Nottinghamshire Newswire Archive

The Transition Market is back again on Sneinton Market Saturday April 10th 10-1

Notts Indymedia is pleased to announce a new era of collaboration with the Northcliffe Group, owners of the Evening Post.

The agreement will see content taken from the Indymedia newswire appearing in the Post, opening up the radical message of Indymedia to a larger audience than ever before. In return Indymedia will be able to use images collected by the Post's team of roving cameramen.

Editor of the Post Malcolm Pheby said, "This is great. It will allow us to inform our readers about a part of the city we've historically covered poorly if at all".

It is a controversial decision but the majority of the Notts Indymedia collective think that it is a move in the right direction. "Some people will accuse us of selling out," said one collective member, "but the increased exposure we'll get will be worth it."

I'm planning on standing in next year's City Council elections on an anti sleaze ticket.

Reports in the local media suggest that Tesco's plans for world domination have now extended to converting old pubs into stores and even deputy leader of the city council and capitalist lickspittle Graham Chapman doesn't like it.

Another busy few months of sabbing

Vote 'zero' in local BNP chump's 'How Many Deposits Will We Save' poll.

On Saturday 27 March, the Sumac Centre hosted the Community Action Gathering, bringing together community-orientated activists from across the country including the Haringey Solidarity Group and Hereford Solidarity League. One of the groups represented was the Pleasely Hill People's Network, from Mansfield. I asked them a few questions to find out how they got started and what they've been up to.

Zimbabwean Night- Who wants to be a Zimbabwean Trillionaire Quiz

Members of Nottingham Zimbabwean Community Network are organising the Small World Cafe at the Square Centre Alfred Street, NG3 1AA on Thursday 8th April

Public meeting
Monday 12 April 2010
12.30 - 2.30PM
Venue: Nottingham Deaf Society, 22 Forest Rd West, Nottingham

No to cuts in city council adult social care services and other council services

The coach from Nottingham leaves at 8 in the morning from outside the Old Sal on Maid Marian Way

£8/£5 concessions

To make sure you have a seat you can book by calling Matt on 07849 392 842.

Gordon Brown's visit to Nottingham to launch the Labour Manifesto and avoiding the general public.

The BNP have announced that Rachel Hill will be standing for the party in Mansfield at the general election.

The Save Newark Hospital Campaign was officially launched on Monday 22nd March 2010. Following on from the public meeting held on 15th March key attendees from that meeting met to discuss formalisation of the alliance, which is made up of concerned residents, town councillors and health professionals.

The BNP are putting up a lot of candidates for parliamentary elections in the region this year. Here's a list of those confirmed so far.

Another action packed fortnight, and more, from Nottm Animal Rights.

In October last year, Notts County Council announced a series of changes to the terms and conditions of staff. These were very controversial and preceded the announcement of the details of the council's budget which was widely unpopular.

On Friday March 19, Notts County Unison announced the results of a ballot for industrial action short of strike against the changes. I interviewed branch organiser Mike Scott to try and understand the background to the action and what's proposed.

Nottingham City Council have decided to end funding for the Council for Equality and Human Rights Nottingham and Nottinghamshire (CEHRNN). Reports in local rag the Evening Post suggest that this decision may have been motivated, at least in part, by the organisation's role in last December's demonstration against the English Defence League (EDL).

On Sunday night the doors of Sodexo's Lakeside Cafe were locked and windows covered with graffiti. Sodexo are amongst those who profiteer from the boarder regime and industrial prison complex.

A report pulled together from various Nottingham UAF sources. (This is not intended to be complete or authoritative, hopefully others with better stories will post too)

Nottingham AF present the Nottingham leg of a national speaking tour by the current secretary of the IWA to highlight on going repression of independent worker's associations in Germany and Serbia.