each year, die in training, or are killed because they are no longer profitable. Thousands more are killed on top of this because they don't make the grade. There is an awful lot of needless suffering and exploitation going on purely for human entertainment.
On the day of the demo the betting shop staff had little to say to protesters. The response from the public walking past the demo was incredibly positive. Hundreds of people stopped to sign a copy of Animal Aid's 'Ban the Grand National' petition and to offer support for the demo."
You bet, they die! Grand National demo
http://nottingham.indymedia.org/articles/5545
information about the dark side of the horse racing industry over on Animal Aid's website:
http://www.animalaid.org.uk/h/n/CAMPAIGNS/horse/
They also run a race horse death watch page, detailing the fatalities on British racetracks since 2007:
http://www.horsedeathwatch.com
Animal Aid
http://www.animalaid.org.uk
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ALAN LODGE
Photographer - Media: One Eye on the Road. Nottingham. UK
Email: tash@indymedia.org
Web: http://digitaljournalist.eu
Member of the National Union of Journalists [NUJ]
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"It is not enough to curse the darkness.
It is also necessary to light a lamp!!"
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Saturday afternoon with Occupy Nottingham
08-04-2013 08:55
Saturday 6 April 2013
Having spent 6 months camping in the Market Square, and then moving out after threat of eviction .... they're back.
This time, they were joined by a few passing devils!!
As you can see from last post at: http://nottingham.indymedia.org/articles/5532 they are trying to make this a regular thing again.....
Well, not with the camp you understand.
But members hope to regularly be about in the Square and Speakers Corner, to continue the dialogue with the public about the cuts, horrible bankers, workfare ..... oh, and the all rest!
They say:
"We are displaying solidarity with the thousands of other occupations across the globe.
Our aim was, and still is, through peaceful protest; highlight corporate and individual greed, inequality, war, tyranny, corruption, persecution, suffering, & hardship around the the globe, and here in Nottingham.
Join Us! Show you disagree with a world run by banks, are annoyed with the lack of concern for environmental issues or pick any number of things that are wrong with the world today. Stand for change!"
Please drop by and support their efforts if you can.
Occupy Nottingham: the end of the beginning? [Feature with collected links of the progress]
http://nottingham.indymedia.org/articles/2549
Collected Occupy Piccys: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tash/sets/72157628985609873/
Occupy Love https://www.facebook.com/occupy.love.35
Occupy Nottingham http://facebook.com/occupy.nottingham
Twitter http://twitter.com/occupynottm
http://occupii.org/group/occupy-nottingham
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ALAN LODGE
Photographer - Media: One Eye on the Road. Nottingham. UK
Email: tash@indymedia.org
Web: http://digitaljournalist.eu
Member of the National Union of Journalists [NUJ]
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"It is not enough to curse the darkness.
It is also necessary to light a lamp!!"
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Fight the Bedroom Tax – Local Meetings
08-04-2013 08:55
EDINBURGH WEST: Tuesday 9 April at 7.00pm Gorgie Dalry Church, 190 Gorgie Road.EH11 2NX.