Tuesday 9th August 2011

Nottinghamshire Police mounted an operation across Nottingham City over the last few night.

Tuesday 9th August 2011

Nottinghamshire Police mounted an operation across Nottingham City over the last few night.

Initial damage to the back of the Victoria Centre and sports shop.

Two more UK anti-fascists have been given prison sentences. Thomas Blak and Austen Jackson were held on remand since their dodgy conviction in June, and appeared in Blackfriars court on Monday August 8th for sentencing.

"Why do they do it?"

The disturbances which have swept London following the shooting of Mark Duggan by armed police on Thursday, has spread to Nottingham. According to Notts Police five of their police stations were attacked by groups of rioters last night, armed with ‘homemade incendiary devices’. Over 100 arrests have been made including a group of 10 who climbed on the roof of Nottingham High School. On Monday…

Rioting flared up again last night in Nottingham as five police stations were attacked with homemade incendiary devices (i.e. petrol bombs). Canning Circus, The Meadows, Oxclose Lane, Bulwell and St Ann's police stations were targeted by rioters. A police car outside the station in the Meadows was also torched.

Canning Circus police station was firebombed by a group of 40 males at around 10pm. 8 arrests made. The rest have got away for now.

Local media have made much of the news that rioting which has swept London now seems to have reached Nottingham. There were a number of apparently serious disturbance in St Anns, including an attempted firebombing of the polcie station. There was also an incident in New Basford which the police are claiming is connected. While it is possible that they have access to some intelligence to suppo…

On Saturday July 30th, Nottingham’s LGBT community and others gathered for Nottinghamshire (no longer merely Nottingham) Pride. This year, the march preceding the main festivities went from Market Square to the Forest Rec.

On the newswire: Nottinghamshire Pride 2011 | Notts Uncut Newsletter – The Pride Edition!

Previous Coverage: Pride 2010 | Pride 2009 | ‘My Big Gay’ LGBT Nottingham phot…

A report of the first Lincoln Underground Collective Skill Share at the Jolly Brewer, Lincoln on 31st July 2011. Originally advertised here. Event programme available here.

Nottingham’s Critical Mass bike ride was restarted on Friday by a group of around 40 cyclists. With a sound system, flags and a sea of fluorescent vests the group reclaimed the city centre’s streets for a celebration of cycling. Critical Mass was a semi-regular fixture in the city between 2005-2009 but has been dormant in recent years. People now meet at 5.30 outside the Victoria Centre clock…

Friday 29th July 2011

Critical Mass is a monthly bike ride [meeting at 5.30pm on the last friday of every month] They now start from outside the Victoria Centre clocktower, off Milton Street in the city centre.

Peace News Campers, including some from the Nottingham area, visited Huntington Lane anti-UK Coal protest site in Shropshire at the weekend. The site urgently needs solidarity as it is threatened with imminent eviction.

UK Coal is up to no good in Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire. Last year it got permission to mine under Sherwood Forest and was also involved in the recently rejected incinerato…

1st August 2011

Journalists across the BBC are on strike in their second stoppage against compulsory redundancies.

Here is the picket outside BBC Nottingham this morning

On Saturday July 30th, Nottingham's LGBT community and others gathered for Nottinghamshire (no longer merely Nottingham) Pride.

Activists are stepping up the campaign against Morton Hall IRC, the latest addition to the UK’s detention estate for migrants. Morton Hall, which opened in May, is near Swinderby in Lincolnshire and will imprison 392 men when it is full. Its opening by immigration minister Damian Green was met by a noise demo and protesters returned on Saturday. The detention centre was also the subject of a…

Lucky Devils join the noise protest against IRC Morton Hall, 23rd July 2011.

Some pictures taken at Saturday's noise demo.

A piece showing our media's function as the PR arm of the armed forces (also published on my website www.freedemocrats.co.uk)

After a long break, Nottingham Critical Mass is going to be up and running (well cycling) again this month. It's a mass cycle ride, with no particular route except where we want to go, that will happen on the last Friday of every month. Meet at 5.30pm on Friday 29th July, by the Victoria Centre clocktower to enjoy a fun and sociable bike ride.

People from Notts and Lincolnshire held a noise demo outside Morton Hall IRC, the UK's most recently opened prison for migrants. A sound system, horns, whistles and pots and pans were used to let those inside know we were there outside in solidarity, wanting to close down Morton Hall and all immigration prisons. Close down Morton Hall!

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…

Bob Coyne is a fascist cretin who stood for the BNP in this year's local elections. He lives at [personal details removed] in Beechdale. A group of pissed off neighbours got together to send this nazi a message - that he's not welcome in the area.

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.

The community of Keyworth in Nottinghamshire are  resisting plans by Tesco to build a supermarket in the centre of their village. After the local council refused planning permission Tesco appealed and we currently await the Inspectors decision following the subsequent public enquiry. Locals put a good case at the enquiry and Tesco were found to have submitted false evidence. However the village’s …

8.00pm Thursday 14th July 2011

The Reverend Billy & the Earthaloojah Choir performed to a packed house at the Sumac Centre in Nottingham.

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…

4.00pm Thursday 14th July 2011

outside the McDonald's, St Peters Gate

There was a free food give-away in Nottingham City Centre, outside the McDonald's at St Peters Gate.

Saturday 16 July 2011

2.00pm people gathered in the Market Square, being entertained by a small sound system in a rucksack!