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Text Critique of Climate Camp action 17/18 October
16-09-2009 11:09 | 19 comment(s)

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Text Solar Water Heating Course
08-07-2009 14:04

Text CCTV for Forest Fields approved by City Council
01-07-2009 09:42 | 4 comment(s)

Audio CCTV proposed scheme for Forest Fields : public meeting report
24-04-2009 12:56 | 5 comment(s)

Text Police bail sysadmin in animal rights extremism probe
10-02-2009 22:01 | 6 comment(s)

Image Surveillance of Nottingham City Centre [Update]
20-01-2009 16:29 | 6 comment(s)

Image CCTV 'Treasure Hunt' around Nottingham
19-01-2009 18:10 | 1 comment(s)

Image CPO's with HeadCam, at protests against deportation of Amdani Juma
03-06-2008 20:57 | 11 comment(s)

Image Nottingham & Lincoln Animal Rights Joint Day of Action Against P&G
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Text ID roadshow in Nottingham
21-05-2008 12:02 | 2 comment(s)

Text 1 may Day of Climate Action
22-04-2008 20:52 | 14 comment(s)

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Image Nottingham Defy-ID group back in business
15-03-2008 14:45 | 3 comment(s)

Text Iris scans for mental health service users
12-03-2008 16:28 | 4 comment(s)

Text NSPM: Climate Change Solutions Conference a Sucess
14-02-2008 18:08 | 2 comment(s)

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05-02-2008 20:49 | 2 comment(s)

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09-01-2008 13:57 | 3 comment(s)

Text Linux skill share at the Sumac
16-12-2007 12:18 | 2 comment(s)

Image Tasers in Nottingham
03-12-2007 21:47 | 2 comment(s)

Image Solar Panels installed at the Sumac
31-10-2007 20:33 | 4 comment(s)

Image Straw Bale work on eco-building in St.Anns Part 22
05-10-2007 12:40 | 1 comment(s)

Text wind power wins!
24-09-2007 22:31 | 1 comment(s)

Image Grey Water System at EcoWorks
24-09-2007 01:13 | 2 comment(s)

Image Straw Bale work on eco-building in St.Anns: Part 21
24-09-2007 01:00

Image Biofuels talk and protest planning on 26th Sept 8pm @ Sumac
20-09-2007 13:07 | 1 comment(s)

Image Wind Turbines: Practical uses in Nottingham Area 3
15-09-2007 12:14

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15-09-2007 12:08

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15-09-2007 12:03 | 2 comment(s)

Text Polymer Chemist Smashes Environmental Apathy
23-08-2007 06:29 | 4 comment(s)

Image Hand Built Wind Turbine Course 20-22 July, Lincs/Notts
10-07-2007 13:27 | 1 comment(s)

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21-05-2007 11:05 | 3 comment(s)

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23-04-2007 13:25 | 1 comment(s)

Image 'Rebel' bulletin - The Nottingham Sparrow - May 2007 - no.2
23-04-2007 10:26 | 6 comment(s)

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29-09-2006 14:51

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22-09-2006 09:49 | 2 comment(s)

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26-08-2006 07:34

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21-08-2006 23:47 | 1 comment(s)

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01-06-2006 19:37

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29-04-2006 16:10 | 2 comment(s)

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05-04-2006 12:55

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04-03-2006 00:32 | 38 comment(s)

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28-02-2006 19:32 | 1 comment(s)

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Campaign against CCTV in Forest Fields continues to grow

28-04-2009 15:40 | Repression | Social Struggles | Technology | Nottinghamshire

The Nottingham City Council scheme to impose CCTV on Forest Fields is facing increasingly organised opposition. Much of the affected area has been leafletted with anti-CCTV material and campaigners against the scheme attended a consultation meeting last Thursday to make their views known. Many are worried about the intrusive and controlling nature of CCTV and think it would contribute to suspicion rather than strengthening the local community.

Whilst the police and the Council's Area 4 Management claim to be engaging in consultation their language regarding CCTV has always framed it as a necessary development. Ironically, these same people objected to a journalist taking their photos at the meeting, indicating that residents are not the only ones who are concerned about surveillance! The plans have already been scaled down from 5 camera masts in Forest Fields to masts at 3 locations but campaigners vow to continue until it is scrapped.

Newswire: CCTV proposed scheme for Forest Fields : public meeting report | CCTV in Forest Fields - public meeting on April 23rd | Forest Fields Latest: CCTV | Forest Fields CCTV Update | CCTV coming to Forest Fields unless we act NOW! | Surveillance of Nottingham city centre | Surveillance of Nottingham City Centre [Update]

Previous feature: Watching the watchers in Nottingham

Links: ForestFields.org.uk | No CCTV | Area 4 management

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Nottingham Job Seekers To Face Lie Detectors

11-01-2008 11:38 | Repression | Technology | Nottinghamshire

Image by Straybear (flickr.com/straybear)

From the 28th January, as part of an extended pilot scheme, residents of Nottingham will be subject to Voice Risk Analysis when telephoning to make a claim for Job Seekers' Allowance.

Voice Risk Analysis (VRA) software analyses a person's 'normal' voice and flags up changes in frequency and tone characteristics which may mean the person is lying. The DWP has helped to fund a series of local pilot schemes to study the effectiveness of the technology in reducing so-called "benefit fraud" (which pales into insignificance when compared with tax evasion by the rich). Even amongst those who worry about such things, there is scepticism about this usefulness of this technology as an anti-fraud tool. Mainstream critics say that savings do not necessarily mean the software is accurately pinpointing fraudsters, arguing that genuine claimants may also be deterred from claiming when entitled to benefits.

Links: Nottinghamshire Unemployed Workers Centre | Welfare Reform UK | Sheffield protest against changes to welfare | Nottingham Claimants Action

Background Links: Nottingham Proforma for Expressions of Interest for DWP City Strategy | Strategy: Nottingham Local Area Agreement | DWP Fraud and error - Voice Risk Analysis (VRA) | DWP Press Release: Hutton announces new technology to strengthen fight against benefit fraud | TUC lies, damned lies and lie detectors: introducing lie detector tests for benefit claimants | Handard - Social Security Benefits: Lie Detectors 23 Apr 2007 : Column 928W | Government to use voice 'lie detector' technology to catch benefit thieves | Advanced Validation Services (AVS)

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Tasers in Nottingham

06-12-2007 17:30 | Repression | Technology | Nottinghamshire

Shocking

On Tuesday November 27, Nottinghamshire Police used a Taser stun gun on a man in Beeston. Although it has attracted only limited interest, it could be an important development. Tasers have recently been introduced to the police arsenal in the UK, having been widely used by police in the US and Canada for some time. This happened with minimal public debate, despite increasing concerns about their use across North America. Currently restricted to armed response officers there are calls from both senior and rank and file police officers for their use to be greatly expanded. They certainly aren’t going to go away any time soon

According to the Evening Post, Notts police were called to reports of a man acting erratically outside the Natwest on High Road, Beeston at 11.30am. The Post also indicates that there was a suggestion the man might have been carrying a firearm, however it is now clear the man did not have a gun and there is little in the article to indicate on what basis such suspicions might have arisen. The various eyewitness reports certainly indicate erratic behaviour, but if anything make the presence of a gun seem unlikely. One account has the man shouting, “Call the police,” while another has him pushing people about threatening to “knock you out.” Hardly behaviour which would indicate he was armed.

Links: Tasers in Nottingham | Police taser diabetic in a fit,when they should be arresting terror oil corprats | Canada Probes Taser After Another Death | USA - anotherone killed by police using "less" lethal taser | TASER GUNS BY UK POLICE ,HAVE BEEN CAUSING CONTROVERSY IN AMERICA | Taser’s don’t kill, Excited Delirium does!

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Biofuels Conference Disrupted At Concerns Over Multi-National 'Greenwash'

20-10-2007 14:52 | Climate Chaos | Technology | Nottinghamshire

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 and pied the BP’s CEO for the ‘dangerous and dishonest’ greenwash and protest at the catastrophic effects of replacing climate-stabilising ecosystems with arable crops for biofuel feedstocks.

Throughout the afternoon, people held a very visible protest outside the conference which was held at the Newark Showground, north of Nottingham. To coincide with the national Biofuels Conference, protestors from No Agrofuels UK blockaded the D1 oils refinery and offices in Middlesbrough to raise awareness of the detrimental impact of agrofuels. 18 Protestors chained the 3 gates to the refinery shut and 2 protestors were D-locked to the main gates. No vehicles were able to enter or leave the site and all work appeared to have been stopped. Several banners were tied over the gates including "No Agrofuels, Land 4 People, Food, Biodiversity" and "Climate Change Profiteers".

Listen to audio: Biofuelwatch Talk | Activists crash biofuel party | Interview with Richard Price: Conference Organiser

On the newswire: Activists crash biofuel party 2 [afternoon] | Activists crash biofuel party 1 [morning] | Photos from Bio-Diesel Expo banner demo | Banner Protest outside Biodiesel Expo in Newark | Blockade of D1 Oils - anti-agrofuel demo | BP Executive pied as Europe's largest Biofuels Event disrupted | Biofuelwatch talk at the Sumac Centre, Nottingham

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DIY V3 Wind Turbine Workshop

04-09-2007 10:26 | Climate Chaos | Technology | Nottinghamshire

V3 Power build small wind turbines and run courses teaching people how to make their own turbines. They put a couple up at various events, to inspire folks to get involved with such alternatives. The turbines they build are 'axial flux' turbines with a 2.4 metre blade in diameter and typically sit on top of a 10 metre guyed mast. They are mostly made from recycled materials

By running courses where people can learn how to build, install and maintain their own turbine they offer people and communities the chance to release themselves from reliance on the national grid while making a real difference to the climate change problem. So, get involved.

Pictures: Wind Turbine Workshop [ 1 ] | [ 2 ] |
Wind Turbines: Practical uses in Nottingham Area [ 1 ] | [ 2 ] | [ 3 ] |
Spring into Action :: Build your own wind turbine workshop | Sounds on the Downs - Wind Turbine Set-up

Links: V3 Power | Hugh Piggott - Scoraig Wind | Construction of Permanent magnet generator' (PMG). [pdf] | Wind rotor blade construction [pdf] | Small Wind Systems for Battery Charging [pdf] | Fieldlines: Wind 'Expert'discussion board [lodsa help here] | British Wind Energy Association | Wind power - Wikipedia | Centre for Alternative Technology | Engineers Without Borders [International NGO for engineering students] |

Slide Show Videos:V3 Wind Turbines + others [2:20mins mpg 6.2Mb] | Green's Windmill, Sneinton [3:02mins mpg 10.1Mb]

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UK Identity Card scheme - really finished? Let's make sure.

25-07-2006 13:36 | Repression | Technology | Nottinghamshire

The demise of "Charlie the Safety Elephant"

Labour's ID scheme is supposedly on the rocks, but let’s not be overly comforted by this news. There are good reasons to continue to build up the pressure. In particular, passport developments in the UK Identity and Passport Service (IPS) and the European Union could result in alternative identity databases, and since the Act is on the statute books, compulsory ID could start at any future date.

From emails leaked to the Sunday Times on July 9th, a senior Whitehall official has said the multi-billion pound scheme for compulsory ID cards and the National Identity Register (NIR) could take years to introduce and is likely to end in failure, and officials responsible for ID in the crisis-ridden Home Office are preparing for the project to be 'canned completely'. We can rejoice that a damning assessment from those closest to the plan should help to undermine Labour’s attempts to win support for ID cards. But let’s not be overly comforted by this news.

Notts Defy-ID Bulletin 3 PDF

Links: Nottingham Defy-ID | Defy-ID | No2ID

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Its anarchy on the streets

20-03-2006 15:46 | Analysis | Technology | Nottinghamshire

Artist impression of shared street in Exhibition Road
Authorities in several countries are plundering anarchist principles to successfully reduce road casualties.

As our society becomes ever more complex our ‘representatives’ in local and national government feel they have to make more laws and regulations and implement new controls on people’s behaviour to ensure the safety of the majority. If they did not then very soon chaos and disorder would reign right? Well, as we know in our hearts this is nonsense, it is not laws and regulations that make people care for each other, all it needs is for the removal of all the extraneous impediments to mutual aid. Here is very practical example.

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low impact building technique

16-02-2006 12:38 | Ecology | Technology | Nottinghamshire

Building at start of day.
Pictures showing the construction of a stud and mud building in Nottingham. Volunteers working on a stud and mud construction technique at Osmanthorpe Nature Reserve. This technique is a Lincolnshire variation of the wattle and daub technique that is more widely known. *****

Also, work has been done on another "eco-building" at ECOWORKS, a community garden project on the Hungerhill allotments in St. Ann's. Volunteers have been working on this exciting project since last October, and the walls up now! Straw bales are a low-impact, highly insulating and user-friendly building material. The construction process is highly inclusive, satisfying and fun.

Links: Previous reports: (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) | St. Anns Allotments Network | More info on strawbale building | A strawbale article | Article about Ecoworks

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Day of action as Tony Blair sets out new nuclear power policy in Nottingham

14-01-2006 09:30 | Ecology | Education | Technology | Nottinghamshire

Tony Blair set out new plans today for a nuclear power policy, as him and other cabinet ministers attended a Labour Party forum, at the East Midlands Conference Centre in Nottingham. The conference centre is based at Nottingham University, where students jumped into action after it was leaked to Nottinghamshire Indymedia that Tony Blair was to visit the Uni. A call out for a demonstration, meeting at 10am at the Portland Building (on Notts Uni campus) was supported by a number of local campaign groups including the Students Union, Nottingham Stop the War, Nottingham Student Peace Movement, Lenton Anarchist Forum and the arts activism collective the Mischief Makers.

Photos: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | photogallery

Read: report and timeline

From the newswire: Union pushes for urgent energy reform | Prime Minister visits Nottingham University :: Surveillance Operations | Prime Minister visits Nottingham University :: piccys 1 | Prime Minister visits Nottingham University :: piccys 2 | Pic's of Tony Blair visit in Nottingham | Blair hypocrisy over nukiller power | PM rallies for nuclear power in Nottingham | Blair to visit Nottingham Uni THIS Saturday

Background links: Greenpeace target climate changer Blair at Downing Street | Blair nuclear announcement scuppered | Meacher condemns pro-nuclear 'spin' | Blair Reignites Nuclear Debate - American lobbying adds to pressure | Blair must not back new nuclear power plants

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