Nottingham Alternative News--May 2005

THE MORE THINGS CHANGE...?

Welcome to the May 2005 issue of Nottingham Alternative News.

Significant changes are afoot at NAN as we try to extend its scope and readership under the new name of Nottingham Progressive Review during this year. For further details, please read the PROPOSAL published in the NOVEMBER 2004 issue.

Use this Submit Article Link to submit articles for the next issue about your projects, campaigns and concerns right up to the time of the editorial group meeting around the middle of the month.
You are welcome to join this meeting, which can now also consider the stop press commissioning of last minute topical articles, as well as assigning the research of features for subsequent issues. All this can only happen with your input.

Also check out the fantastic Events Diary, packed with great things to see and do that you likely won't find in the mainstream media. Join our meeting and find out how to publicise your own events here, or send us email to nan@veggies.org.uk for information.

And if you've missed an article go to the Archive of Previous Issues and select one of the many back issues available online, or alternatively search for it using the comprehensive search facility on the left.

Note that the next editorial group meeting will be at a revised time of 6pm on the second Wednesday of every month at the Sumac Centre, 245 Gladstone Street, Forest Fields (Directions here). This change of schedule will enable the actual publication date to be brought forward nearer to the beginning of each month in the new year. We will also be considering a number of changes to expand NAN. You are welcome to join this meeting, which can now also consider the stop press commissioning of last minute topical articles, as well as assigning the research of features for subsequent issues. All this can only happen with your input.


Click on any of the headlines below to read the full article.

 

LETTER: You are being ripped off (if you catch a bus)   Phil Shelton   I have found out how to get change from NCT buses! Interested? Then read on...

ACTION: A bigger incinerator in Nottingham?   Nigel Lee, Nottingham Friends of the Earth   [THIS MONTH, we feature three articles about waste incineration... for an opposing point of view, please visit http://www.spiked-online.com/Printable/0000000CA841.htm --ed.] Nigel Lee argues against the plans to expand Nottingham's municipal waste incinerator at Eastcroft, near Trent Bridge. Join the campaign.

NOTICE: Mansfield Against Incineration Public Meeting   Shlomo Dowen   Public meeting to discuss preventing the building of a waste incinerator in Mansfield.

OPINION: Burning Waste during Energy Descent   Brian Davey   It will shortly be sustainability week - organised with the support of the City Council. But the plans for a third incinerator suggests that City really hasn't understood sustainability, argues Brian Davey.

OVERVIEW: Nottingham Indymedia takes shape   Ranjan Chaudhuri (ed.)   Nottingham will soon have its own Independent Media Centre (IMC)! Get involved in the development of Nottinghamshire IMC, or Notts Indymedia for short... we at NAN look forward to a fruitful collaboration! [ed.]

ESSAY: In Support of Palestine   Jon Simons, Nottingham Jewish Peace Campaign   What does it mean to be Jewish (and an Israeli citizen) and to be in support of Palestine? Jon Simons, a member of the Nottingham Jewish Peace Group, gives us his personal view. This is the text of talk given at a public meeting of Sherwood for Global Justice and Peace on Tuesday March 22nd 2005 on behalf of the Nottingham Jewish Peace Campaign.

DIARY: Fear & Loathing in Long Eaton   Lord Biro   Lord Biro's campaign memoirs of the Erewash election, where he stood as a candidate for the Church of the Militant Elvis Party.

ESSAY: Bring on the Apocalypse-Denial, delusion & climate change   Brian Davey   In Nottingham, global warming and the environment got discussed in the election campaign on the initiative of Alan Simpson. Most other places, the issues got ignored-- prompting some environmentalists to beat themselves up for not being able to influence the election campaign more. However, delusionary denial fostered by the mass media, vested interests and religious fundamentalists was only to be expected....

ESSAY/ ACTION: Dirty Aid, Dirty Water   Beverley Duckworth, WDM   The World Development Movement's director of campaigns on the importance of fighting against water privatisations, based on her Nottingham talk in April. Get involved in Nottingham!

POEM: A Plea to Kilroy-Silk   Lady Maud Biro   A fond farewell to Kilroy-Silk and his ilk.