See "Sumac Garden Project" photo report at Notts Indymedia.

7pm until 9pm at the Sumac.

• 3rd February: Radical Local History
  more at http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/nottinghamshire/2010/01/445391.html


• 10th February: Fertility and Contraception - Co-operation and Control


• 17th February: The politics of resistance in Latin America: histories and strategies of horizontalism


• 24th: Critical Literacy


• 3rd March: Open Space

Full details at Event Web Site.

Before the meeting there may be leafletting from 6.30 at KFC Lower Parliament St or McDonalds, Clumber St.

In between the meetings at the Sumac Centre there is also a meeting in the city centre.
Upcoming events and campaigns are listed at our Riseup News List.

UK supporters of the Shell To Sea Campaign and the Rossport Solidarity Camp are holding a gathering at the Sumac Centre in Nottingham from the 12th-14th February.

Anyone who has been active in the campaign or who would like to find out more is welcome to join us for the weekend. There will be food by donations & accommodation. We will be discussing how to support the struggle in Rossport over the next year as the project moves to the on-shore pipeline stage.

Congratulations to Vintage, 139 Lower Parliament Street, Nottingham, Notts, NG1 1EE for signing the Fur Free Nottingham Pledge.

Transition Market at Sneinton Market is a volunteer run project to help build community resilience by re-creating a local economy, supporting new businesses and the promotion of skill sharing and education.

We are always on the look out for more stall holders, skill sharers, musicians and entertainers for future markets. Please contact Beccy if you are interested in (or know someone who would be) holding a stall, sharing a skill or even helping out organise the market itself, looking forward to hearing from you.

Meeting 12noon at Centenary Square, Queensbury, Bradford, BD1 9ST

The sessions run from 2pm-5pm, at the Sumac Centre on Saturdays and on Sundays at Square Centre, Alfred St. N., Nottingham NG3 1AA (Feb 7th at the Poacher). A creche will be provided, please let us know by email how many kids you are bringing.

Food will be served from 6.30 until all gone. The Bar will be open from 7.30 to party into the night.

• Food at Sumac is vegan (pure vegetarian), so suitable for (almost) all diets and all cultures.
  
  
• To help in any way please contact benclements(at)yahoo.com.
  
  
• No Smoking Indoors. Children very welcome. Dogs on leads please.
  
  
• See our reviews at http://www.happycow.net and http://www.veggieplaces.co.uk/.
  Why not add your review too!

See also the Annual October 16th Worldwide Day of Action Against McDonalds.

The next occasion will be to mark the McLibel Human Rights Victory Anniversary. If you are able to prepare some vegan cakes or savoury food, or join on the day - please get in touch.

Join Nottingham Food Not Bombs group for community meals, campaign catering, free food giveaways, catering for destitute refugees, wholefood co-operatives etc.

Meeting at 8pm at Sumac to discuss Climate Action.

Full details at Event Web Site.

Nottm AR has regular work days here - fence building, staining, aviary building, mucking out, rabbit run building and more. Transport approx 6.30pm from City Centre - call Danny to confirm: 07593 375270. (Also possibly on Tuesdays from Beeston - call Lee 07599 282851)

Nottingham Animal Rights have to educate people about the suffering of racing dogs, leafleting at Nottingham Greyhound Stadium, usually on alternate Friday evenings, from 6.30pm. If you live in or near the East Midlands area and would like to help, please confirm: e-mail livewire1212@hotmail.com or call c/o 07870 861837.

The February gathering will be hosted by Nottingham members Sumac Centre, Neds Housing Co-op, Rhizome Housing Co-op and Veggies (associates) - so all hands on decks!.

Kitchen refurb - key points:
- Full length stainless sink/drainer/work unit
- Remove fridge (use fridge in basement)
- Replace worksurface with stainless steel
- Remove boiler or raise it in corner above of sink unit
- small handwash beside bar door
- remove coffee machine, use cafetiere
- Sales display shelf over bar door
- Batten/hooks to hang items.

Please let us know if you can help or advise with finding or installing any of this.

There is also to be a practical skillshare workday to sort out racking, storage and workshop space in the outbuildings, on Friday 19th February. Details to follow.

For further queries, and to book a place at the event please contact Sarah Jane Flaherty at EMPHO

In between these meetings at Broadway there is also a meeting at the Sumac Centre in Forest Fields.

Upcoming events and campaigns are listed at the NAR News List

All welcome - hunt sabs, AR activists, people who want to get involved, and people who just want to know more about what we do, including supporters of Animal Aid, Hunt Sabs, SHAC, VIVA!, Vegan Society, Vegetarian Society, and the many other groups that we aim to support locally.

UK No Borders Network: http://noborders.org.uk/
Nottingham Group: http://www.nobordersnottingham.org.uk/

See previous ride reports and pics at Notts Indymedia and join the discussion group at http://lists.riseup.net/www/info/nottcriticalmass.

Displays, Speakers, Skill Share, Free Shop, Circus Fun, Green Crafts.

Bring and Share Banquet, with Live Music from Wholesome Fish + much more.

Go veggie!

Meat-Free Month window displays and free veggie information resources in all Lush stores. Can you help? Full details below.

The Animal Rights Coalition is an informal network which exists to promote cooperation and to spread information between the various groups and individuals working throughout the UK to stop animal abuse.

Gathering to be held at the Sumac Centre in Nottingham.
Book your travel and accommodation now.

If you can, check the Gathering Facebook Page for more details.

• share information, local experiences and views about some of the key issues affecting our communities
  
  
• establish better links and communication channels among radical, community-orientated local groups and individuals
  
  
• promote anti-authoritarian, anti-state, anti-capitalist and pro-community and pro-working class politics, and collective, non-hierarchical open and horizontal forms of organisaton
  

Meeting from 11.30am at Cavendish Square, London W1G OPR (nearest Tube: Oxford Circus), to march through the centre of London, taking the anti-vivisection message to large numbers of shoppers, tourists and residents, followed by a rally to protest against the government’s pro-vivisection policies.

Please keep the day free and start planning transport now.

Access, Tools And Training

The AT Group is a co-op providing equipment, transport logistics, training and skill sharing for grass-roots campaigning groups.

• Do you want to help facilitate grass roots events?
  
• Do you have a pile of useful equipment that you hardly use, cluttering up your space?
  
• Do have or know of a large storage space being underused?
  
• Do you have skills or want to develop skills relating to logistics and campaigning?
  
• Can you eat Veggies Cake!

Individuals in the collective have years of experience in organising large scale events. We want to share these skills and create an equipment resource to help reduce the work load of individuals, and keep equipment within our networks.

There will be a free AT Co-op training week in Nottingham, starting on the first weekend in May 2010.

This will include putting up marquees, mending the flat pack toilets and painting them for beauty and durability, as well as all the technical and theoretical (power, plumbing etc) skillsharing that launched the excellent site crew for the 2009 Blackheath camp.

HSA Annual General Meeting is taking place at Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL at 1pm on Saturday 5th June 2010 - date confirmed.

Your attendance is important, as this is your chance to have your say about how the organisation is run.

YOU can help us look back over the last season and raise points of interest.
YOU can help to choose our priorities for the coming season.
YOU can tell the committee what they have been doing right, or wrong.

Check the relaunched website!

Did you know that many beers, including most 'real' ales are made using isinglass, an a additive made from the swim bladders of sturgeons?

Wines often use dried blood or egg albumen as finings.

Finings are used to speed up the settling of sediment, a process that works perfectly well with the addition instead of a little more time!

For example The Marble Brewery, a small brewery in Manchester, makes cask ale from only organic and vegetarian ingredients, and ales from Sam Smiths, established in 1758, are always vegan (and available at the Sumac Centre).

the next Lakeside Festival will be on on Sunday 4th July 2010, from 12noon to 4pm, with Food by Veggies.

Local activists - top trainers - revolution - non-violence - learning from other movements - community - glorious countryside.

Over 120 people came to the first Peace News Summer Camp at Westmill Farm in July 2009.

Join us in 2010 for more discussions, training and debates on nonviolence, education and the anti-war movement, fueled by "wonderful (vegan) food from Veggies of Nottingham" - 2009 Camp Report.

Please keep this date free and avoid organising other gatherings at this time.

Shambala 2009 was held at a top secret site in Northamptonshire!

Veggies Catering Campaign (established 18th October 1984) moved in from Earthwise (the FoE Shop next door) when it closed, later taking on the day-to-day running of the centre.

From the Rainbow Centre base plans were hatched for the purchase of a permanent campaign base, which was opened as the Sumac Centre, in Forest Fields/New Basford on June 22nd 2002.

Full details at Event Web Site.

Protest against everything that's wrong with McDonald's - animal cruelty, exploitation of workers, damaging the planet, promoting unhealthy food, marketing to young children and much more. For a summary of the issues surrounding the McLibel Case see the European Court of Human Rights ruling at http://www.mcspotlight.org/case/trial/verdict/Echr.htm

Full details at Event Web Site.

Uncaged co-ordinate events across the world, calling for fundamental rights to be bestowed upon non-human animals by 2048 (100 years after the Declaration of Human Rights on this date). Groups are encouraged to hold candle-lit vigils outside local sites of animal abuse, (eg. vivisection facility, abbatoir, butcher's etc.) to highlight links between human and animal rights.

Submit your events to the Animal Rights Calendar here

So far, events are scheduled at the following UK locations: Reading, Enfield, Wandsworth, West Wickham (Kent), Cheshire, Truro, Leeds, Belton (Leics, outside Harlan), Hastings, Scarborough, Huntingdon (outside HLS), Newton Abbott, Plymouth, Exeter, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Sheffield, Cambridge, Stoke, Liverpool, Bristol, Newcastle, Cardiff, Chesterfield, Wickham, Hampshire (outside the vivisection lab) and Southampton. PLUS, many more people are having displays at work or college, or distributing campaign literature door-to-door in their local communities.