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Resistance Exhibition
Sunday June 8th @ 12:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Since the early 1980’s the Rainbow Centre in Nottingham – now the cooperatve behind the Sumac Centre, has provided space, facilities and resources for a huge diversity of radical campaigns for positive social change. Our #RainbowCentre closely supported the emerging Road Alert network, @EarthFirstUK & later #ReclaimTheStreets, #ClimateAction Camps and more.
Nottingham Rainbow Centre linked up with the (unrelated) London Rainbow Centre, and numerous other ‘Info Shops’, ‘centres for change’ and similar initiatives all over the UK. This was a powerful network, with its own media, such as SchNews, Squall, Undercurrents, ARC News, Free Information Network newsletters such as Notts FIN AKA Ned Ludd’s News, and later Nottingham Indymedia.
Nottingham is dubbed the “City of Rebels” due to its long history of protest and defiance against the establishment.
As Left Lion, today’s batton carrier for indy media puts it:
As wider society became more conscious of environmental issues and animal rights, the activist subculture, which had loosely centred around the old Environmental Information Centre, needed a home. It found it in a little building on Mansfield Road, where various groups, including the Nottingham Friends of the Earth and CND, formed a collective space for gathering, learning and reading known as the Rainbow Centre.
Protests in Nottingham . Left Lion August 2018
All this leads us to …
The Resistance Exhibition
We are pleased to offer an exclusive opportunity to view the Exhibition, and discuss its contents with one of its curating team, at the Sumac Centre on Sunday 8th June. As well as the physical exhibition Sumac Screen Room will stream related activist filmed footage and you can explore our Rainbow Archive.
This event is the 3rd in a series, following and connecting DISCLOSURE: Unravelling the Spycops Files, with Kate Wilson on Sunday 1st June, and the Battle of the Beanfield – 40th Anniversary Presentation on Saturday 7th June.
As at many ofthe campaigns documented by the exhibitiion there will be #FoodByVeggies including Sumac Sunday Brunch and #SamosasForSocialChange.
Sumac exists to provides resources and a meeting space for groups and individuals working to promote social justice, environmental awareness, peace, and animal rights.
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