Peacock Hotel/Pub
(upstairs room)
Mansfield Rd - next to Voluntary Action Centre
1.00pm 25th March 2013 Market Square, Nottingham
Demo Against Monsanto
Hundreds of local residents expected in Market Square at 2pm for the global 'March Against Monsanto' movement
Our new zine Return Fire is now available. It's a diverse mix with liberatory aims, which we hope to be informative and inspiring for anyone who decides to make their life a weapon against the dominant order.
International Community Centre
62b Mandfield Rd
Nottingham
Police use of dead children's identities 'common'
The use of dead children's identities by Scotland Yard's Special Demonstrations Squad was "common practice", MPs have been told.
Derbyshire Chief Constable Mick Creedon updated MPs on Operation Herne, which is looking at the Met's undercover operations.
Claims about the use of the identities relate to the squad's operations in the …
The Birdies and Peanuts ExperimentEarlier this year, NSB bought a bird feeder, filled it with peanuts and hung it up on a Magnolia tree in the back garden with a view to measuring the rate at which the nuts were eaten during the year. It is proving to be a fascinating experiment. . .
The NEW, heavy gauge, Bird Feeder
Nottingham has held some national gathering meeting around the issue and many will be going [I hope!]
11 June 2013. #J11.
One Common Struggle.
Carnival Against Capitalism.
Their London?
London is right at the heart of global capitalism. And the West End of London, including elite areas like Piccadilly, Mayfair and Knightsbridge, is where power and greed are most concentrated. The West End is …
A Nottingham Activist, Wietse, has spread his wings / fins further and is helping by tackling the problem head on: by getting in the way of pirate fishermen
Nottingham Market Square, 5pm. Bring yourself, banners, placards, music, hats.
Saturday 6 April 2013
Having spent 6 months camping in the Market Square, and then moving out after threat of eviction .... they're back.
This time, they were joined by a few passing devils!!
As you can see from last post at: http://nottingham.tachanka.org/articles/5532 they are trying to make this a regular thing again.....
MERCi, Bridge 5 Mill, 22a Beswick Street, Manchester, UK
The 21 activists from No Dash for Gas who shut down EDF's West Burton gas fired power station for a week and then fought off EDF's £5 million lawsuit are being sentenced at Nottingham Magistrates Court at 10am on Wednesday 20th March.
Some defendnts face possible prison sentences.
Supporters are invited to come down and show solidarity outside the courtroom from 9.30am.
Update: Sentencing now …
Energy company EDF drop £5m damages claim against West Burton power station protesters
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Energy giant EDF has dropped a £5 million damages claim against environmental protesters who occupied West Burton gas-fired power plant.
Protesters claimed a "huge victory" over the energy company after it abandoned the legal action, which had prompted a public outcry in recent w…
After three cold winters in the wilderness Riseup! Radio has returned from the deepest, darkest depths of Nottingham. With local music and radical political news the podcast you've all missed more than you care to admit is coming straight for you.
Riseup! Radio is being re-launched. In a few weeks time our first show for nearly four years will be arriving in your hearing holes. There will be many many things on the show- reports from the Annoymous Demo, political chit chat in the Sumac Bar, news from the NG7 Food Bank and loads of other good good stuff.
Energy giant EDF have taken out civil proceedings against a group of activists who scaled chimneys at their West Burton plant last October.
The company is demanding £5 million in damages, despite admitting in court that there's very little chance of getting any substantial amount of money back.
UN Human Rights observer ‘deeply concerned’ with Police tactics at protests Posted: 10:36 PM, January 23, 2013 by Alan Wyllie
The following is a Press Release by the UNHR.
From 14 to 23 January 2013, I carried out an official visit to the United Kingdom, at the invitation of the Government, for the purpose of making an in-depth assessment of the situation of freedoms of peaceful assemb…