The Heart Has Reasons is a journey around the human heart and how its meaning has changed through the ages. Mark Kidel’s documentary challenges the modern idea of the heart as no more than a sophisticated but functional pump. Mark will be at the Pierian Centre on Sunday 25th October to present the film and discuss its implications. read full story / add a comment

As part of C Words, come to a rare screening of H2OiL on 25 OCT, 7pm, followed by discussion with campaigners from PLATFORM.

This will give you the background for an incredible opportunity to hear from Canadian First Nations themselves. here in Bristol, on 13th November, 7pm, Arnolfini, FREE. read full story / add a comment

See if you can spot any of your mates...

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/nottinghamshire/ read full story / add a comment

For the second time the BNP membership list has been leaked online. Last time BNP fuhrer Nick Griffin tried to blame it on left-wing hackers - but it turned out to have been leaked by an angry former BNP member. read full story / add a comment

Tuesday 20 October 6pm
Manor Hall hall of residence
Lower Clifton Hill ( BS8 1BU)

Please join demonstration which starts at 5.30pm and will continue until he leaves
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There will be a demo outside Noah's Arc Zoo Farm tomorrow from 12 for anyone who can make the journey. Likely that press will be there. Directions to the farm here: http://www.noahsarkzoofarm.co.uk/pages/about/location.php

If you live in Bristol, some of us are meeting by the X7 bus stop at Bristol Bus Station. read full story / add a comment

There’s now a great way for dyslexic people to communicate using video email.

I came across some great technology called helloWorld that can be used to:

* Send and receive Audio and Video Emails
* Create Personalised Email Templates
* Broadcasts Live on the Internet
* Store and Manage all of Your Media Online
* Create Video Play Lists for Your Website
* Add Videos to Your Website or Blog read full story / add a comment

Panorama tonight about Bristol's racist housing estate.

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@ Millennium Square 3-9pm Saturday 24th October***
On the 24th October some of Bristol’s top musicians, including Babyhead, Kid Carpet and Bizali, will join Jonathan Porritt to call on global leaders meeting at December’s UN climate change talks in Copenhagen to take strong action to keep global warming below 2° and protect the world’s poorest. read full story / add a comment

Given that the 3 were all taken to the same police station, and were probably transported to Brighton in the same vehicle, then it seems they would have been placed in a much smaller geographical area together, where communication would have been practically unavoidable. So we wonder if the cops will now be taken to court for aiding and abetting peoples breach of bail conditions? read full story / add a comment

Trapese Collective Host Rocking the Foundations, as part of the course Start Producing the Future.
In the reading room 6.15 pm Thursday 22nd October
Arnolfini,16 Narrow Quay, Bristol BS1 4QA

An outstanding historical account of the Green Bans first introduced by the New South Wales Builders Labourers Federation in the 1970s in response to community demand to preserve inner- city parkland and historic buildings. One of the first women to be accepted as a builders labourer, filmmaker Pat Fiske traces the development of a quite singular union whose social and political activities challenged the notion of what a union should be. read full story / add a comment

tonights panorama (8.30pm - bbc) documents two undercover reporters experiences of 8 weeks living on an estate in southmead.... read full story / add a comment

Bristol Council is considering a planning application from W4B to build a power station in Avonmouth that will burn approx 90,000 tonnes of virgin vegetable oil per year, including palm oil.

Several hundred objections have already been submitted. At the public meetings, speakers will explain why burning biofuels is bad for the climate, bad for biodiversity and bad for people in the global South.

We need more local people to actively campaign and persuade councillors to refuse permission for this development.

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The October/November issue of the Hereford Heckler (bulletin of the Hereford Solidarity League) is out now... read full story / add a comment

Jonathan Evans, Director General of MI5 - the disgusting torturer and murder for the corrupt British State is welcomed by another
corrupt and failing institution - Bristol University read full story / add a comment

Local campaign group HowZat? has criticised Gloucestershire County Cricket Club (GCCC) for pushing ahead with proposals to carry out a massive redevelopment of its ground and not listening to the concerns of people living in the surrounding residential area.

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The US safety regulator has deemed that the containment structure of a reactor, possibly destined for Oldbury and other UK sites, 'may not withstand a tornado, earthquake or even high winds'. read full story / add a comment

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

This has been a busy week of frantic cleaning and general preperation at the Bath social cetre, the place is looking amazing, and we are starting to open our doors to the public. It is a massive, amazing space with loads of potential and we have a few updates for y'all -
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Oct 31 Meet in the centre 2pm read full story / add a comment