Monday 26th December 2011

The occupation at Market Square, Nottingham continues .......

On Saturday December 17th, Notts Uncut participated in the UK Uncut “Christmas Special,” visiting the usual tax dodging companies. Notts Police took an unusually confrontational attitude asking for people’s details, imposing conditions on the protest. Once person was arrested after she asked for clarification of the instructions, while another was arrested after remonstrating with the police …

Saturday 17 December 2011

UPDATED

After meeting outside Boots in Parliament Street, Uncut protesters proceeded to a number of their usual locations.

On Saturday 17th December, two protesters were arrested during a demonstration held by Notts Uncut. A supporter was arrested at Bridewell Police Station later that evening.

Statement of Defiance

Saturday 17 December 2011

BREAKING NEWS!

After meeting outside Boots in Parliament Street, Uncut protesters proceeded to a number of their usual locations.

On Thursday 15th December, Occupy Notttingham will have been in situ for two months. An impressive tally. The camp is now surrounded by the "Winter Wonderland," but despite this aural and aesthetic assault and the recent cold weather, the occupiers remain steadfast.

On the newswire: Occupy Notts Camp sticks it out, starting week 9 | Notts Occupation: 7th Week and beyond | N30 Prof. Samir Amin @ …

12 December 2011

Occupy camp now just finished its 8th week since setting up in the Market Square, Nottingham. 

Outside Boots, Parliament St, Nottingham

An update on the case and plans for the campaign.

Upcoming events:

• Solidarity demonstration outside Nottingham Magistrates Court on Monday February 27th from 9am. http://nottingham.tachanka.org/events/2247
• Demonstration in Nottingham against Atos, the attacks on the welfare system and the criminalisation of protests on Friday February 3rd 12.30pm. Meet at the crossroads Carlton Street; Broa…

245 Sumac Centre, Forest Fields, Nottingham.

NOTTINGHAM CITY COUNCIL BUDGET CAMPAIGN ACTIVITIES

Council House, Old Market Square, Nottingham

Notts Occupation: 7th Week and beyond 

Tuesday 6th December 2011

Occupy camp now in it's 7th week since setting up in the Market Square, Nottingham. 

Meet at the junction of Carlton Street and Heathcote Street, Hockley (outside Ice Nine).

Sumac Centre, 245 Gladstone Street, Nottingham, NG7 6HX

Following the 30th November public sector strike, a Leicestershire coordination meeting attended by rank and file workers, union members, unemployed workers, students and participants in Occupy Leicester took place on Thursday 1st December 2011.



The initial aim of the meeting was to find ways to:

• widen the current public sector dispute into a general dispute over the repeated attacks on the …

An estimated 60,000 public sector workers across Nottinghamshire went on strike on 30th November. The aim of the strike was to put pressure on the government over its plans to radically change public sector pensions. Unions claim that the proposed changes would mean that workers pay more, work longer and receive less at the end of it. Undoubtedly the strikes were also a protest against the wi…

Wednesday 30th November 2011

People concerned at the cuts to the BBC / public service broadcasting gathered at the New Mechanics, North Sherwood Street, Nottingham at 7pm.

We heard about some of the proposals with would be devastating to both TV and local radio output.

Wednesday 30th November 2011

Earlier in the day, thousands of public service workers on strike marched from the Forest Ground, passed the Occupation Camp and onto the Albert Hall to listen to speeches.

Wednesday 30th November 2011

Earlier in the day, thousands of public service workers on strike marched from the Forest Ground, passed the Occupation Camp and onto the Albert Hall to listen to speeches.

Wednesday 30th November 2011

10.30am gathering at the Forest ground formed up ready to march to the Albert Hall, Nottingham

Wednesday 30th November 2011

10.30am gathering at the Forest ground formed up ready to march to the Albert Hall, Nottingham

Wednesday 30th November 2011

10.30am gathering at the Forest ground formed up ready to march to the Albert Hall, Nottingham

As well as the main pickets and march yesterday, a critical mass was organised to shut down the city. A group of 25 cyclists cycled (at extremely slow pace) around the city centre for a few hours after the march had finished, spreading the word about the strike and the fight against government cuts everywhere we went. There was a huge amount of public support for our message.

County Hall is the HQ of Tory-run Nottinghamshire County Council, led by the appropriately named Kay Cutts. As public sector unions took action in defence of their pensions on November 30th, it was just one of the hundreds of picketed building across the country.

The November 30th march in Nottingham in defence of public sector pensions was huge. It was by far and away the biggest demonstration I've ever been on in the city and it's even been suggested that it could have been the largest trade union demonstrations in Nottingham's history.

Tomorrow (Wednesday November 30th) will see the largest industrial action in the UK for many years, perhaps the biggest since the General Strike of 1926. Inevitably there will be the usual war of words as to the effectiveness of the action, but it is already clear that this will be a significant and disruptive strike locally and nationally.

Despite being evicted from the Old Tory Club, we're going to carry on with some of our workshop plans.  Here's the revised timetable

This is a statement by those who opened up the Nottingham Freespace at the old Tory party social club in Lenton this week. We opened up the space in order to provide a radical social centre in Lenton that could connect to and support the strike on November 30th. We entered the building last Tuesday night and have spent the last 6 days cleaning, clearing and making a what was an unusable building r…