Enjoyed sticking it to the man on Tuesday at Jesters? The Black Cat Social Centre in Bath is resisting eviction - bailiffs are expected 10am Friday 26th March. Come support a flourishing community project in an ideal location. read full story / add a comment

last night the office of lloyds private banking in clifton was attacked read full story / add a comment

Bristol Charity ,Frank Water, launches a campaign to put pressure on local council and water companies to provide easy access to drinkng water in an effort to reduce the use of bottled water. read full story / add a comment

The famous environmentalist Jonathon Porritt will speak out against building new reactors at Hinkley Point in a public meeting in Taunton's Temple Methodist Church next Tuesday, 16th March at 7.30pm. read full story / add a comment

PRESS RELEASE: 9TH MARCH
VANDALISM ESCALATES AGAINST GREEN WEDGE DEVELOPMENT read full story / add a comment

About five years ago a few friends, who would later go on to found Bristol Radical History Group, went on Ian Bone’s Radical History Walking Tour of Bristol. The tour explored how individual activists and the ‘mob’ had gone about trying to change things as the enlightenment and reformation progressed. We are used to the idea that an individual can organise and agitate to facilitate change but how can a rowdy rabble, seemingly out of control, pull off a coherent action?

In October last year Bristol Radical History Group got the chance to stage a version of this walk as part of the Trapese Popular Education Collective's Start Producing the Future events. And so two dodgy looking blokes carrying sledge hammers led around 50 people off from the Arnolfini into the radical past of Bristol.
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Watch The Bristol Bike Project film online read full story / add a comment

I write this to show my anger at the way I was treated by Bristol Freecycle moderators. read full story / add a comment

Hello. As part of our 'anti telerrist' campaign we have designed a simple poster that we hope will be the start of getting people together to share their experiences of debt collector bullying.

From this we hope to find out where these phone bullys are hiding - we have been to two offices advertised as homes to debt collection companies to find that one was an empty building and the other was a big block where no one had ever heard of them - strange eh?

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Good news for all Bristolians passionate about opposing the culture of war: an estimated eight hundred campaigners from England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales and a number of other countries have joined a blockade of every gate of the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) at Aldermaston, Berkshire, England. [1] The blockade started at 7am.

Bristol has a long history of activity against the war machine. Support the Decommissioners!
http://decommissioners.co.uk/ read full story / add a comment

8pm - late
Sat 27th Feb
@ the Plough, Kilburn St, Easton
£3/2, nobody turned away through lack of funds read full story / add a comment

5pm, Sat 27th Feb
@ Easton Community Centre
Kilburn St,
Easton

£donations towards the Free Gaza Movement (www.freegaza.org), nobody
turned away through lack of funds

Sharyn will be reading from her book, recently published on Pluto
Press, and answering questions on her time in Gaza. read full story / add a comment

I am going to change my name by deed poll to "zero none of the above" and stand in the next general election

i am doing this solely because i want to see a "none of the above" box on the ballot paper

i have one Legally Binding Election Promise, that i guarantee to carry out

i will resign as soon as i am elected. read full story / add a comment

Monday February 15th 7.30pm on the 3rd Floor, Bush House (above the Arnolfini) 72 Prince Street BS1 4QD £3 entry. The venue has disability access.

Acclaim for McIntosh’s book on Climate Change ‘Hell And High Water’: “inspirational” Archbishop of Canterbury, "truly mental" Thom Yorke of Radiohead
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Later this year an Eco Village will be set up in Bristol -
Have you got the courage to move off-grid and help make it a monumental sucess? read full story / add a comment

Did you finance Christmas by putting it all on your credit cards?
Are you struggling to pay your water bills?
Are you woried about your next quarterly electric/gas bill?
Are you going to have enough money to pay your next months rent/mortgage.
Are you getting all the money you are entitled to?
Would you like to have a full benefit check? read full story / add a comment

Gaza Anti Arms Campaigners to Converge on Brighton Weapons Factory

Smash EDO Press Release

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Thursday 14th January 2010

Contact Chloe Marsh or Andrew Beckett on 07754135290 or email
smashedopress@riseup.net

On Monday January 18th: Hundreds of anti-arms campaigners will converge on EDO MBM/ITT, a Brighton arms manufacturer, to take action on the first anniversary of the final day of Israel's assault on Gaza.

Israel's assault on Gaza, lasting from 27th December 2008 to 18th January 2009, killed 1417 people, over 300 of whom were children. Campaigners maintain that EDO/ITT manufacture components for bombs and bomb racks supplied by the US to Israel.

Smash EDO, have asked activists to meet at the Wild Park Cafe in
Moulsecoomb at 1pm on Monday 18th January. Carrying coffins and wearing black to symbolise the dead, they will march on the factory.

Chloe Marsh, press spokesperson for Smash EDO said “The Remember Gaza demonstration will be a chance to show our disgust at EDO/ITT's complicity in Israel's attacks on the besieged population of Gaza. Thousands of people in Brighton took to the streets in protest during the massacre in January 2009. The fact that in the same town, a company is equipping the Israeli military to commit these atrocities is an outrage”.

Notes for Journalists

For details of how EDO arms the Israeli military see
http://www.smashedo.org.uk/How%20EDO%20Supplies%20the%2...y.htm EDO MBM, based in Moulsecoomb, is a weapons manufacturer owned by the American multi-national ITT. Based on Home Farm Rd Moulsecoomb, they make weapon components for the Paveway guided bomb programme, which was the most used aerial weapon in the attack on Iraq. They also own the patents of the Zero Retention Force Arming Unit and the Ejector Release Unit ERU 151, both essential components for the F16 aircraft’s VER-2 bomb rack, used by the Israeli Air Force against civilians in Gaza.

Since 2004 there has been a growing campaign against EDO MBM in Brighton. Campaigners have used diverse tactics to highlight and resist this murderous business in our city. There have been blockades, rooftop occupations, street theatre and hundreds of noise demos outside the factory. Thousands of people have also taken to the streets against them during nationally advertised events.
EDO own the patent for the Field Replaceable Connector System (FRCS), a component for the F 16. It was invented by EDO MBM director John Eaton in 2002.

Since 2004 the USA have been delivering over 100 F-16I fighter/bombers to Israel as part of the Peace Marble V arms deal.

Contact: Andrew Beckett or Chloe Marsh, Smash EDO campaign
Tel: 07754135290 E-mail: smashedopress@riseup.net Website:
www.smashedo.org.uk
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Here is the line-up for the next eight weeks, beginning next Tues 12th Jan @ 7pm. It's FREE for everyone as always! read full story / add a comment

Members of the Viva Palestina aid convoy stranded in Jordan, today formally began a hunger strike to protest the Egyptian government's refusal to allow them to cross the Gulf of Aqaba on their way to Palestine.

This day marks the first anniversary of Israel’s bombing of Gaza that last year killed 1400 people - two-thirds of them civilians.

The Viva Palestina convoy, now numbering 250 vehicles – among them a 44-tonne truck donated by the people of Bristol - has spent nearly three weeks travelling across Europe to deliver vital supplies to the Palestinians besieged in Gaza. For the past three days the convoy has been stranded in Jordan, because the Egyptian authorities refuse to let the convoy travel to Nuweiba on the other side of the Gulf of Aqaba. read full story / add a comment

Bristol Smokers Latest read full story / add a comment