Fraud, money laundering, the Liberal Democrats and the City of Bath connection read full story / add a comment

So few people now attend the Bristol Vigil that the question must be asked, is it time to call it a day?
There are often only two or three people in attendance, if that, and this makes them particularly vulnerable to the predatory, or just the moody, “out for a bit of sport”.
The two founder members of the Vigil, Lois who’s ninety and Neville, ninety-six, need not be so concerned in this regard, but just a couple of people on the vigil may well fall prey to the opportunist bullying fraternity. read full story / add a comment

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The aim: Strategic and community-led regeneration document
To create a strategic document for the Easton area to help transform it in a controlled manner: Falling in line with the visions and aspirations of the local community and city wide policy.
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Expenses have hit the headlines, but June promises to be a month that might come at a high cost to the earth and its people. This month we vote in EU and local elections and celebrate world environment day while 182 governments are meeting in Bonn to tackle global warming.
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Reading about the upcoming event at The Cube: The Enemy Without - Coal, Class and Climate (http://www.bristol.indymedia.org/article/690349) two Bristolians reflect on a recent visit to one of the largest coal mines in the world - Cerrejón, Colombia. read full story / add a comment

On the run money launderer, fraudster and perjurer gets financial backing from the same individual who bankrolls the B&NES Liberal Democrat party machine. read full story / add a comment

BATH CHRONICLE AND ITS CAMPAIGN OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST LEFT WING ACTIVISTS

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From http://eveningpostwatch.wordpress.com/

You’d think that during the worst economic crisis since at least the 1930s, a news organisation would make sure it had someone who had a basic grasp of economics, wouldn’t you. read full story / add a comment

What the f*ck are we all doing here? :-) read full story / add a comment

Following police brutality to anti-arms activists at Raytheon and peaceful chalk messengers many Bristolians may wish to attend this event. read full story / add a comment

Brixton now has its own currency, for use in the local economy for local people

Totnes has its own currency

So isn’t it time for the Bristol Pound? read full story / add a comment

This Sunday, 10 May, sees the Bristol ABC prisoner support group take its turn at hosting the weekly vegan Sunday cafe at Kebele (http://www.kebelecoop.org).

The Bristol ABC group has been reactivated over the last year or so. There is a the need to provide support for political prisoners, and radicalised social prisoners, in the UK and abroad; and there is a need to begin campaigning against the prison-industrial complex – the sector of capitalism that makes a profit out of building and running prisons, and is slowly turning the whole of society into one big open prison. As more and more campaigners & protesters (anti-war & anti-militarist, anti-capitalist, animal rights, anti-fascist and more) are being locked away for years on end, our movement needs to increase its work in supporting and campaigning for our comrades & friends imprisoned by the state. read full story / add a comment

It’s an environmentally friendly way to get your message across - chalk washes away in the rain dunnit? read full story / add a comment

With public mistrust in the police, and their political paymasters, running at record high levels, it should come as no surprise that your average PC is not a happy bunny. Their sudden lampooning in the media, alongside the hatred they receive at all times from a large percentage of the population, is driving some of them to distraction. It may not therefore come as a total surprise if they revolted. read full story / add a comment

The sudden interest of the media, and the latest generation of campaigners & protesters, in police misbehaviour and brutality, needs to be put into context - because it isn't anything new.

This Saturday's protest in Bristol, against police brutality and the repressive state, is nothing new either. But welcome all the same!

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I am a Bristol resident currently on sabbatical in Latin America, but following events in Bristol with interest, and congratulate those that turned out to London to resist the G20 circus. Sometimes being away from home gives you time to have critical distance and perspective on issues, and I'm thinking about political ones. read full story / add a comment

Many people will have seen the news on Monday morning that 114
people were arrested in Nottingham ahead of an alleged protest at E.ON's
Ratcliffe-on-Soar coal-fired power station read full story / add a comment

A while ago I commented on the fact that Bristol indymedia dosn't feature at all if you type the search term “Bristol” into google

http://bristol.indymedia.org/article/689764?&condense_c...42333

this led to a debate about perceived anti-Semitism on Indymedia UK, not my original intention, and again not my intention here.

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Broadmead Baptist Church, Union Street, Bristol, April 08 2009

This is not an official report-back, nor is it intended to comprehensively cover all that went on at this meeting. It’s just a brief take of one of the crowd, sitting in the audience.
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A significant number of Bristolians travelled to London last week on 1 and 2 April for the anti-bank/anti-capitalist and climate camp protests read full story / add a comment