Just a quick heads-up for the latest uploads to the Bristol Trade Union Forum website - http://bristolforum.wordpress.com/ read full story / add a comment

Come and enjoy a delicious dinner at Kebele, followed by cake and some short animal liberation films. read full story / add a comment

Two leading academics introduce an Oscar-winning film about the lives of women. Antonia’s Line won Best Foreign Language Film in 1996 – and forms the centre-piece of an evening of drama and debate on Sunday 29th November. Independence and solidarity are the twin poles of this thought-provoking Film Night at the Pierian Centre. read full story / add a comment

Freepost Against Fascism! read full story / add a comment

A powerful picture of the brutality involved in sex-trafficking is unveiled on Friday 20th November. Lukas Moodysson’s award-winning film Lilja 4-ever receives a FREE screening, and is followed by Margaret Gallagher, Chair of The Medaille Trust, talking about the Trust’s work with the victims of sex-trafficking. The evening is opened by singer Sadie Chamberlain, and is part of Unchosen’s season of films about trafficking. read full story / add a comment

discussion led by Mark Farmer read full story / add a comment

Anthropologist Alice Sala is flying from Geneva to Bristol on Friday 13th November to present the award-winning documentary La Forteresse. Filming for La Forteresse was the first time that cameras were given open access to a detention centre that enforces the most restrictive asylum laws in Europe. This free screening is part of Unchosen’s season of films about human trafficking. read full story / add a comment

MOVEMENT is the new free monthly newsletter covering updates from the No Borders Network and beyond. read full story / add a comment

As survival packs are distributed in Calais, migrants and solidarity groups
call for human rights for all and an end to police repression.

Today packs including blankets, ponchos, tarpaulins and hygiene packs were
distributed to more than 200 people by Médecins du Monde [1] in central
Calais. British, French and Italian activists from Calais Migrant Solidarity
[2] and No Borders [3] joined the event with an exhibition of recent police
repression in and around Calais, a banner was hung from the church saying
‘To Migrate is to Resist’ and leaflets were distributed. read full story / add a comment

The Bristol Branch of Amnesty International is looking for donations of good quality art to be sold in a fundraising auction at the Watershed on 5 December to raise money for its campaigns and local charities. The auctioneer will be Ed Rising from Sotheby's. More details are available here: http://bristol.amnesty.org.uk/content.asp?CategoryID=727 or by emailing the auction team: amnestyartauction@googlemail.com read full story / add a comment

To buy, or not to buy...

Saturday November 28th is Buy Nothing Day (UK). It's a day where you challenge yourself, your family and friends to switch off from shopping and tune into life. The rules are simple, for 24 hours you will detox from shopping and anyone can take part provided they spend a day without spending!

Shop Less Live More Everything we buy has an impact on the environment. Buy Nothing Day highlights the environmental and ethical consequences of shopping. The developed countries - only 20% of the world population are consuming over 80% of the earth's natural resources, causing a disproportionate level of environmental damage and an unfair distribution of wealth.

As consumers we need to question the products we buy and challenge the companies who produce them. What are the true risks to the environment and developing countries? The argument is infinite - while it continues we should be looking for simple solutions and Buy Nothing Day is a good place to start. read full story / add a comment

Guy Fawkes Night or Bonfire Night is an annual celebration on the evening of 5 November. It marks the downfall of the Gunpowder Plot of 5 November 1605, in which a number of Catholic conspirators, including Guy Fawkes, attempted to blow up the Houses of Parliament, in London, United Kingdom.

We need 'Bristol Guy / Effigy suggestions urgently!

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Bristol Trade Union Forum has been created as a grassroots one-stop resource for local labour movement activists and campaigners. read full story / add a comment

Bristol 'most unhygenic city in the country.' read full story / add a comment

"Everyday, everywhere, through spontaneous and planned actions, people are changing the world, together. These everyday actions come from the growing desire to do it ourselves – plant vegetables, organise a community day to get people involved in improving where we live, expose exploitative firms, take responsibility for our health, make cups of tea in a social centre, figure out how to install a shower powered by the sun, make a banner, support strikers, pull a prank to make someone laugh, as well as think", (Do It Yourself, A Handbook for Changing our World.) read full story / add a comment

Slumdog Millionaire shone a global spotlight on the plight of Mumbai’s street kids. Gerard Vandervegt’s moving documentary now lets these kids tell their own story – a story of tragedy, violence, abuse and survival. Welcome to India’s trouble station: Victoria Terminus! read full story / add a comment

The weather has turned in the last few days - by day the winds are chilling and by night the first frosts creep in. In Calais, since the camps nicknamed the 'Jungle' have been destroyed, large numbers of those waiting to seek asylum in the UK are being forced to sleep on the streets, without shelter or blankets. Finding this far beyond the realms of reason, groups from Bristol are gathering blankets, warm clothes and other essentials to respond to this urgent humanitarian crisis.

HUMANITARIAN CRISIS, CLOSE TO HOME?

Children as young as ten are sleeping under bridges. If found taking shelter or sleeping out, peoples' few possessions are removed, their blankets sprayed with chemicals and their temporary refuges destroyed or evicted. These are people from Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Eritrea and other zones of conflict, whose situation the UK and other western governments have been instrumental in worsening. French immigration policy, voiced by minister Eric Besson, has chosen however to ignore its complicity in these broader issues, calling (like the UK Border Agency) for stricter border controls and the use of state power to break up any signs of their existence.

BLANKET APPEAL, YOU CAN HELP!

We don't think that this is acceptable. Thousands of people attempting to move across Europe to seek asylum or a new life are stranded as a result. The associations and charities of Calais cannot cope with such a humanitarian catastrophe, and as an act of solidarity we would like to collectively respond by transporting aid there from Bristol. If you would like to join us in expressing your indignation or support, please help us collect for the two 'convoys' which will leave Bristol on November the 6th and November the 26th.
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Meetings are on Tuesdays at 7pm once a fortnight at: Kebele, 14 Robertson Rd, Easton, Bristol. BS5 6JY read full story / add a comment

Meetings are on Tuesdays at 7pm once a fortnight at: Kebele, 14 Robertson Rd, Easton, Bristol. BS5 6JY read full story / add a comment

Meetings are on Tuesdays at 7pm once a fortnight at: Kebele, 14 Robertson Rd, Easton, Bristol. BS5 6JY read full story / add a comment