I was going to title this article 'Bread and Cabot Circuses' but the excellent Evening Post Watch website go there first. This is a key moment in the landscape of Bristol - remember this day - not for the opening of another unimaginative shopping centre - but the moment the free press overtook the corporate press as the real purveyors of news in the city. read full story / add a comment

“Roll Up, Roll Up. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the unique and splendiferous; to the fantastic and extraordinary...the Cabot Circus Launch event! This will be a day of amazing performances, incredible music and a theatrical extravaganza” says the welcome message on the Cabot Circus home page. The Visit Bristol website reads “Having taken over three years to build and costing in excess of £500 million, Cabot Circus will provide city centre visitors with over 120 new shops, including 15 major flagship stores.”

What neither of these sites remember to mention is that around 40 of these so called “new” stores already exist in Bristol, many will simply be moving up the road leaving empty shells in Broadmead and yet more in the Galleries, as yet some of the spaces that will be created still have not been filled.

Another issue conveniently neglected is that on the day of the grand opening one third of the new units in Cabot Circus will stand empty as branches will not have moved in and contracts still have not been signed. The city is simply over saturated; we already have at least one of each high street chain.
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Interesting to see an anarchist get a full page in today's Venue mag (page 9), and for once its not an Ian Bone shock-horror rant, but instead a fairly well thought out considered piece. Intriguingly, there seems to have been no editorial stitch up, no 'anarchists to rampage through Bristol' angle, although some of us may have seen such a promise as very enticing! read full story / add a comment

Peter Gelderloos is a radical community organiser from the USA. He has written a number of books including Consensus: A new handbook for grassroots political, social and environmental groups and How Non-violence helps the State as well as being a member of a number of campaigns including local Food Not Bombs, Copwatch and Anarchist Black Cross chapters.
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recydrate the west had to move to wales coz of the ridiculous fees that avon & somerset police were going to charge, unfortunatley police/security behaviour at baskerville hall made it at times an uncomfortable place to be to say the least... read full story / add a comment

My investigation into the near-miss between a police helicopter and a UFO over RAF St Athan and how it led me to MoD stone-walling and a History Channel documentary team. read full story / add a comment

why we should we blame the youngsters for their bullying behaviour when we journalists behave in a way that lacks mercy.
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As much as some Muslims suffer discrimination and I know that for I was and am still experiencing such acts of discrimination. Such experiences left many of my colleagues ' journalists' with one of two choices, either to show biased extreme views, or be extremely worried about hurting the feelings of people from other minorities. Both choices are wrong, because journalism is about ethics and responsibility towards the society in the first place. read full story / add a comment

It has been a long time coming - but come it always was going to...the housing bomb is bursting and the first major local casualty has been announced; Edward Ware Homes Ltd goes pop. read full story / add a comment

Some thoughts on the upcoming Carnival against Vivisection at Sequani Labs, Ledbury, Herefordshire; people's reactions and some things worth bearing in mind. read full story / add a comment

Opinion on housing in Bristol . . . read full story / add a comment

In their own words - journalists at the Bristol Evening Post talk about their profession. read full story / add a comment

Convincing a woman to drop her baby to embrace a belt of explosives is something that needs urgent academic study.
This study is written by a female Muslim researcher and journalist worked 15 years in the Media in the Middle East. Now NUJ member at Bristol branch,and creator of Palestinian Mothers Network to promote peace throught Motherhood between Palestinian and Israeli mothers.
This study is a deep look byoned the titles and the headlines. A psycological and sociological look inside the Iraqi women society. read full story / add a comment

I have previously argued that debating with denailists was a point less exercise (the comments around which on Bristol Indymedia just went to prove my point) – and I am not the only one who thinks so.... read full story / add a comment

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I have read lots of debate on this site about global warming, and I have concluded that it is happening and that action is needed - but beyond the normal "switch the lights off" and don't leave things on stand-by read full story / add a comment

I have noticed huge debates breaking out on a couple of websites over global warming and the truth of it, I have also been spending (far too much) time of late reading about Creationism – the psudo-science idea pushed with a fanatical intensity by religious fundamentalists that the earth and all living things were created by god and thus evolution is not true. What has become increasingly obvious to me is that the denial of global warming and the denial of evolution are pretty much the same thing – a comfort-blanket against reality and so it is pointless debating with advocates of either point of view. read full story / add a comment

Everytime a climate change argument starts on Bristol Indymedia it gets lost in volleys of jargon and flaming rebuttals of the evidence of both sides. This is a classic internet problem, and the reason why face-to-face communication is always preferable.

If you go to the climate camp in Kingsnorth this week you will be able to talk to people who know a lot about the subject and strongly believe that we should act NOW and make BIG changes. read full story / add a comment

This weekend sees the Bristol Harbour Festival, an event organised by Bristol City Council. On the face of it we Bristolians get 3 nights/2 days of free entertainment at a number of locations around the city centre. Much is made of the fact this is the largest ‘free’ city centre festival across the south west, with the accent on ‘free’, and the implication that ‘we’ are getting something for nothing. Oh yeah? But we all know that these days nothing really comes for free, don’t we? read full story / add a comment