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- Nottingham Speakers’ Corner Officially begun On Friday 22 February at 12.30pm, Nottingham adopted the first Speakers’ Corner in the UK since an Act of Parliament paved the way for the original in London’s Hyde Park almost 150 years ago. The council press release says: 'It is to be located in the heart of the city centre as a powerful symbol of citizens’ rights, a focus for civic pride and a platform for free public exchange in the midst of Nottingham's daily hustle and bustle". With the pedestrianisation of King Street, Speakers’ Corner will then be inaugurated in the autumn. At a ceremony in Market Square, the Council Leader Jon Collins and the Sheriff of Nottingham Jeannie Packer formally announced its creation at King Street. This would be the country’s first since the original was established in London’s Hyde Park in the 1870s. Read the article: Nottingham Speakers’ Corner Officially begun.
Listen: 1 Town Cryer, Tim Desmond & Peter Bradley - mp3 4.8M | 2 Sheriff of Nottingham - mp3 1.9M 3 Jon Collins, Council Leader - mp3 4.8M | 4 Adrian Lunga, Zimbabwean human rights - mp3 6.3M 5 Eddie Izzard [via video screen] - mp3 2.2M
- Council Under Fire From Campaign To Save Leisure Centre Nottingham City Council were under fire this week from campaigners trying to prevent the local authority from closing one of the city's oldest and most cherished public services, the Victoria Baths leisure centre. A move to rush the closure this spring has been greeted by uproar from local residents, who gathered for a protest at the Council House. Read the Feature article: Council Under Fire From Campaign To Save Leisure Centre.
Listen: Interviews from the demonstration | Protesters in the Council House
- Martin Lacey aka Mr Cool Calm and Collected Interview done by BBC Radio Nottingham when they interviewed owner and ringmaster of the 'Not so Great British Circus' at the start of their tour in 2008. Very much the original Mr Angry ...... Martin Lacey really needs to go on an pr/anger management course. Read the Article: Martin Lacey aka Mr Cool Calm and Collected.
Listen: Interview with Martin Lacey owner & ringmaster of the 'Not so Great British Circus'
- Nottingham Hosts UK Indymedia Gathering On Saturday and Sunday, Nottingham hosted a national gathering of the UK Indymedia network, bringing together around 40 people from as far afield as Scotland and Bristol. A whole host of issues were discussed, such as the future of Indymedia, developments on the startpage and calendar, and aspects of moderating the site. Read the Feature: Nottingham Hosts UK Indymedia Gathering.
Listen: Birmingham | Bristol | Manchester 1 | Manchester 2 | Scotland
- Foie Gras Protest Silenced For Using Megaphone - Animal rights activists in Nottingham campaigning against the sale of Foie Gras in the city have found themselves the targets of police repression. On the evening of Friday December 14, campaigners were told that they could not use a megaphone, with the police citing Section 14 of the Public Order Act 1986 as their basis for this prohibition. The heavy-handed police response is indicative of a national trend towards increasingly repressive policing of animal rights protests and a a more general limitation on the right to protest. Read the article.
Listen: Fois Gras feature ogg 2.8M
- Tacking climate change across the East Midlands: Local Government Consultations - At these consultation events, they welcomed views on the questions and issues raised in the consultation document "Towards a programme of action on climate change for the East Midlands" article.
Listen: Intro - mp3 2.4M | Phil Keynes - Nottinghamshire County Council - mp3 3.4M | Jerome Braddley - Nottingham energy Partnership - mp3 6.3M | Helen Ross - Nottingham Primary Care Trust - mp3 1.6M | Helen Chadwick - East midland Regional Assembly - mp3 4.7M | Consultation / Context - mp3 2.3M | Mike Peverill - Regional Climate Change Co-ordinator - mp3 13M | Questions & Answers - mp3 17M
- 4th East Midlands Vegan Festival - interviews - The 4th East Midlands Vegan Festival returned to the Council House on Nottingham's Old Market Square. It was well attended with many, having not been before, wanting to know what it was all about. As well as health, wellbeing and morals .....choice of diet is critical to the survival of the planet - a massive proportion of climate change is caused by livestock farming and the production of meat/dairy products. So there is solidarity between the Vegan festival and the National Climate March to "demand that world leaders take the urgent action we need to prevent the catastrophic destabilisation of global climate". Read the article.
Listen: 'Collected' Interviews about the event. [Ronny] - mp3 16M
- Nottingham Community Justice Panel Meeting - On Thursday November 8, at Nottingham Arena, there was the annual Community Justice Panel Meeting. After their private deliberations, there is then a public opportunity to quiz members of the Notts Criminal Justice Board. Steve Green, Chief Constable for Nottinghamshire Police. Read the article.
Listen: 1 Chief Constable Intro [64Kb] | 2 Chief Constable Questions [64Kb] | 3 Graham Hooper, Courts Service [64Kb] | 4 Chief Constable Questions [64Kb]
- NUJ Stand Up For Journalism - Monday November 5 is Stand Up for Journalism day, the NUJ day of action across the UK and Ireland. In Nottingham, the main theme of the event in Market square this afternoon, was the closure of the Central ITV News. In future, news will be broadcast from Birmingham.. Read the article.
Listen: NUJ Stand Up For Journalism 1 - mp3 | NUJ Stand Up For Journalism 2 Central TV - mp3
- 2007 Benn Lecture - Andrew Gilligan "Caught in the Crossfire" - Annual journalism lecture - uncut recorded. Iraq War, NUJ 'Stand Up for Journalism' Campaign etc. Read the article.
Listen: Andrew Gilligan 2007 Benn Lecture - mp3 10M
- Activists Crash Biofuel Party - This week Europe’s largest Biofuels event took place in Nottinghamshire amid growing concerns about severe impacts on climate, biodiversity and food production. The exhibition, featuring over a hundred trade stands, ran alongside a conference which opened on Wednesday with a key note speech from BP Biofuels’ Europe & Africa Director Oliver Mace, but was quickly thrown into chaos when a number of people dressed in suits marched onto the stage to target BP’s ‘dangerous and dishonest’ greenwash and protest at the catastrophic effects of replacing climate-stabilising ecosystems with arable crops for biofuel feedstocks. Read the feature article.
Listen: Biofuels Conference - mp3 1.7Mb | Interview with Richard Price: Conference Organiser - mp3 3.7Mb
- Peace And Unity! In Our Community! - Over 300 people came together in Nottingham today to voice their opposition against the city's gun crime and gang culture problems. The families of victims of violent crimes, such as the killing of Nathan Williams in the Meadows last year (read article) came together to call for 'Peace And Unity' and to put an 'End To The Killings'. A march started at the Forest Recreation Ground around midday and made its way to the city centre along Mansfield Road. The march was very loud and cheerful and attracted a lot of attention. The piece is 9 minutes long. Read article.
Listen: to stream | download mp3 | download ogg
- Climate Change, Oil & Gas Depletion Lecture - In 2007 the UK becasme a net importer of oil and gas. Oil, which provides a third of our energy, will become scarce and therefore very expensive within the next fifteen to twenty years. Gas will follow, and eventually coal will also go into depletion. Paul Mobbs argued that - whether because of the dwindling supply of fossil fuels or because of climate change - individuals and organisations should be preparing now for a significant contraction in the economy. Brian Davey outlined the local implications in this scenario of the future. Read article.
Listen: Climate Change with Oil and Gas Depletion - Paul Mobbs (26min 12.0MB) | Climate Change with Oil and Gas Depletion - Brian Davey (25min 11.7MB)
- Climate Change Lecture, The Potential and Limits of Renewables - This lecture took place on Wednesday 27th September 2007, 7.30pm, at the Sustainable Research Building, School of the Build Environment, University of Nottingham. Read article.
Listen: Climate Change - Potential & Limits of Renewables - Elliott (33min 15Mb) | Climate Change - Potential & Limits of Renewables - Baddley (32min 15Mb)
- Biofuelwatch Talk - On Wednesday 26th September, the Sumac Centre served as venue for a talk by Biofuelwatch, introducing the issues surrounding biofuels. Read article.
Listen: Biofuels Talk 53mins 24Mb MP3 [64kbps]
- An Evening With M - Oaxaca Talk At The Sumac - This is the talk, to explain the situation in Oaxaca, Mexico. 4 sections delivered between the videos being shown. Read article.
Listen: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4
- Protest at Heckler & Koch weapons manufacturers HQ - About 30-40 people gathered at the UK headquarters of Heckler & Koch, the world's second-largest manufacturer of handguns, assault rifles, submachine guns, machine guns and grenade launchers. It was recently found out that their HQ is based on an industrial estate in Lenton, Nottingham so some people decided to pay them a visit. Read article.
Listen: Interview with one of the protesters - mp3 3.4M | What are we here for? - short speech - mp3 1.8M
- Talk by Women representatives of the Six Nations Territory - Women representatives from the Six Nations on the Grand River community in Ontario, Canada gave a talk at the Sumac Centre in Nottingham on Wednesday the 27th of June 2007. They spoke about the experience of reclaiming and defending a piece of land from development. Their action has been incredibly successful, having prevented the development and protected the land from an armed police incursion. Read article.
Listen: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3
- Concerned about Climate Change? Spring Into Action Now! - Folk from around the east midlands gathered in Nottingham for a week of workshops, discussion and action around the issue of climate change. The event was organised under the banner of 'Spring Into Action', and besides a lot of talking, the week ended with some succesful direct action. This is what some of the participants had to say... The piece is about 8 minutes long. Read article.
Listen: to stream | download mp3 | download ogg
- The Sprouting Activist - an interview - The Sprout Man explains about sprouting. Uncut, taken during the Big Sprout Day Out... Read article.
Listen: download mp3
- Nottingham folk blockade nuclear submarine base in Scotland - This is a short radio piece about the Faslane 365 campaign in Scotland, why we need to resist nuclear weapons and how a load of people from Nottingham succesfully blockaded the Faslane nuclear submarine base in Scotland. The piece is 11 minutes long. Read article.
Listen: to stream | download mp3 | download ogg
- Nottingham University Student Die-In - to protest at un-ethical investments in the arms trade, March 2007. Read article.
Listen: Sam on Arms & Ethics - mp3 4.0M
- World Development Movement meeting on Climate Change - World Development Movement director Benedict Southworth blamed western countries for pollution and poverty when he hosted a meeting in Nottingham on Monday 19th March 2007. He spoke about the WDM's new campaign on climate change, which they argue will have the most catastrophic effect on the poor. Previously, the WDM director has accused Tony Blair of taking a hypocritical stance on world poverty and climate change. Read article.
Listen: Introduction - mp3 14M | Divide into Groups - mp3 17M | Conclusion - mp3 12M
- Amnesty protest over Guantanamo Bay in Nottingham :: report with audio - The University of Nottingham's Amnesty International Society's held a protest against the continuing human rights abuses at Guantanamo Bay. Enough is enough! Guantánamo Bay is a symbol of injustice and abuse. It must be closed down. Read article.
Listen: Sam asks about Guantanamo 2007_03_10 - mp3 5.1M | Wietse asks about Guantanamo 2007_03_10 - mp3 9.2M
- The Knowledge Lab - Bridging the gap between activism and academia, a space for anti-capitalist reflection, this time around the issue of 'knowledge'. Held at Nottingham University, Feb 2007. For various audio see the feature article
- McLibel: Human Rights Victory Anniversary Demo - To celebrate the McLibel Human Rights Victory Anniversary, there was a small demo on at McDonalds restaurant at Exchange Walk, Nottingham. The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg declared that the notorious and long running McLibel case was in breach of the right to a fair trial and right to freedom of expression, thereby voiding any solace that McNasty may have enjoyed from the trial. Read article.
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- Public Order and Freedom of Expression - Professor Sir David Williams came to Nottingham to talk about 'Public Order and Freedom of Expression' at Trent University. Read article.
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- Screening of the Argentinian film "i" + Intro + Q&A Session - Argentinian film makers including director Andres Ingoglia visited Nottingham as part of the european tour of their film "i". The film is a meditation on the relationship between media and power as it is manifested by the worlds largest all volunteer network of media activists: 'Indymedia'. Read article.
Listen: Part 1 | Part 2
- An Inconvenient Truth: Film & regional decision makers response at the Broadway - Following a screening of the film 'An Inconvenient Truth', a panel of local and regional decision makers responded to the film and answered (or tried to) questions about what's happening here in Nottingham and the East Midlands area. Read article.
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- NAIL campaign make further 'banner drops' in Sneinton - All was going swimmingly until... the forces of oppression arrived to try and spoil the party. "Who gave you permission to do that here?" was the opening repost of our friendly Neighbourhood warden. "Take that down now". Folk then received the attention of 3 wardens... Read article.
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- Action stepped up at Sharp Hill - A group of activists - with strong support from the community - have been camping at the site near Edwalton for a month in protest against Rushcliffe Borough Council's plan to build 1200 houses on a piece of greenbelt land, including the Sharp Hill Woods. What follows is a public meeting... Read article.
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- 'Overcoming Media Bias' - Nottingham Student Peace Movement held a day of discussion about global political issues, and what we can do about them on a local level, at the University of Nottinham. There was a discussion about the need to 'Overcoming Media Bias'. Read article.
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- Incinerator Public Meeting - Public Bodies pull out! - The Nottingham Against Incineration and Landfill cmapign were invited to speak at a Radio Nottingham Groundswell debate. A public meeting still happened, however, the two public bodies, the Environment Agency and the City Council pulled out. They should be answerable to the public, but won't even meet us to listen to our views and concerns! Read article.
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