A recruitment advert very similar to this one appeared in today’s Evening Post… read full story / add a comment

Join Trade Union activist May Wong for discussion and screening of award winning film, China Blue.
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Would you trust a money grabbing clown like Richard Branson to run our health service? Well that’s what New Labour would like to happen.

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Today David Heath MP, the nice polite ex-optician who is MP for Yoevill, resigned from the Liberal front bench "on principal" about some chaotic bit of something-or-other about Europe. In October last year he was making chortly jokes accross the chamber about an obvious point of principal to anybody else but himself. read full story / add a comment

Over the last 2 months, activists tired of the lies and corporate whitewash have taken direct action to hit Total where it hurts them most - in the pocket. read full story / add a comment

A new discussion group starts at Kebele - what's gone wrong with the world economy and how shall we survive recession? read full story / add a comment

Public meeting: plan of action regarding Tesco Express on Bathwick Hill

Jan 7th St Mary’s Church 7.30pm read full story / add a comment

o2 phones haven't worked since about 7pm. Reports from the internets suggest that it's regional. read full story / add a comment

just to let people know that this month's 'Bubbling Under' film showing is this Sunday, from 1 til 4 or thereabouts, at the Porter Cellar on George Street. it's free entry, and showing The Yes Men, which is rather good. Hope to see folks there. read on for the blurb which i stole: read full story / add a comment

Our friends had yet another theat today:
SON OF A BITCH GUERRILLAS, WE HAVE YOU UNDER CONTROL - THE SHIT THAT YOUR ALLY GUSTAVO PETRO [A CENTRE-LEFT POLITICIAN] PUBLISHES IS THE SAME THAT YOU PREACH - TIME IS RUNNING OUT - YOU DON’T THINK YOU’RE A MILITARY OBJECTIVE YOU BUNCH OF FUCKING COMMUNISTS - YOUR TIME TO LEAVE SANTANDER IS UP - NOW YOU’RE GOING TO A MASS GRAVE ALONG WITH YOUR FAMILIES - KEEP YOUR IDEOLOGY IT’S NO GOOD FOR THIS COUNTRY - EVERYTHING YOU DO IS BEING WATCHED - GUERRILLA JOSE DOMINGO FLORES - JAVIER CORREA - LUIS EDUARDO ALIAS CHILE - NOW YOU’RE GOING TO DIE - YOUR FAMILIES ARE IN DANGER - ALL OF YOU WILL BE DISMEMEBERED AND BURIED - THE BLACK EAGLES EXIST - DON’T THINK WE DON’T MEAN IT WE YOU SHITHEADS - WE WILL DO IT WITH NO MERCY read full story / add a comment

I remember reading about the people in Bristol who occupied the offices of BAE Systems based in North Bristol. I know the case is over but I was sickened to read about a recent case in the country that BAE sells weapons to. read full story / add a comment

Inspired by Bristol Rising Tide's recent polar bear occupation of the Royal Bank of Scotland HQ in Trinity Quay, UWE Students affiliated with People and Planet today held a demonstration against Natwest for being the largest single UK financier of oil and gas projects around the world. These projects amount to 655 million tonnes of carbon dioxide destined for our already inflamed atmosphere. (more than the UK's total annual emissions) read full story / add a comment

A press release from Bristol International Airport, and a helpful translation. read full story / add a comment

I recently moved from Bristol to India. Looking back on my time in Bristol it is clear that, for all the bad press, a lot of people still had a sneaking suspicion that Western corporations are making some sort of contribution to improving the lot of people in the third world. Let me present a counter-example. read full story / add a comment

Persimmon has just given an artist from Redfield three hundred pounds as sponsorship for her exhibition of photos of the inside of the Elizabeth Shaw chocolate factory in Greenbank.

Is this cheap and easy way to persuade everyone that they are very very nice, or purchasing the rights to put their name all over her exhibition and implying that they are winning the fight to buy the factory site? read full story / add a comment

The "Shell Wildlife Photographer of the Year Award" exhibition comes to Bristol Museum from 15th December to 13th January.

How can it be that the winner of the 2007 Goldman Environmental Prize (the highest honour awarded for protection of the environment) won that prize for resisting the environmental destruction being caused by the sponsor of the 2007 Wildlife Photographer of the Year Award?

While wildlife suffers the effects of oil exploration, spills and climate change, Shell oil executives shmooze shamelessly at highbrow cocktail events at the Natural History Museum admiring the splendour of the nature they are destroying, all while reaping good greenwashed pr for the company... It’s so sick....

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How can Easton's most loved grocery store promote "Fairtrade" products when they fail to pay their own staff the minimum wage? Just imagine a world where the bosses of this shop had the mighty power of the supermarkets - you thought Tesco's were nasty capitalists, you haven't seen nothing!!!!

Next time youre in there, watch how they treat their staff and if you're feeling brave, ask one of the bosses if they are paying the minimum wage to ALL of their employees.

It's great to support local business, but only if they offer a better alternative than the corporations - not worse!! read full story / add a comment

Between 29 July and the 1 August 2007 Colombian and international organisations including people from Espacio Bristol-Colombia took part in an international solidarity mission to visit Casanare, one of the major oil rich regions in Colombia. There they visited communities to hear first hand accounts of the reality of living in a oil producing region and to offer their solidarity. read full story / add a comment

Support democracy, don't go to Total read full story / add a comment

Bristolians show their support for the community of Rossport in their struggle against Shell. read full story / add a comment