County Hall, West Bridgford, Nottingham

Notts Uncut - feeding the pickets

Near the banstand, Arboretum.

J30 - A STRIKE MEANS NOBODY AND NOTHING WORKS

On June 30th up to 1 million workers across the country will be walking out on strike. In Nottingham members of the PCS, ATL, NUT and UCU (further education) will be co-ordinating their walkouts to make the day as effective as possible. In other parts of the country some council workers in Unison and Unite are balloting for action and RMT tube workers…

Forest Recreation ground - Trinity Square, City Centre

Leicestershire County Council has announced that a decision on whether UK Coal's application for an opencast mine on the Minorca site can go ahead will be made on Thursday 23rd June. The Minorca Opencast Protest Group in, PR 104, gives more information on this and what MOPG is planning to do to prevent this application from succeeding.

If you've been reading the Post over the last couple of days you'll have noticed that they are going with a 'drip drip' style run of articles about the housing allocations scandal.



Yesterday started with this article claiming that 'sports club members' were among those who benefited from a leg-up the housing queue. Having loftily stated that they weren't going to name the club concerned they …

Arboretum, near the bandstand

Today the Nottingham Post has claimed it has new evidence relating to the Nottingham City Homes scandal. The article suggests that members of a sports club whose name they refuse to reveal may have benefitted from preferential treatment in the allocation of houses. I'm not so coy as the Post and I'd suggest that the sports club in question is the West Indian Cavaliers Cricket Club whose Honorary S…

Yesterday some anarchists joined the UK Uncut demonstration in Nottingham with an EAT THE RICH banner and our own leaflets. The banner went down well with the public and started a few interesting conversations. We got rid of all of the leaflets we took (a few hundred) and found a fair amount of support for our ideas.

Friday 27th May 2011

Protesting about cuts to these courses, English for speakers of other languages (ESOL) met with Lilian Greenwood MP [Nttm South] at her constituency offices in Regent Street, Nottingham.  They presented her with a report on the consequences of the policy.  She heard many of their stories and explanations of the likely hardships it will lead to.  She promised to raise the …

Developments on the edge of the Stonebridge City Farm



Saturday, May 21, 2011

Campaigner arrested after trespassing on Stonebridge Park site

By Caroline Lowbridge

A MAN was arrested for aggravated trespass after entering a building site to protest against changes to the Stonebridge Park redevelopment.

Robert Whyman, 66, is so strongly opposed to the changes that he sat down on a road in an atte…

Reports on what's been going on since we won the first battle to Save Hayward House Daycare.

Last week saw two victories for local campaigns. Firstly, Hayward House Daycare has been saved from closure. Camapigners have welcomed the announcement, but remain wary. Meanwhile, Office Angels who have been the target of protests across the country (including in Nottingham) for refusing to pay a temporary worker, have now backed down.

On the newswire: Latest Hayward House news | Direct act…

Got any positive, funny or random stories from your squatting experiences?

Outside Boots, Parliament St, Nottingham

Campaign to Save Hayward House Daycare Saves Hayward House Daycare!

Last week's local elections saw the LibDems get a kicking. Nowhere was this more obvious than in Nottingham City where they were wiped out.

The Labour Party has set up a freepost address for its election campaign. Why not write to them to tell them what a grand job you think they're doing.

Last night some anarchists paid a visit to the home of the leader of Nottingham City Council, Jon Collins, to deliver some pre-election propaganda. 'CUT COLLINS THE PARASITE!' and 'FIGHT THE CUTS!' were painted at the entrance to his block of flats.

Rat Star Raided, Urgent Message

Nottingham Central Women's Aid provide emergency refuge accomodation to women and their children who need to escape violence and abuse. Two women are killed each week by a current or former partner, Nottingham Central Women's Aid is desperately needed and we need your help to raise money and awareness to enable it to continue.

Having lost all our funding through goverment cuts we intend to contin…

NHS Board hears why shutting down first rate service for cancer patients is a good thing.

It has recently emerged that the daycare service at Hayward House is to terminate on September 1st. This has generated considerable anger amongst service users, volunteers and staff. A campaign has sprung up in response, generating impressive media coverage and attracting a wide range of support in a limited period.

Upcoming Event: Save Hayward House Daycare Campaign Meeting, 7pm, Monday 16th…

A well attended public meeting 'Save Our NHS - Kill the Bill' at the Nottingham Mechanics last night highlighted the threat of the government's Health and Social Care Bill 2011. Around 100 people packed the main hall of the event organised by Notts Save Our Services and others.

A dispersal Order issued under the Anti Social Behaviour Act 2003, is in force in the Forest Fields area of Nottingham.

The Minorca Opencast Protest Group, in it's latest press release, again makes clear the need for a Banker's Guarantee to cover the proposed community benefits in case Leicestershire County Council grant planning permission for an opencast mine on the Minorca site in Leicestershire. This is because the company concerned has slipped even further into debt.