How Bristol was and is shaped, a talk by
Madge Dresser and Dr Peter Flemming will be giving a talk on migrant experiences
of ethnic minorities
at the City Museum and Art Gallery
today at 7.30pm

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You can see the beginning stages of a campaign by police to soften the public up for a repression of environmental protesters as campaigns around global warming hot up. As it looks possible for the government to push forward/allowing a number of massive carbon-white elephants, from locals schemes like the Bristol Ring Road or Bristol Airport Expansion to national projects like Heathrow or more coal fired power stations. read full story / add a comment

11.30pm Lawerance Hill. The bridge over the railway on Church Road next to Croydon Street, was the location of a road traffic accident. It involved a police car - registration number -
WX06 FJC. This squad car had embedded it's self deeply into the railings between the road and pavement. ( Not long put up, persumably to stop cars crashing through the bridge wall onto the railway). The other car was a blue one. Registratration number L33 LDO.
Both cars had front on damage. Both were on same side of road, facing in the same direction, on outbound side, i.e. both on side heading away from Lawerance Hill roundabout, heading towards Kingswood. read full story / add a comment

This is the monthly meeting of Bristol ABC Prisoner Support Group. We support anarchist, class struggle, and other radical prisoners (including remand prisoners) and victims of social war, as well as campaigning against the prison expansion building programme, and the concept of prison itself. Check our website for further details of what we believe, and if you are interested please come along. read full story / add a comment

Bristol No Borders and Bristol Anarchist Black Cross host a weekend of events in support of
Support the Sacked Amey Workers (22nd October, Bristol),
the 10th Annual Rally Against Deaths in Custody (25th October, London) and
National Day Against Police Brutality (22nd October, Canada & USA)

Subvert 2008 Festival: Bristol – 24 to 26 October

A weekend Festival of Resistance drawing together the themes or anti-prison campaigning & prisoner support, and organising against border controls and the demonisation of migrants.
You don’t need to be a genius, nor an anarchist, to see the links between the two, as the number of prisoners and detained migrants rockets, as state surveillance reaches new levels of intrusiveness, all against a backdrop of global financial crisis and the start of a major economic depression. The state is clamping down on dissent, preparing for social unrest, and as usual scapegoating the most vulnerable sections of society.
This weekend of events will look at alternatives to the current failing economic & social policies, and highlight examples of resistance.

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An evening of short films detailing migration struggle with a vegan cafe read full story / add a comment

police doing mass stop and searches read full story / add a comment

Bristol NO2ID meeting read full story / add a comment

Desperate to shore up support for the ID scheme, the Home Secretary this week brandished a new plastic card to be issued to some foreign residents from November, calling it an "ID card" for foreign nationals. This cynical branding exercise with its sly appeal to xenophobia should fool no-one....read on.. read full story / add a comment

24th October 2008
7pm
Kebele Social Centre
14 Robertson Road
Bristol, BS5 6JY
www.kebelecoop.org

Free entry
Drinks and snacks by donation read full story / add a comment

Regular monthly discussion and letter-writing meeting of Bristol ABC
Wednesday 8th October
7-9pm
Kebele Social Centre, 14 Robertson Road, Easton, BS5
http://www.kebelecoop.org
email: bristol_abc@riseup.net
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Jamaica Street was closed this morning as I walked to work about 7.15 am. read full story / add a comment

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

3rd September - Bristol NO2ID meeting read full story / add a comment

With party conferences* imminent, the database state is higher than ever on the political agenda - due in no small part to NO2ID and its supporters (YOU!) working hard to raise awareness locally and nationally. But the battle is intensifying. - plus bristol meeting. read full story / add a comment

We had a phone call offer last night from someone calling themselves Steve saying they could pick us up for the demo in Derby this weekend. read full story / add a comment

The regional ITV and BBC newsrooms have been buzzing over the last two months with threatening legal letters from lawyers Carter Ruck, all paid for with public money and attempting to gag the press from criticising Somerset County Council, Chief Constable Colin Port and his wife Susan Barnes. Both are party to what must be the dodgyest PPP privatisation contract ever signed in the UK. read full story / add a comment

Natalie Bracht is still believed to be on the run with her five daughters and expresses her fears here that she may be 'suicided'. In other words that some intelligence service or other 'higher' group than Northumbria police may know exactly where she is, playing her a sick sort of cat and mouse game. Whether she deserves to be accused of being a potential child murderer as Sunderland social services have done... and separated from her five children we shall probably never know due to the chilling secrecy of the Family Courts and the High Court judge that issued the Recovery Order for the children. Much of what Northumbria police have had to say about her case, such as her first husband denying that he is a Mossad nuclear scientist when Natalie said her second husband was, does not add up. This communique was written on 23rd June 2008 before the High Court Recovery Order was issued and the photograph of Natalie and four of the girls taken in Shoreditch on 4th June 2008. All who have met her whilst she's been 'on the run' seem to agree that the only real threat to the children comes from injustices of Sunderland Social Services and the High Court. Such as the exclusion by said Social Services of all and any supportive professional voices from Natalies' case conferences. read full story / add a comment

NO2ID News No. 103

31 July 2008
"The government claimed this week that "the unions have backed ID cards". The declaration came after Labour’s National Policy Forum held at the University of Warwick. However we'd like to know precisely what that "backing" consists of." read full story / add a comment

Many people are concerned at the ever-increasing government-sanctioned invasions of privacy in British society. In this presentation, campaigner Peter Tachell will expose the underhand methods being used to sell the concept of expensive and much open-to-abuse biometric ID cards to the public, read full story / add a comment