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Anarchism, Marxism,
05-05-2013 10:55
Protection Not Profit! Cov Sol-Fed calls for pressures to be put on Primark.
05-05-2013 10:35
Details of yesterday's protest in Coventry.Take action to stop Framework using workfare
05-05-2013 08:55
Framework the Nottingham based charity that exists to tackle the causes and consequences of homelessness has got itself involved in the workfare programme. Workfare is the name given to various government programmes that force benefit claimants to work full-time jobs just to get their dole money.
On Sunday 5th May we'll be raising the issue on their Facebook page and Twitter feed. We ask that you join us.
1) Ask Framework to end their involvement in the workfare programme.
2) Explain to them that the Workfare programme is exploiting the very people that they proclaim to be supporting.
3) Share this information with as many people as you can.
4) Get in contact with us and join forces in stopping Framework's
exploitation.
Framework's involvement in workfare
This is the text of a leaflet delivered to Framework bosses by anti-workfare campaigners:
Dear Andrew Redfern,
We are writing in order to express our sadness that your organisation is participating in the Work Programme. As we're sure you know, the Work Programme is both this government's and its predecessor's attempt to penalise poor and working class people for the failures of the current economic system.
We know that Framework has a Training and Employment side called EVE Works, which delivers the work programme as a subcontractor to A4e in Nottingham as well as the county. Secondly, Framework set up a wholly owned CIC (community interest company) called EVE Trades to deliver/manage its social enterprise activities. This is the side where mandatory work activity is used in the businesses, referring to participants as "volunteers", despite the fact that they are obliged to participate or risk losing their benefits. The manager of both parts is Claire Eden and she is based at 36 Bentinck Road. We know that the Paint It project organised apprenticeships for six of your service users, enabling them to gain valuable experience and qualifications, whilst helping financially sustain Framework. We know that you have now ended these apprenticeships and use the government's workfare programme in order to provide yourselves with free labour. There can be up to 10 people at a time forced to undertake this for a 4 week period. This we feel is a grievous error, but one you could remedy quickly and without drawing attention to your participation in workfare, simply by choosing not to participate in the Work Programme.
As we are aware of the considerable work you do which benefits those struggling to survive in this system, and also of your reliance on the public perception of Framework as a charitable and socially positive organisation, we felt it was only fair to inform you of our intentions. We have decided to hold a demonstration outside your main offices on Gregory Boulevard at the end of the month, and we will be inviting the local press along to cover the demonstration as we feel it would make an interesting story. Following this demonstration we will build a campaign aimed at highlighting your participation in Workfare. We do this in solidarity with all those who are being forced into unpaid work by both this government and its predecessors.
Sincerely,
Notts Against Workfare
Election nightmare for the BNP
05-05-2013 08:55
The BNP’s election campaign turned out to be a disaster yesterday as their share of the vote was seriously cut down across the East Midlands and the country as a whole. Newcomers, the British Democrats, failed to make any impact and the English Democrats did very badly as well. UKIP’s populist right wing politics seems to have eclipsed the far right, perhaps for good.
Here’s how the BNP share of the vote looked in the wards in which they stood at the last elections in 2009 compared with the current results.
- Derbyshire: 2009: 19.2% 2013: 5.5%
- Leicestershire: 2009: 14.3% 2013: 8.4%
- Lincolnshire: 2009: 11.1% 2013: 4.3%
- Northamptonshire: 2009: 13.2% 2013: 4.7%
- Nottinghamshire: 2009: 10.9% 2013: 2.4%
In other words the BNP has done extremely badly, a view shared by their last remaining councillor, Cathy Duffy, who flounced out of the count in Leicestershire before her (poor) result was even announced.
Another welcome result at these elections was the booting out of Graham Partner, elected as BNP Councillor for Coalville in 2009 and being rejected by the electorate as a British Democrats candidate this year. We won’t be sad to see him go.
Whilst the further collapse of the BNP is to be welcomed, the rise of UKIP poses new questions and challenges for those who oppose anti-migrant racism and right wing populism. This analysis by the Independent Working Class Association is not a bad place to start in understanding the relationship between UKIP and the BNP and stating the challenges facing those who seek to oppose their right wing populism with a genuine working class politics.
UG#633 - Putting The 'Mental' Back in Environmental (Food Waste & FMNR In Niger)
05-05-2013 02:11
UK-Savar Solidarity: a summary of protests against Primark
04-05-2013 23:46
Sharing information about Bradley Manning at Chester May Day Fair
04-05-2013 21:14
I went along to the May Day fair in Chester today where local campaign groups such as CND, Palestine Solidarity, Cuba Solidarity, Shrewsbury 24 Pickets, various benefits campaigns and others had a presence, along with the unions and a few political parties. Having put up a Free Bradley Manning banner, I handed out 100+ flyers about 1 June International Day of Solidarity Action and made a point of speaking to at least one person on every stall to ask them to circulate information about Bradley Manning via their networks.
Istanbul's Shameful May Day
04-05-2013 20:31
Your rights and section 50 Police Reform Act
04-05-2013 11:49
If you are stop and searched or to held in a kettle, you DO NOT have to give police your name and address. The police will often ask for your details in these situations, but you DO NOT have to provide them.
However, under section 50 of the Police Reform Act the police DO have powers to take your name and address (but not date of birth) IF they reasonably believe you have engaged in anti-social behaviour. Anti-social behaviour is defined as doing something likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress to others.
MAY DAY March and Rally – Sat 4th May
04-05-2013 10:55
Victory as Wax Museum halts foxhunt promotion!
04-05-2013 10:31
uk mayday - a few pics and short report
03-05-2013 22:38
Framework uses Workfare
03-05-2013 20:55
Going to see Framework about workfare
Going to see Framework about workfare. Delivering a letter complaining about the practice.
The charity uses unemployed people of 'forced labour' scheme. Workfare!
A Mayday of the fluffier variety goes down a storm in Sussex county town!
03-05-2013 12:33
Local Lewes squatters open a social centre/donation based vegetable shop and tea room as part of the Stop G8 national network and call for anti-capitalist actions on May 1st 2013!The Robot Revolution
03-05-2013 11:05
Griffin hammered yet again!
03-05-2013 09:02
Cataclysmic BNP embarrassmentSumac Garden with Spring's Progress
03-05-2013 06:55
Thursday 2 May 2013
Folks have been beavering away in the Sumac Yard Garden.
The yard has been improved. Wooden 'trough boxes' built. [although I now notice a couple broken up :-(
Many, pots and seeds planted, but this year, the poly greenhouse looks a bit sad and vandalised.
So, as spring has officially arrived [well, sort of] the yard is now looking a bit more green and generally verdant.
Volunteers have put in some hours here. The objective, not just to grow food for the Sumac itself ..... but also to provide a positive example on what can be achieved in quite modest urban surroundings.
It is hoped folks would look at what has been achieved here, and think they could adapt ideas to their own circumstances.
How about getting involved?
Earlier posts about the Sumac Garden Progress
Nottingham Spring into Action :: Seeds, Stencils, and Social @ Sumac
http://indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/nottinghamshire/2007/04/367463.html
The Sumac Centre Reopens After Radical Revamp
http://indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/nottinghamshire/2007/09/381592.html
'Fresh' Project at Ecoworks, St Ann's Allotments
http://indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/nottinghamshire/2007/10/382929.html
Day of Action on Food and Climate Change: food giveaway & anti-Tesco demo
http://indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/nottinghamshire/2008/06/400226.html
much more 'Tash on Food' at:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tash/sets/72157603274353832/
Veggies
http://www.veggies.org.uk
Ecoworks
http://www.ecoworks.org.uk
"Food for the Future" skillshare session at the Sumac centre
http://indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/05/430936.html
Sumac Garden Project, looking verdant [Food for the Future]
http://indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/05/430465.html
Sumac Garden Project, looking verdant 2 [Food for the Future]
http://indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/nottinghamshire/2009/09/438647.html
Sumac Garden Project, looking verdant
http://nottingham.indymedia.org/articles/2726
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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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Oil: to level or to cancel!
02-05-2013 21:36
There are now 30 billion barrels of oil, estimated at brutal 6 trillion R$ (three trillion US$), the equivalent to 3 or 4 Brazilian Union budgets that are under the risk of being delivered by derisory percentage of this amount, following the infamous "tradition" of the NPA.
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1 June: US Embassy Demo for Bradley Manning. Download flyers.
02-05-2013 16:24
PLEASE DOWNLOAD, PRINT AND SHARE THESE FLYERS
