This was incredibly special for #PoliceSpiesOutOfLives.

"We've gone from no-one believing us about #spycops to a celebration at #BAFTA where 'The Undercover Police Scandal - Love & Lies Exposed' was nominated for Best Factual Series. Our campaign for justice continues but this was definitely a night to celebrate the wins!"

We are pleased to have featured a 'live' screening at #SumacScreenRoom at #Nottingham #SumacCentre. We will continue to livestream the #spycops inquiry when it recommences on 15th June.

https://sumac.org.uk/event/spycops-undercover-policing-inquiry-t4/

'The Undercover Police Scandal - Love & Lies Exposed' is still available to view on ITV

https://www.itv.com/watch/the-undercover-police-scandal-love-and-lies-exposed/10a5198

@BristleKRS @tombfowler @copscampaign

Sunday 31 May, 12.30 till 4pm, Seattle activist and author Jonathan Rosenblum will be with Tom Vickers at #SumacCentre discussing the movement against Amazon with #Nottingham progressive groups, including you! (No tickets)

They are working with the Amazon GMB branch, following an exchange when some UK Amazon workers went to the states.

This is followed by an event at Five Leaves Bookshop:

*Organizing Amazon in Britain and America* with Tom Vickers and Jonathan Rosenblum, Sunday 31st May, 5pm at @FiveLeavesBooks.

This session is about how workers at Amazon in the UK and in the USA are trying to organise against a fiercely anti-union company, and why the fight against Amazon matters for all of us.

For political activists searching desperately to make sense of the world after the re-election of Donald Trump and the rise of Reform, the two authors offer a framework for fighting our way out of the despairing miasma of 21st century capitalism.

Info & tickets at
https://fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/events/organizing-amazon-in-britain-and-america-with-tom-vickers-and-jonathan-rosenblum/

Veggies will be providing #vegan campaign catering and #AnimalRights outreach at these events:

Saturday 30th May
Green Hustle Festival 2026
#Nottingham Old Market Square
https://www.veggies.org.uk/event/green-hustle-festival-2026/

Friday 5th - Sunday 7th June
Worker #Coop Weekend 2026
Derbyshire
https://www.veggies.org.uk/event/worker-co-op-weekend-2026/

Friday 5th June - Sunday 7th June
Belper Goes Green 2026 – Derbyshire’s Eco-Festival
#Belper Meadows Cricket Club Christchurch Meadows, Belper
https://www.veggies.org.uk/event/belper-goes-green-2026/

Sunday 21st June
50th Anniversary of the Animal Liberation Front
MBR Acres MBR Acres, Sawtry Way, Wyton, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire
https://www.veggies.org.uk/event/50th-anniversary-of-the-animal-liberation-front/

Friday 26th - Sunday 28th June
Total Liberation Gathering 2026
#SumacCentre, Nottingham
https://www.veggies.org.uk/event/total-liberation-gathering-2026/

Foods available from Sumac Centre food distro this week include
- baking potatoes
- leeks
- parsnips
- cabbages
- cauliflower
- onions
- cucumbers
- bread, rolls, sliced bread & French sticks

Freely available on Sunday / Wednesday, or join us for a pop-up community lunch on Wednesdays.

We redistribute fresh foods from Foodprint & Sanatan Food Bank, saving their surplus from going straight to landfill.

Available at events on #SumacCentre diary
https://sumac.org.uk/events/list/

It is the obsession with perfection by the food industry and supermarkets that is driving the food waste crisis.

Food is a right, not a privilege.

Food poverty, the inability to afford, or to have access to, food to make up a healthy diet, affects 8-9% of the UK population.

Food loss & waste accounts for 8-10% of annual global greenhouse gas emissions. 

The planet benefits by surpluses being diverted from landfill, even if it ultimately ends up making compost for the Sumac Garden

https://sumac.org.uk/event/community-food-hub-3/2026-03-22/

An Introduction to Radical Routes

At Sumac Centre, #Nottingham

Friday March 27th @ 1pm

Interested in #Cooperatives?

Interested in working for radical positive #socialchange?

Radical Routes is a network of radical housing co-ops, workers co-ops and social centres. Their members are committed to working for positive social change.

Social Centres, such as #SumacCentre, have a strong past history of mutual support with Radical Routes but, for reasons to be explored on Friday, all have fallen aside. Sumac Centre is keen to rejoin Radical Routes to strengthen this bond, and maybe build a bridge with the Social Centres Network.

This session hopes to lead to a presentation by Sumac at the 15-17th May Radical Routes Gathering, before potentially joining in August.

If this interests you, join us at Sumac on Friday  27th March . Lunch at 1pm, presentation from 1.30pm.

https://sumac.org.uk/event/an-introduction-to-radical-routes-towards-sumac-centre-rejoining/

Your occasional reminder that since  1968 police targeted a wide range of social justice and human rights campaigns. Rights were violated and lives destroyed. In 2003 these secret political police infiltrated a group of idealistic young environmental activists in Nottingham, forming sexual relationships and spying without warrant on hundreds of innocent civilians.

This scandal, dubbed ‘#Spycops’‘, is now the subject of one of the UK’s longest, deepest, most extensive and expensive ‘public’ inquiries.

Follow daily from 10am links at https://sumac.org.uk/event/spycops-undercover-policing-inquiry-t3p2/

Hearings continue with Tranche 3, Phase 2, Day 18, March 16th . We will hear from ‘Simon Welling‘ who spied on  anti-globalisation group ‘Globalise Resistance’, the Dissent Network (which included #SumacCentre and @Veggies)  and others.

'Alison", one of the women from the ITVX Documentary 'The Undercover Policing Scandal' is live on radio 4 Women's Hour today. Listen again at https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002qrwd

The #spycops Public Inquiry restarts today. Follow it via the links on #SumacCentre Diary listing
https://sumac.org.uk/event/spycops-undercover-policing-inquiry-t3p2/
Including link to ITVX documentary with Alison and others from Police Spies Out of Lives.

We’re thrilled to see the very first episode of 'At The 1 in 12 Club', a new podcast series that dives deep into the history, spirit and everyday realities of one of Bradford’s most enduring radical spaces.

Like our Nottingham #RainbowCentre aka #SumacCentre, #1in12 is grounded in anarchist principles of co-operation, mutual aid and self-management. Pre-dating us by 3 years, in 1981, it quickly grew into a hub of DIY culture and grassroots organising.

https://homeofmetal.com/episode-1-at-the-1-in-12-club-a-place-of-resistance/

Whilst I wish that there was a way to turn off Twitter's AI intervention, when it does come up with a good summary I guess we can at least save it, so that the effort, energy, water impact etc isn't all in vain.

Read the #spycops Mark Jenner/Cassidy summary in the #AltText

Join us at #SumacCentre for real time analysis by Kate Wilson of Jenner's appearance at Undercover Policing Inquiry.

https://sumac.org.uk/event/kate-wilson-discusses-the-spycops-undercover-policing/