We'll be working on the clay plaster inside the strawbale building at Ecoworks on Tuesday 20th & Thursday 22nd July, 10am-4pm.

Saturday 10th July



Assortment of tunes played in the Sumac yard

Pleasley Hill People's Network is a group set up near Mansfield, in Nottinghamshire, which aims to build organisation and political involvement in a small area of this former mining community.

On Sunday 25th July at 2.15pm Ken Loach's epic on the Spanish Civil War and social revolution ‘Land and Freedom' will be shown at the Broadway Cinema.

Event details: http://nottingham.tachanka.org/events/107

Notts County Council are planning to close three day centres for mental health service users. The Middle Street centre in Beeston, Rokerfield Centre in Sutton and Boundary Centre in Worksop could be closed. This is another kick in the teeth for some of the most excluded people in society who the council clearly think they can neglect with impunity.

After repeated calls for the RSPCA to act decisively against this appalling case of animal abuse and neglect, Nottingham Animal Rights, among others, is seeking to raise public awareness of the plight of Mr. Hubbard’s victims. Mr. Hubbard is a Guinea Pig and Rabbit Breeder based at The Willows, Doddington Lane, off Main Street, Dry Doddington, Newark, NG23 5HU. Reports and photographs provided…

Activists associated with the No Borders network have been taking action against the Nottingham Post as part of two nationwide days of action against racist press. Banners accusing the Post, and the press more generally, of racism were unfurled from prominent places around the city, including the car park across the road from the Post's offices on Canal Street.

St. Peters St,  10.30am

Several hundred copies of a Metro spoof, designed to highlight the problems of press reporting of migration issues, were distributed in Nottingham. This was part of the days of action against racist press.

Over the past three week three mobile phone antennas have been destroyed by fire in the Nottingham area. In each instance the action was performed with fervour and carried out in anger at the capitalist culture. A culture which seeks to dominate its surroundings in order to increase it's power over it's inhabitants.

This morning, three banners were dropped in various locations across Nottingham city centre as part of two days of action against racist press, organised by the UK No Borders network (http://noborders.org.uk/node/1)

Everyday prejudice: The Nottingham Post and migration

The Nottingham Post is, through the majority of its reporting, its embedded relationship with police and UKBA sources, and the platform it provides racist commenters, promoting an anti-migrant discourse.

The Leicester Mercury has become the 1st Newspaper to endorse the need for a 500 meter Buffer Zone around Opencast Mines in England

More events and other campaign news from Nottingham's animal right campaigners.

It is nearly 5 years since the launch of the original Notts Indymedia website. We want to stay at the forefront of future innovation and, as such, we have launched the new Nottingham Indymedia website. We think that it’s easier to use and has better features than our old site.

July 2010 sees a series of events commemorating the anti-fascists' fight against General Franco's coup in the Spanish Civil War of the late 1930s. The events start on Saturday July 17th, 2010.

4 events are being organised in all including an exhibition and talks at the Nest (18th July) and a special Broadway Cinema showing of Land and Freedom co-sponsored by The Sparrows' Nest and People's Histre…

In the early hours of 17th January 2009, during Israel’s ‘Operation Cast Lead’ offensive against Gaza, six people broke in to the EDO/ITT weapons components factory in Moulsecoomb, Brighton, and, allegedly, caused hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of damage to the production line. In Nottingham, anti-arms trade activists showed solidarity with the EDO decommissioners by targeting the Radford p…

On Tuesday June 22nd, ConDem Chancellor George Osborne revealed the contents of the “emergency budget.” As expected, this included a pay freeze for public sector workers (except the lowest paid) along with cuts in housing benefit and an increase in VAT. Trade unionists and others demonstrated outside the Council House.

Saw these flags flying from a flat window. Sorry for crap photo from phone. One is a white pride  / worldwide one and the other is a South African neo nazi one  - I think.

Protests continue against the construction of an animal lab at the University of Leicester. Activists have targetted various companies involved in the construction, including Willmott Dixon. On Monday June 7, activists held a protest outside the WD's headquarters in Coleshill, Birmingham. One campaigner chained himself to a bench and began a 3 day hunger strike.

A local campaign group is fighting UK Coal’s plans for an opencast mine near Measham in North West Leicestershire. The Minorca Opencast Protest Group (MOPG) oppose the company’s plans for a mile long mine and the extraction of 1.25m tonnes of coal over 4 1/2 years. UK Coal are already failing to meet requirements to restore a site in nearby Ashby de la Zouch to agricultural land and MOPG fear th…

On June 5-6, the Sumac Centre hosted the "first ever Vegan Beer Festival". Vegans and vegetarians are wary of real ales as they often use isinglass, derived from the swim bladders of fish, to make it less cloudy. This inspired a number of local vegans to organise the real ale festival as a way of demonstrating that there is an alternative.

This morning the JB SPRAY squat in Radford, Nottingham was served notice of a court date on Thursday 3/6/10. The landlord intends to obtain a possession order to force us from the building. We intend to resist, but we need your help.

Yesterday, over 100 members of the Radford community braved pouring rain to march from the Radford Unity Complex (RUC) to Nottingham's Market Square. They were protesting the City Council's proposed sell off of the RUC to an unknown buyer, despite the fact that many community groups have been using the building for over 20 years. Speeches were made at Speakers' Corner and then the group congregate…

Hundreds of climate activists are currently attempting to disrupt Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station in Nottinghamshire. The action follows the arrest of 114 activists allegedly planning to inflitrate the power station in April.

More info: Notts IMC timeline | Twitter: Swoop posts | Climate Camp

Previous coverage: Mass Arrest of 114 Climate Activists in Raid | No case to answer after Notts E.On pro…

Reports are coming through of 10 people arrested for 'conspiracy to commit aggravated trespass' at around 7.30am. Police are claiming the individuals were involved in the Climate Swoop on Ratcliffe-on-Soar.

An open letter from Veggies of Nottingham to Greenpeace, and all too many other 'environmental groups' , in response to their ongoing campaigning against SOME of the causes of climate change.

Two more weeks of animal rights campaigning in Nottingham, including Hunt Sabs Benefit (today), Circus protests, animal rescue fundraising, McDonalds actions, vegan campaign catering and much more.

Transition Nottingham Urban Harvest Festival Event at Green's Mill, Sneinton on Sunday 27th September

Folks have been beavering away in the Sumac Yard Garden. Watching your garden grow.