We are squatters from the Netherlands. We are asking you to organize a protest (for example by dutch embassy) in your country against squatting prohibition in the Netherlands. We suggest to organize your protests between 26 and 28 of November, because Eerste Kamer (First Chamber of dutch parliament) will vote about squatting prohibition beginnig of December.

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Jock Palfreeman is a 23 year old Australian currently in prison in Sofia, Bulgaria. He is undergoing trial on charges of murder and attempted murder after an encounter with a gang of 16 far-right football hooligans. We are asking for a fair trial. read full story / add a comment

Jock Palfreeman is a 23 year old Australian currently in prison in Sofia, Bulgaria. He is undergoing trial on charges of murder and attempted murder after an encounter with a gang of 16 far-right football hooligans. read full story / add a comment

C Words is moving out of Arnolfini! Join us and let your hair down with a night of performance poetry, live acoustic music, bands, open mic, and dj blackrainbow, all in support of Canadian Indigenous Tar Sands Campaign. (Final day of exhibition 29 Nov) read full story / add a comment

For three weeks in January 2009, the bombs rained down on Gaza. At the end of Israel's brutal bombing campaign and ground offensive over 1400 Palestinians had been murdered, including 314 children. read full story / add a comment

Cristian Dominguez, the bolivian representative inside the Copenhagen Climate talks next month, and bristol activists will today call for UK wide mobilising and civil disobedience to challenge a treaty littered with green capitalist and false solutions. Please join us in making and supporting this statement at 2pm today, Friday the 13th of Nov, outside the Arnolfini. read full story / add a comment

Bristol ABC prisoner support group takes it turn hosting the weekly Sunday vegan cafe at kebele social centre, and lobs in a couple of provocative films to wash down the meal.

Recover from Kebele's birthday bash on the 21st with us at 14 Robertson Rd, Easton BS5 6JY. read full story / add a comment

Come and see the latest double bill in the C Words season on climate and resource justice:

"Coconut Revolution" (2001, 53 mins) on the ecologically-inspired
revolution that occurred on the Papua New Guinea island of Bougainville,
with short film, "Those Who Dance" (2007, 49 mins) on oil company Shell's crimes in
Ireland and Nigeria and the people who fight back.

6 - 8pm, 12th Nov 09, Reading Room, Arnolfini read full story / add a comment

(and if it's raining or chilly - we have umbrellas and hot tea!) read full story / add a comment

Picket at Trinity road police station - where migrants in Bristol are forced to 'sign on'.

(and if it's raining or chilly - we have umbrellas and hot tea!) read full story / add a comment

The Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination and Climate Camp are plotting together to design and build a new tool of civil disobedience for the RECLAIM POWER mobilisations taking place in Copenhagen, during the UN climate summit in December. Made from hundreds of recycled bikes, The Bike Bloc will merge device of mass transportation and pedal powered resistance machine, postcapitalist bike gang and art bike carnival.

For those of you who would like to mend poeple rather than bikes, some action medic training is happening in London. read full story / add a comment

A two part preparatory gathering for activists going to take part in the protests at the Copenhagen Climate Change Summit. read full story / add a comment

Coach tickets from Bristol available for the London Demonstration on December 05. read full story / add a comment

After supposedly being refused permission of march in Bristol, the closest to the West country the far-right group came was EDL's Welsh branch, the WDL, who made plans for marches in Swasea and Newport. Meanwhile the EDL planned a march in Leeds. Here is an update. read full story / add a comment

The gathering is designed for those wanting to take action and ideally people should come to both parts. A chance to meet other activists and gather our strength for the fun and games on the streets of Copenhagen in December.

Both sessions will start at 6.00 p.m. with supper at the Kebele Social Centre, Robertson Rd, Easton, BS5 6JY and finish by 9.30.
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Quote of the week: "I used to shoot people like you,"

Spoken by 82-year-old James Murray, a former Royal Engineer who saw service in the Second World War, fighting his way into Nazi German territory in the Allied advance at the end of the war to BNP candidate Charlie Baillie. read full story / add a comment

While People take action acrsss the UK this week - Occupation of Didcot Coal Fired Power Station, and occupations of Mainshill (Lanarkshire) and Shipley (Derbyshire) Open Cast Mines, the Danish Prime Minister States that there will be no deal at the COP15 climate negotiations in December this year... 17 years on from Rio... and they still can't sort it out.

Details of further Bristol based preparations...

In June this year, 33 people died defending their land and the climate against the state...maybe you could make it to Copenhagen to show some solidarity ? read full story / add a comment

A walk around some of the places in Bristol which were the scenes of events that helped shape the World. read full story / add a comment

A walk around some of the places in Bristol which were the scenes of events that helped shape the World. read full story / add a comment

Two events for Saturday 31st October to mark the 100th Aniversary of Suffragette Teresa Garnett attacking Winston Churchill at Bristol Temple Meads Railway Station. read full story / add a comment