New research on traffic from UWE and Gloucester Road Goes Plastic Bag Free

Joshua Hart writes; People living on streets with heavy motor vehicle traffic are experiencing a considerable deterioration of their local social lives according to Joshua Hart, a researcher from the University of the West of England. Results suggest that residents on busy streets have less than one quarter the number of local friends compared to those living on similar streets with little traffic. Full article. (Image: "Our 4-year old girl has a constant cough and we limit the amount of time she spends outside... we're constantly breathing in pollution" -Muller Rd. resident, 20,000 cars/day!)

Meanwhile, on Gloucester Road; Rowan Matthiessen of GRAB Gloucester Rd Alternative Bag Campaign writes; Find out how Campaigners and Shop Keepers on Gloucester Rd in North Bristol have made their high street plastic bag free. With nearly 60 shops signed up we are inviting Bristol to come and Celebrate their local high street with amorning of freebies, markets, music and much much more! Full article.

PS. Tickets are now avalible for the Bristol Indymedia Film Night; Who Killed Dr David Kelly? Event on; Monday 6th October 2008 8pm @ Cube Cinema, Stokes Croft, Bristol. Tickets are £4 + booking fee from the Here Shop, 103 Stokes Croft, Bristol, BS1 3RU. Thanks!

| No Friends? Blame the Traffic | Gloucester Rd Goes Plastic Bag Free | www.lovegloucesterroad.org.uk | www.livingstreets.org.uk | Other News: Stop the spread of urban sprawl | New ‘Wild Waters’ festival for Bath/Bristol | Bath Bomb 14 hits the streets | Bristol Indymedia Film Night: Who Killed Dr David Kelly? |

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Saturday 13th of September, between 10am and 5pm, St. Werburghs Centre

Davey Gower of the Bookfair Collective writes; Roll up! Roll up! Blast away those damp summer blues and get yourself down to the Bristol Anarchist Bookfair for a date with the freethinking autonomous resistance from Bristol, the South West & South Wales. A printed bookfair programme will be available on the day, but you can get all the bookfair details online now...This free event includes 26 stalls from independent publishers, distributors, bookshops and local and national campaign groups. There are also 25 workshops including talks on anarchist principles and tactics, the economy, climate change and transition towns, a bicycle maintenance workshop, a lesson in Taiji, and an 'alternative' cycling tour of Bristol. Added to that is live acoustic music in the courtyard and the Kebele community co-operative – Bristol’s long-running radical social centre – will be in the kitchen providing a cheap all-day café, proving how delicious vegan food can be....Anarchism is about mutual aid, solidarity, autonomy and social change. It’s about class politics, resisting injustice and exploitation and defending the earth we live on. Anarchism emerged as a defined movement in the mid-19th century as part of the struggles of the growing European working class. Yet its origins can be traced back centuries to whenever people came together to resist oppression, to whenever people tried to live peacefully in harmony with the environment around them. Anarchist Bookfair - full programme & info.

Bristol Indymedia will also be at the event! We are running a stall and a talk/discussion; Getting serious about media democracy at Room 7 at 11am; The media is dominated by a small group of individuals like Murdoch, and multinational corporations such as Viacom. As a result the predominant tide of media offers a largely homogenous top-down view of the world centred on corporate globalisation and neo-liberal economics. What are the implications for those struggling to present alternative views of the world? How can alternatives be presented to a population that has only known a corporate media? Can we use their media to get our message out or should we concentrate on building our own media? Hope to see you there!

| Anarchist Bookfair - full programme & info | (don't) Get me started | Anarchist Bookfair meeting | Anarchy in The West Country | Bookfair Party (8pm to late, at the Plough pub, Kilburn St, Easton BS5) | Post-bookfair cafe @ Kebele | Related Organisations: www.bristolanarchistbookfair.org | Bristol Anarchist Black Cross | www.kebelecoop.org |

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Some picks from the Bristol Indymedia website....

nickleberry writes about Free Tibet on College Green; A Mock Olympics was held today on College Green. The aim of the event was to remind people, amidst the hype of the Beijing olympics, of the Chinese government's sordid record when it comes to relations with Tibet, and with its own population.... While camper talks about the recent Climate Camp; For me, whether the camp was a success can only be judged whether we see in the next 12 months an increase in direct action on climate change and social justice in our local area... In related news Emma asks Global Warming - What action can we take?

From the Calender this week: Tuesday Freeskilling brings us Introduction to the Alexander Technique - Practical and Theory, Thursday Anarchy Alive! Author Uri Gordon speaking at Kebele & Bookfair meeting, Saturday UNESCO International Day for Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition

| Free Tibet on College Green | Anarchist Bookfair latest! | Camp for Climate Action Feedback | Global Warming - What action can we take? | NO2ID at the party conferences and more news |

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Indycycle Item of the Day - German grammar book offered by crash ; Pocket size collins grammar guide. (Pictured, right) Click here to find out more and how you can claim this for free and save it from landfill!

More Indycycle Items;

Kitty & Co Writing Set - Unwanted gift, cat themed note pad and pens in a cute box. Make a good gift for cat person of young girl.
bunk beds - bunk beds red and black have to be put together 1 matteress in good condition
Beach shelter - small open front-style beach tent in bag c/w poles

Indycycle - Bristol Indymedia's free web-based freecycling system!

A large stuffed toy bunny, a CD-R drive, a photovoltaic solar panel, a plug spanner, an old stone sink and much more! Check out Indycycle to see more. Indycycle is a way of people re-cycling things they no longer need to people who may have a user for it. For example if you had an old bike you did not need, rather then throw it out to landfill, why not offer it to somebody else who may need it. Indycycle is a great way of us consuming less resources, stopping things going to landfill and building stronger communities.

All items must be offered for free – no exchanges or cash are allowed. Indycycle allows you to post an item you don't want (or are looking for) to the site along with a description, photo of the item and your postcode. This means users can search for and see items they may want but also how far they need to travel to pick it up.

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