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

Around the country billboards containing Poppy Appeal posters from the Royal British Legion are displaying images of British soldiers in Afghanistan, or their greiving widows and family. While the appeal tried to raise it's annual £30 million, most people think the best way to help the troops is to bring them home and prosecute the politicians who sent them. Below we outline how to modify these billboards yourself to carry the messages 'BRING 'EM HOME' and 'PROSECUTE BLAIR'
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Jamie Hewlett limited edition prints for sale read full story / add a comment

Going postal with the CWU strike, B&NES' plot for council jobs cuts, Co-Mutiny reports, the ooneing of Black Cat's and probably a tad more 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

I've been researching and looking at UWE courses to take in Bristol in order to learn more about the facts of climate change / global warming / climate destabilisation and likely effects.

Just looking at which course to take throws up some pretty scary stuff, this from UWE's Climate Change: Implications for the planning process course ...... "By 2100, as a consequence of global warming, global temperatures may have risen by up to 6.4 degrees Centigrade"

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Dialect Radio is a Bristol (UK) internet broadcasting Co-operative run by volunteers. Our main activity is our weekly current affairs and arts magazine programme Dialect, which is recorded at our Queen's Square studios and posted for download every weekend. Want to volunteer? Volunteering Bristol, Royal Oak House, Royal Oak Avenue, Bristol. BS1 4GB Tel: 0117 989 7733. Listen on air: 93.2 FM (BCFM), Saturdays at 9pm http://www.bcfm.org.uk/ 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

On Saturday 31st October, the 'EDO Decommissioners' are organising an anti-war protest on the Centre (opposite the Hippodrome) at 2pm, supported by various groups. Bristol Stop The War Coalition has issued email publicity calling on all its supporters to join this protest. Here's a cut n paste from their email....
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Last week I attempted to write a piece amout arms taders in our community centres.
Well, I'm very sorry to say that there's good reason they chose deprived areas inhabitated by refugees, many of whom are fleeing from war torn lands to do there 'team building' exercises in.
BAE's guilty conscience is down to the fact that their latest evil, destroying work has resulted in yet more murder.
BAE are continuing to make a killing out of war and human suffering.
Again and again they sell arms to countrieswith appalling human rights records and the UK's government is allowing these deals to go through.
It's criminal how much support the government gives to companies who are complicit in such atrocities.
Act against BAE Bristol - these arms dealers are NOT WELCOME. read full story / add a comment

Here's an update for readers on the situation of the EDO Decommissioner still on remand - Elijah 'James' Smith. Info taken/edited from the Decommissioners and Bristol ABC websites. read full story / add a comment

Here's an excerpt from the Schnews weekly freesheet, no.696, on the farcical arrest of 2 of the Bristol EDO Decommissioners, and 1 other from Brighton, at the Target Brimar public protest near Oldham on 17 October. Proof again of Brighton's cops desperation to get a conviction, any conviction, in their battle with the Smash EDO campaign and other anti-militarists who have engaged in anti-EDO actions. Even if it means the cops breaking their own rules... read full story / add a comment

"Everyday, everywhere, through spontaneous and planned actions, people are changing the world, together. These everyday actions come from the growing desire to do it ourselves – plant vegetables, organise a community day to get people involved in improving where we live, expose exploitative firms, take responsibility for our health, make cups of tea in a social centre, figure out how to install a shower powered by the sun, make a banner, support strikers, pull a prank to make someone laugh, as well as think", (Do It Yourself, A Handbook for Changing our World.) read full story / add a comment

Allen Coates - Bee Keeper read full story / add a comment

Slumdog Millionaire shone a global spotlight on the plight of Mumbai’s street kids. Gerard Vandervegt’s moving documentary now lets these kids tell their own story – a story of tragedy, violence, abuse and survival. Welcome to India’s trouble station: Victoria Terminus! read full story / add a comment

A day of climate action involving a climate camp-stylee swoop in a secret location in the Centre of Bristol! Day starts off with a trash Carnival meeting at the fountains in the Centre @ 2pm. Please bring rubbish costumes, instruments, tents and food for the mass picnic! And spread the word! read full story / add a comment

A day of climate action involving a climate camp-stylee swoop in a secret location in the Centre of Bristol! Day starts off with a trash Carnival meeting at the fountains in the Centre @ 2pm. Please bring rubbish costumes, instruments, tents and food for the mass picnic! And spread the word! read full story / add a comment

It's Kebele Community Co-Op's 14th birthday, and to celebrate, Kebele Sound Collective brings you a massive DIY wodge of quality live music, DJs and visuals, back at last as Easton Community Centre. read full story / add a comment