Nottingham Railway Station

The Arboretum (By the bandstand)

The convictions of 20 climate activists were quashed by the Court of Appeal on Wednesday. The 20 had been convicted of conspiracy to commit aggravated trespass at Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station, in December last year. However, revelations about the withholding of evidence gathered by undercover police officer Mark Kennedy led to the Director of Public Prosecutions requesting an independent re…

On 20 July convictions against 20 climate activists were quashed by the UK Court of Appeal after it was revealed that key evidence was deliberately withheld from their trial.

On Saturday a roving street party against the enclosure of public space for private profit was held in the city centre. A mobile sound system toured around town paying visits to banks and other corporate targets. Participants gave out hundreds of flyers protesting social control of the city centre and the human and environmental destruction of the banks. Meanwhile Notts Uncut held a protest o…

Vodafone - Tax Avoidance Bad; Child Abuse Worse.

A roving street party against the enclosure of public space for private profit was held in Nottingham today. A mobile sound system toured around the city centre disrupting the business of most of the banks and a few other corporate nasties. We also did a lap of the Broadmarsh Centre. Hundreds of flyers protesting social control of the city centre and the human and environmental destruction of the …

A subject association has called for an independent inquiry into the suspension of a University of Nottingham academic for criticising the university’s role in the arrest of an administrator and a student under the terrorism act.

Inderjeet Parmar, BISA chairman, has now sent an open letter to Nottingham vice-chancellor David Greenaway reporting “a strong feeling of unease and concern” amon…

There is a growing tendency for Nottingham City Council, the police and other authorities to seek ownership of and the right to regulate and control public space in the city. The redevelopment of the Market Square has meant that the former centre of public life in the city has been taken into the ‘ownership’ of the City Council for fee-paying markets and attractions. Ever increasing concen…

Performing just near Speakers Corner off the Market Square in Nottingham .... A Drummer / Busker sets up to entertain. He's good at it and attracts an appreciative crowd. .......

Thursday 30th June 2011

On June 30th, members of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL), National Union of Teachers (NUT), Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) and University and Colleges Union (UCU) took part in coordinated strike action. This is the first major coordinated strike against the cuts and various activities  for the day included a march, rally & speeches etc ......

Thursday 30th June 2011

On June 30th, members of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL), National Union of Teachers (NUT), Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) and University and Colleges Union (UCU) took part in coordinated strike action. This is the first major coordinated strike against the cuts and various activities  for the day included a march, rally & speeches etc ......

Outside Boots, Parliament St, Nottingham

J30 solidarity action

'Pigeons having sex outside ASDA in Hyson Green' drawing attacked by top American journalist.

Front of Nottingham Railway Station

Warning: The UK Government has said it will launch a consultation about proposals to 'criminalise squatting' 

Please print and distribute this flyer.  Urgent action needed here in Nottingham

Notts Uncut - feeding the pickets

Near the banstand, Arboretum.

Dear Nottingham University student, staff and alumni. 

Please see the letter below which some members of the Alumni community have puttogether and are intending to submit to the Guardian. This letter comes in direct responseto Sunday’s Observer article and Unileaks revelations that suggest University of  Nottingham senior management have behaved in an illegal and unethical manner indealing w…

Andy at NCCLOLs has found out that the Workplace Parking Levy (WPL) will be enforced using a vehicle equipped with Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR). This will drive into the car parks of all workplaces in Nottingham City Centre recording the registrations of all the vehicles parked there, 8 times in every 28 days. This data will then be analysed to work out which vehicles are normally par…

If you grew up in Notts and don’t partake in meat, you probably owe a huge debt to Patrick Smith. Why? Because he’s spent three decades as a vegan activist while slinging veggie burgers from a van in town, back in the day when ‘vegetarian option’ meant ‘just chips’. Now operating his veggie business out of the Sumac Centre in Forest Fields, he talks about a meat-free career, the Ra…

Critics say that link to government's counter-terrorism strategy targeting radicalisation 'could fuel Islamophobia'.

Confidential documents relating to a "major Islamist plot" have revealed that security staff from a leading university have been secretly filming students on campus as a method of monitoring potential extremists.

More than 200 university documents – along with material from th…

The Guardian has today published 3 articles about Mark Kennedy: 

Police knew about plans for Ratcliffe-on-Soar break-in before most activists 

 http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/jun/07/mark-kennedy-ratcliffe-on-soar 

Police spying: secret tapes that put CPS on the spot 

 http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/jun/07/mark-kennedy-police-spy-secret-tapes 

Mark Kennedy c…

Direct action was taken against Ken Clarke's constituency offices on Thursday. While doughnut eating cops were dozing near by, the Tory social club on Rectory Road, West Bridgford had its doors D-locked shut and "Tory Scum" painted on it. The offices of the Rushcliffe Conservative Association across the road were attacked with paint and the messages "Class War" and "Fuck Ken in the Head" were pain…

Arboretum, near the bandstand

This morning at Morton Hall Immigration Removal Centre in Swinderby, Lincolnshire a demonstration was held in disgust at the opening of yet another detention centre.

Last night Inside Out Security in New Basford had it's windows smashed.