The final line up for the Nottingham Unites festival is out and it looks set to be a corker! with great bands and artists, stalls, marquees, talks, workshops and activities for kids throughout the day this is not to be missed!

As well as music we'll be screening the Sleaford Mods film 'Invisible Britain', marquee talks on activism and community organising, discussions on Brexit and the rise in racism, and much more.

• 1pm - Stacey McMullen
• 1.25pm - Arian
• 2pm - New Apostles
• 2.35pm - Unknown Era
• 3.25 pm - Iryna Muha
• 4pm - Zacc Rogers
• 4.45pm - Curtis and Kin
• 5.45pm - Fat Digester

Jeremy Corbyn comes to Nottingham - Thursday 20 August

Jeremy Corbyn's campaign has electrified the Labour leadership contest and brought anti austerity ideas to the fore. He has raised an alternative economic programme which would see an end to debilitating cuts, and investment in jobs and homes. He is at Nottingham's historic Albert Hall on Thursday next week and we want to fill the hall to bursting and show our city is against the Tory programme of cuts.

Whilst the People's Assembly is non party political, Jeremy is a founder of the People's Assembly movement and has consistently opposed austerity. You can RSVP for the rally here, and use theFacebook event to spread the word. We haven't got long!

Sports Direct - a "Dickensian employer" Protest on Wednesday 9 September

On Sunday the people of Greece went to the polls to vote in a historic
referendum and noted NO! The campaign storms to victory with 61.31% of the vote!

They had two choices: Yes, which will mean accepting unconditional austerity for generations with no debt relief; or No, which will mean rejecting the terms presented to them and demanding a realistic and democratic resolution to the debt crisis.
Nottingham Peoples Assembly stands in solidarity the people of Greece making this difficult decision and hopes that they will have the courage to see past the messages of fear being spread by those in power and vote No on Sunday. The conditions demanded by the troika of lenders would condemn future generations of Greeks to poverty, complete the task of asset-stripping of the Greek economy and open it up to vulture capitalists from all over the world.

The hugely successful People's March for the NHS is back in Nottingham! Last year we welcomed them to Nottingham when they marched the length of the country to raise the issue of NHS privatisation in every village town and city along the way. The rapid privatisation of the NHS has happened under this government with barely a murmur from the mainstream press. It's up to us to make it an issue this election.

When the march arrived in Notts in August last year we gave them a great welcome and our section of the march was the largest outside London. It was bigger than Leeds, and their section was on a weekend, ours was on a Thursday! The video below gives a flavour of that fantastic day.

Tom Crawford faces eviction from his home on 23 July after a mistake by the bank meant they erroneously recorded his mortgage wrongly. Tom recorded the Youtube video above which has now gone viral and has been watched 5,000 times. Please share this widely with your social networks.

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On Thursday Notts County Council became the first in the country to vote to support the People's March for the NHS. you can read the text of the motion below. A similar motion will go to the City Council this month. 

“On 16^th September 2014, a group of mothers is setting off on a march from Jarrow to London to demand that the NHS remains in public hands and is run for the people – not for profit.  On 27^th and 28^th August 2014, the People’s March for the NHS will be passing through towns in Nottinghamshire including Mansfield, Sutton in Ashfield and Hucknall.

The marchers hope to highlight the privatisation of the NHS which has seen profitable parts of the NHS transferred into private hands whilst leaving the public purse to carry the cost of expensive and complex operations.

This Council:-

a)    recognises the threat to our NHS from legislation including the Health and Social Care Act (2012) and the proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership; both of which put profits before people;
b)    values the principle of our NHS to provide free, universal healthcare for all;
c)    supports the People’s March for the NHS along with its aims and intentions.”

Councillor Alice Grice                   Councillor Joyce Bosnjak

Please see the urgent request below for support and do what you can to help. You can read more about their work below.

Dear Supporters

NG7 Food Bank Update May 2014

Since our last update in early January the number of people we have fed has now reached over 3700 - in the last month alone 236. Levels of support from supporters/donors have continued to remain very high. Thank you.

However, due to the vicious government policies which have created more hardship for a range of vulnerable groups, the demand on our service has often exceeded food donations. Thankfully our small cash reserves have served to meet the shortfall when necessary.

We firmly believe NG7 food bank should be a service of last resort.  In our effort to ensure this we’ve continually taken measures with our referring agencies to encourage clients to access full support from statutory providers. The City Council has a Hardship Fund which can make grants and the Department of Work and Pensions can also give small sums. The Nottingham Credit Union have set up low cost loan scheme as an alternative to payday loans. We also refer people to one of the other 12 Food Banks in Nottingham.

What else have we been doing?

In January we attended Nottingham Law Centre’s AGM and gave a presentation on our work. At this meeting we also found out about Nottingham Credit Union’s payday loan alternative. See links below...