The Sumac Centre, 245 Gladstone Street, Forest Fields, Nottingham.

The Sumac Centre, 245 Gladstone Street, Forest Fields, Nottingham.

The Sumac Centre, 245 Gladstone Street, Forest Fields, Nottingham.

The Sumac Centre, 245 Gladstone Street, Forest Fields, Nottingham.

According to a statement by people associated with the Athens Indymedia website, under pressure from the state attorney the internet connection to their server has been shutdown. Two anti-authoritarian radio stations have also been attacked by the Greek state.

An attack on one is an attack on all and we in Nottingham wish to give any support we can to those in Greece struggling against tyrannical…

The Sumac Centre, 245 Gladstone Street, Forest Fields, Nottingham.

The Sumac Centre, 245 Gladstone Street, Forest Fields, Nottingham.

The Sumac Centre, 245 Gladstone Street, Forest Fields, Nottingham.

The Sumac Centre, 245 Gladstone Street, Forest Fields, Nottingham.

After a well attended meeting at the Sumac Centre on Monday, a revived Nottingham Indymedia collective have decided to relaunch the site. Publishing is now enabled again so please write articles, promote your events and continue to contribute to our community.

It will only stay open with your support so make sure you publish your news here, join the mailing list and support the collective howe…

We will hold a public meeting on Monday 18th February, 7.30pm at the Sumac Centre, Nottingham, to discuss the future of Indymedia in the region. We welcome anyone with any interest in the current Nottingham Indymedia site or independent media in general to come with ideas and energy. What happens next will be very dependent on what happens in that meeting.

The Sumac Centre, 245 Gladstone Street, Forest Fields, Nottingham.

Following a lot of discussion in our meetings, the Nottingham Indymedia collective has decided to disable publishing on the site from 31st January. The dwindling input into this site from local activists and groups has left us wondering whether the effort that goes into maintaining the site is still needed and wanted.

We will hold a public meeting on 18th February, 7.30pm at the Sumac Centre…

Nottingham EDL organiser, Jay Clark, has made threats against the Nottingham Indymedia website in relation to an article on the site exposing the presence of the EDL and BNP at this year’s St George’s Day march. “It’s about time these pathetic cunts got wiped clean out of Nottingham” he wrote on Facebook. Asked whether he meant the EDL or the BNP he clarified “Nottingham Indymedia there a b…

The Sumac Centre, 245 Gladstone Street, Forest Fields, Nottingham, NG7 6HX.

The Sumac Centre, 245 Gladstone Street, Forest Fields, Nottingham, NG7 6HX.

The Sumac Centre, 245 Gladstone Street, Forest Fields, Nottingham, NG7 6HX.

The Sumac Centre, 245 Gladstone Street, Forest Fields, Nottingham, NG7 6HX.

The Sumac Centre, 245 Gladstone Street, Forest Fields, Nottingham, NG7 6HX.

The Sumac Centre, 245 Gladstone Street, Forest Fields, Nottingham, NG7 6HX.

Next Saturday (17th March), Nottingham Indymedia will be hosting two skill share sessions looking at Online Security (2pm) and giving an Introduction to Indymedia (4pm). The sessions will take place at the Sumac Centre in Forest Fields.

Since Indymedia started over a decade ago, the web has undergone major changes, with many more people and campaigns using their own blogs and sites. Corporate sites such as facebook and twitter have also become players in the exchange of information. Recent convictions of Facebook users have shown that using corporate sites can mean an increased risk for users, and whilst twitter has been more ass…

The Sumac Centre, 245 Gladstone Street, Forest Fields, Nottingham, NG7 6HX.

The Sumac Centre, 245 Gladstone Street, Forest Fields, Nottingham, NG7 6HX.

The Sumac Centre, 245 Gladstone Street, Forest Fields, Nottingham, NG7 6HX.

The Sumac Centre, 245 Gladstone Street, Forest Fields, Nottingham, NG7 6HX.

The Sumac Centre, 245 Gladstone Street, Forest Fields, Nottingham, NG7 6HX.

The Sumac Centre, 245 Gladstone Street, Forest Fields, Nottingham, NG7 6HX.

Many users of the UK Indymedia site will have seen some strange changes over the past week and may be confused over what is going on on the site. This is an attempt to explain what is going on behind the scenes as briefly as possible. Of course, it is our own version of events and others may dispute it.

On 1st May 2011 Indymedia UK will give birth to two new projects. The Indymedia UK website will be archived, it will stay were it is now, but you won’t be able to publish news. In its place there will be two distinct projects: Mayday will provide a non-regional site with open publishing and Be The Media will present the best of radical news across the regions, including Bristol, Northern, Not…