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Socialist Organiser1983 1983-11-24Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 4 →
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"AS a result of the work put into the Nottingham District Labour Party's Equal Opportunities Working Party last year by members and supporters of the Labour Campaign for Gay Rights, the Nottingham City Council now has an Equal Opportunities Policy which commits it to recognising the needs expressed by the gay community in the city.
The first tangible result of the adoption of the Party's Equal Opportunities Policy was a consultative meeting two months ago when 47 lesbians and gay men met the Leader of the Council and the Chair and Vice-Chair of the Equal Opportunities Committee. From that meeting two working groups of lesbians and gay men have organised a one-day conference for Saturday 3 December which has been supported by the City Council.
This is one of the few occasions when a local authority otside of London has actively supported the self organisation of the gay community. Local LGR members are working actively to politicise the demands of the gay organisations in the city.
The Labour Campaign for Gay Rights has become the most vocal and active of the gay organisations in Nottingham. Members are also preparing to greet the Labour Party's Local Government Conference, being held in the city next spring, with a new Broadsheet outlining the Labour Campaign for Gay Rights' policies relating to local government employment and services. A working party of members was set up to draft the document at last week's quarterly meeting held in Coventry.
Equal Opportunities for Lesbians and Gay in Nottingham saturday 3 December 1983 9.30am - 4.00 pm International Community Centre, Mansfield Road Admission free Creche provided consignment of radioactive sludge from the seashore near the Windscale nuclear processing plant, and dumped it in Downing Street, grabbed the headlines when they succeeded in scaring police into blocking off the whole area.
Then, this last weekend, came the admission that nuclear waste had been washed up on the MILLIONS across the world paid tribute this week to the American President who has done most to represent the hopes and dreams of ordinary people. acknowledged by the authorities.
Of course the Windscale processing plant does not just deal with the waste from nuclear power stations: it also produces weapons-grade plutonium for British and US warheads and is part of the complex industrial process which backs up the British "deterrent"