Apparently chalking on the pavement is now to be considered criminal damage... read full story / add a comment

Been at recent demonstrations with police present then the likelihood is that you are on the CrimInt database. The government is further eroding our civil liberties by producing databases that include footage of people at demonstrations and they are retaining this information in order to build up a picture of all the events you have been at, even if you have not been involved in any illegal activities you are still on this database. Also this week the Information Commissioner has revealed that building companies were vetting employees through information covertly gathered from a private detective on trade union activiites and conduct at work. read full story / add a comment

Bristol ABC Prisoner Support
Regular monthly discussion and letter writing meeting
Wednesday 11th February from 7 - 9pm
Kebele Social Centre, 14 Robertson Road, BS5 6JY
Hot drinks available by donation, please bring snacks to share
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Below is a statement by the UK IMC group asking for support with the huge costs incurred defending themselves following another server seizure. Bristol Indymedia is posting this support request here as local users might with to assist. We ask you to join us in donating money to the UK IMC fund. read full story / add a comment

A CALL TO ALL CONCERNED WITH
ATTACKS ON OUR FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS
UNDER PRESSURE FROM COUNTER TERRORISM, FINANCIAL BREAKDOWN AND THE DATABASE STATE

What are the threats?
What can be done about them?
Why should everyone care?

Get Involved. Help create our modern liberty. Saturday 28 February 2009, Trinty Centre
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Bristol based Transform exists to push the debate on drug policy away from criminalisation which has failed to solve the drug issue for the last 50 years. Bristol (and the South West) has a serious drug problem and groups like this need tobe listened too! read full story / add a comment

The Convention on Modern Liberty is taking place in London on Saturday, 28th February [1]. But there may be an event closer to you than London - and you won't have to splash out for a ticket to attend! Bristol's will be Set up by NO2ID contact bristol@modernliberty.net and http://www.modernliberty.net read full story / add a comment

NO2ID News No. 116

5 February 2009 read full story / add a comment

On Monday the 9th February, at 2.15pm, British Transport Police & Bath constabulary conspired to commit an illegal eviction of a new short-lived squat on the edge of Twerton, in Bath. read full story / add a comment

The Bristol EDO Decommisioners need your support!
Bristol ABC is asking all their friends and supporters to write to the two Decommisioners still being held on remand in Brighton.
This is an urgent appeal, so please send your letters/postcards immediately. read full story / add a comment

Bristol ABC Prisoner Support
Regular monthly discussion and letter writing meeting
Wednesday 11th February
7 - 9pm
Kebele Social Centre
14 Robertson Road, BS5 6JY
http://www.kebelecoop.org
Hot drinks available by donation, please bring snacks to share
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NO2ID has been warning since 2006/7 about the stated intentions of government "to overcome current barriers to information sharing within the public sector" [1]. Now the Ministry of Justice has launched an extraordinary coup. It is about to convert the Data Protection Act into its exact opposite, a means for any government department to obtain and use any information however it likes. read full story / add a comment

Another Indymedia server has been seized in the UK - some readers may remember a similar incident in Bristol a few years back - in this article the full details of the current seizure of related from the press release and the older Bristol seizure, for context, is related (at the end). Thanks. read full story / add a comment

After the police aided the illegal eviction of the occupants of 71 Old Market street on Friday the 9th of January (see: http://bristol.indymedia.org/article/689546) there will be a presentation of the following statement to officers at Trinity Police Station. Their officers formed the majority of the 25-30 police who aided the illegal eviction, some of whom played football upstairs in the main room while the inhabitants were made homeless.

This is a call out to come down and support the reminder to the police about section 6, and the proper procedures that owners and police must take, and how dialogue over violence is the only way. Friday 16th Jan: 11am outside Trinity Police Station read full story / add a comment

while the demo was not the most spectacular you would have seen, it did contain a couple of points of interest. read full story / add a comment

Death of a 39 year-old man in police custody yesterday. read full story / add a comment

NO2ID News No. 113

18 December 2008
+ MESSAGE FROM NO2ID'S NATIONAL COORDINATOR + and more.... read full story / add a comment

Newfoundland Road police station attacked in solidarity with Greek anarchists. read full story / add a comment

The Coroners and Justice Bill, announced in yesterday's Queen's Speech will contain extraordinary new data-sharing powers which could be exercised without Parliamentary debate - Find out more! read full story / add a comment

With UK prison numbers at an all time record high resulting in worsening prison conditions, and increases in drug use, self-harm & suicide, it is perhaps surprising that there seems to be so little unrest in our prisons. This is not the case in Europe. Germany saw a wave of hunger strikes by prisoners in September 2008 demanding improved conditions and more justice for prisoners. Greece has just seen a full month of mass hungerstrikes and outside solidarity actions making similar demands, and it is believed Italy is about to experience the same. read full story / add a comment