CalendarJan 28 Anti deportation workshop 28 Jan Jan 29 Direct action and Consensus training Jan 29 Bristol Stop Hinkley C New Nucler Build TRAINING DAYS Jan 29 Tea with Gilad Atzmon Jan 31 Workshop on the Communist Manifesto Feb 01 Open Up The Gates - A Lyrical Guide to Consciousness Change Feb 01 Bristol Against Arms Trade meeting Feb 01 Bristol Stop Hinkley C Nuclear Power Station Feb 02 Vigil for the abolition of meat 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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Business West's Bristol 2050 consulted business leaders from across the City. A group of people associated with Occupy Bristol are starting a rival People’s Bristol 2050, which involves all the communities in Bristol, not just the business leaders. The people of Bristol and the surrounding area have the knowledge, ingenuity and skills to come up with a far greater plan, and start putting it into action. We also think the 40 year timescale frees people to think more imaginatively, and to propose creative and hopeful futures. Occupy Bristol envisage the project including,Open Space meetings, online discussions and information sharing, events in community centres and more. The first event will be an Open Space meeting at the Trinity Centre, Saturday 21 Jan 2pm-4pm (upstairs hall). The hope is to bring interested people together to talk about sensible ideas and plans and kick start initiatives, both big and small. If you’re interested, please come along. Bring your thoughts, ideas and enthusiasm and, above all, a willingness to listen to others. Full Article After QC Denyer refused to recognise due process and made an unlawful summary judgement in favour of eviction, Occupy Bristol is now on full red alert. Despite the media saying otherwise, occupy bristol does not recognise the judgement and WILL be resisting the eviction attempt. Sources have fed back to the site that it will be happening within the next week. Currently occupy bristol are clearing certain sections of the site to preserve materials and are also planning for the resistance. occupy bristol needs as much help as possible over the coming days to clear supplies off the site. Also, if you have access to or know of anywhere that occupy can store all the bender poles and tarps then please get in contact. Fundamentally though, occupy bristol needs support to resist the eviction itself. If you want to help, or just wish to be kept informed, then text: 07814901175 or 07926381959. Big thanks must go out to all of you that have supported occupy bristol through thick and thin. Phase two is just about to begin...
'New Year, Same Shit'
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! Note from BIMC: The pic is from a previous demo at Horfield, hence the presence of daylight!
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 |
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