Nottinghamshire Indymedia

Events

Startpage

> UK Indymedia
> Global Indymedia

> Guidelines
> Chatroom
> About Us
> Security

> Projects
> On Ya Mobile
> Local Weather

Support Us

We are an all volunteer collective and receive no regular funding. Please consider donating.


Local Events

This events wire is no longer being updated. Please use the new site to publicise events.

More local events on Veggies/Sumac Diary


Freedom of Information

Search archives

Topics

Analysis
Animal Liberation
Anti-militarism
Anti-racism
Bio-technology
Climate Chaos
Culture
Ecology
Education
Energy Crisis
Free Spaces
Gender
Globalisation
Health
History
Indymedia
Iraq
Migration
Ocean Defence
Other Press
Palestine
Repression
Social Struggles
Technology
Terror War
Workers' Movements
Zapatista

Kollektives

Birmingham
Cambridge
Liverpool
London
Oxford
Sheffield
South Coast
Wales
World

Other UK IMCs
Bristol/South West
London
Northern Indymedia
Scotland

IMCs


www.indymedia.org

Projects
print
radio
satellite tv
video

Africa

Europe
antwerpen
armenia
athens
austria
barcelona
belarus
belgium
belgrade
brussels
bulgaria
calabria
croatia
cyprus
emilia-romagna
estrecho / madiaq
galiza
germany
grenoble
hungary
ireland
istanbul
italy
la plana
liege
liguria
lille
linksunten
lombardia
madrid
malta
marseille
nantes
napoli
netherlands
northern england
nottingham imc
paris/île-de-france
patras
piemonte
poland
portugal
roma
romania
russia
sardegna
scotland
sverige
switzerland
torun
toscana
ukraine
united kingdom
valencia

Latin America
argentina
bolivia
chiapas
chile
chile sur
cmi brasil
cmi sucre
colombia
ecuador
mexico
peru
puerto rico
qollasuyu
rosario
santiago
tijuana
uruguay
valparaiso
venezuela

Oceania
aotearoa
brisbane
burma
darwin
jakarta
manila
melbourne
perth
qc
sydney

South Asia
india


United States
arizona
arkansas
asheville
atlanta
Austin
binghamton
boston
buffalo
chicago
cleveland
colorado
columbus
dc
hawaii
houston
hudson mohawk
kansas city
la
madison
maine
miami
michigan
milwaukee
minneapolis/st. paul
new hampshire
new jersey
new mexico
new orleans
north carolina
north texas
nyc
oklahoma
philadelphia
pittsburgh
portland
richmond
rochester
rogue valley
saint louis
san diego
san francisco
san francisco bay area
santa barbara
santa cruz, ca
sarasota
seattle
tampa bay
united states
urbana-champaign
vermont
western mass
worcester

West Asia
Armenia
Beirut
Israel
Palestine

Topics
biotech

Process
fbi/legal updates
mailing lists
process & imc docs
tech

Nottingham City Council Threatening Right to Protest

Resident | 14.07.2009 18:06



 http://www.nottinghamcity.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=5850

The above website shows some public consultation that Nottingham City Council are carrying out in relation to the 'sustainable communities act'.

According to their website:

'Nottingham City Council - under the Sustainable Communities Act - has the opportunity to ask the government to change policies or laws to allow the Council to address issues that concern local communities more effectively.'

They have listed 11 proposals they would like to see and are asking people to 'agree' or 'disagree' and give comments.

 http://www.nottinghamcity.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=5850

Their proposals threaten our civil liberties. For example, they are trying to stop protesting and leafleting in Market Square!

Quote from website:"
11. Public Safety Zones

Public open spaces (such as Old Market Square) are sometimes affected by issues such as alcohol consumption, protests, leafleting, cycling, skateboards, busking, pedlars, etc. The City Council wants public areas of the city to be kept safe for all to enjoy.

Proposal: give the City Council the power to designate areas as “community safety designated zones” to ensure public safety and reduce anti-social behaviour, crime and disorder."

They are also trying to control the movements of repeat offenders - which may affect on the activist community:

"5. Repeat offenders
The City Council wants to protect communities by restricting the movement of offenders in the areas where the crimes where committed.

Proposal: where a person commits more than one offence, allow the courts to make an order to control the movements of offenders."

Visit the website and make your views known:

 http://www.nottinghamcity.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=5850

If they get a lot of people agreeing with their proposals they'll no doubt use the results to help them extend their powers and reduce our civil liberties.

Resident

Download this article in pdf format >>
Email this article to someone >>
Submit an addition or make a quick comment on this article >>

Dangerous

14.07.2009 18:16

The suggestion that protest might be banned from public spaces such as Old Market Square is anti-democratic, authoritarian and worrying in the extreme. Whose 'safety' is being protected by banning political protest? It is certainly not in the interests of the citizens of Nottingham as it represents a direct attack on their right to free assembly. See the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Article 20:
(1) Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association.

If you can't freely assemble in public spaces then where the hell can you?

It is worrying and revealing that they are bundling up protest with anti-social behaviour in their approaches to governing public space.

D-Double E


We all need to oppose this

14.07.2009 21:29

OK, no illusions about the council listening to what we say. But if our rights to protest are curtailed, then we have no rights. So firstly, let's oppose this by letter-writing, hassling councillors etc. If/when that fails, we all have to turn up in the Square and make our protests and hand out our leaflets. Over and over again. Public spaces are our spaces. And they will only stay like that if we claim them - repeatedly.

If anti-social behaviour is to be banned, then that should not apply to political protestors, but to the power-hungry who dream up these authoritarian rules. We will not let them get away with this anti-social behaviour.

No illiusions