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Stop Nottingham City budget cuts!

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Nottingham City Council are planning to cut tens of millions from their spending in the year from April 2011.

Keep the Post Public demo: Beeston

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On Saturday 19th February, the Communication Workers Union (CWU) organised a Keep the Post Public demonstration in Beeston.

Royal Mail: Not for sale!

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Demonstrators make their opposition to the privatisation of the Royal Mail clear at a demonstration in Beeston, Nottingham.

Protest City Council Budget Meeting

March 07, 2011 13:00

Outside the Council House, Old Market Square, Nottingham

Rally Against City Council Cuts

March 05, 2011 12:00

Market Square, Nottingham

Picket City Council

February 22, 2011 12:30

In front of the Council House, Old Market Square, Nottingham

Notts SOS Newsletter #3

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UK Uncut: Nottingham UK Uncut demo

Report of the most recent demonstration against tax avoiding corporations (January 30th).

Tax Avoiders Demo

January 30, 2011 13:00

Clumber Stree, Nottingham

Stand Up For the NHS

January 26, 2011 19:30

Mechanics Institute, 3 North Sherwood Street, Nottingham, NG1 4EZ

UCU Open Forum

January 26, 2011 13:00

C11, Portland Building, University of Nottingham

Notts SOS planning meeting

January 24, 2011 19:30

International Community Centre, Mansfield Road, Nottingham

March for Alternatives

March 26, 2011 13:00

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London. For details of coaches from Nottingham see the Notts TUC website or False Economy.

Lobby Notts County Council

February 24, 2011 11:00

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County Hall, West Bridgford, Nottingham, NG2 7QP

Assemble at the Embankment war memorial at 10am for an 11am start of a march to County Hall across Trent Bridge to lobby until 1pm, on the day the full council meets to set its Council Tax budget.

National Day of Protest Against Benefit Cuts

January 24, 2011 12:00

National day of action. Nottingham details TBC.

Keep The Post Public

February 19, 2011 13:00

Assemble Mail Centre, Padge Road, Beeston, Nottingham, NG9 2RR.

Rally at New Venture Social Club, Technology Drive, off Meadow Road, Beeston

One Million Climate Jobs Now!

January 31, 2011 19:30

Friends Meeting House, St Helen’s Street, Derby DE1 3GY

What’s happened to the Big Society?

February 01, 2011 19:30

St Barnabas Cathedral, McGuiness Room, Derby Rd, Nottingham, NG1 5AE.

National Demo against cuts and fees

January 29, 2011 08:30

Demo in London.

Coaches leave Nottingham Trent SU at 8:30am, Nottingham Uni (Portland Building) at 9am

Protest to Save EMA

January 19, 2011 16:30

Market Square, Nottingham

NSAFC: EMA demo: Jan 11th

Photos from the demonstration in defence of EMA on January 11th.

Notts Cuts Watch #12

New year, new cuts. After an unplanned two week break, Notts Cuts Watch is back with a rundown of the cuts and resistance in Nottinghamshire since Christmas. As ever this is probably an incomplete list and draws heavily on reporting in the local media.

Pay particular attention to the upcoming events, of which there are many, not the least of which is the Combating the Cuts event next Saturday.

Anarchists Against the Cuts

January 11, 2011 19:30

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Fade/Hard to Find Cafe, Mansfield Road, Nottingham

Takes the Biscuit: 20% takes the biscuit

On Monday 3rd January 2011 a group of activists gave out biscuits and leaflets in Nottingham and launched a website Takes the biscuit saying,

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Value Added Tax (VAT) is a particularly unfair form of taxation. Poor people pay more as a percentage of their income than the rich.

VAT Increase

On Tuesday January 4th, the VAT rate goes up to 20%. This is part of the coalition government’s “defic…

Defend Library Services meeting

January 20, 2011 19:30

Chilwell College House Junior School, College House Junior School, Cator Lane, Chilwell, Nottingham , NG9 4BB

Notts Cuts Watch #11

Even as Christmas approached, the cutting of public services in Nottinghamshire continued. The festivities have taken the sails out of the resistance to these attacks, but I'm sure it will be back with a vengeance in the new year. (On which note, make sure you put the Combating the Cuts event on January 15th in your diary.) Until then, why not spend some of the post-Christmas lull reading up on ex…

Notts SOS planning meeting

January 10, 2011 19:30

The International Community Centre, 61b Mansfield Road, Nottingham, NG1 3FN

Guardian: Collective action can stop these cuts

"Our group in Nottingham has a genuine belief the cuts could be stopped if sufficient protest was amassed locally and nationally."

UK Uncut: #UKuncut December 18

Videos from the tax avoiders protest in Nottingham.

Cuts Watch #10

Even with Christmas only just over the horizon, the cuts have continued over the last week, with the announcement of the funding settlement for local councils hitting Nottingham particularly hard. Even Cuts Watch has been cutback, this week's edition arriving late and in a slimmed down version. "Normal" service may or may not resume after the holiday period.