CalendarJan 05 Permaculture Design Course Jan 05 "The Safety Net" - by Clive Hendry - meet the author Jan 05 No Borders Cafe/Film Night Jan 07 Picket Bristol Museum Jan 09 Bristol & Bath Rising Tide meeting Jan 09 Gender oppression in society and social movements. Discussion night at... Jan 13 Big Benefit for Autonomous Spaces of Bristol Jan 18 Does Animal Testing Slow Down Medical Progress? Jan 21 Picket Bristol Museum more >>Bristol Anarchist Bookfair 7th May 2011 Hamilton House 10:30am - 6:30pm Uk Uncut Vs Boots: Oxford St M26 indycycle
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'New Year, Same Shit' Four people were arrested when Police attacked a New Year's Eve Prison Solidarity demo outside Horfield Prison. Around 20 people had gathered outside Horfield to protest against prisons and show solidarity with those inside. Cries of "Happy New Year!", "Solidarity" and "Fuck the Screws!" could be heard over the soundsystem as people celebrated the coming of the New Year. The celebrations were cut short by the arrival of two Police officers who upon arriving on the scene liberally applied CS spray and tried to steal the soundsystem (to no avail). More Police arrived shortly and began making arrests. After a brief confrontation people decided to make a tactical retreat to avoid further arrests. Prisoners inside Horfield showed their support for those on the outside by banging on windows and shouting out to them. A sing-song chorus of "All Coppers Are Dead Coppers" could be heard as the Police began making arrests. The situation inside the Prison sounded just as volatile as it did outside by this point. At the time of writing, four people are still under arrest. There is no information relating to charges etc. A Solidarity Vigil will be happening at Trinity Road Station today (Sun 1st January), so please come down if you can!
south west / protests Friday December 23, 2011 12:14 by Jack the lad
On 22nd December, two Bristol Rising Tide activists appeared at Lanark Sheriff's Court to be sentenced following an action to stop work at the Mainshill open cast mine back in March 2011. The two were fined £400 each for aggravated trespass by Sheriff Stewart.
They were part of a group who entered Scottish Coal's Mainshill mine in South Lanarkshire to disrupt coaling operations. The two Bristol activists managed to reach and scale a huge 260 tonne 'prime mover' in the bottom of the pit, one of the two biggest machines on the site. Other activists there to support them were brutally attacked by Scottish Coal employees and Trustcare Security. The action lasted over 4 hours before a specialist police team from Glasgow removed the people occupying the excavator, which had been in the process of loading coal from the seam on to dump trucks. The action in March was part of the on-going campaign by Coal Action Scotland to resist the expansion of the open cast coal mining in the Douglas Valley in South Lanarkshire. In 2009/2010 there was a 7-month occupation of the site by the Mainshill Solidariy Camp; over 70 people were evicted from the site, with 45 being forcibly removed and arrested Saturday 24th December. 11-2. Kebele infoshop DJ session at Kebele cafe. It's come to our attention here at the Kebele infoshop bunker that we have a problem: a) people are sick to death of christmas shopping in the corporate temples b) people can't afford to buy all the shit they tell us we need to be happy or show our loved ones how much we care c) people are missing some total undiscovered, off the downtrodden track, gems and bargains on the Kebele infoshop, unaware of the anticapitalist shopping potential contained therein. So, with your vegan fry up this Saturday we're offering you a tour of the world (with no exploited reindeer or wronguns in coca cola costume) via the infoshop's special collection of hip hop, ska, punk and folk from around the world. Bring in the new year with sounds of revolt turned up loud. Pick up some proper christmas hits and check out a lot of new stock for your stocking (or balaclava?) filler ideas. You know it makes sense. Merry crisis from the infoshop collective.
Check out the 2 new videos from Bristol IWW containing footage of the recent November 30th strikes and crucial info on pensions and the Tories despicable attacks on the general population. This march is just the beginning of a popular movement against austerity, for a lot of people this would have been there first strike and a sense of anger is growing amongst the population. Now is the time for us to be more active, as after Christmas the real impact of the cuts will start to be felt. Get in touch with Bristol Anti Cuts Alliance to help the fight or do your own thing, just don't do nothing.
Part one shows the pensions that MP's get as well as great footage of the march all carried along by 'Crisis' by Spanner. Part two is more general and highlights the other reasons we should all be fighting against these ConDem idiots, again carried along by "Quiet Life" by Spanner. |
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