Three Bristol-based Oxfam activists are preparing to become on-the-ground reporters for the most important moment in history. Known as the ‘Copenhagen 3’, the volunteer activists will act as the eyes, ears and voice of the Southwest at the crucial Climate Change Summit in Copenhagen on the weekend of the 12th December. read full story / add a comment

Award-winning director Nick Broomfield is presenting a free screening of Ghosts, his film about the Chinese cockle-pickers in Morecambe Bay, at 4.30pm on Friday 27th November. Nick is the patron of Unchosen’s season of films about human trafficking – and he will be answering questions after the screening. read full story / add a comment

Dialect Radio is a Bristol (UK) internet broadcasting podcast produced 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 week.
Want to volunteer? Volunteering Bristol, Royal Oak House, Royal Oak Avenue, Bristol. BS1 4GB Tel: 0117 989 7733. read full story / add a comment

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'A Fine Line' exhibition opens at the Emporium. Tonight and last until this Saturday

Open Daily 3-7pm

37 Stokes Croft,
Bristol
BS1 3PY

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'A Fine Line' exhibition opens at the Emporium. Tonight and last until this Saturday

Open Daily 3-7pm

37 Stokes Croft,
Bristol
BS1 3PY

http://emporium37.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/fineline-exh...-nov/ read full story / add a comment

Theo Simon of radical English roots and folk band, Seize the Day, has offered to come and speak at Bristol Campaign Against Climate Change's public meeting tomorrow evening, 26th November at the Stag and Hounds, Old Market round-a-bout, Bristol at 7:30 pm.

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THURSDAY 3RD DECEMBER
7:00pm to 9:00pm
3rd Floor, Bush House (Above the Arnolfini), 72 Prince St.,Bristol, BS1 4QD

The public meeting has been called by environmentalists in response to a planning application to build a biofuel plant in Avonmouth. Simply attending this meeting would hugely improve our chances of preventing this proposal from going through - please spread the word far and wide!
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Virtual Migrants present on their YouTube channel
THE CENTRE CANNOT HOLD project + video interviews
connecting racism, climate change, indigenous rights and global inequality

www.virtualmigrants.com/centrecannothold
www.youtube.com/virtualmigrants

Virtual Migrants' launch a short film documentary and a set of video interviews on YouTube from their installation "BUY THIS (The Centre Cannot Hold Part 1)".

They include a critical interview with Arun Kundnani and a new short film documenting the installation work as shown at The Arnolfini gallery (Bristol), along with new texts which describe the installation and discuss its aesthetic and cultural approach. This coincides with the installation's last week on show at The Arnolfini , as part of the C-Words exhibition curated by Platform (London).

This is the first phase of ongoing and broader work for which we welcome any expressions of interest and contributions towards developing the major project next year. Contact: info[at]virtualmigrants.com.
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Richard will show you the very simple and fun stages involved in making a basic loaf of sourdough bread for you to take with you and bake at home. He will also supply each participant with a small batch of sourdough starter for you to bring with you after the course and hopefully maintain for years to come and pass on to your friends and family.

Please bring: 1 bag of plain white flour plus 1 bag of any other flour you wish to use (spelt, wholemeal, whatever...), a handful of nuts or seeds or both and some fresh herbs if you wish, a bowl to keep the dough safe for your journey home and a large jam jar or similar for the sourdough starter.
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Director Kim Longinotto is coming to Bristol on Friday 27th November to present a free screening, the regional premiere, of her award-winning documentary Rough Aunties. The film is a moving account of a group of South African women and the work they do with sexually-abused children. It is the final screening in Unchosen’s season of films about human trafficking. read full story / add a comment

The last meeting of 2009 for the Bristol anarchist bookfair collective takes place on Tuesday 1 December, from 7.30 to 9pm, at Kebele social centre, 14 Robertson Rd, Bristol BS5 6JY.
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Biofuels Scandal: The Hidden Cost of the Biofuels Stations proposed for Bristol and for sites across Britain. Public Meeting organized by Zenith Milner, Environmentalist, Thursday 3rd December, 7:00pm to 9:00pm, The 3rd Floor, Bush House, Arnolfini, 72 Prince St.,Bristol, BS1 4QD read full story / add a comment

This is a national issue - but has important local implications - as more and more services, such as Bristol City Council ones - move online, more and more education moves online - the web becomes more important than ever to Bristol life. So along comes Lord Peter Mandelson, the UK's First Secretary of State, with a new bill to allow him (and whoever his replacement is) to re-write copyright law with almost zero oversight.

This is going to be used to give him the right to pass our details of web use on from our ISP to a large media corporation, who can then - on accusation alone - kick us off the net. read full story / add a comment

Mon 7 December / 7.30pm / £4 or £3 (but nobody refused for lack of funds)

The Cube Cinema, Dove Street, Bristol
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Bristol Campaign Against Climate Change are holding a public meeting this Thursday, 26th November, 7:30pm at the Stag and Hounds, 74 Old Market Street, Bristol BS2 0EJ read full story / add a comment

at some point beetween 11pm last night and 8am this morning (23/11/09) a note appeared on many vans windscreens along with penalty notices for some, the note read as follows:
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On Sunday 22nd November a Bristol-based group unveiled a 44 ton articulated truck for a convoy to Gaza this winter. This truck has been decorated with Banksy-style murals and the much-loved Bristol characters - Wallace & Gromit. The convoy will travel 5,000 miles across Europe carrying badly needed medical and humanitarian aid. Also included are drivers & skilled professionals. read full story / add a comment

Mast Sanity was set up in January 2002 and has helped thousands of campaigns since then. The organisation was founded by Lisa Oldham, and other long term mast campaigners, who saw that the mobile phone operators were gaining substantial power and rolling out a network at alarming speed that had serious and widespread health and environmental implications, and their was little help available to communities fighting both the multinationals and the chaotic planning system. read full story / add a comment

On 13th November Bristol Indymedia and Trapese collective filmed an interview with Crisitian Dominguez on his views of the COP15 summit and what his country Bolivia was hoping to achieve at the coinference. As well talking about this he also discussed his support for the people going to Copenhagen to support their demands coming from the global south. Find out what he had to say on the Bliptv Bristol Indymedia channel link below. read full story / add a comment